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Show THESPIANS TO PRESENT PLAY JUNE 5 "Berkeley Square," the London and Broadway success, will be presented by the National Thespians Thes-pians Tuesday and Wednesday nights, June 4 and 5, in the Springville high school auditorium. auditor-ium. The cast is headed by Woodrow Weight, who plays Peter Standish, and other members of the cast are Ina Sanford, LeJeune Whitney, Nedra Beal, Joe Salisbury, Fern Simkins, Ruth Condie, Floyd Anderson, An-derson, Byron Wardle, Dorothy Barron. Kent Thorn, Marjorie Simkins, and Dorothy Long. Richard Lockridge in the "Evening "Eve-ning Sun," says of "Berkeley Square": "It is a play of imaginative, imagin-ative, delicacy and charm; of wit and romance . . . One of the most completely satisfactory plays now available." The story is of a present-day American who is unceremoniously thrust into the bewigged and powdered life of Eighteenth Century Cen-tury London, and an English girl, who has been dead more than a hundred years before his birth. Peter Standish, it seems, has inherited in-herited an old English house in which one of his ancestors had played an important role. Taking up hTs residence there, he discovers dis-covers that he can walk back and forth through time, that he can step into the shoes of his ancestor ances-tor and live the life which that man lived in the Eighteenth century. cen-tury. He accepts the challenge of the adventure; he finds himself entering the old drawing room dressed in the costume of the time but still essentially himself, and he plays the game as well as he can. Much charms but much also shocks him, and his knowledge know-ledge of the future sometimes trips him up. Those ghosts find something terrifying in him just as he finds something unreal in them, and at last he returns to nineteen twenty - eight carrying nothing with him except the memory mem-ory of the girl whom he had loved. Tuesday night the play will be presented for high school students who will be admitted on last year's activity cards and Wednesday Wednes-day night at 8:15 p. m. the play will be presented for the public. "Berkeley Square" is sure to be another excellent production that will please Springville play-goers in line with the previous successes success-es which Bernice Park has directed direct-ed in Springville. |