The High School World from Topeka, Kansas • 4

4 THE HIGH SCHOOL WORLD. heard, known and felt come to his aid in the critical moment to make his thought clear and deep, his illustration luminous, his speech eloquent and inspiring." H. W. Mabie. "THE PLAY LAST NIGHT" Strictly speaking, we should have headed this, "The Plays Last Week." Personally, we never cared for the appellation, "Farce," because too often there is something in a name.

But to come down to the subject, let us consider the dramatic efforts of those picked individuals from the two flourishing literary societies of the school. The orchestra amused (we speak literally) the audience for the first fifteen minutes of the evening and then the Atheneum stunt was pulled off. The plot, for the benefit of those who were not in attendance, was the same old tune: Two girls, half sisters, this time, both become violently agitated over a certain French artist, quite a sport, and eventually engaged to both of them. Then the heroine becomes a martyr and gives him up to her younger sister and presumably marries a country rube who is run into the play for the sake of variety. Ernestine Klein and Katherine Al-baugh took the part of the sisters and played them exceptionally well.

The acting of the two was at a par; Miss Klein, perhaps, excels in the more serious portions, and Miss Al-baugh in the lighter vein. Nevertheless, both girls did exceedingly well in all respects. The other parts of the play were all well performed. Arthur Opperman made a typical Reuben, and Frank Peers and Grace Phillips acted well the characters of the over zealous father and aunt of the sisters. The less said about the selection rendered next, by the Glee Club, the better.

The encore, however, a Swine Chorusj was well delivered. The Philomatheum "Farce" followed. Katherine Conklin portrayed a coy little Japanese maiden, and Marian Morrow her confidential friend. Both of these girls took their parts with pretty simplicity and neat representation. Skinny Wilcuts and Phil Gray nearly broke their backs bearing the latter in an improvised Japanese Whatchamacallit.

Dave Neiswanger is the honorable soldier that wins the heart and finally the hand of the maiden that Katy represented, and in the course of the proceedings warbled a melodic ditty entitled, "Wistaria." Fuji, Fujisan, and Wistaria are all Japanese variations of Easter lily. (It took some time to get this straightened out.) It remained for Amos Poole, however, with an exceptionally well fitting wig, to make the hit of the evening with a humoresque, entitled, "I'm a Csmopolitan Man." He was ably assited by a few gentlemen from the Glee Club. Fuji's father and mother were taken by Sarahlean Curtis and Frank McFarland. Both acted very well. Now in comparing the two plays, we are up against a hard proposition.

But to speak honestly, and without prejudice (since we claim membership in both societies) we may say that while both were very well presented, the Atheneum excelled dramatically, and the Philomatheum artistically. We can't elaborate on this decision because we don't want to make any one peevish, but the fact of the matter is that that is as close as we can get. K. A. M.

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