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Show R.H.S. Students Rehearsing Play "Penrod", Booth Tarkington's rollicking rol-licking comedy of American life has been selecteJ as the school play at the Bingham High School. Try-outs are being held for parts in it and enthusiasm is running high in the student body. The announcement announce-ment that all students were eligible to try for roles brought dozens of boys and girls to hear the preliminary reading of the play. - Miss Helen Candland, new head of the Public Speaking Department announced an-nounced that nearly seventy students had signed up to compete for parts. The try-outs are to be held Friday Fri-day afternoon in the High School auditorium au-ditorium before judges selected from the school and community. The students stu-dents contesting will present from memory a short scene from the play. The cast will be selected from those who appear. , The parts of Penrod and Sam, two typical American boys are being hotly contested for by such students as Kenneth Harker, Willard Nichols, Is-sy Is-sy Wiesberg, J. D. Caulfield, Horace Clary, William Erickson and others. The conflict rages even more hotly over the part of Marjorie, Penrod's "girl". Some two' dozen charming lasses such as Dorothy Barnard, Betty Bet-ty Jones, Alice Todesco, Bertha Kap-ple, Kap-ple, Mem Nerdin, Edith Nervilla are busily memorising lines. Some of the Senior High students who are ready . to do the older character parts are Evelyn Vietti, Melba Turner, Mary Masters,. Blanche Kenner, Walter Eng lish, and John Turner. : There are good indications that a remarkably strong cast will be chosen The play is unusually good and witR the prospeetative cast that is indicated, indicat-ed, Bingham School expects to set a new standard in amateur dramatics. |