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During the intervals between these star-company weeks, the home-talent club, presents regular, tri-weekly performances, under the supervision of a skillful director. The remaining nights are as a rule, pretty well utilized by the numerous local entertainments, before mentioned.
It's always jammed at these home-talent plays. All of us want to see how our children perform." "Why yes, of course," said the bewildered Wesley. Then he hurried to Margaret. "Say," he said, "there is going to be a play at the high school to-night; and Elnora is in it. Why hasn't she told us?" "I don't know," said Margaret, "but I'm going." "So am I," said Billy.
He looked about him in the sharp-eyed way characteristic of him, not omitting to include in his survey the toilet articles on the dresser. "Hain't you perty enough without them?" he asked, indicating the lip stick and rice powder. "Us folks hain't used to 'em, much.... Wunst we give a home-talent play here, and there come a feller from Boston to help out.
"We propose to give an entertainment in Wilkesville," he said. "I am glad to hear it," said the clerk politely. "After dinner I will consult you as to what steps to take. Is there anything in the way of amusement going on in town this evening?" "Yes, there is a concert, chiefly of home-talent, in Music Hall. There is nothing announced for to-morrow evening."
She knew that the surprised-looking white horse used in the Civil War comedy-drama entitled "His Southern Sweetheart" came from Joe Brink's livery stable in exchange for four passes, and that the faithful old negro servitor in the white cotton wig would save somebody from something before the afternoon was over. In was inevitable that as Josie grew older she should take part in home-talent plays.
"The Friendship Married Ladies' Cemetery Improvement Sodality," she told me, as she rose to go, "is to our wits' end to get up a new entertainment. We want to give something, and we want it should be rill new and spicey, but of course it has to be pretty quiet, owing to the Cause the Dead, so. It bars us from home-talent evenings or festivals or like that.
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