The Elocutionary Entertainment

Standing room was at a premium in high school hall when the Ann Arbor Banjo and Guitar club opcned the program of the recital of the elocution class last Friday eveningwith a selection of music so well rendered that au encoré was a foregone conclusión. The elabórate program was carried out in f uil, and spoke eloquently for the efforts of Mrs. Trueblood in behalf of elocution in the high school. Although it lasted an hour and a half, the audience was loath to leave, and it is to be hoped that another opportunity will be given the public to witness the work of the class before the year closes. In the scène from the Merchant of Venice Miss Blanche Anspach showed the result of careful and diligent training; the platform scènes from Hamlet by Messrs. Handy, Caldwell, Clark and Stocking brought out the natural adaptability of Mr. Handy to his part of the melancholy prince with striking force; the Minuet was most charmingly rendered by Miss Nellie Mingay, and in the Ladies of Athens by the Misses McMonagle, Clark, Gates Pfeifle, Stebbins, Wurster, Bird anc Orcutt the part of Xantippe by Miss ?IcMonagle was maintained with an earnestness most gratifying to the listeners.