Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Cfje $lot TIME, the eighth day of the third month of the year 1911. Marie Brennan, being duly recognized by the president, takes the floor, and keeps it for some time by the ingenious method of making a long drawn-out and very elaborate speech. She thereby raises the great question which nearly costs the class their supper. Mr. Tobin, who is unable to hear very well, requests Miss Brennan in a very sarcastic voice, of which he is a master, to repeat what she has said and make it a little bit shorter. Miss Brennan replies by saying that if those boys who can’t hear what she is saying would bring an ear trumpet they might be enabled to understand her. This makes the good gentleman very angry, and right then and there he jumps up, calling upon the president for recognition, and is just about to say something when he is told to sit down, as he is out of order. At this point his mysterious friend, Mr. Ferdinand Meier, rises with a great deal of dignity and makes a motion, but in the commotion which follows, Mr. Meier’s motion is buried and nearly forgotten. By the quick wit of Mr. Tobin, who arises and in a loud oratorical voice asks the president to have the minutes read, the motion is found, buried beneath a dozen other motions and brought to the front. While going through with one dozen motions, two dozen amendments to these motions and three dozen reconsiderations of the one dozen motions and the two dozen amendments, there is great tumult and uproar. Room 6 becomes a second Tower of Babel, or perhaps, to use a more modern figure, a veritable House of Representatives. Mr. Groman becomes very tired and very cross, and is just about to make a motion to adjourn, which would then have brought the total number of motions up to thirteen, when at this critical moment Mr. Tobin arises and tells Mr- Groman to sit down as he is very much out of order. Mr. Groman is just about to get real angry when, with quick wit, Mr. Bernstein, the Man of the Hour, comes to the rescue, by saying right out before everybody that he doesn’t intend to stay and listen to a lot of foolishness, and that he will go home if something doesn’t happen pretty soon. This very timely interruption seems to have an effect on everybody, for in about five minutes all of the motions, amendments and reconsiderations are so straightened out that all actually know what they are voting for. At this point Mr. Groman, bound to get a motion of his own in, some time or other, arises and again makes his motion to adjourn. This is carried and everybody welcomes it by getting out of Room 6 as quickly as possible, for fear somebody might make the motion to reconsider the last motion e’en though such motion might be unparliamentary. Press Notices: “Town Noise”—“The perpetual motion made it most interesting.” “Everlasting Critic”—The chorus of dissenters in Act IV showed great accomplishment in the demand for reconsidering questions. 35

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4$lr. ©efjring’S cf)ool ?8opS anb ©trlfi in a 50i«corbant Clamorous Comehp, entitle ) Z )t (Question of tfjc ii our Written by.............. Staged and Dramatized by Miss Amidon | Mr. Gehring I........... ... Florence Spernoga .......Seniors of ’ll Managers of the Play CHARACTERS. George Leopold, An Uncrowned King.................................President Frank Crebbin, The King’s Jester.......................The Excise Man John Tobin, a disguised King of Melodrama ' .... . , , . L , ’ , . t .Two vilhans of the darkest type Ferdinand Meier, The Last of the Pygmies 1 George Groman, The Silver-tongued Orator......................A Hero Joseph Bernstein, The Man of the Hour..........................Another Hero George Hach, The Baby of the Troupe.......A very busy Sergeant-at-Arms Elsie Mead, An Understudy..................................Vice President Frances Davis, A Bewitching Maiden, Secretary. .A very important character Marie Brennan, A Suffragette..................A poor suffering Heroine Lords and Ladies in Waiting........................Seniors not in action Scene—Room 6 in the H S. of C. Time—2:30 P. M. to 4:15 P. M. Act I. A Discussion of Senior Class Night. Act II. Motions Reconsidered. Thirteen Scenes. Act III. The Question of the Hour Carried. Act IV. The Insurrection of the Dissatisfied. Act V. Grand Finale. Specialties Between Motions: A talking match between the world’s celebrities, Misses Florence Feller and Ethel Krewson- Bertha Munz, referee. Cecil Strauss and Ella Passig, seconds. 34

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Senior Class Officers, jfirSt anb £ cconb Uerms John Tobin Anna McCorkindale Elsie Mead George Leopold Frank Crebbin 36 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Sergeant-at-Arms