Charles City High School - Ce Ce Hi Yearbook (Charles City, IA)

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lHf E U Tiff However, Concha was not satisfied with telling him of only one play, she forced him to acknowledge that he knew nothing of the numerous Monday morning as- semblies, and to admit that he wanted to hear about them. He was, in fact, charmed to listen, for Concha talked in a delightfully witty fashion, giving him all the amusing details of each play. She made him acquainted with the Miles Standish assembly, produced after the Greenwood custom at Thanksgiving, which, she said, improved every year. She became very enthusiastic over the play written and presented by Class V about the Sermon of Strasbourg. It was a combination of French and English, although most of the verve and spriteliness were strictly French! The setting was the town market-place where a tired American tourist and his bubbling wife ran into shopping difficulties because of their ignorance of the French language. The weary husband drowsed on a park bench and in a dream saw the original presentation of the Sermon of Strasbourg by Charles the Bald and Ludwig the German to Lothar. She then told him of the dramatization of an original Robin Hood ballad, by Class III, given in connection with their English course. The Cock, being very much inter- ested in this unique idea of bringing the different courses to life and making them more vivid in this way, begged her to tell him all the details, which she really did. She passed from that on to the difficulties of a pantomime assembly, given by Classes III and IV, with not one word spoken. She explained all the preliminaries of this sort of pantomine, the more complicated ones being actual plays without words, written by Class IV in their Drama periods. Concha tentatively suggested that she must be tiring him, but the Cock staunchly refused to let her go. She then informed him that Class V had given that delightful fantasy by Yeats, The Land of Heart? Desire. It was the second time the school had given the play in several years. How- ever, Class V's performance did great justice to the delicate and whimsical poetry. In spite of the fact that Concha's account of the play had been so entrancing, the Cock felt himself overcome by sleep. When the loquacious Concha saw him vainly endeavor to stifle a yawn, she realized that he was exhausted. The Cock thanked her profusely and made up his mind never to miss a Greenwood play in the future, and felt chagrined over having neglected them for so long. He spread his wings and flew toward what he thought was the blue haze of dawn, but was stopped by a resisting force, with a rather unpleasant abruptness. His humiliation was augmented by hearing a loud laugh behind him. You silly bird, that isn't space. Page Eighteen

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