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Show "Nipped in the Bud"(With Apologies to Cavendish Cannon, Playwright)or"The Inevitable"(A One act Drammer.)Cast of CharactersReckless Roscoe-Our campus matinee idol.Prexy, the Compromiser-He who nips the plot in the bud.Spencer the Reliable-A stage hand.Our Charming Wilbert-Scenery.The Democratic Speakers-More scenery.The Mob (Students) - Still more scenery.Time-At high noon on the day before election.Place-The Utah campus. Reckless Roscoe is seen posing prominently on the rostrum, hand on hip (for no especial purpose. This is not melodrama, gentle reader-not quite.) Carelessly grouped near by are several harmless Democratic speakers. Close at hand lingers Spencer, the Reliable. Cur Charming Wilbert roams in the distance, lending enchantment to the scene. In his administrative offices lurks Prexy.Reckless Roscoe (assuming his characteristic posture):Ah! Gentlemen! (With much deliberation.)Eloquent pause. The mob applauds.It is with gr-reat plea-sure-(Here Reckless Roscoe smiles one of his most illuminating ones, affected to denote pleasure.)Deafening applause. Appreciativelaughter.It is with the utmost of plea-sure that I introduce to you-Cheers from the mob. Spencer, the Reliable, glances nervously toward the President's office. A shade is surrepti-Reckless Roscoe Introducing the Speakerstiously raised, out, anxiously.Prexy is seen to peer(Roscoe continues)-That I introduce to you this bright and beautiful morning-Wild cheers from the mob, followed by a sudden hushed murmur-a lull in the storm. Prexy is seen tiptoeing his way toward the assembled crowd. Reckless Roscoe retains his position (see illustration)-expectant. Approaches the President, sadly shaking his wise, wise head.No! No! No! The Regents won't let you!Angry murmurs from the crowd.The Regents won't let you. The Regents won't let me let you. The REGENTS won't let me let you let them- the political speakers you have made so bold as to invite here on this campus to talk-say what they would wish. How can they be allowed to speak what they will to you students when we cannot? Go!------off the campus. Please!Filed down toward the gate and away -off the campus-the belligerent mob, led by Reckless Roscoe, watched by Prexy.219 |