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Reverence, wonder, worship fill the atmosphere. Scene three. Satire, poetry, and farce find expression in the drama of a provincial English town, of a prison cetl during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, and of a modern charity bazaar. The curtains close three times as three phases of life are revealed in Stanley Houghton's Dear Departed, Louis Parker's A Minuet, and Mrs. Harper's Bazaar. Again applause ... footlights go out ... house lights blaze forth disturbing the moods created by drama ... the play is over. From the critic's review ... Under the direction of Miss Esther Smith the College Players once more reached a new high in their presentations on Thanksgiving, at Christmas, and in the annual program of one-act plays. Individual senior recitals on January 29 and April 12, as wel! as the commencement play, climaxed the final results of voice exer- cises, weary rehearsals, make-up experiments, phonetic practices, dramatic calisthenics, property searches, set designs, and minute studies of a mass of human emotions ... All these ... another reading ... another play ... the College Players ... another year ... curtain ... applause. Fini rm", Kulimar, Asbury, Brown, McLuckie, "·lerriu, Barnes, Hoffacker. S"OJ"{ ~.'" Kompanek, Fleagle, Willing, Rebert, Kuhns, LeCompte, Kimmey, Humphries. TilE £OLLEGE PLAYERS House lights dim ... footlights go up ... the familiar green curtains part ... Scene one takes place in a girls' school in New England. Typical pieces of furniture, characters, situations, and emotions are mirrored on the stage of Alumni Hall as Philip Barry's colorful comedy of college life, Spring Dance, comes to life. Applause curtain call. Scene two . • Shepherds keep watch o'er their flocks by night ... soft lights ... choral music ... "and the angel of the Lord came upon them" ... a celestial chorus sings of the King born at Bethlehem ... a stable and its manger ... a madonna and her child ... A Nativity Poem.