Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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H Y A K 29 charge of some large institution; a hospital, I suppose. Mrs. G.: IIow I should love to see her! (Business of mirror. Ap- parition in garb of “White Sister. ”) Mrs. C. : Well, that never would do for me! Mrs. G.: But how happy and peaceful she looked. Bess, I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed all this. I must hurry off now, for it’s getting late. Can’t you come out for a week end with us soon, so that we can have a good long talk over old times? Mrs. C. : Yes, I think I can, and I shall be delighted. Mrs. G. : A week from Saturday, then, and I’ll call for you in the car. Good-bye. Mrs. C. : Good-bye. (Curtain.) THE SENIOR PLAY A large audience gathered in the study hall on Saturday evening, June 4, to witness the performance of the Senior play, “A Box of Mon- keys,” by Grace Furniss. SYNOPSIS The first act opens in the drawing-room of Mrs. Onego Thone’s Fifth Avenue residence. Sierra Bengaline, a western girl and a niece of Mrs. Thones, has been sent east by her father to separate her from her impecunious lover, Edward Ralston. While abroad Mrs. Thones has made the acquaintance of the Dowager Countess of Paynaught and her daughter, Lady Guinevere Llandpoore, and has asked Lady Guine- vere to come for a visit. Lady Guinevere arrives but at a most inop- portune time, as the Thones household has suddenly been bereft of ser- vants. Ralston, who has followed Sierra to New York and is making a surreptitious call on her, is mistaken by Lady Guinevere and later by Mrs. Thones for the new butler. In the midst of the confusion, Chaun- cey Oglethorpe, Ralston’s partner in an unsuccessful gold mine and a cousin to Lady Guinevere, appears and he, in turn, is taken for the expected new butler by Sierra. He manages to introduce himself to Mrs. Thones, who welcomes him with open arms as a cousin of the Earl of Paynaught. Act II. adds further to the laughter as Ralston shows Oglethorpe, who is an extremely bashful Englishman, how to propose to Lady Guin- evere. Sierra and Lady Guinevere then come in and a game of charades is proposed, the word “Matrimony’ being worked out. At this point Mrs. Thones appears and is disgusted to think that her niece and aristo- cratic guests are so familiar with the butler, but when his true identity is discovered, she is delighted to meet him, as she has received a letter

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28 H Y A K certs in the great cities of Europe. She’s been married twice, it seems; the first time to a musician, a violinist, I should think; after his death she married a second time ; a nobleman this time. Mrs. G.: That Italian count, most likely. What sort of experience has Hazel Small had! (Business of horoscope.) Mrs. C. : Not very pleasant. She has had two husbands and had to leave them both. The first one apparently didn’t treat her very well or make much of a living for her. He seems to have been a veterinary surgeon. Her second husband, I should think, was a comedian, and she acted with him and he was jealous of her success. Apparently she goes on acting, though she has left him. (Business of mirror. Appari- tion in French doll costume, dancing dolly pose.) Mrs. G. : Oh, she’s doing her old dancing doll stunt in vaudeville! I wish she’d come on this circuit; I’d love to see her again. Let’s see about Laura; I wonder if she is a farmer’s wife with half a dozen chil- dren. (Business of horoscope.) Mrs. C. : She went south, to a place where there are countless sheep on boundless plains. That must be Texas. There she was courted by a man in rather a humble position — a sheep-herder, I suppose — and after she had accepted him he came into a title and a fortune. (Business of mirror. Apparition garbed for presentation at court, wearing countess’ coronet.) Mrs. G.: Laura the bride of an English earl! Isn’t that romantic! The fortunes seem getting better. What is Muriel’s? (Business of horoscope.) Mrs. C. : Muriel Wilkenson has studied a great deal and taken several degrees. Now she is married, to a man who has conquered vast regions — of air! Mrs. G.: Oh, aviation! I suppose he’s quite distinguished. Mrs. C. : I remember now that I saw T a notice of her marriage in a Vancouver paper several years ago; Danbury Rodd, I think, her hus- band’s name is. Mrs. G.: He’s quite noted. Mrs. C. : Yes. Now here’s something more. They make explora- tions together in the far South. (Business of mirror. Apparation in Esquimaux costume.) Mrs. G. : Mercy! They must be exploring around the South Pole. I hope Muriel likes it better than I should. Here is Ethel Weeks’ page; I couldn’t find it at first. (Business of horoscope.) Mrs. C. : She gives herself up to religion; goes in for nursing; is sent on a mission to a country far away to the west. Mrs. G. : China, I suppose, or Japan. Mrs. C. : Philippines, maybe. I hope it’s Japan. She seems to have

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30 H Y A K from her brother saying that a rich vein has been struck in Ralston’s gold mine and all objections to the engagement and marriage are at an end. The curtain falls as Mrs. Thones is blessing the two couples. The cast was as follows: Edward Ralston, a promising young American, half owner of the Sierra Gold Mine Ethel Levin Chauncey Oglethorpe, his partner, second son of Lord Doncaster. . . Muriel Wilkenson Mrs. Ondego Thones, an admirer of rank ..Ruth Foss Sierra Bengaline, her niece, a prairie rose Hazel Small Lady Guinevere Llandpoore, an English primrose, daughter of the Earl of Paynaught Lydia Lowell The characters were well taken. Hazel Small was admirable in her part as Sierra and entered into it with dash and spirit from the very first. Ethel Levin’s interpretation of the part of her lover, Edward Ralston, was splendid. Lydia Lowell, in the part of the prim English girl, and Muriel Wilkenson, in the part of the shy lover, were simply convulsing. Both parts were difficult to interpret, but they sustained their characterizations perfectly. Ruth Foss, with her tall, stately car- riage, gave much dignity to the part of Mrs. Ondego Thones. The play was given before a large, appreciative audience and the players well deserved the rounds of applause which they received. The play was given under the direction of Miss Paula Fralim and Miss Ruth Guppy. TREE SPEECH It is a long established custom of Class Day that the departing class plant a tree or shrub, in order to leave behind it a pleasant memento of itself. The class of 1910 has chosen for its emblem the rhododendron, our State flower. We hope that it will grow to be a large and handsome shrub, and that in years to come it can be pointed out as a symbol of 1910’s love and loyalty to the A. W. S. The mysterious spell which has seemed laid upon class trees in years gone by, the weird doom which has brought their young lives to an untimely end, is a thing of the past; the spell is broken. We have only to look at Naughty Nine’s triumphant exulting white lilac to be sure of that. So it is with a happy confidence that we leave our rhodo- dendron in your care, ’ll, and beg of you to watch over it tenderly in our stead, so that it may live and beautify these grounds. Thanking you all for your kind attention, we will now proveed to plant our tree.