Senior Class at Mont Amoena Seminary Performs "Daddy Long-Legs," Jan. 19, 1925

“Daddy Long-Legs” at Mont Amoena

Last Friday evening the Senior class of Mont Amoena Seminary, Mt. Pleasant, presented to a large and appreciative audience Jean Webster’s famous play “Daddy Long-Legs,” in a manner that was far from amateurish and was well up to the standard set when it was first produced at the Gaiety Theatre in New York by well-known professional actors and actresses. The stage settings were well chosen and appropriate and evinced much care on the part of the directress and the girls in their arrangement. Of course the central figures were “Daddy Long-Legs” was played by Miss Edith Amick, and “Judy Abbott,” portrayed by Miss Kate Hammill. They were full of vim and enthusiasm, and it could be easily seen that these young ladies carried on their different parts as from their hearts, and that they felt every emotion they so faithfully enacted. They were natural, easy and graceful, and their lines were well learned. All the male characters, as taken by different members of the class, were carried out in a true masculine manner. Miss Margie Harkey played the part of the typical, tyrannical mistress of the “John Grier Home” to perfection, and Miss Mary Trexler made a veritable fashionable society mother, with all her anxieties concerning the “best families” being associated in college with her daughter. Miss Kate Kluttz was a sympathetic old friend to the heroine and carried out the part of Mrs. Pritchard with a sweet sympathy that was very natural; while Miss Grace Kluttz made a stunning old butler. Miss Ruth Bost played the part of “Jimmie McBride,” the gay college youth, to perfection while his sister, in the person of Miss Katherine Ridenhour, was a real care-free young college girl of the present day, as was her room-mate Sallie, as portrayed by Miss Nita Litaker. Miss Thelma Walker acted the part of the inquisitive old nurse as a professional. The little orphans were all well-taken, especially “Freddie,” the irresponsible, acted by Miss Frances Sims. The whole performance attained the degree of excellence which it evinced much through painstaking care and persistent training of the head of the English department, Miss Clara Sullivan. Quite a neat sum was realized, to be applied to several needs of the college.

Following is the cast of characters:

Jervis Pendleton—Edythe Amick

James McBride—Ruth Bost

Cyrus Kykoff—Doris Isenhour

Abner Parsons—Sallie Earnhardt

Griggs—Nora Earnhardt

Walters—Grace Kluttz

Judy—Kate Hammill

Miss Pritchard—Kate Kluttz

Mrs. Pendleton—Mary Trexler

Julia Pendleton—Catherine Ridenhour

Sallie McBride—Nita Litaker

Mrs. Semple—Thelma Walker

Mrs. Lippett—Margie Harkey

Maid—Isabel Watson

Carrie—Blanche Fink

Orphans:

Saide Kate—Blanche Fink

Gladiola—Julia Shriey

Loretta—Virginia McAllister

Maie—Marjorie Mittenbuhler

Freddie Perkins—Frances Sims

From page 3 of the Concord Tribune, Monday, January 19, 1925

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