Berwick High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Berwick, PA)

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Page 50 THE MIRROR 5VIfack93etb--3Von-5bakespearian Q91 Clipyatt Cliljilliams Done Canned, King of Scotland. Done Been, His son. Mack Beth, Bank Roll, King's generals. Mack Duff, Nobleman. Lummox, Cross, Scottish noblemen. Lady Mack Beth. Ghost of Bank Roll. Servants, Bootleggers, Ghosts, Animals, Sheriff, etc. Act I ' Mack Beth and Bank Roll return victorious from the wars. The king awards them both silver soup ladles, and makes Mack Beth the Clam of Chowder. In the woods three bootleggers work over a still. Mack Beth and Bank Roll, out for a walk, and slightly in- ebriated, meet them, and order three cases apiece. Moved by this fine purchase, the bootleggers tell Mack Beth he should be king. He promises them the royal trade if he gets there. Done Canned decides to visit Mack Beth. Mack writes his more sober wife to set an extra place for supper, and to sharpen his butcher knife. All arrive at Mack's. CCurtainl. Act II Lady Mack Beth drugs the servants, and sharpens the knives. The Sheriff calls to pass the time of day, delay- ing the action. Silence. Mack Beth takes a drink, climbs the spouting to Done Canned's room, his knife in his teeth, and once there, kills him. He slides back down, tearing trousers. All retire. Noise at the gate. Mack Duff shoot- ing crap with the porter again, wakens the house. Lummox arrives. The king is found dead, when he fails to answer the breakfast bell. Mr. Duff fetches the coroner. A most dramatic situation ensues. Mack Beth at once accuses Mack Duff, Mack Duff accuses Lummox, Lummox accuses porter, porter accuses Lady Mack Beth, and she claims

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THE MIRROR Page '29 5Vlal7-gongg--fgzn gnterpretation fy f9Vfae Qonbam Like racing, the game is expensive, and the odds are against everyone from the start. The one thing in your favor, if you are a beginner, is that everyone else is a be- ginner too. To be an expert, one should possess a speaking knowledge of Chinese, a knowledge of botany Qwhich will enable you to appreciate the species of flora which you will indubitably encounterjg a Ph. D. degree in meteorology fthe game makes use of all the four windsj, and a bank account like an artist's canvas iso that you can draw on itj. Four person participate, as in bridge, mixed doubles, a four plate dinner, or almost any other recreation you please, including a Petri quartette. It is like a Petri quar- tette because four voices are generally raised in discord causing considerable confusion most of the time. Mah-Jongg, I hear is the Chinese for sparrow, My comment is that I never before heard a sparrow called a Mah-Jongg. And Ibis, who is somewhat of a bird himself, says that he never heard of the creature. If you go out to dinner, and the hostess offers you a box of little square things that look like caramels, beware! They are Mah-Jonggs. And celery? No you are making a mistake. They're Mah-Jongg sticks, and they ruin fillings when you bite into them. You may not believe me when I say that the game actually exists. If you are in doubt just ask one of these smart Metropolitan matrons featured in Town Topics, she'll tell you the joys of crap-shooting are as nothing com- pared to those of this newer pastime. C241 Ruth P.: You are certain that this century plant will bloom in a hundred years ? Florist: Positive of it, Miss. If it doesn't bring it back.

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THE MIRROR Page 51 death to be by suicide. The coroner disagrees. All join and kill him. fCurtain falls in great confusion, accompanied by bricks, and ancient Vegetablesj. Act III All characters are in such a hard fix we decided to let them rest during this act, as the fourth is very strenuous. We beg you to read up the third act, so you can learn what happens in it. Act IV Three bootleggers at work in a cave, having moved the still. Busy on a new formula for palace trade, since Mack Beth is king. Mack Beth rushes in, a half empty bottle in one hand, and his tooth brush in the other. Since they first suggested that he should be king, he asked them how long the kingship with him will be safe. They give him six or eight drinks, thus enabling him to see a thrilling procession of ghosts, including eight kings from Tut-ankh- amen to Henry VIII, and the murdered Bank Roll's ghost. Thinking him now in a state to believe almost anything, the bootleggers assure him of the kingdom 'till Burnt Ham Wood comes to Dunce Inane hill, thereby assuring orders from him for the future. He leaves. Meanwhile-Lummox and porter have been imprisoned Mack Duff and his gang plot the death of Mack Beth. Done Been and Mr. Duff, get together about three thousand I. W. W'.'s and Bolsheviks. Lady Mack Beth takes up sleep walking as her spring sport, and becomes very goofy. fAs- bestosl. Mack Duff, Done Been, and Cross, with the radicals attack in force, first each having pinned a sprig of Burnt Ham wood, as camouflage. fWe suspect those unscrupul- ous bootleggers tipped them off.J Mack Beth decides to surrender, but all his handkerchiefs are in the Wash, leav- ing him without a flag of truce. His tobacco supply 'gives out, and in desperation he sneaks over to the corner store to get some. His credit is no longer good. Returning, he is seen by Mack Duff, who immediately surrounds him. Mr. Beth states he is innocent, and almost convinces Duff, but the latter sees his patched trousers. and immediately 1'e- news his charges of murder, arson, larceny and default of shoe polish bills. Thev fight. Mack Beth is killed lAhl At last. However we expected it all alongj Lady Beth hears