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Show Mutual Audience Roars At One Act Play "Soap Opera" "Soap Opera," a one-act comedy, come-dy, was presented Tuesday evening eve-ning by the. Roosevelt Second ward Mutual as the feature attraction at-traction of its closing MIA social. Plotted around the effect of the radio serial drama on American Ameri-can home life, "Soap Opera" kept a delighted audience chuckling with amusement as Bob Andrews, An-drews, skilfully portraying- Ed Reeves, the abused husband, bemoaned be-moaned and objected to- his wife's absorption in "Vera," a serial melodrama, until he finally final-ly succumbs to its allurements himself. Others of the cast giving a masterful character portrayal included in-cluded Barbara Timothy, as Jenny Jen-ny Reeves, the wife; Ellen Raw-lings, Raw-lings, as Mrs. Kajonas, the Reeves, Czechoslovakian neighbor; neigh-bor; Patricia Wills, the salegirl who risks loss of her position to listen to the serial; Mary Ellen Stewart, as Vera, the Woman in Black; and; Marilyn Wills, as Lilly, the helpful taxicab driver. Ray Johnston portrayed Frederick, Fred-erick, the lawyer, and Karl Betts was the policeman, the unseen radio announcer, soundeffects man and stage manager. The play was directed by Mrs. Lynn Nickell. . Three groups of Ruth Redmond's Red-mond's dancing students presented present-ed numbers immediately preceding pre-ceding the play. Mrs. Jack Mohl- man accompanied the dancers and played musical selections before be-fore curtain call. |