Caskin School - Blue Moon Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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THE BLUE MOON Order of the Day 7:00 A. M. Comes dawn-heralded in the school girl's consciousness by the violent peals of the trustworthy cow bell. Comes dawn, but what of it-we all sleep peacefully on. 7:30 The thought of Miss Bleker and her Con- stant Nymph, the roll call, makes us won- der if perhaps it might not be a bad idea to shake back the covers and jump into our oxfords. 7:40 With cries of Who has some stamps? Darn, my hair just won't go up, Do we need coats? and I'll be down in a min- ute. Letters written the night before in Study Hall are seized and we dash down- stairs in fear and trembling that our name has already been called. 7:45 The breakfast bell rings as simultaneously the doors burst open and the school comes trooping in from a slow and pompous walk around the circle. 8:15 We come sailing out of the dining room trying desperately to escape Mlle.'s vigi- lant eye, but, alas--we are captured and hauled back to discourse on the moon of last night or the state of the weather. 8:30 Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again is played through twice on someone's or any- one's Victrola, and we then begin the process of cleaning up our rooms. 8:50 The time for the reading of notices that depress or gladden our young lives, and incidentally chapel, has arrived. 9:00 The poor working goilis day is started, and we certainly do work desperately hard trying to spend as much of our forty-minute periods talking, and so stalling for time, as possible. 12:05 P. 114. With a start, the realization comes that it will soon be time for our mail, and we register a silent prayer. 12:20 One more blessing, the bell has finally rung, and with desperate anxiety we depart for mail, and then luncheon. 1:10 The path to the school building is trod once more, but beware of she who enters three minutes late-that is one thing Miss Farrar doe.m't like. 2:30 Immediately many exclamations as to, Well, is it a walk ? Oh, we have gym to- day, or don't we?l' ad inlinitum, can be heard, and speculations run rampant. Now, if there were only some good ten to one bets placed on this question. 2:45 The question has been settled for or against, and we're off to our services. 3:30 Dade knits beaded bags. Helen makes odd-shaped dogs. Peg eats peanuts, and we all talk. 4:50 The talk abruptly ceases--temporarily, and only temporarily-and we're off. OE to study and to become Confucius's for very wisdom. 6:10 To the accompaniment of varied groans and sighs from varied rooms the bell rings. 6:40 The finishing touches to Our Schoolgirl's Complexion are applied and we saunter down to dinner. 7:15-7:50 The lucky souls read their mail, the still luckier ones get phone calls, and the rest- it's just too pathetic to talk about, that's all. 8:00 We file forth from chapel to encounter a wary guardian of study hall. 9:30 At last we can give way to that giggle suppressed for twenty-three and one-quarter minutes. 10:00 Silence! For it's lights out, and to bed and to visit the old Sandman all good children must go. 10:10 Alas, all good children have, instead of visiting the old Sandman, departed to con- fer with their neighbors. Ah me, another good day gone wrong! F ortyfsix

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THE BLUE MOON Dmmrzizkf AVE you seen our Dramatic students perform? If not, you have missed some- thing really worth while. Miss Hess has to admit that we might be able to go on the stage in some other capacity than chorus girls-probably stage hands. Miss Hess, our patient and devoted teacher, started the year right by giving us some of her entertaining monologues. She is not only a teacher and actress, but also an authoress. The first appearance of the Dramatic class was a short sketch entitled, The End of the Rainbow. It is a lovely story of Pierrot, played by Margaret Taylor, Pierrette, Nlary Eleanor Stewart, and Will o' the Wisp, Edythe Rodgers. Anita Kaufman added more entertainment to the afternoon by giving a monologue, The Heart That Understands, in a very fascinating manner. In December the Dramatic pupils again came to the front by presenting A Little Fowl Play, which is the story of a poor playwright greatly in need of money and credit. The characters in the play were: the Englishman, Ann Timberlake, the play- wright, Charlotte Coles, his wife, Isabel Lay, the maid, Mary Eleanor Stewart, the delivery boy, Bessie Renkert. In February the audience was again held spellbound by the splendid acting in Gettin' Acquainted, a story of two New England spinsters who have had one suitor between them for fifteen years, because he is too bashful to ask the one he loves to marry him. Jane, the older of the sisters, Mary Eleanor Stewart, Priscilla, the timid sister, Eleanor Hall, John Purdy, the suitor, Anita Kaufman. On March 25th, for the benefit of the Year Book, the Dramatic Class again enter- tained by presenting two plays and two monologues. The first play was The Heart of a Clown, a story of Columbine and Harlequin. Columbine was played by Edythe Rodgers, Harlequin, Isabel Lay, Clown, Ann Timberlake, Gypsy Fortune-teller, Charlotte Coles. Between the plays monologues were given. The first was given by Eleanor Hall and was entitled Betsy. The other one by Mary Eleanor Stewart entitled, In the Sleeping Car. The second play was Booth Tarkington's Trysting Place. The story is a comedy which arises out of the clandestine meetings held' in a supposedly quiet spot in a hotel. Lancelot, Isabel Lay, is the young boy about eighteen years of age who is in love with a young widow, Mary Eleanor Stewart. Mrs. Briggs, Lancelot's mother, Edythe Rodgers, meets her former sweetheart, Char- lotte Coles, and is interrupted by her daughter Jessie, Eleanor Hall, who has returned to meet her forbidden suitor, Anita Kaufman. On June 3rd the Senior Class presented Seventeen We had known before that there was a great deal of talent in our school, but we did not fully appreciate it until after seeing the Senior play. The cast is as follows: Mrs. Baxter, Charlotte Coles, Mr. Baxter, Mary Ellen McLaughlin, Willie Baxter, Isabel Lay, Johnnie Wat- son, Anita Kaufman, Jane Baxter, Edythe Rodgers, May Parcher, Mary Eleanor Stewart, Lola Pratt, Eleanor Hall, Genesis, Virginia Handley, Joe Bullitt, Ann Holloway, Mr. Parcher, Carolyn Smedley, George Crooper, Margaret Taylor, Ethel Boke, Helen Whittier, Wallie Banks, Josephine Messer, Mary Brooks, Doro- thy Ledogar. Fortyfive

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