Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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 A iRiual bg IRrgufflt A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS ¥ PRESENTED BY TMK SENIOR CLASS OK MM2. AT ACDITORICM APRIL 25, 1912 CAST OF CHARACTERS Walter Pierson, a young1 bachelor..... Winthrop Smythe, his friend.... .. ..... Robert Burnett, a retired business man Benjamin Briggs, a retired farmer. Lord Albert Anthony McMullin, Smythe’s friend Alexander Muggins, Smythe’s servant Mrs. Burnett, wife of Robert Burnett Margaret Burnett, her daughter ............. Mrs. Briggs, wife of Benjamin Brjggs . Eliza Briggs, her daughter . ......... ..... Mrs. Chatterton. house-keeper at the “Cosmopole” SCENES ACTS 1 and II—The sitting-room of Walter Pierson’s apartments in the “Cosmopole” New York. ACT III The sitting-room of Pierson’s apartments in the “St. George” New York. TIME ACT 1 Morning. ACT II Afternoon. ACT 111 Morning of following day. ........Chauncey Duker Ralph Miller .... ... Galen Roose Lowell Terwilliger Harry Rickert Ralph Frazier Vida Mossier ...........Grace Slagle Blanche Freese . Bessie Anglin ............ Adah Plank REVIEW OF PLOT Walter Pierson, a young and influential American bachelor, due to a miscarriage of the mails, was convinced that Margaret Burnett had forgotten him while traveling through Europe. So with no real reason at all Walter has proposed to the uncultured Briggs girl whom he cares nothing for, and at Margaret’s return he is confronted with the embarrassing fact that he is engaged to two girls, he immediately decides to change his quarters. A friend, Mr. Smythe, calls and requests that Walter entertain a guest, Lord A. A. McMullin, while he makes a week’s trip to Kalamazoo. Mr. Smythe also promises to send around M uggins, his valet, to assist Walter in his packing. Mr. Smythe presents Lord McMullin and Muggins, each with a letter of introduction, but they are most awkwardly exchanged and so Muggins receives the one intended for Lord McMullin, while the lord gets the other. Pierson, believing Muggins to be the lord, decides to rid himself of Eliza by forcing her upon the disguised servant. Muggins receives even exaggerated hospitality, while the righteous indignation that Lord McMullin shows over his reception would provoke a hearty laugh from the least inclined. Thus, the action rises: Muggins pursues his love-making, hut Lord McMullin has the better of the servant in that respect. Mr. Smythe’s untimely return prevents a duel l etween Pierson and the indignant lord: mistakes are acknowledged: pardons granted: McMullin and Muggins each return to their respective stations. Muggins is forced to admit that he has been Mr. Pierson’s rival, but insists that it was only “by request.” But much of the merriment would l e omitted had the four parents of Margaret and Eliza not been entered: the howling Mrs. Briggs and her hen-pecked husband, and the vicious Mr. Burnett, who contrasts strongly with his timid wife: this combination of comedians surely form a quartette of laugh-getters. Ralph Frazier. 2

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“ A Rival by Request”.......................................... April 25 Junior-Senior Reception....................................... April 26 “Mrs. Compton’s Manager” .................................... May 2 School Exhibit.........................................................May 3 Baccalaureate Address......................................... May 5 Commencement Exercises.................. . May lo ffiarralanrratp Program Sunday Evening, May 5, Auditoiuum 7:30 Hymn................................................. “ Coronation ” invocation........................................... Rev. L. E. Smith “ Gloria”-.................................................... Mozart High School Chorus Scripture Reading..................................... Rev. W. II. Fetro “The Lord is Great ............. .VendeDolm High School ('horns Baccalaureate Address................................ Rev. Sila ( ales Hymn....................................... ... “America” Benediction (Eonmu'umm'ut program I i iday Evening, May 10, Auditoiuum March (frcll68t ra “Morning Invitation”............................................. Vea .ie High School Chorus Invocation............................. . Rev. Jesse Dunn “Revel of the Leaves”...... ....................................... Veazie High School Chorus Salutatory...................................... ... Bessie Anglin M usic........................................................ Selected Orchestra Address .............................................. O. L. Kiplinger Music...................................................... Selected Orchestra Valedictory...................................... Douglass Wood Miller •• forget Me Not Irlese N. II. S. Ladies’ Octette Presentation of Diplomas................ . Supt. Charles Franklin .Miller Music.................................................. . Selected Orchestra 8:00 o’clock Music furnished by Mattes Orchestra, South Bend 27

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“ iHra. (Cnmptnn’H ittanagrr” A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS BY HARRY O. OSGOOD A rippling, roaring, rollicking, “ripper 5 Full of fun, folly and f ncy frills. f PRESENTED BY THE SENIOR CLASS, NAPPANEE HIGH SCHOOL AT THE AUDITORIUM, MAY 2, 1912 CHARACTERS (IN THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE) Elpliron Vartrav, a landscape gardener............ Douglass W. Miller James Heaton, an architect..........................Harvey W. Frederick Leonard Barring, Mrs. Compton’s nephew..................Ray E. Walters Jackson, butler at “Fairthorn. ......................... Miller Uline Ethel Durand, a cousin to Mrs. Compton ...................Hilda E. Price Margaret Roswell, her friend ......................... Ethel Pearl Gwin Mrs. McGiilion, house-keeper at “Fairthorn”................. Mabel Sloat Frederick Lowell, Bishop of Hoboken........................ Harry ItTert Marie Demarque, an actress. ....................... Ethel M. Frederick Watkins, a farm hand.................................. Burton Metzler Mrs. Helen Compton, a widow.... Vera Fetro Williams, maid......................................... .Carrie Blessing Tompkins, butler..................................... Burton Metzler SYNOPSIS OF SCENES ACT 1, Scene I—The sitting-room at “Fairthorn,” Mrs. Compton's summer house. Curtain rises, disclosing Vartrav and Heaton. After a moment Barring comes in. “Town? I should rather say so: say, you don't know how beastly dull I am here.”—“If it wasn’t for those confounded jewels of Mrs. Compton’s in the tin safe there, 1 shouldn’t worry at all.” “Thank goodness we are here: I can't conceive, anyway, why Mrs. Compton should have asked you to come down ahead to open the house, when the servants could do it just as well.”—“She hasn't said anything direct: in fact, she hasn’t even mentioned his name to me, but tells me of her ‘dear nephew’ and ‘dearest.’ ” Scene 2—Midnight the same night. “H’m, this must be Mrs. Compton’s private pigeon-hole, the only one with a lock.” “Hands up, if you please.”— ‘But I am the-----” ACT 11 The same room. “Oh, didn’t you hear? I said Ethel quite dis tinctly, may I not? Such old friends, you know.”—“My dear Miss Demarque.” “Most unfair, Mrs. Compton. Mr. Vartrav accuses Jackson of---.’’—“Tell me how have you liked my nephew? ’—“Dear Aunt Nellie, so glad to see you back again.” -“Now, that you’ve seen everything my dear Bishop, what do you think of the improvements I have had made?”- “I say, where is Jackson?’ ACT III The reception-room at Mrs. Compton’s town house.”—“There there isn't any chair between us r-ow, is there Ethel?”—“Oh, I’ve just got a wire saying that they’ve nabbed him in Kansas City. “I don’t see, Bobby, but what I’m driven to it, now for the Bishop.”—“My wife, dear Aunt Nellie.” “Bishop, 1 may he considerable of a duffer at business, but when it comes to the social song, Pin high tenor from the start. —“Loving couples scattered all over the stage, and the curtain ready to go down to blissful strains. ’ Ray E. Walters. 29