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Show You Never Can Tell HE club ended 1908 with extraordinary success. It has been a venture ingly and seldom with success.o regions where amateurs step hesitat- into the realms of classics, int In the past, Baker has been tried, as well as Sardou, Pinero, Riley and Gilbert, and the reporters have met each attempt with good-natured approval, the good nature increasing as the quality of the drama selected decreased. Naturally, then, the jump to Shaw was risky and venturesome in the extreme, with so many of the old stand-bys gone from our midst. Here's to the little woman who had nerve and stamina to make the step; to talk down all opposition, and to work as she never worked before, and always with sweetness to hope! Here's to her! Drink it down, drink it down (with water or milk-take your choice.)It looked like a crisis in the history of the club when the call came for the tryouts. Tommie was gone, so was Peg; Miff and Dick had taken their sheepskins and applied elsewhere for jobs; and Pat, of "Mr. Bob" renown, who danced into our hearts so suddenly, had left us as suddenly. So there we were, and with the hypocritical, pessimistic and unruly Shaw on our hands. But the aspiring Thespians sprang up on every hand, from the Engineering, Medic, Law, and Normal "layouts." When the unpromising buds were clipped and the select ones left to gather the increased nourishment (water two gallons daily, sipped slowly between meals), they presented a beautiful appearance. A white top, a red top, brown tops and black tops, big ones, small ones, and middle-sized ones.They bloomed slowly, well watered (what?), warmed by the gentle sun of Sandy and cooled by the moonlight zephyrs of Tooele. Logan saw them in almost full bloom, a bloom only surpassed by a more perfect opening and delicate tint in the Salt Lake Theatre.Who can forget Gloria, the haughty, the "woman's right" woman, the Suffragette, who ground love under her heel, but who fell before chemistry? Take notice, you would-be Queeners, and study chemistry. Then there's Dolly, the pretty ballet girl, who irritated old Finch beyond endurance; Mrs. Clandon, endeavoring to suppress her two infantile prodigies, and to instill into Gloria her life's mission; and Margaret, bringing warm water as only good little maids know how, never talking back and never striking for higher wages.(135) |