Cogswell Polytechnical College - Cogswell Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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92 TI-IE cooswi-ati, Uhr Qlnllrge Q-'vvninr As soon as we came back to school last july to begin our senior year, we commenced thinking about our Senior Farce. Of course we always planned to have something out of the ordinary and it also had to be some- thing exceptionally good. Finally, at the beginning of our last term, the Senior Farce Committee was appointed. Now our brains were put to work selecting a play. 'We read all kinds of plays, but could come to no decision. Finally, we eliminated all but two plays and lastly selected The College Senior as the Cogswell Senior Farce. After the choice of the play, the selection of characters followed, and with the aid of Miss Grinnell the cast very capable cast. With the selection rehearsal-began. For four weeks the ticed every day. They even spent all hearsal. At last, after many hours of committee succeeded in selecting a of the cast the real work-that of thirteen members of the cast prac- day Monday, February 23d, in re- hard work, and with the unfailing help of our coaches-Miss Grinnell, Miss Chubb and Miss Foulk- The College Senior was produced in the Cogswell Auditorium on Friday even- ing, March 6, l9l4, and from all sides we received nothing but praise and congratulations for our success. ' The first act of the play showed the interior of the Eat-it-Here lunch- room of which Mr. Gordon Wainsvriglit was the proprietor. Violet, the cashier, was sitting at her cash register, while Mike, the chef, was behind the counter awaiting the breakfast crowd. This crowd, composed of 'fPug Collins, Duffy Duffield and Meade, soon entered and were busy eating when Perry Spencer, a snob, entered. Mr. Beane, a clumsy Freshman, then appeared, bringing a letter for Spencer. Spencer read the letter with an exclamation of disgust, and when asked what the trouble was said that his sister, Gertrude, was bringing a certain girl, Mary VVhite, popularly known as a lemon, to the Senior hop that night and that he had to find an escort for her. f'Pug Collins suggested that he take her himself, but Spencer absolutely refused to do this, saying that he was going to take Eleanor Forbes, a wealthy Southern girl. After a short discussion, Spencer decided to ask VVainwright, the proprietor, to take her. Wainwriglit at first refused to go, but after some coaxing decided to consider the plan. Meade then went to the door and as he saw a thunderstorm approaching asked Spencer to take the boys over to the college in his machine. The storm was raging at its height and 'Wainwright was just remark- ing: Gee! but this is a storm, when Eleanor Forbes entered and asked if she might stay in there out of the rain. Gf course she was granted permission to stay and a great affection immediately sprang up between the two. They soon became so absorbed in a conversation that neither noticed when it stopped raining. Finally, Eleanor said she was afraid she must go, but before going she asked Wainwriglit if he were going to the Senior hop that evening. Wain-

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94 J THE COGSWELL wright said that he was afraid he was too old and .Eleanor laughingly replied: 'fOh, nonsenseg Tm twenty-two and see how I hang on. After thanking him for his hospitality, she left and he watched her from the window and then called Mike and told him to tell Bernstein to send for his evening clothes and press them, as he was going to the Senior hop. This was a fitting end for the first act. The second act showed an alcove in the ballroom that evening. Wfhen the curtain rose, Violet and Beane were discovered preparing the lemonade. He was in the act of making violent love to her when they were interrupted by Eleanor and Spencer. Eleanor asked Violet to help her HX her dress which she had torn, but before leaving she told Spencer that she had an unengaged dance on her card and asked if she was supposed to dispose of it if anyone who asked her. He laughingly replied that she might if anyone asked her. Waiiixvriglit then entered with Miss Wliite, who had also torn her dress and, while she was mending it, Spencer inspected VVainwright's clothes and told him that he looked as if he had been used to that sort of thing all his life. Vtfainwright was in the act of thanking him for his compliment when Eleanor, Miss VVhite and Gertrude Spencer entered. VVhen Spencer saw Eleanor he commanded his sister to take Wfainwright away as he didnlt want to introduce him to Eleanor on account of his being a lunchroom keeper. Eleanor, just at this moment, turned, recognized Vlfainwright and forced Gertrude to introduce him to her. He asked for a dance and she, having none unengaged, promised him half of Perry's, saying that Perry wouldn't care. The third act showed a portion of Lover's Lane on the Stanford campus. Spencer and Collins were discovered sitting on a bench discussing the attentions with which VVainwright was showering Eleanor Forbes when Meade entered and told them to hurry and dress for the Senior parade. After they had left the stage, Eleanor and her aristocratic Southern aunt, Mrs. Lee, entered. After several complaints about Northern hospitality, Mrs. Lee asked Eleanor what man she had seen the most of, and just as Gertrude Spencer and Pug Collins entered Eleanor confessed that she had seen Mr. VVainwright more than any other man. Mrs. Lee then sent Eleanor and Collins for a walk while she found from Miss Spencer that Wfainwright kept a lunehroom on the campus. After Miss Spencer took Mrs. Lee and Eleanor to hear the music, the Senior parade entered. In the Senior parade Spencer was dressed as Mary plane, Collins as a devil, Meade as a clown, and Duffield as a holy monk, while Mr. Beane and Mike formed the sacrificial calf. Q As soon as the music stopped, Spencer and Collins decided to give Wain- wright a shock by introducing him to Mrs. Lee, knowing that Mrs. Lee would treat him very coldly because of his position in life. After this scheme was arranged, the Senior parade' proceeded. Again the Senior parade entered and everybody was assembled waiting to see the outcome of the introduction of Mrs. Lee to Waiiivvriglit. After Mrs. Lee had been introduced to Waiiixvriglit, Wainwriglit remarked that his father had told him that his mother, who had died when he was a boy, had been a great friend of hers. 'When Mrs. Lee scornfully asked: Who could