Student Thespians Shine at Aquinas Academy
A fashionable audience of 400 gathered at the academy hall to watch a student production of the play 'Camilla'.
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The graduates of the preparatory department of Aquinas Academy, on North 6th Street, presented a very pretty play, entitled 'Camilla,' at the academy hall last night. The scene of the play is England, and the story revolves about the heroine, Camilla, an unknown wanderer. After many years of wandering, the wife returns to England and seeks employment with Mrs. Woodville as a governess. Through a series of misunderstandings involving a missing diamond miniature, the governess is charged with theft, but eventually exonerated in a happy denouement. Miss Eva Host, as Camilla, was the charming wanderer, and Miss Margaret McAvoy, as the colored maid, showed that she had a clear conception of her part. The auditorium held a fashionable audience of about 400, and the whole affair demonstrated the efficiency of the work of the sisters of the academy.
“The whole affair demonstrated the efficiency and excellence of the work of the sisters of the academy.”
Aquinas Academy was a major educational institution in Tacoma. Cultural events held by such private schools in the early 1900s were central to the social life of the city’s elite, often drawing hundreds of spectators to student performances.
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