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Show 10 PRESENT PLAY The senior class of "Wasat ;1: .Academy is promising a treat for the evening of March 20th. at eight o'clock, when it will present "At the Sign of the ijack 0 'Lantern," a dramatisation dramati-sation of Myrtle Reed's amus- Ung UOOK Ol mat name, xhc-lc will be five acts, with thrice as many scenes and funny situations situa-tions coming thick and fast. I Neldon Jensen and Vera '; Johnson play the leading parts of the young writer and his bride, while Joe Simpson as Dick Chester and Veda Brown as Elaine St. Clair are close seconds in interest. Margaret Brown plays the little old lawyer, Jerimiah Bradford, and Dora Peterson is "that tombstone Miss Smithers" I who is sure to be a great ' ' it. ' ' Mrs. Holmes (Jean Meynek ) and young Ebeneezer and Rebecca Re-becca her twins, parts taken by Alfred Harney and Rose Cawley, will add to the gaiety. Mada Jones as Mrs. Belinda Dock! fresh from another bereavement, be-reavement, will tell of her seven sev-en husbands and Pete Jordan will play the poet, Harold Vernon Ver-non Perkins, who arrives with his odes and departs with no more. Perhaps the character longest remembered will be uncle Israel Skiles, (Harry Chambers) nearly ninety six with insides turned green by his patent medicines. The performance will be given in the gymnasium and the stage will be set to show the inside of the Jack O 'Lantern, 'Lan-tern, haircloth furniture and all. . |