Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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mm 17 Centralian Day—The Assembly S a circus, the Centralian Day Assembly bade fair to rival the famous Bar- num llailev aggregation. As an assembly, the birthday party of the 1916 Ckxtkauak. held in the Central High auditorium, has no equal, either in this country or in any other. Ringmaster llermie Goldstein, appropriately garbed, was in charge as Master of Revels. I’nder his stern command all the animals and actors went through their stunts. The headliner on the bill was the Dance Antiseptic, or the Hunt for the Speck of Dust. This stupendous spectacle had for its leading man. The Little Ray of Sunshine, Franklin Ralph Chase, whose curls locks and beaming, ruddy countenance well adapted him to the part. Miss Lorna Bates made the audience helpless by his superb rendering of several touching little ballad melodies. Her clear mezzo-soprano voice echoed throughout the auditorium and then gradually died away, while his l osom quivered with the feeling that she was trying (vainly) to express to his prostrate audience. Another interesting feature on the program was a song stunt put on by members of the Girls' Club. This little song novelty was especially designed to show up certain members of the female species as being two-faced. (Owing to the presence of masks, the actors succeeded remarkably well in their purpose.) Philosophers say that sorrows make the joys scent sweeter, but the entire audience felt that in this case the sorrow could very easily have been disposed of and the day yet have been an entirely satisfactory one. It was with a lump rising in their throats that the assembled students listened to Mr. McW horter’s farewell address to the members of Central High School, before leaving to take up his new duties as Principal of East High School. 19

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E9 niiummnniinnu: 17 Centralian Day—The Parade ONWARD handsome soldiers. so spake the great Napoleon Hartzell, mounted on his coal-black charger, and at his command, the vast army of Central Crusaders started forward on the big second annual Centralian Day Parade. The thousands (men. women, children, dogs, cats, horses, etc.) who thronged lx th sides of the street along the line of march, gazed on in awe and admiration and cheered loudly as the imperial, peerless parade, celebrating the coming out of the second Centralian, wound its stately way in Grand Review. I’ut the onlookers had reason to stare ami gaze in wonder, for before their very eyes were passing some of the most marvelous creations of the human brain and ingenuity. A monstrous “Y with the beans of several well-known Centralites sticking through it symbolized that organization, officially termed the lli-Y Club, but better known as the C. H. S. I Jean Club. (iaily-draped automobiles bearing all sorts of signs and insignia were representative of many of Central's numerous organizations. A man's size camera, supported by two stalwart boosters of the club, typified the Camera Club. A model school house, symbol of the Normal classes, was there. Many grotesque animals and creatures, as yet unclassified by the leading scientists, but all placed under the general heading, “simplicissimae, were liberally scattered along the way. All martyrs to the same good cause, there came a generous sprinkling of Charlie Chaplins (very stylish), clowns, Yama-Yama Girls (also quite modish), hoboes, etc., bearing up bravely under the fierce fire of applause that came from the general direction of the bystanders. The prize-winning float of the entire parade was that of the Girls’ Riding Club. The club representatives, seated calmly on their fiery steeds, at all times showed perfect control over their spirited mounts and managed them with unusual ability. I’.ringing up the rear of the long line, and marching along with grit and pluck.came the World-Famous Hinky Dinky Band, lead by Professor Lew Thomas, ringing from their kettles, spoons, dishpans and other instruments of torture, such music as would melt the hearts of stones and soothe wild beasts (by sending them to gambol on the iolden Stairs and sport about upon the F.lvsian Fields). All the members of this band were afterwards bought up by Sousa himself, who greatly feared their rivalry, not only in local circles but throughout the world. Having completed the course of the march, the entire parade wound up in the auditorium, there to take in the mammoth Centralian assembly. 18

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!r I i (limnii«» ' J riTTTT'T TT T'T T T T T T T T ITT'I ITTTTTT 17 rivimiTimiimmiim in mulling CHS Back of the Scenes CRIX'G the past year the stage of Central High has seen one grand thing after another. To begin with, on November 23 and 24. the Glee Club put on Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” Then on December 8. the January, 17, people showed their best talent in dramatics in “Christopher Junior. The afternoon of December 13 marked the initiation of “The Players’ Club to the public, when “Bill Jepsen’s Wife” and “The Fatal Message, one-act plays, were staged. The combined music choruses, assisted by outside soloists, gave music lovers a treat on December 20 by rendering Handel’s masterpiece “The Messiah. Following that, on the afternoon of January 11, came the Girls’ Club “vaudeville, which, besides dancing and singing, presented “The Neighbors,” a one-act play by Zona Gale. A week later this was repeated in the assembly. On February 15 “The Players’’ again showed their talent by presenting in assembly a one-act play “The Green Coat.’’ With a lull of more than a month affairs began with a rush on March 20, when “Hurry, Hurry, Hurry,” by Leroy Arnold, was played by the members of June 17 class. On April 20, under the auspices of the alumni. “The Private Secretary was again staged. Such a record pronounces Central to be a school of “action.” 20