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Show The play was so well presented that numerous opportunities were offered to present the play in many outside towns. However, as it wouldn't have been satisfactory to break into the class work of the students, the play was presented only in Brigham City, Spanish Fork, Eureka and Logan. Logan's largest playhouse, the Capitol theater, was used there. The play, presented for the first time west of Broadway, was written by Rachel Crothers and is considered an example of her best work. It was very well presented by the University players and the theme, "each new love is the greatest love that ever existed," was so well interpreted by them that their audiences were well pleased with the offering. Dorothy Irvine, as the perfect flapper in the role of Mary the Third, caused her audiences to gasp and secretly love and respect the modern flapper (lipstick and all). Character parts were taken and well portrayed by Georgiana Taylor as the fanatic old grandma, Merrill Bennion as the errant misunderstanding father of Mary the Third, and Ora Lewis as the mother of the flapper. These were all supported by the rest of the cast, consisting of Virginia Greenwell, Georgia Tate, Calvin P. Midgley, J. K. Thatcher and Harry R. Allen. Although "Mary the Third" was the important and best feature of the dramatic department, there were other productions creditably done. The Freshmen presented the play, "Just Suppose." Now suppose the Prince of Wales should drop in from no place at all and should get ill in your home, what would you do if you were a girl and needed the money? This was the situation the Freshman actors encountered in the play, "Just Suppose." It was presented February 7th in the Salt Lake Theater. An excellent cast worked out this comedy. The play was directed by Miss Esther Hill and W. Prescott Dunn of the public speaking department. Charles Cook managed the play. "The Gypsy Trail," a pleasing comedy, was presented by the Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dramatic fraternity of the University of Utah. It was a comedy of a great deal of action, but with no bad men (just ignorant ones). The story deals with a struggle of the conventional with the romantic. The main character, a dashing romantic newspaper reporter and adventurer, was well portrayed by C. Lowell Lees. The staunch conventional father was none other than Merrill Bennion. Mundy Sonday interpreted the part of the conventional young man who would win the girl in his conventional way. Francis Raymond, the girl to be won, finally chose the romantic to the conventional. This part was admirably played by Cora Mortensen. Lillie May King, as the grandmother, played the old-fashioned new-fashioned grandmother in a romantic manner. Of course, it was necessary to have the mischevious little brother. Richard Maycock entertained the audiences with a character part of always getting in the way at the wrong time. Ora Lewis proved that she' could be two people by playing dual parts, that of Janet Raymond and Ellen. "Ice-Bound," the best play presented by the Theta Alpha Phi fraternity, was well presented by a large cast. It is a cleverly written story of old New England. The prodigal son who came back by the influencing love of a real girl was well given by Frank McGhie. Jane Crosby, a distant cousin, was the girl who had just received an inheritance. The disappointed expectants of the inheritance were portrayed by D. Angus Boyer, Marie Hill Bacher and Dorothy Irvine. The girl, Jane Crosby, was played by Esther Hill. W. Prescott Dunn played well the part of the good-hearted judge. The other members of the cast were Georginia Taylor, Nancy McConachie, Ethel Baker, Beulah Casady, Werner Kiepe, and Fred Baker. The English department of the University of Utah broadcasted the fame of the school by giving a series of Shakespeare's plays. The varsity play "Mary the Third" and "Icebound" were also placed in the ether for the many radio fans. Pmge One Hundred Eighty-three |