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JHttle Tots Pauline Gellatly made a very realistic
Christopher Robin in the flay by
J^ove
[ the that name.
Qhildren's

Theatre

B y I R E N E DAWSON,

Zeta

R0.? p | I T |_b

1AY, when does that shade go up?" comes a loud whisper from the
restless crowd of children packed in the Temple Theatre on
Saturday afternoon. They have been waiting an hour or more

for the curtain to rise on one of those delightful plays given by the Ne-
braska University Children's Theatre.

Miss H. Alice Howell, as head of the dramatic department, has dele-
gated this work to Pauline Gellatly (Zeta), an assistant in the depart-
ment. What could be more appropriate than that vivacious little Polly,
whose tiny figure misses five feet even on tiptoe, should know what
children love? She is scarcely more than a child herself, with her snap-
ping dark eyes and constant activity.

For the past two years, Children's Theatre has been somewhat of a
failure because of lack of interest and finances. But this year, under
such splendid direction, it has come to be a decided, almost stupendous
success—so much so, indeed, that even grown people are found in the
audiences and a second showing has been necessary for the last two
plays.