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Show HOME TIES SCORED SUCCESS "Home Ties" was presented for the second time here Monday night, January Jan-uary 30, to a large audience. It is an exceptional play in that it has such a good moral, and it was so well ren- : dered that those who missed seeing it the first time it was played requested that it be given again. Many attended the performance the second time. It was under the direction of Mrs. Amelia Heaton our primary president, and her counsellors, Mrs. Ida Barber and Mamie Hinton and Sisters Belle Campbell and Mina Hinton. Others helped to make it a success. They produced pro-duced it under very trying circumstances circum-stances as we have just the one stage and building- for use of the school and ward also which made it very inconvenient incon-venient for them to ever have the use of the stage for practice. The play brought out very clearly the difference between city life and country life and how the gay way of living can spoil people. The cast of characters included: Ruth Winn, the farmer's daughter who went to the city to boarding school and made new and more fascinating fas-cinating friends. This part was taken by Mrs. Audrey Stevens who gave a splendid representation of the sweet country girl. The part of Martin Winn, Ruth's father, was taken by De Nor Ballard, who gave a splendid account of himself him-self as the middle aged father, as did also Clyde Angell as the city lover, and Victor Campbell as the rejected country coun-try lover who won out in the end. Thelmer Stratton as Josiah Tizzard the old umbrella mender would be hard to beat, also Mrs. Kate Stratton as Mrs. Poplin the village gossip, who was always having "symptoms" of first one disease and then another. They were both a scream from start to finish. fin-ish. The others of the cast were equally as good in their different parts. Alma Wayne the sophisticated city girl was well represented by Bernice Hinton; Melissa Winn, sister of Martin Winn, who had been a mother to Ruth since her mother's death, was Mrs. Louise Workman, and last but not least was Lindy Jane the little colored girl who 1 did her share in keeping the audience audi-ence laughing. This part was taken by Marva Johnson in the first performance per-formance and by Fern Ruesch in the second. |