Brazil High School - Brazilian Yearbook (Brazil, IN)

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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

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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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Portia and the Perkinses are watching Iva Wilcox's party across the hedge, to which they were not invited because of evil tales being circulated about Portia on account of her fight for Preston and her f'hired man Nabalf' as he is called, when the mob rushed down on them to tar and feather Hiram. He is not much af- fected and smiles! as they are rushing towards him when Portia, Screaming, stops them, telling that he is her husband! Skinner, out-done, curses her and is knocked down by Hiram. The crowd drifts away and finally only the Perkinses and Preston are left. Sadly the latter walks away as Sheridan arrivesg he had planned to elope with Lucile, but Hiram broke his plans and ar- ranged for him to become engaged to her respectablyg he joins the family and Hiram and Portia, 'a great love born in each of their hearts, meet in the first real kiss of their marriage as little Mary Jane asks if she can't have a party and not invite old Iva Wilcox. THE CAST Portia Perkins, who edits the Gosport Clarion ANNA R. O'DowD Lucile Perkins, her sweet sixteen year old daughter MABEL S. CooK Mary Jane Perkins, a dear, loving child HELEN DANDURAND vw, , I Ivy Wilcox, the village belle . NELLE JEANNE COLLIER Miss Faxon, Gosport'S milliner and a member of the Purity League . . GAAR NELLE TURNER Hiram Perkins, Portia'S long lost husband, Ia philosophical tramp ...... JAMES S. ADAMS Rome Preston, a young lawyer-the Clarion's Senator- ial Candidate .... BERNARD HAVERCAMP Joel Skinner, a hard-fisted old storekeeper-Preston's A opponent .... MARCUS WEBSTER Banett Sheridan, an amiable actor . . ARTHUR KESSEL Star Skinner, Joel's son and the village beau UZZIE PHILLIPS Eugene Menifield,the Clarion's compositor JOHN C. FAST Link Watkins, the bus driver . DONALD LEROY BROWN' Llewellyn Green, boy in the Clarion office ROBERT H. STEVENSON Mr. Whipple, Skinner's campaign manager ARCHIE HERRON Stock Company Band, Citizens of Gosport, Guests at Ivy Wilcox's Party, etc.-By the Remainder of the Class. ACT I.-Portia Perkins' living room, supper titne. ACT II.-The Clarion office, morning of the primary. ACT III.-The yard between Wilcox's and Perkins'g Even- ing. .- l9i5f