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MRS. BIERER HIGHLY HONORED BY N. Y. DRAMATIC PRODUCER.
Mrs. Helen Guild Bierer, 15, now a resident of Hiawatha, has just finished a six weeks' course in dramatics at the Theodore Irvine dramatic school of New York. Mrs. Bierer has always been interested in dramatics, both while at Washburn and in coaching amateur plays in Hiawatha She did such good work in New York that out of a class of wt, many of them professionals, she was the only one selected by Daniel Frohman to have parts in a group of charity plays to be given in the Frohman theaters in New York. Frohman is nationally known among theater-goers as a play producer of merit. Out of New York's many dramatic schools he selects the best of professional talent. To be selected by Frohman for a charity play is the peak of most amateurs' ambition. It usually leads to one name appearing professionally on Broadway. However, Mrs. Bierer will not go on the professional stage. She is merely studying dramatics because she likes it. Hiawatha will profit by her special training when she returns to coach more of the amateur plays. By the way Mrs. Bierer is a niece of Dean Susan M.
ARRIVAL OF FUTURE ICHABODS. Douglas Bowman, '21, and his wife, who was formerly Marion Price, now have a baby and are living in Leavenworth, Kansas. Bowman is the assistant state bank receiver for the First State Bank of Lansing, Kansas. Bowman has been with the State Banking Department for the past three years.
