| Show GIRL WRITES FAIRY PLAY k 1 ee 2 Z l 2 l 14 o. o o 2 DRAMA AIDS RED CROSS Comp Composing a n story fairy drama producing producing pro pro- It staging it antI and then turning all the proceeds over to the Red Cro Cross K to help swell tho the organization funds Is 18 what little Miss 1198 Nellie Anderon thc the tin tiny accomplished ac daughter daus of Mr Ir r anti Mrs Irs Joseph Anderson 1971 1 S. S West Vest Temple street t. t has done Salt SnIt Lakes Lake's youngest playwright Is only 11 years old yet ct she sho already has produced a i drama that hat held hehl her lien audience spellbound spellbound spell spell- bound hound during the thc opening night performance per per- elicited favorable 1 comment and muCh praise from flom all nil who shio saw It and intI netted 50 for or the thc lie local local Cross Nellie Anderson Is a H member of or the Junior Fled nel Cross Crolls of or the thc Burton school chool district All during the he school term while the thc Junior fled Cross organization tion ion WIM ivas In iii session she sho devoted her time to knitting and anti sewing for soldiers and war ivar refugees ce lint but who when II vacation camp the thc ambitions and and the tho artistic temperament of or little Nellie be began lie lie- gan ran to formulate other ways was of ot doing her bit For iron n a l long time Nellie has eon an ardent little student of or tho lie drama al always always al- al ways wass coaxing a i l day ay off oCt from cons pIa play or duties to attend the matinees an and then reproducing the play on her return home aon among the lie neighborhood chil dren She says sas lie hc has always wanted to write n n. pIa play but ha had never ne formally for for- mally tried It until h her r vacation trip this summer In Weber eber canyon CoOl Conies In Canyon Four weeks ago the thc A Anderson ml err on family fam amII am- am II ily 11 with several everal other prominent Salt Lake Lako fa families II hs motored up the thc canyon to spend part of their summer In tho attractive out of Little Nellie and her writing play ambitions went with them The rhe result was that Nellie composed her first little drama Florinda FlorInda FlorInda Flor Inda In iii Fairyland a tale of oC fairies and witches and enchantments and forest foret magic The Tho performers besides Miss Nellie herself were hope Spencer II Helen elen Silver Helen lichen Clare ClaIre Daynes lone Iono Spencer and e Silver Helen Claire Daynes Danes the lie tin tiny leading lady took look the thc part of or Florinda lichen Helen Silver waR wan the lie witch lone Spencer and o Silver wert the tho fairies and Nellie was the lie rain fairy q queen Miss Anderson also costumed 08 t u the lie pIa play she and the lie other small JJ I making their fairy gowns front from brightly hued tissue paper and anti twining them with mountain larkspur and h Ivy branches branch es lire not Knot Give Gln Il ht Th The stage o director and her coworkers work co ers ens transformed the lie Anderson cottage Into a little neighborhood playhouse erecting a il stage o antI and making screens for fOI their thel different sets of or pine tre tree j branches heavily stu studded ded with purple larkspur The Thc lights were burning pine knots Fifteen cents was the tho price charged rAed I for tor admission lon but so BO popular did the thc Weber eber Dramatic club become that U i t. t the thc first performance nce the thc box receipts amounted to Many Ian per persons ons hising his ll In Ing In the canyon attended some sonic coming con com him ing from as ns far Car as fifteen miles away awn and all voted th lie tho play a l professional 1 production Miss declares that I she will go SO on writing dramas and hat thit some sarno day she will stage one In the ell city I for Cor her Salt Lake friends |
