White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-10-18
Grade School Plays
Charm Big Audience

Pretty costumes, lovely new stage
setting painted by Alvin Vinson and
an almost letter-perfect performance
Wednesday evenings
grade school entertainment as one of
the best ever given here. The chill
dren's singing and acting bespoke
great deal of careful training by their
teachers as we'll as natural ability.
The first operetta was "A Rose
Dream" in which Muriel Beldin,
lost child, was conducted in her dreams
through fairyland by Percy Rlnker,
who made a charming Hop o-My-
Thumb Fairyland was ruled by Gloria
Hawley who included in her court the
giant Forgotten BILLY Kirby, the
twins, Can and Can't (Helen GreWell
and Floyd SchwisoW, the rosebud
(Alice Beyers), and the door fairy
Creme Wilson,.
The choruses of roses and fairies
and elves sang and danced as SUCH
little creatures should, making the lost
child's stay in fairyland very happy
one. The fairies were Doris Jean Nor
ford, Sevia Holmskog, Jean Stoddard,
Dolores Moody, Phyllis Leander, Bar
bara Wiehl Betty McCotter and Rose
mary Morford. Roses were Margaret
schuster, Altha Jean Gibbins, Ger
trllde Haskell, Alice Beyers, Lois Skel-
ton, Ellen Smith, Helen Walker and
Patricia Meek The little elves, dressed
in brownie suits, we're Billy Kelly Bill
| Wilson, Robert Heideman Billy Morris,
Junior Ralston, Wells Soden, Jewel
Graves and Walter Wilson.
4 Intermission numbers included duet
by Helen Walker and Percy Rinker
who. dressed in old fashioned costumes,
sang "Put On Your Old Black (GraV
Bonnet" preluded by a little poem
which Helen recited. Doris Jean Nor
ford and Billy Morris appeared In a
dialogue, Doris Jean being the mother
4 who takes her question asking little
boy to the circus
The second play, "The Magic Pipe,
was presented in three acts and was
] based on the poem, The Pied Piper
of Hamlin," which was read before
the performance by Elizabeth Keal
The familiar story of the rats which
infested Hamlin town, stealing babes
from their cradles and cheese from
the watts, was acted out with the rats
q not too blood thirsty crew IN thell
gray suits with pink ears. Anothe1
clever piece of costuming in the pro
duction was worn by Leo Goodner a.
Fido the dog, very brave In an out
fit of black spotted with white. Tn
Pied Piper lured the rats from Hamelll
town but the selfish mayor refused tt
pay him, and so he piped the children
away into the magic mountain. Blu
in the last act the mayor, beselge'
by lonely parents, repents and send
the town crier to find the Piper an
give him the money due him IN re
turn for the children of Hamelin.
Leading parts in this play were take
by Richard Schicka the town crlel
Yvone Ponsat, Gretchen; Gloria HaW
lev, Katrina; Carrie Jean Coddlns
! Mutter Katzenheimer; Lesion Coleman
9 Yacob; Betty Beyers, Freida; Eunlc
;, Campbell, Katinka; Leo Goodner, F'lde
. Walter Grisham Mayor of Hamellr
= Louis Rousseau, first councilman; Me-
g vim Schwisow, second councilman
Dick Griffith, third councilman, an
Marion Spear, the Pied Piper
The chorus of men and women WE
q composed of Gloria Hawley, Eunie
Campbell, Vanice Hemker, Evely
+ Lowe. Yvonne Ponsat, Cecilia Haske
+ Mabel Spear, Dorothy Grisham, Do
# othy Shelton Evelyn Roberts, Ellzs
beth Keal, Carrie Jean Codding, Bet
Beyers, John Buss, Dean Chappt
Arthur Heideman, Roy Haskell, Lee
nard Graves, Orten McCotter, Alfrt
- - Coleman, Clarence Young, Ernst Wei
-, deborn Erwin Supple and Frank Nee
y. The children who were lured avn
!. from their homes were Carol Bern1
~ Hermann, Dock Arnold, Dicky Kee
~ ~ Altha Jean Gibbins, Donavan SchV
~ ~ SOW, Pearl Phillips Gordon Tayl'
- Louise Griffith, Barbara Hawley, Ro
ert Burns, Roy Milton Hermann, l.
ellie Battig, Raymond Graves, PEI
Larsen, Elizabeth Heideman, Dons
Smith and Charles Graves
IL The troublesome rats were Hare
Roberts, Kenneth Campbell, Cord
1u Coleman, Jimmy Grisham, Bill Wilst
W Harold Lowe, Wells Soden, Bob
~. NJ Lowe, Tommy Griffith, Jewel GRAY
Nv Junior Ralston, and Robert Heidem'
oe Mr.. and Mrs E. j. O'Larey and
A. Codding drove to Yakima Monday