Cissna High School - Review Yearbook (Cissna Park, IL)

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W i'x 1 '- ll , va Af ',xy,Q1':QC', 'W f idalrmff LJ TWILIGHT ALLEY Cast of Characters Dame Needy, Mother of a large family, living in a tenament, The Old Shoe ,....,.,..................,.......................,,.,.......,....r...,,.................,.......,.......,...,.,.,... Isabelle Siebenthal Meg, Her eldest daughter ....,.................... ............,.......,....... W illma Brown Jack, Only Son of Dame Needy ............,.......,,.,,....,,.,............. ...,.,.,,...,., D elbert Pendergast Angelina, An emigrant child ........,.......,,..,.,..,,..,..,,.,.,,,,..............i. ...,.......,,,,,..,.,. B eatrice Steele Lily, Daughter of the owner of The Old Shoe ....................,,,.,.,.r.... Vera Raymond Meg's Seven Sisters, Jack's Baseball nine, Chorus. Pianist .........,..,,,............,..,,,...........,..,...,.,........,,.,.........,......,...,..,.,,,.,...........................,..... Frances Whitaker Synopsis Dame Needy, with her large family, lives in The Old Shoe, a tene- ment in Twilight Alley. Meg is the oldest of eight daughters, and Jack, the only son, is captain of a baseball nine of boys of his own age. Angelina is an emigrant child who is left all day at The Old Shoe, while her mother works in a factory. Lily is the daughter of a well-to-do property owner, the landlord of The Old Shoe. One afternoon Lily loses her way in the city streets and wanders into a tenement court where the sunshine rarely penetrates because of the smoke. She pities these twilight dwellers and invites them to her own lovely garden. While Dame Needy is asleep, the girls steal away with her to her home on the hill-top. During their absence the boys rebel at being compelled to live in The Old Shoe and decide to burn it, but Lily and the others return in time to offer a happier solution, and all ends well. 1926 IPAGE 461

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1 ' ff x l il A fi X gv, 11,52 vi Q! f 1 V1.1 fijfl W,-T--W .yi ,.,,. yy, Standing, left to right: Miss Chappell-Xylophoneg Edith Newell, Hulda Knake- Saxophonesg Lucile Farnsworth-Trombone, John Hurliman, VVilliam Farnsworth- Cornetsg Lawrence Baylor, Paul Geiger, Wells Ryan, Frances Whitaker--Clairinets. Sitting, left to right: George King-Drumsg John Fry, Harold Kogler, Leona Hassel- bring, Beulah Richoz, Oma Aeschliman- Violins, Mary Dryden-Pianist. ORCHESTRA The Cissna Park High School Orchestra was organized in September 1923. Under the careful tutoring of Mr. Pierce and Mr. Sullivan the work progressed rapidly. When spring arrived, they appeared several times in public. . Although last year the rank of the school musicians was much dimin- ished by the graduating class of '24, the the instructors again set to work to produce some good music. Quite a few students took up new instru- ments and enthusiasm ran high. They furnished numbers for the Inter- Society Contest and The Ladies' Home Missionary Convention. This year our school is proud of its eighteen piece Orchestra. Practice is held every Thursday afternoon and a good grade of music is studied. The Orchestra rendered six selections at the American Legion Box Social and played at the Inter-Society Contest, The Baccalaureate Services and the Commencement Exercises. Our directors were informed by the music critics of the town that the Orchestra were very glad to hear this because they felt that the hours spent practicing had not been wasted. H1926'f - IPAGE 451

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'T' ' ' 'ik if 'g':T7 fYi. , lN1ir l:- , QQ g l 1'iifl'Yifliii5:5Qil591 f.aA e A ' Ixfi jfff' ,f fag. :ui .L :Ji lr' s j JOKES Can you imagine: Miss Chappell doing the Charleston? Clyde Harweger with his hair combed? Walter Barth not running around? The Junior Class not up to some meanness? Johnnie Fry studying? Mary Dryden not making faces? Miss Rietz and Carl not arguing? Mr. Courtright the build of Mr. Shaw? Harold Kogler teaching school? The Sophomores quiet in Botany Lab? David Hamrick not arguing to raise his grade? Oma with dresses to her ankles? Lawrence not bossing the job? . Beulah ientering the office - I just stuck my finger in my eye, Mr. Sullivan What am I going to do about it ? Prof.-'Td pull it out if I were you. Miss Chappell fsighing as she looks at the proofs of her second sittingj -- Oh, just take any of them. No one will know who it is anyhow. The members of the Caesar Class strolled into the class room. Bernice- What smells so funny in here? Bertha- Must be the dead language. Miss Hahn-- No, it's the rotten grades. Prof. fin Law class, discussing Sullivan and Barth, and Knake and LeConte as partnershipsj-- Now how could Sullivan and Barth take an- other partner into their butcher shop ? The printer gets the money, The editor gets the fame, The students get the annual, But the staff gets all the blame. Mr. Courtright had just finished giving the Physics Class a lecture on gravity. Now, he concluded, it is the law of gravity which keeps us on the earth. P But how did we stay on before the law was passed? inquired Jack. Miss Chappell- Sir Roger was called a knight of what ? Harold Gogler- The Ku Kluk Klan. f 1926 '- IPAGE 471