Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-04-18 | Page 6 | "Icebound" Wins Honors for Students

Icebound Wins Honors for Students Icebound an Owen Davis er prize play depicting the grins grim struggles of a Now New England family of the grasping grasping- hypocritical type type type- the kind with handkerchiefs always ready and miserly fingers ers always clutching for the stray penny to tos regain the tha family fortune be bequeathed be- be by shrewd Grandmother Jordan to a comparative stranger Jane Crosby the only person WhO had ever shown affection for tile the old lady was lady was effectively produced Friday Friday Fri Fri- day evening at the Salt Lake theatre by members of Theta Alpha l national dramatic fraternity on the University of Utah campus Probably the most finished performance per per- of the production was that of Esther Hill member of the university university uni uni- public speaking department In the role of Jane Crosby j Frank a as Ben Jordan the family blacksheep indicted before ez time the grand jury for the burning of va jf barn squanderer of money bitter in his condemnation of tHo Jordan clan as icebound within without saves a spirited and 1 x performance V The high standard of each mem mern y her ber of the cast eliminated Individual stars Georgianna Taylor as the widowed sister presented her usual ii realistic and natural tion Hannah the maid played by Beulah Cassady Cassad was sas excellently portrayed Characterized by a perfectly perfectly per per- poised stage stag presence and a voice of f unusually fine timber V Prescott Dunn also a member of the public speaking department gave a dignified Interpretation to the role of Judge Bradford family attorney in love with Jane Tammo Ethel Baker as tile the unmarried sis sister sis sis- ter with time the sharp tongue and Inquisitive In- In ways was splendidly pre D. D Angus Boyer as tIme the eldest eld- eld est cot Jordan brother of ultra tastes and constantly empty empt pocketbook was interpreted In a aT effective manner Nancy Me- Me a petite and mischievous youngster won appreciative piau in the tha part of the nephew Fred Barker was wa-a a apathetic fo pathetic old family doctor and Walt ncr ner Kiepe made the most of thet minor role of the burly country K shet Iff 5 1 il Professor Maude May Babcock deserves credit for her direction oC one of the best productions ever ot by Theta Alpha Phi