1932 Cedrus Yearbook

CEDRUS THE CEDRUS PLAY It was a perfect night for ducks—or do ducks have nights—maybe not— but anyway ducks like water and there was plenty of it on the night of November 22, when the Cedrus Staff presented Harriett N. Connell's three-act comedy, "Ducks" in the Cedarville Opera House. Unlike the title, however, there were no quacks among the players for each one acted his part in an especially skillful manner. Wilda Auld, as Marilou Drury, manager of the Drury Ranch, was very clever in the leading role. She was assisted in the management of the ranch by her foreman, Terry, played by Bob Richards. One could not help liking Terry, be- cause of the clean-cut, manly diginity which Bob gave to this character. Because of the "slump in cattle, cholera in the hogs and pip in the chickens" things began to look serious for Drury Ranch. When Dallas Gibson came offering a good price for the ranch, Marilou was tempted to sell, but Terry persuaded her that there were other means of making money—"Ducks, for instance." Red Murray, naturally of very genial and likable disposition, handled the part of Dallas, the eastern slicker, in such a masterly way that we disliked that character from the start. Marilou's college chum, Peggy Norton, arrived just in time to pep things up a bit, and Bernese Elias was clever as could be in this part. Joe Free was well cast in the role of Duckland Jarvis, the "amnesia man," who appeared with the airplane that "lit unintentioned in the cow-yard." Joe impersonated well the man who could not even remember his own name. Nevertheless he had no difficulty in getting Peggy "crazy about him, amnesia and everything." Lenora Skinnell was perfect in the part of the sophisticated Cecile Clement, Jarvis' eastern friend, who came to hunt him up for her next house party. Don Leland, neighbor of Marilou's, was played by Charles Spencer in a most capable manner. That was Roscoe Fudge behind all those whiskers playing the part of Doc Marshall, M. D. to the cows. Who could not sympathize with poor old Doc when Samantha got to "rampagin'". Doris Hartman did justice to the character of Samantha and did she tell Doc what was what. However, she was compelled to warm up a little toward him and decided she did not want "to keep on fightin'". And then there was Heinie, the "red-headed, snub-nosed, freckle-faced ya- hoo," who was always just a little too late with his news, for "some blame, fool woman always seen and told it first." No one could have been a better Heinie than was Ralph Tindall. Between the acts the audience was delighted with the singing of the Revel- er's Quartette, the dancing of Frances Patton and the instrumental music furnished by Eleanor Bull, Bernese Elias and Clyde Hutchison. "Ducks" was directed by Miss Glenna Basore. G. B. Seventti