Fredericksburg High School - Rapahanoc Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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Dramatics T HE students of Fredericksburg High School have shown unusual ability in dramatics this year. The first of their series of entertainments was the Senior play, entitled “Next Door,” which proved a great success. Mr. A. P. Link directed and staged the play, and much credit is due him for the success of it. “Next Door” is a comedy in three acts. The play has to do with Professor Courtney Martin (Norman Allen), who rented a cottage and has moved in; in the meantime Mrs. Thornton (Camilla Moody) rents the same cottage from another agent. She, her niece, Betty Armstead (Rebecca Briggs) and her servant Orange (Pearl Huffman) arrive while Pro¬ fessor Martin and chums Will Webster (Alwyn Hundley) and George Chester (Kenneth Dice) are out. They return and discover that Mrs. Thornton has taken possession. At a suggestion the house is divided. Mrs. Thornton ' s niece, Alice Armstead (Hildah Brauer) and her friend Kathleen Covington (Virginia Williams) arrive a week earlier than expected. Here Alice meets Chester whom she has known before and Kathleen falls in love with Webster. Fred Harper (Irving G allant) comes to call on Professor Courtney Martin. While there Professor Martin explains to Harper that he is trying to write a love story. Harper tells him to ask Betty to help him with the love passages, wdiich he does. Kathleen and Webster quarrel— Alice decides to abandon her professional career. The cottage is deserted. Six months later Mrs. Thornton is back in her town home. The guests arrive for Betty’s birthday party. By a clever scheme Professor Martin succeeds in getting all the guests in the music room in order that he may be alone with Betty. He pays Orange to not let any one in, but in spite of this he is interrupted several times. Professor Martin’s love story reaches a climax. Orange tells Mrs. Thornton that she will stay with her ever afterwards, being as the girls are all marrying the men that live “Next Door.” 74

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Third Year Household Arts W E five Seniors had the honor of being the first class of Third Year Sewing ever taught in F. H. S. And taking advantage of that privilege, we set to work to make ourselves worthy of such an honor. So with Mrs. Link as our faithful loving companion (for such she was to us all), we went joyfully through our Senior Year; each day looking forward with pleasure to those two periods in which we took sewing. 76