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WILMETTE LIFE 13 r .. I I CRICHTON FINE · PLAY High School Dr·matic Club Performance Delights Capacity Crowd at Auditorium EASTER 1 By CRITIC I \ ,_. .. . 'I I · .i,.. l · I I - .I · lJ. - "The Admirable Crichton." a comcd,in four acts hy Sir James ~f. Barrie I ,,·as presented Saturday ni<rht. ~fare!~ i 20. to a capacity house. The huge I audience was most appreciative of the I' excellent per.formance given by the Xcw Trier Dramatic club. as was 1 ~lwwn hy the spi r it with which they t'ntered into th ~ atmosphere of the play. It would he extremely difficult to single out any particular actor who m<?rits more prai. e than the rest for his· acting in the play Saturday night. ~o fine was each portrayal. \Vhitfield Cook. who took the role oi Crichton. ,,·as en.·n hct ter than he hao.; before appeared in an\· role at Xew Trier. Such was hi. skill in his character, than he easily succeeded in making his audience forget his own identity and regard him as Crichton. indeed. Personality, experience, and a fine sense of dramatic situations -.,howed strongly in his excellent performance. Don ~fcGilt, as Lord Loam, the ma . tcr of the noble hou e, was the nnh· other member of the cast who hacf had previous experience. His best hit of acting came near the close of the third act, when he fully realized that his dream of. rescue from the i"land had indeed come true. Likewise. does his work in the first act deserve pecial mention. The rest of the cast were, in the main. undercla . smen. who had not had earlier experience. but the action throughout the play . ustainecl the high degree of quality so noticeah le in the performance . of \Vhitfi eld Cook and Don ~reGilt. Ed\\·ard Bauman. as the youtH! nephew, wa·s decidcdh· funny in hi~ c· ff or ts to be h r iII ian t. The chi e f roml'rh· character. however. was Tween.y, the little kitchen girl. played hy Su . . an Conley . Susan wa especially funny in her pantomime in the fir,t act. Thl' kadin~ woman. La(h· ~[arv l ,a:'l' n bv. wa . playerl hy · Loui's-e Cia ha ugh in a delightfully u~1 a ff ectcd ,uHi rlear-cut manner. The two youner si . ters of Lad ...· ).fan· \\·ere p1 aye cl hy Jane If hi 1h rick an rl .\far~arct \\.hit~ett in pJea~ing fa,hion. I It wa-., to he rcQ'retted that ~fargard Blutharclt. a~ Ladv · Drocklehttrst. l could not h;we appearlil mort: in the J play for her cbaracterization \\·a" , ..;plendid. Jack Leach. as her son. \ the youthful and Ycry snolllli-.,h Lord 1 Brocklehurst was excellent. , It is hard to dra\Y the line at di\·id -1 in!:!' one's praise.:;. so fine was the entire performance. Not the lea. t of the :-.ympathetic atmosphere wa-., . upplied by ~f rs. Cotton's orchestra, l which played for the overture and thl' intermission . . compo . itions in the I :-arne vein as the atmosphere of the play offered. Due to :M iss Stanwood's intensive work. this play was prepared "·ithin three weeks and shows the excellent calibre of the dramatic mat<?rial from which she has to draw. and I Spring Apparel Now showing our exclusive lines of the better class of Sports and Afternoon Dresses Also HART SCHAFFNER & MARX COATS Prices Notably Reasonable 1606 Chicago Ave., Evanston Copyright 1926 H art Schaffner & Mar~ -- · · Eitel Quality Bakery Goods Easter Specialties For sale at our Bakery Goods Counter located in Lunch Room on Main Floor; also in Suburban Concourse of the I I North Western Terminal Station, Chicago ~fiss 1fargaret Fitch, formerly or' Kenilworth. and now of New York, is leaving Sunday evening after a four dav visit with Miss Clementine Eastm~n of 1027 Elmwood avenue. Miss Fitch is on her waY to Sag-inaw. Mich., to join a summer stock company there. ..t. ., .. -0- a stu<lent at Knox college, r came home for a week-end visit with her parents )fr. and Mrs. W. J. Weldon, of 1340 Greenwood avenue. Miss F r ances Fitts, a classmate of ~{is . \Veldon's accompanied h e r . ~[ iss I sahel \Veldon, who i.