The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1900, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL. JStudents of the University of California Jurn Aclors fo Pay College Debts. The Berkeley boys have had their wits to work taking stock of their talents, individual and collective. The rea- son for the stocktaking’is a very urgent one. Thair cof- fers are empty; the treasury of the Assoclated Students of the University of California is depleted, and unless prompt measures are taken the activities and festivi of the college are in danger of being indefinitely » pended. The Berkeley students have risen to the occasion. They will present a three-act farce entitled *“James Wobberts, £. 8. Boston,” at the Grand Opera-houss on Baturday afternoon, April 17, and will continue the per- formance during the week. The boys are not to have itjall their own way. Fair ds are going to assist. Four young lady students roles in the farce, and the cast is interesting be- cause of the fact that never before have the girl stu- dents participated in any entertainment given before metropolitan audiences either in Stanford or Berkeley performances. Chaperons will be much in demand, and ives will be in attendance, but the Berke- ley maids will tread the boards and win the applause with their brothers. The play was written by Richard Walter Tully, a junior student, who will appear in the cast, and al- though originally composed with a view to college audi- ences it is calculated to draw the appreciation of a gen- eral public. Tom Harrington, a typical “sporty” college man, is the character sbout whom the plot revolves, and the three mcts are replete with complication. Having a very dublous record as a student, he is posing befors his father as the leader of his classes, and is threatened with an embarrassing situation when he receives notice of a Visit from his father. When his father arrives Tom, with the assistance of & friend, induces a verdant tresh- man, James Wobberts, 8. 8. Boston, to pose as a pro- fessor whe is expeoted to arrive and to speak creditably © WE'RE HOME ATAIN, OM WHAT A HEADASHE " of Tom's progress. The arrival of the real professor upsets this scheme, and further confusion is brought about by ths appearance of a miner and his daughter from San Francisco, whom Tom had met the night be- fore in the assumed character of anofficer of the regular army. In a hopeless endeavor to keep up his several per- lities the ingenuity of Tom is much taxed, and the v of ke m from.putting heads together bout enc tions. The pseudo-profes- to reveal v, but is silenced as a luna- nd a chance r to the effe Tom has gym”—an innocent term for having given up the Sium—leads every one to belicve that Tom has been in a fight. - The wild efforts of young Harrington to kezp peovle from getting together and making ex- planations result in partial success and all is going well until the reappearance of the real pro who has succeeded in reaching ear of the faculty, frustrates everything, and Tom gives himself up as lost. He is saved, however, through the limited vocabulary of a panese boy, whose English is confined to the one word ” Tom ingenio weaves a fabrication and gets rmative support of the Jap. Vindication follows farce ends happily. The plot is laid in a college house, and the tricks of the college youth, to- with the difficulties of the landlady,"are comically n of the football team, James Bennett Southard; 1d Black, his chum, Rea Hanna; James Wobberts, S. S. Boston, Richard Walter Tully; Willlam Everett James, a Stanford professor fill- ing a vacancy, Milton Harry Schwartz; Byron Harrlog- ton, father of his son, Ralph Talcott Fisher; Dan Dave- nant, a mirer with a daughter, John W Butler; Pro- fessor Magee, director of the “Gym,” Charles Duane Cobb; Nugata, good, honest, intelligent Japanese school- boy, Demetrius A. Gordenker; Marian Davenant, a daughter with a father, Jessie Bohall; Ducie Harring- ton, Tom’s sister, Ella Viola Pattiani; Mrs. Wiggington ‘Wiggins, the laandlady, Anna Lucia Holmes; Ruth Thornton, her niece, Ruby Rose Morse.