MCPL001720

Description:	i^^aNOTHftUE * 5RRGENTTFIE ECONOMICAL BOOMERANGOn February 9th, at four oclock, The EconomicalBoomerang was presented by the January Seniors.The cast of the play was:Mrs. Dabbleton Charlotte ShawMr. Dabbleton George BrisbaneThe Maid Gertrude ChafinThe Doctor John Henry JohnsonMrs. Plover Ellen HeltonMr. Plover Max JonesThe theme of the play was simply that retribution for attempts at household economy would come sooner or later.The Victim of the economical boomerang in this case is George Brisbane as Mr. Dabbleton, who suggests to his wife that she ought to be able tomake her own clothes, if other women did, and thus save a dressmakers bill.At first reluctant, his wife later accepts this suggestion, stipulating at the sametime that he is to be the model. She ges the skirt successfully draped on herdummy. when she is called away by domestic troubles in the kitchen.Some friends call and find him standing there in his wifes skirt, reading anewspaper. At first he does not see them; during this interval they discuss hisprobable insanity and pity his wife for having such a cross to bear. He turnsaround to run from the room but the skirt impedes him, causing him to make hisexit on his hands and knees. Mrs. Dabbleton then appears but does not understand the insinuations which her friends make to his state.The doctor comes, Mr. Dabbleton becomes still more suspected by thosewho think him mentally unbalanced, but his wife finally sees through themystery and the farce ends with Mr. Dabbleton defeated, a victim of TheEconomical Boomerang.Page Eighty-six
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Collection:	Bloomington High School

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