Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — “THE DEAD WITNESS” AT COLLEGE TONIGHT [ARTICLE]

“THE DEAD WITNESS” AT COLLEGE TONIGHT

Annual Commencement. Play by Students Certain to Prove One of Much Merit. Commencement takes place at St. Joseph College tomorrow and many visitors from other cities have already arrived and will this evening attend the annual commencement play, which this year promises to be as all of the plays given at the college have been, of especial merit The play tonight is entitled “The Dead Witness,” and the cast includes those students who have shown the greatest dramatic ability in the plays given during the past year. Father I. Bapp has drilled the performers thoroughly and the rehearsals have proven that the parts have been well assigned. “The Dead Witness” was written by Brother Waldron, who has produced a play of enduring qualities. The cast was necessarily all masculine and the play written for just such uses. The plot is interesting, and depicts a condition existing in England during the time of Henry V. P. Zeller, Theo. Fettig and Edwin Kaiser have all proven their capacity for difficult parts heretofore and are cast in leading roles. There are fourteen in the cast besides the attendants, servants, etc. The play, which is in four acts, Will be enlivened by some splendid orchestra music. The costuming is appropriate to the play and was procured from Cincinnati especially for it The small admission price of 25 cents is charged. It is probable that quite a number of Rensselaer people will Witness the performance and also attend the commencement tomorrow.