The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-28
Junior Class
Presentation
Is Successful
Large Audience Witnessed
Annual Offering of
School Pupils
SPLENDID SPECIALTIES
Play Written BY Local Teach
ers Proves To Be Rol-
licking Comedy


last Friday evening in the high
school auditorium THE Plays the
Thing" a rollicking comedy de-
picting the entangled incidents in
the lives of three college room
mates in the attempt to help Bar
rymore" to win the scholarship
and a contract in New York. "The
Plays the Thing" was written last
summer by Miss Helen Wilder,
English teacher in the public
school, and Miss Helen Henkels,
local grade instructor, and direct
ed by them in its first presentation.
The story opens at midnight
when Jerry Moore, "the answer to
every maiden's prayer" Games
Forsberg) enters the room in the
dormitory in Stafford College
which he shares with Dyke Bar
rymore" Stevens Dudley Morse),
and Flash Allen, "the best quarter
back that Stafford ever had"-by
his own admittance-(Royale Ar
vig) Jerry switches on the light
and typical boys room bursts in
to view with girls pictures, banners,
and strewn clothing grazing the
room. The entire play is laid in this
scene. The play proceeds through
the bantering wit of the college stu
dents and centers around the at
tempts of Barrymore to win the
scholarship and the contract for
the best acting in the school. The
boys talk it over that night with
Skeets Swanson CTom Fleming)
and Tommy Paterson (Warren
Peglow). Skeets and Tommy live
across the hall, and Skeets, who
would rather sleep and eat, and
Tommy, who was everlastingly
Fostering with card tricks which
never worked, more than once
nearly upset the boys schemes.
The great Barrymore with the aid
of Flash and Jerry practice for the
big play, pajama clad, while Tom
my and Skeets made life miserable
with untimely suggestions and
card tricks. The first act closes
with the startling discovery that
Barrymore, on whom Flash and
Jerry pin their hopes to cinch the
scholarship, is taken sick with the
measles.
The second act opens with Bar
rymore sick in his room in despair
lest someone find out about his
measles. The situation is further
complicated when Mrs. Stevens
dorothy KeldahD, his mother, and
his sister, Nancy Geraldine Han
sen) and Kit Northrop Vera Tay-
lori the girl friend from the home
town, notify Barrymore they are
coming for the play. In the mean
time Flash and Jerry have contriv-
ed to bring Sally Newton Ieone
Kueffler), who plays opposite Bar
rymore, into the room to have a
final rehearsal. While she is there
Mrs. Stevens, Nancy, and Kit en-
ter. The measles secret is out upon
investigation by Mrs. Stevens. Sal
ly, determined not to get measles,
rushes from hiding, and the boys
groan as her presence is discovered.
And what's more Kit gets angry
because she things Sally Is Lulu
the belle of the campus. Barrymore
explains but all In vain, and Kit
stalks from the room in a huff.
The third act finds play time
drawing nearer with Barrymore
sick, Kit in huff, and the chance
that the dean would find that Sally
was in the boys room. The boys
are in the depths of despair and
still Tommy and Skeets persist
with their pesky foolishness and
card tricks. Mrs. Stevens returns
with doctor David DuBois) who
pronounces the measles a skin
eruption and the boys, taking
heart, strive on to grapple with
other problems. Play time arrives.
The scene changes to after the
play. Barrymore Is triumphant;
Flash and Jerry are exultant, for
he has won the scholarship and the
contract in New York. Barrymore
is beside himself as Kit Is reconcil-
ed when she learns through the
play who Sally really is, and the
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