Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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CHARMING PLAYLETS Entertaining Program Given by Dramatic Club of Agnes Scott College. Three hig hly entertaining playlets constituted the interesting ' program which the Blackfriars, the dramatic club of Aignea Scott college, presented last night in the college chapel. Miss Olive Hardwick and Professor J. D. M. Armistead showed remarkable ability in the laughable curtain-raiser, Phil- osophy vs. Cupid, the plot of which has to do with an impressionable miss, who, although deeply loved by an- other, is wasting her young affec- tions on a bookworm who is as igno- rant of the true state of affairs as the desert air. She hints of her love by means of a hypothetical question and the professor advises her to marry the other man. After she has left the pro- fessor discovers that he is the object of her love, but, much to the disap- pointment of the audience, decides that, after all, he had given her the right advice. Miss Hardwick again had the lead- ing role in The Bracelet, while Professor S. G. Stukes played opposite with ability. A wedding between two people who -do not love each other is broken up, after the parson has ar- rived, when thp bride, charmingly portrayed by Miss Julia Abbott re- ceives a token from her old lover The cards are consequently reshuffled and the couples rematched, to the satis- faction of all, including, it is to be presumed, the Irish maid, a part ex- cellently taken by Miss Ruby Stanley, and the carrot-topped messenger boy, well done by Julius McCurdy. The third playlet. The Land of Heart ' s Desire, by William Butler Yeats, was the most arabitious offer- ing of the evening, and the difficul- ties of presenting this piece, with its half shades and touches of mystery, gave the members of the caat an oppor- tunity to show their high artistic abili- ty. Miss Elizabeth Denman, as a young Irish bride, charmingly portrayed that touch of poetry in the Gaelic nature which, is akin to the fairies and little men. Miss Luoy J urr, with much gi-ace, took the part of the airy creature half child, half fairj ' , who dances into the peasants ' hut and entices the girl ' s spirit away from her young husband and his parents. The part of the young husband was tW , f° y s Hallie Alexander, while Miss Llewellyn Wilburn, Miss Katherlne Seay and Miss Marguerite Davis did excellent -work as peasant peasant ' s wife and priest, respectively ' The playlets were given under the instruction of Miss Frances K. Gooeh head of the elocution department who rtlso dramatized the initial offering