March 29, 1928 Baseball Fever A week of good weather and baseball practice has given a pretty fair idea of the prospects in that line of endeavor. Of the pitchers, (Virgil) Shickell and Thurman Streeter are flashing speed a la Walter Johnson and (Donald) Evans has shown more curves than a geometry text. Edwin Jones will interpose his bulky frame behind home plate. C. Dodd looks promising at first, Cummings appears likely to cover second, (Walter) Keagle shows up well at short and Herbert Jones may work in at third. The outfield is as yet a mystery.
The baseball fever has extended even to the girls. The feminine ball tossers display surprising proficiency and with a little major league experience should become expert fence busters.
April 5, 1928 Juniors Please Large Audiences with Class Play Customers of “Smile, Rodney, Smile” get Big Money’s Worth. Several hundred people spent twenty-five and thirty-five cents each last Friday and Saturday evenings to see a two-dollar show at the Collins High school auditorium, where the Juniors presented their play, “Smile, Rodney, Smile.”
The play, a comedy in three acts, had to do with the difficulties of one Rodney Bradley (Carl Atkinson), who sought to evade marriage with the step-daughter of his uncle, Bruce Bradley (Lloyd Patton), who had charge of the estate of which Rodney was to come into possession upon the fulfillment of certain conditions. One of these conditions was his marriage to the step-daughter, Virginia Roslyn, alias Miss Koogelhelheimer, nicknamed “The Princess” (Lillian Vasey). Rodney’s aversion to the marriage was all before he had met “The Princess,” for upon meeting her it was a case of love at first sight, as it would have been with anyone.
The part of Egbert Marmont, a young Englishman and a friend of Rod’s, was well portrayed by Harold Kimberley, as was that of Tubby Hayes, another friend (Dwight Chambers.) Mary McWherter admirably played the part of Bedelia Dwiggins, an old man, whose specialty was broadcasting, and who drew many laughs from the audience. Charlotte Halterman looked every bit the handsome widow, Mrs. Gilbert Vance, looking with all her might for her fourth husband, and Gwendolyn Vance, her beautiful niece was well represented in the part of Gwendolyn Shuey. Mildred Gearhart was charming as Betty Crowley, an independent little neighbor of Mrs. Winslow, an elderly lady who was impersonated to perfection by Alma Stratton. Patty Nelson, another neighbor, was equally attractive in the person of Margaret Holmes. And then there was Pickney Herring, who was “Sardine” to some and “Salmon” to others, but a big fish in a small puddle to himself. He was chestily represented by Kenneth Roush, who is now considered about town as a real actor.