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M\imHM U^OPEflI EAGER HEART
(A. NL Buckton)
Prologue......................................................................................................HarrietWestlake Eager Heart.....................................................................Constance Van Duyn
Eager k'ame...............................................................................................VirginiaHamilton A Poor Alan............................................................................................CarolineSpalding A Poor Woman...................................................................Anne Breckenridge
First Shepherd................................................................................ Ilai Bingham
Second Shepherd.................................................................. Cornelia Mclntire An Old Shepherd................................................................ Estella Goodspeed
A ^oung Man...............................................................................................HelenButterfield
hdrst King. . =......................................................................................Lois Beebe
Second King................................................................................................ ShirleyStrout Third King......................................................................................................SallyTaylor
Angels: Jane Alston, Nancy Bacon, Ann Baker, Hazel Crowell, Janet Dunning, Ruth Miller
Our Christmas plays so beautifully depict the true spirit of the season that they are always anticipated with a great deal of pleasure by the school and its friends. A mystery play. Eager Heart, was chosen for presenta­ tion this year.
It opened with singing of Christmas carols and after the last note of Adeste Fideles there was an expectant hush, darkness, and the prologue effectively presented by Harriet Westlake. The curtain rose disclosing
Eager Heart, Constance Van Duyn, seated in a small candle-lit room. After Eager Fame, Virginia Hamilton, had tempted Eager Heart in vain and had left the cottage, a poor man, Caroline Spalding, and a forlorn woman, Anne Breckenridge, carrying a tiny child, entered. They begged for shelter, which Eager Heart gave together with her meagre store of food saved for the Christ who, according to legend, was coming into the
world again that night.
The curtain rose on the second scene disclosing a starlit plain where
three shepherds, Ilai Bingham, Cornelia Mclntire, Estella Goodspeed, and a young man, Helen Butterfield, were sitting around a small fire.
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