Brazil High School - Brazilian Yearbook (Brazil, IN)

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The Senior Class Pla MARY .lANE'S PA l.lfYlfN years before the opening of the play, Portia Perkins and her two little daughters l.nCile and Mary lane, the latter a babe in arms, has been deserted by her husband, Hiram, a well educated man, and an author whose intellect has developed at the expense of his conscience. She knew the printing business pretty well, as this was Hiram's business, so she hard 'listed old usurer, the oldest, tightest merchant in town. Preston is in love with Portia and tries to get her consent to a divorce from Perkins. She refuses, however, and Gosport knows nothing of her husband. l,ueile is 17 years old now and is in love with Hanett Sheridan, an actor. Star Skinner, .loc-l's son, loves her deeply and in his ignorant, loutish way is jealous of wi' moved her little family to Gosport, lndiana, and opened a printing ofhce. After years of struggle and toil she at last has a news- paper of her own, Wlihe Clarion , and is at present engaged in supporting Rome Preston, a handsome young lawyer, for the nomination for state senator. l-lis opponent is Joel Skinner, a Qi Sheridan. lva VVilcox in turn has set her cap for him. She is the village belle, a very devil, meeting trains amd traveling men and using lots of perfume. Skinner calls on Portia and tries to get her to let up her tight on him. She refuses and he leaves, vowing threats, as Miss Faxon, who is on her was to the city to get the S e

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ARTICLE IV. To Theodore Andrews: A reserved place on the deport- ment list. A Te Helen Finch: Katherine Muncie's modesty and a fel- low-just anyone. To Neal Carr: Don Brown's ability to make public speeches. To Margaret Rawlev: A latin pony and a book on How to flirt. To Frank Kamm: A box with a Yale lock on it to keep Mary's notes in. To Blanche Seery: Helen Dandurand's ability to look pleasant and some more hair to fuzz around her face. To Joe Ringo: Bernard Havercamp's gracefulness. To Susan Rojohng Gaar's plumpness and Anna O'Dowd's dreamy eyes. To Bill Hutchison: We should elect him Editor-in-Chief of the Student so he could ubawl out somebody. To Peggy Rouse: Odetta's dates with Hugh and Lucy Cutshall's method of curling hair. To Edgar Morgan: Bob Stevenson's bashfulness. To Louise Houck: The privilege of copying all of Gaar's styles-such as velvet mandarines. To Elbert Watts: Don's abundance of dates and Bill Zeller's old ties. To Ruth Casteel: Nelle Collier's case with Van Carpenter and Gaar's coiiiure. To Dan Davis: George Beach's funny ways. To Jean Bucklin: Elorence Moore's slenderness. To Tevlin Scheutz: An interpreter. To Dorothy Kerfoot: Anna's ownership ? of Smack, To Russell Leachman: Bill Zeller's ease in singing. :'9'5 ' To Magdeline Mershon: Helen McCullough's excitement when a stranger comes to town. To Myron Finley: jim Adam's haste-and the privilege of being yell-leader. To Mary Wilkins: Gaar's and Hazel's place at the oiano. To Hugh Lenhart: A book entitled A Sweet Girl Grad- uate. To Martha Turner: The right of skating with the Seniors. To Linneaus Kidd: Jim Adam's place in all offices. A To Dorothy Bard: A powder pull-her nose shines. To John Currie: Bob Stevenson's remedy for staying thin and a book entitled How to Lead Yells by M. B. F. To Lillie Eppert: A book How to be Cute. To Harold Payne: Don Brown's place as interpreter of modern dances. To Lois Grimes: The right to tell everyone all about her dates-from Greencastle. To George Fielding: A place on the stage and a copyright on Fir yuh. To Mary Jane Melissa Decker: Mary Louise Davis' super- fluous names. To Oscar Stinson: A girl-and also a book on 'Etiquette. To Evelyn Byrkit: Flossie Moore's babyish talk and actions. To Worth Stigler: John P. Jones' dates down south. To Lucia Kerfoot: Harriet's graceful walk as she comes in the Assembly. A To John Clark: Mack. Gumm's backwardness when around girls. To Zelma Leachman, Helen Mc's art of holding on to the fellows coat sleeve. Undersigned: GAAR TURNER NELLE COLLIER.

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styles, calls to ask Portia to joinGosport's Purity League . After ridding herself of her guests Portia is beset by little Mary Jane, asking about her father as she has been teased at school. Portia sends her to bed with an indefinite answer and washes the supper dishes, thinking. Suddenly the door opens and in walks Hiram Perkins, ragged and unkempt She greets him coolly. He answers all her questions jokingly and seems to be having a great time at her expense as he tells of his journey over the world. As the hour grows late she asks his intentions. and is informed that Un the day of the convention Portia prepares to publish a story of Skinner 'sdealings with the Millers on Hancock road which will elect Preston. VVhile she is out getting her business fixed up preparatory to going to press. Preston upsets the form containing the story that 'would elect him and puts the new power press out of commission. Hiram sees his last acts and understands that it was done in order to save Portia from Skin- ner's wrath. Hiram hasn't forgotten his old trade, so putting down his basket of vegetables he sets the story up again just as he has none so she jokingly offers to put him to work in her kitchen under some other name as he alw.vf c ld s k b Portia returns and discovers the press out of commission. While is ou coo etter Hiram fixes up the old hand press Skinner comes in with his than she and for the children's sake she hates to turn him out. man to raise trouble and are ordered. then thrown out and N altlio he ix not to even make himself known to them if ' ' ' A he stays. together Portia and Hiram run the old hand press and tllrll the To her great surprise he calls her bluff and takes up her prop- crowd for Preston by the paper's revelations. osition. She continues her fight against Skinner and will not if i f be disuaded even hy Preston himself who kno bank holds Portia's notes. , ew iights after the election Skinner and Miss Faxon, ws that Skinner's who is incensed at anyone having a man hired girl lead a mob to wreck the printing office. Preston has again been refused by