Academy of the Visitation - Crescent Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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ANY OLD LOCKER Ah me' how I m tr1ed' an abused locker-saad To a nelghbormg mlrror th1s story he slghed Wxth goodles and books-wlth everythmg welghted Reflected nn you I see how I m fated' There s always a sweater a novel a vexl Some Busy Bee boxes and cake pretty stale A racket for tenms sometxmes a ball A letter from Dems OJ I can t tell you all' One mldmght I held a frantic old dance Four footed guests came to mbble and prance Rolllckxng frohckmg shakmg their whlskers Tumblmg and munchrng the gay young frlskersl Ah me' the great dread of next week s clearmg Even old Hercules would End hrmself fearmg' But the very next day begms the old strlfe And over agam the self same l1fe Margaret Fairchild 21 D El A LITERARY RECITAL I had come to the Graduates Browmng Recntal wnth a vague feelmg that lt would be rather tlresome than otherwise and that I should be bored rather than entertamed But this feelmg was short l1ved for no sooner had the flrst g1rl begun ROBERT BROWNING AN APPRECIATION than I became Very much mterested Thls attltude of mlnd 1n whrch every one present found herself was due to two reasons F1rst of all the Graduates were exceptxonally fine readers they enunclated so clearly that lt was not necessary to straln one s ears to llsten Secondly the papers were very clev erly wrxtten Each theme was introduced m a way that compelled attentxon The d1v1s1ons of the subjects were clearly made and easxly followed our m creasmg 1nterest respondmg to thexr grow1ng rmportance I was dellghted that I could see ln the Graduates d1ct1on the qualmes that we Thxrd Academncs have been studymg umty coherence and empha s1s and I thoroughly enjoyed the beautrful examples of good Englnsh whrch the Graduates put before us m the1r Browmng essays Not only was the form of th1s Llterary attractrve but the matter was most enterta1n1ng as well The program showed an mtellrgent artlstxc selectxon from a vast and varled Held Mrs Brown1ng m her relatxons to her poet hero the romance of thelr love-one of the most beautxful m all llter ature thelr letters too sacred to be publlshed and yet so umquely obscure that they mlght be publlshed a hundred times and stlll remaln prlvate rnterpretatlons of the poems Plppa Passes wlth lts beautlful theme he power of unconsclous mlluence Andrea del Sarto wxth rts hxstory of two human souls as well as that of an art perxod Saul that poem of love human and d1v1ne The Rmg and the Book that wonder of vlewpomts Rabbi Ben Ezra and 1ts phllosophy of lxfe these are some of the subjects to whlch our Graduates treated us We are truly proud of them These two quotatlons from Browmng are well worth rememberlng O the lzttle more and how much It IS O the llttle less and what worlds away' but a man s reach should exceed hrs grasp what s a Heaven for' Gene Maloney 22 23 1 A ' ' 45 1 - 11 ' , . . . U . . . . - 1 - 1 11 u 1 ' 1 1 1 S K 1 1 -. Y ' Y H . . . ' 1 1 1 1 as 9 ' 1 ' 1 1 - ' 11 1 1 ' , ' ' ' , . , . . . . l n - , sc 11 , 1 . , ' 1 ' 1 1 . , . u 1 ' , - . . , . . . . 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 ' as ' 11 - 1 ' 1 ' I - , , - ss ' 11 - u 1 1 1 U . . . . . . .,, 1 1 . . i . . . . U - 1 , t - - in . . . 1 1 ' , ss 1 1 1 1 ' - ,11 - sc - - '11 1 1 1 ' ' u - - .11 - 1 1 sc ' - - , 1 , . ca 1 - Ah, , 1 so , Or, . - , ,

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When sad, in front of me they stand, Hankie to red eyes pressed, Discouraged, homesick, very blue, My true self gives the test. I show them how unnatural Is thelr so downcast look Sweet faces surely such as the1rs Should ne er a shadow brook Thus I see them as they pass by So dxfferent all so dear' September really seems to be The best tlme of the year Helen Thompson 21 VI V WHO WAS ALARMED7 You should have seen us Thursday' Off by ourselves grgglmg and whxspermg you would have thought that we were plannmg something ter r1ble a mldmght feast or a luke prank We were xndeed consprrmg but nothing so dramatlc That night xn the Dom we watched for our oppor tumty and so we could not retnre to our rooms We sat around Sxster each havmg somethmg very xmportant to say and all beggmg her to let us stay up just a mmute longer At last our awalted chance came as one of the Grads left her room We stopped talkmg at once and cast at one another an mqulrxng look readlly mterpreted I wonder lf she took xt home? Hardly had she dlsappeared down the corrxdor when I Jumped up and ran to the room she had just left It was m darkness I groped around and soon touched somethmg cold A second and the terrlble deed was done' Rush1ng back to the laughmg consplrators I reported my success We all went to bed soon after but not to sleep Shall I ever forget those long hours as they rolled slowly on to m1dn1ght9 We were very txred but not one would go to sleep fearmg that she might mlss the excxtement that was sure to follow upon the consummation of our deed whose fateful hour was 2 00 o clock Are you sure you d1d lt rlght V1rg1n1a9 Yes' Do you thmk It w11l spoll her beauty sleep? Walt t1ll she gets you m the mormng' She wont fmd me' Say what tlme IS It now? Twelve Gee two more hours' Somebody wake me up when lt IS tlme A rattle of beads and a lxght step 1n the dxrectlon of the polnt of 1nterest mstantly put us mto a troubled sllence Soon after I hate to say It but 1t IS true Helen was at her nxghtly recreatlon talkmg and smgxng ln her sleep The clock m the hall struck one thlrty and we were all awake eagerly awamng the Issue of the tell tale hour Stxifened wlth cold and excltement we heard 2 OO o clock strlke We walted a second or two ln w1de eyed expec tatron then burst mto uncontrolled laughter Glrls the Joke s on us' Pearl or was lt SISICYD caught the alarm cloclc m tlme' Vlfglnla LaGrave 21 22 9 Q 1 7 9 s v , . - -..4 . ' 1 , - , 1 - J I ' ' ' ll V! ' s - ' as ' 79 - as 1 . . ,, . ' r as n ' ' 1 , T so ' ' 'P s . , . , . , . ' 9 9 ' 7 H . . . . . . ,, , . H U H . . . . ,, U . . . . ,, xc a n H . . . ,, , . on xr as . . . H , . . ' 1 1 , l - , , - u ' , . . . . , . H . . , . . , , . , . . . ,, . . . , , .

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THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE The theatre of the tlme of ueen Elizabeth was a large roundlng or hexagonal buxldrng wlthout wlndows walled up for about fifty feet and wxth perhaps a smgle entrance ln front It was not entxrely walled over for the mrddle part over the pxt was left open to the sky We know that ln the earller Ehzabethan tnmes the courts of xnns were used by many rmportant compames of players especrally Lord Lelcesters Lord Warwlck s and the Earl of Sussex s men The ordmary mn was burlt around a square or quadrangular court wlth rts wrndows and doors opemng 1nto th1s yard where the soclal lxfe of the 1nn took place The ground floor was used for offrces storehouses krtchen and stable but the second and thrrd floors were used for guests On both floors a balcony extended out from the guestrooms and ran the full c1rcu1t of the court When a play was to be gxven the stage was set up at one end of the yard fthe stable endj and the ground surroundmg rt on three srdes took the place of the p1t of our modern theatre The players dressed m the barn and used rts doors as means of entrance and ex1t The balcony over and behmd the stage was used by the players for all sorts of convemences as a cnty wall a lover s balcony a dlstant crty or any other foreign spot that the play requrred The balconres on the other sldes were used by the mn guests and other spec tators who brought out thelr chalrs and stools and sat there overlookmg the stage The court xtself was occupxed by those less fortunate persons who could not afford seats rn the balcomes When m 1574 London restrlcted theatrxcal performances actors were forced to arrange for the1r plays outslde the cxty walls New theatres were burlt much on the same order as the 1nn theatres to whrch the players had become accustomed Among the best known of these new buxldmgs were The Globe The Swan and later The Blackfrlars The bulldrng rtself was a s1mple structure usually left open to the sky ln the mxddle The 1nter1or arrangement dtffered llttle from the old mnyard plan save that the new bulldmg was rounded or hexagonal mstead of square an arrangement whrch made lt easrer to see the stage as well as to hear the players A flagpole was attached to the top of the bulldmg above the stage and from this a flag was flown on the day when a play was to be presented A bugle was blown to announce the txme of the performance In our modern theatres we see the stage as a plcture 1n a frame but the stage of Shakespeare s day projected out 1nto the p1t so that the actors were rn the mrdst of the people Around the walls of the bulldmg the roofed gal lerles separated 1nto boxes and compartments resembled very closely the boxes and galler1es of the present day The stage consxsted of a large platform sometxmes though not always surrounded by a ralllng There seems to be some questlon as to whether the stage at first was roofed but rn the later tlmes we know rt was At the back of the stage was bullt a room wlth doors to the left and rlght and above It was a balcony The lower room was the green room or tlrmg room used by the actors as a dressmg room rest room and property room ln some theatres the trrmg room had a thlrd door rn the center draped wlth curtams whlch could be drawn back when necessary to reveal an xnner room The balcony above lxke the old 1nn balcony served any purpose needed m the play xt was the upper room the wmdow battlements or Mount Olympus Changes ln scene were eas1ly accompllshed for they were suggested merely by a piece of sxgml-icant furmture as a bed for a bedroom a garden seat for the garden or else a slgn was hung up at one corner of the stage bearmg m large letters the name of the place as A street m Rome S 24 Q , 1 1 1 - 1 . . . . , 1 1 . , , . . . 1 , . 1 1 1 1 . as 1 11 ' , 1 1 , . . . . 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 . . . . cc 11 as 11 u ' 11 1 1 ' 1 1 . 1 1 . . . ' 1 . . 1 , . . . 1 1 . 1 1 1 . . . . , . 1 as 11 u ' ' 11 ' 1 1 . . 1 1 - 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 2 1 1 , ' ' u ' 11 - , , , . ll