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Show 1 ' ; Canvardine Presents Abe Lincoln Play To the memory of Abraham Lln-coin, Lln-coin, the man of the people, the great emancipator, Binghum Kl-wauis Kl-wauis dedicated its hint meeting;, Feb. 12th. Rev. W, A. McCleneghan present-ed present-ed Dr. Chester Canvardine, who gave several acta from Drlukwat-er'g Drlukwat-er'g classic, Abraham Lincoln. la this offering, , Mr. Canvardine Canvar-dine began at the poiut of Lin-coin's Lin-coin's acceptance of the Republican nomination us candidate for the presidency, followed by a scene In the White House during the period of the war. After this came the scene with Grunt in the evening prior to tbe surrender of Lee at Appotomax and finally the asslnation at the Ford theatre. - In this able portrayal Mr. Canvardine Can-vardine gave bis uudlcacs some insight in-sight iuto the human character of this great man. Llucoln was first and last, essentially a human being be-ing and therefore he had a profound pro-found understanding and sympathy for humanity, which appears In his every act In every utterance before be-fore and after his election. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly this is the basis, tbe very foundation of his greatness and the reason that his name will always al-ways be an outstanding one In the pages of American history. With all this Lincoln probably also bad many faults and Individual Individ-ual idiosyueraeles characteristic of all human beings but the many flue t fft it H In hill Twannalttv n Ma. f - U . U whelming and will always stand out as a shining example for future fu-ture generations. Mr. Canvardine brought all of ! this out in bis very splendid rendl- tion of the play. Mr. Walter Bolle,. president of the Bingham High School Student Body, announced that this .organization .organi-zation has planned to cooperate la the Klwanls Club activities to the j extent of offering a musical number num-ber or some other form of entertainment enter-tainment at each meeting. Accordingly Accord-ingly he introduced Misses Olive and Helen Tregaskis and Miss Hope Ingols who gave several Instrumental Instrumen-tal selections that met with general approval. " ' |