by Laurel | December 22nd, 2011
22 December 1934
Turnverein Button, 1899
Children’s classics of the Holyoke Turnverein will present their annual Christmas play in the Bridge Street Turn Hall, Sunday night at 8. A large number will participate in the event and a large gathering is expected with admission free.
The play is entitled “The Rag Doll’s Christmas Eve,” with the scene a nursery. Ernest Rudolph, Jr., will be the piano accompanist.
The characters follow: Rag doll, Jane Martin; teddy bear, Henry Warburton; Gobo (Jack-in-the-box), John Regan; rubber doll, Marjorie Scheinost; girl doll, Phyllis Tuttle; boy doll, Elleen Jacobs; Japanese doll, Irene Pariseau; Dutch doll, Mary Ann Martin; spirit of Christmas, Gertrude Tuttle; Raggedy Ann, Laura Heinicke; Irish doll, Rita Engle; Scotch doll, Norma Giehler; bells, Dorothy Pariseau and Theresa Perron.
Ginger bread men, Kenneth Turchman, Edward Hart, George Baush, John Scanlon, Leslie Schauer, John Hart, Donald Wilson; candy sticks, Ralph Higginbotham, Jack Cody, Walter Fitch, Bruce Heinicke, George Sattler Tom Cody, Donald Fitch; snowflakes, Carroll McManus, Constance Kiley, Eleanor Rouleau, Bertha Thorpe; jumping jacks, William Gerliep, Kenneth Fitch, William Pariseau, William Schauer; Carol singer, Ruth Sattler; Santa and his reindeer,
Adapted from The Springfield Republican.
