Radcliffe College - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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FAY HOUSE HALL

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Class Prophecy E9 GE on a dais on the stage, dressed in a crimson velvet gym suit trimmed with gold, and lift heavy weights, for ten minutes at each performancef' VVell, well, well, I am completely llabbergastedf' I gasped. Lets sit down and talk it over. Any other girls I know around here? Oh, yes, lots of them, she answered, leading me to a shaded seat in a sort of little park effect. There's Alice VVilde. She tool: Annette Kellerman's place as the perfect woman swimmer and diver. Made her fame by swimming twice without stopping from Cape Horn to Cape Cod. You ought to .ree'her dive. She starts from a tiny platform suspended just below the ceiling and dives into a tank on the centre of the stage, turning tive somer- saults, two handsprings, and a cartwheel before landing in the water. It is marvelous! 'Then there's the Gaffey, Daniel, and Blaisdell Trio of Alcrobatic Astonishments. Avis holds one in either hand and juggles them all over the stage like little japanese balls. Flora Hale takes all the heavy tragedy parts in the one-act playlettes. But thepmost popular number on the programme, and the one that draws the greatest crowds is Louie Hodges it is called, La femme, la plus parfaite de la.mondef', You know she gained the reputation of. being a regular Venus in college years ago, Victoria Howarth and Frances..Barnes,are in a one-act tragedy called Ghosts.' Fanny Phillips -.is ou17,,f.light, comedian and never fails to draw shouts of laughter fromthe pit. She's a regular Bessie Macoy, she's so funny. I forgot to tell you that Corinne Huling manages all our numbers ,41, and, has invented some perfectly marvelous effects of scenery and lights. ,Ig I How perfectly splendid, I said, ffbut where, under the sun do you an Hve?f' ' ' A ,,, , ., Oh, said Frances. V W'e have a- magnificent Apartment Hotel all to ourselves. Miriam, 1-1ills!is our little,mother', and takes care of us all, keeps us goutvof misqhilef,Lbesidesdrunning the whole business. Roxie Odiorne,',helps her with tlie,.,dietCtiC,DaYt, and Gee! what salads she givesius. 'YOL1-kllONV,l'gES pgoqr girlgservexd 26

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A Class Prophecy E S a long term at the Sing Song Reformatory School for taking part in the Anarchist's -Plot of 1919. We got her out Finally and sent for her to come over here and be under Miriamls guidance. Well, who'd a thought it of Roxie? I mused. It's not half so surprising, said Frances, that the got there as it is that Grace Kennedy is still there. rk as The shock was too great for me. The next thing I knew I was seated again in the glass chair, clutching wildly at Dr. Satis- factionis. Quick,', I cried, send me to the Sing Song Reformatory School, I've got to help Grace Ken- PF P? 31 2? ik A healthy looking matron met me at the door of the Reforma- tory and led me down the hall. I believe you have come to see my six prize patients, she said. They are fine young ladies, every one of them., and it is a shame they should have to serve time. You know, of course, we have no real criminals here, only unruly and mildly crazy ones. This first room is occupied by two of the former kind, she said, opening a window in the door. Recognizing Grace Kennedy and Lydia' Lothrop I started to call to them, but the matron checked me, saying, I must ask you not to communicate with the inmates in any way. It is not allowed. But what is the cause of their being here? I asked, be- wildered. Noisy and disorderly, answered the matron, as she shut the window and led the way further. This next room is occu- pied by another unruly young lady. The New York Public Library sent her here on the complaint of mutilating books. Says she turned down a Page and hurt it. She claims she was only trying to turn over a new leaf. So saying, the matron opened the grat- ing and let me peak at Madeline Iunkins. 29