The Omaha guide., 1938-11-12
UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA
COOPERATES WITH
NORTH SIDE YWCA

WHEN Mss DeLoris Jarmin, di-
rector of the North Omaha Com
munity Theatre last season return
eel to the city two weeks ago and
learned thaa her mother, Mrs. Jean
Jarmin. director of Dramaties at
the University of Omaha a pro-
ducing the Broadway Three act
Mystery Comedy success Post
Road, her first concern was to give
the players and patrons of her
own North Omaha Theatre the OPP
~portunity to see this splendid pro-
duetion.
Mss Jarmin also took into con-
sideration the splendid assistance
extended by the North Side of
YWCA. Much of the success enjoy
ed by members of the Little Thea
tire was attributed to the tireless
assistance given by members of
this institution. So now, for the
University productinon of POST
ROAD Miss Jarmin, cognizant of
this cooperation, has made it pos
sible for the North Side YWCA to
secure a percentage on all tickets
sold from the North Side Head
quarters. This gesture of courtesy
given by the dramatic dept. OF
the Municipal University of Omaha
is an endeavor to afford true COM
munity entertainment for its pa
irons and to lend financial assis-
lance to the YWCA in its civic
enterprises.
POS TROAD, written by Wilbur
Danile Steele and Norma Mitchell,
is a startling mystery comedy in
three acts. After its sensational
New York production, it became
the vehicle for Charlotte Green
woods Chicago production.
POST ROAD is the character
sketch of a q~uizzical Connecticut
Spinster who accommodates over
night tourists in her ancestral
home on the Post Road. Late one
stormy evening a dignified doctor
appears and asks for shelter for his
patient. her nurse himself and his
chauffeur. In the morning there
appears an added visitor. an infant
and the mystery of it all leads
Emily to believe that she is hous-
ing a band of kidnapers and kid
mapped babe. During all this a san
ctimonious clergyman, who has
been warning Emily that she is
entertaining suspicious characters
turns out in fact to be a racketeer
disguised as a holy man who has
been planted for weeks in the inn
for the purpose of preparing for
a for his collaborators. Emily
keeps her surmises to herself and
secretly sets about to foil the ex-
to~rtioners. She humorously goes
so far as to claim the infant as
her own. Here follows a success
sion of events that are unsuhpas-
.sed for their subtlety, mystery and
good humor, until everything ends
in a tumult with the state police
shooting their way in, and the baf-
fled conspirators s%currying for
~covel.
Here is a play which delighted
Broadway for a whole season, and
will keep you in an alternate state
of excitement and merrnment. "A
shrewd and exciting melodrama'
1t cries surprise time over time
Water tight tinglfng with sus-
pense,"-New York Sun.
Every effort is being taken to
make this production the best OF
its kind. The students of the Uni
-versity long deprived Of adequate
stage facilities, are highly enthu-
siastic in the anticipation of pro-
ducing their first big performance
on the spacious and beautiful stage
in the newly constructed Universe
ty Building.
The following students have beer
chosen from an all school-try out
and represent the finest dramatic
talent in the University. Rita Bur-
ton, Babara Laher, Julia Lane, Joe
Dooley William w. PEBBLES, ,Jr.