Milford chronicle., 1931-05-01
BUY YOUR TICKET
EARLY FOR PLAY,
''DEACON DUBBS"
A Comedy Play To Be
Presented By The Sen
iOr Class. L.

Do you want to enjoy a good
play? Want to laugh until you're
tired? See Deacon Dubbs," a COM
edy play to be presented by the SEN
ior Glass, May IL and 12!
This play is to be divided into
three acts. In Act l you will see a
country auction, and the Deacon
arriving from Sorghum Center,
State of West Virginny.
In Act II we present a country
wedding and then review shadows of
the past. After an exciting fight the
Deacon captures a prisoner.
In the last scene we see a husk-
ing bee. The prisoner escapes from
the penitentiary and is killed. EV-
erything turns out happily and tho
play ends with a double wedding.
The cast of this jolly play follows:
Deacon Dubbs, Robert Yerkes.
Amos Coleman, his nephew, TOWN.
send Parvis.
Rawdon Crawley, wolf in Sleeps
clothing, Joshua Bennett.
Major McNutt, the auctioneer,
Kennerly Lambert. 4
Deuteronomy Jones, a country
bumkin, Wilson Nichols.
Rose Raleigh, the brave little
school ma'am, Jennie Lee Wootten.
Miss Philipena POpover, with both
eyes on the deacon, Florence Far
row.
Emily Dale, the richest girl in
town, Mary Vinyard.
Trixie Coleman, full of mischief,
Virginia Sockrider. ~
Yennie Yensen, the hired girl
from Sweden, Mildred Burlingame.
The story of the play follows:
Deacon Dubbs decides to visit his
nephew, Amos Coleman, and the
play is. concerned with the laugh
able adventures of the Deacon in the
village and in the city. Amos is in
owe with Rose Raleigh, who is some
thing of a mystery to the inhabitants
of the village. Her farm is about to
be sold as the result of foreclosure
suit, but the Deacon furnishes
enough money to buy the farm. The
note is held by the Empire State
Trust Company, and their agent,
Rawdon Crawley, finds a valuable
vein of iron ore on the place. The
auctioneer likes a drink now and
then and brings his own refresh
ments. He places three bottles of
documents" in the water cooler,
but Deuteronomy, not knowing the
bottles are there, dumps ice on top
of them and wine and whiskey
punch are served free at the water
cooler. The Deacon imbibes too
much and in a remarkable state of
jollifcation, determines that the
farm must remain in Roses possess
sion. He pushes Crawley into the
we'll to keep him from bidding on
the property. He sits on the well
and buys the place for Rose.
In Act II, several weeks later
Rose and Amos are to be married.
While Rose was in the city she mar
ried Rawdon Crawley, but he de-
serted her and she returned to teach
school. Later she learned that Raw
don had been killed in a drunken
brawl in Canada and she consents
10 marry Amos. The Deacon pro-
poses to Miss Philipena in a funny
scene on the wedding day. Rawdon
Jrawley turns up and interrupts the
ceremony, but he is ar
rested and put in Jail by the ever
present Deacon.
In Act III Crawley escapes and
Interrupts husking bee held in
lonor of the Deacon's return from
Iew York. After many interrupt
ions the Deacon puts the ring on
Hiss Philipena's finger and they an
lounce their engagement. Rawdon,
While trying to escape from the pO-
ice, is killed in a railroad accident.
he play closes with the Deacon's
proposal for a honeymoon for the
our back to old SORGHUM Center,
tate o. West Virginny.
Tickets are on sale by all Seniors.
let yours now!
--Lambert 81