Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1919 — DELIGHTFUL PROGRAM [ARTICLE]

DELIGHTFUL PROGRAM

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS MAKE HIT WITH A LARGE 4j AUDIENCE. The girls of the high school gave a very pleasing Red Cross benefit entertainment at the high school auditorium Wednesday night. The program was a miscellaneous one, consisting of vocal solos, instrumental numbers, readings and ending with a one-act farce entitled “Seeking a Servant.” The farce was perhaps the number which pleased most universally The scene is laid in a parlor in a New York flat with Sara Alice O’Neall as Madam Grosbinet, Elizabeth Hemphill, the daughter, and Ruth Robinsx> nas Marie, the French maid. Marie has decided to return to her native country and so Madam Grosbinet advertises for a servant. The applicants who come to the Grosbinet home for an interview are very amusing. Ruth Clark takes the part of a al American servant,. Lucille Knox as the negro, Ruth Murphy as the deaf applicant, Frances Ryan as an Irish Bridgett, Naomi Dunlap as a Chinese, Adah Lambert as an Indian, Maudie Reynolds the Spaniard, Elizabeth Yates the Turk, and Mary Elizabeth Kannal as the Jap. All did their parts particularly well and furnished a great deal of amusement. The performance will be repeated this, evening.■ For this week only one gallon apples or pie peaches for 50c. One gallon apricots 65c. One gallon California pealed peaches 75c. One gallon gooseberries 85c. Eger’s Grocery.