The Color Line

From the 1929 Omahan yearbook:

 

A one-act missionary play, “the Color Line” has been presented by members of the YWCA and the YMCA throughout the school year for the purpose of depicting the race problem of America and for the establishment of a student conference fund. The unusually cordial welcome extended these players testifies as to their ability and to the recognized importance of the theme.

 

The play has been presented in more than twenty churches in Omaha and Council Bluffs, and has also filled out of town engagements at Neola, Iowa, and Peru, Nebraska. The free will offering taken after the play has so built up the Conference fund that many students have benefited from it and were able to attend the State Volunteer Convention at York, and will attend the Y. Conference held at Estes Park in June.

 

The cast is as follows:

• Dr. Henry Lawson, president of a small Western college, Norwood Woerner (OU senior);

• Miss King, the president’s secretary, Elma Gove (junior);

• Wanda Williams, a good-natured college flapper, Ellen Ann Slader (senior);

• Stanley Preston, an ROTC enthusiast, Fred Widoe (junior);

• Barbara McKean, daughter of missionaries, Linda Bradway (junior); and

• Fu Chun, a Chinese Student, Donald Butler (senior).