Hamilton Collegiate Institute - Vox Lycei Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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Easter V O X family in the front row of the rush seats. They had paid for all their tickets pro- viding they should applaud in the right places. After being on the stage a few moments, they gained possession of their faculties and made such a hit that even the cattiest person in the audience could not say l told you so, l knew that nut would spoil the show.' While one of the members of the cast was running down to change costumes, Cl wonder who it was?Q, somebody open- ed the glass door in the art room and, like Annette Kellerman, this little actor made a perfect dive through the glass. One of the art students wanted to paint a picture of this little scene and call it Through the Looking Class and What Alice found There. But the scene was copyrighted by Realart Pictures, Ltd. The play went off perfectly. The ap- plause was deafening. Yes, the relations of the cast certainly did their duty nobly. Two catastrophes, however, were witness- L Y C E I 1921 ed by those back stage. Some stage door johnny sent little Miss Longnecker an in- vitation for a little supper after the show. Of course she had to refuse, as she is far too young to be going out with boys. Then Chops Spigot, while looking into the audience to see if his sweetheart was there, lost his balance and only for the kindly aid of his sister, Eupepsia, would have fallen over on top of the orchestra. Chops received a scolding from his mother, Mrs. Spiggot, and was promised a thrashing by his father as soon as they returned home. Some of the cast received bouquets of roses, orchids QPQ, violets, and dandelions. Other members received bouquets, but alas! they didn't smell of violets, Billy jackson received a spray of daffodils and onions. while Aunt Paradise's gentlemen friends sent her a delightful corsage of cabbage, onions, and, the unkindliest cut of all, a piece of garlic. CURTAIN. MOLES IVIENTEIVI AGITAT Continued from page 30 That, explained the little hand, as Marie stopped to laugh, and examined the box curiously, is a dictograph: they are in all the rooms, for the use of members of the Vox and Lyceum staffs who are forced to miss classes. A record of the lesson is taken on a disc, and- just then Ed Hull entered hastily, open- ed the box and removed half-a-dozen rec- ords. nl think this is all l missed to- day, he murmured, l'Il run them off on the Victrola to-night, and slipping them carefully into an envelope, he left the room. And now she was attending a Lyceum meeting in the crowded auditorium. A splendid program was presented, at the conclusion of which, the treasurers of the Vox and Lyceum each reported a large surplus in the bank to the credit of their respective organizations. When she recovered from the shock of this amazing intelligence, she found her- self in the splendid big gymnasium. There, as one of the surging crowd of spectators, she eagerly applauded the various events in an athletic exhibition, in which the contestants covered them- selves and the school with glory. A thrill- ing basket-ball game, won by the H.C.l. in the last two minutes, brought them all to their feet, and the walls re-echoed, as again and again, with wild enthusiasm, they followed Challen's leadership in the old Phi Ki Si. Six o'clock, chimed the little French clock merrily, and Six o'clock, the old Grandfather clock sounded, humbly. The door was softly opened, and Marie entered on tip-toe. Such a wonderful dream, she was explaining happily. l believe l can fin- ish my essay in time after all, and seiz- ing a pencil she began to write. Puzzled, but unconvinced, the big clock looked across at his rival. How did you do it? he asked. For answer, the little French clock pointed one slender hand at the calendar. There, beneath the date of the preceding day was printed: Partial eclipse of the sun, commencing l0.30 p.m.

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Easti-1' V O X li Y 1' 'IG I 1921 I I BEI-ll D THE SCENES I Frank H. Smye. HE great event had arrived at last, February the l8th, a date not histor- ically noteworthy, but histrionically -oh! thatis itl That was the chosen date for the Collegiate play, the social event of the season. That evening the halls were thronged with eager faces, impatiently waiting to see what talent the school har- boured. The gigantic posters had not flared for three weeks, in the halls of the great old school, in vain. The pictures of the cast were ably car- tooned by our talented young artist, Wm. McCullough. Although very hand- some indeed, the picture represents a view, not unlike Miss Nellie jones' bible class, out for a good time. From the ad- vertising, the students expected a play about as humorous as Macbeth, as the posters were tragic, nay-positively pa- thetic. On the largest bill the hero, Brighton Early, was gaily decorated with a pair of bristling moustaches, of which the ex-Kaiser of Germany would have been justly proud. Opposite him, on the same bill, Professor Solomon Spiggot was gifted with a highly intelligent counten- ance, besprinkled with side burns, tortoise- shell glasses, and all the paraphernalia which represented the futurist idea of what a college professor should be. The pictures of the ladies of the cast would have made Harrison Fisher and Sir joshua Reynolds green with envy. Little Ange- lina appeared strangely like one of Raphael's angels about to take wings of the morning and soar through the billowy clouds to a better world. But Aunt Para- dise, yes, poor old Aunt Paradise, was por- trayed strikingly, with cheeks, oh what cheeks. Well, they reminded me of a page out of a doctor's book showing a collo'd lady with a bad attack of the mumps. Yea, verily, the artist had a very poor conception of the cast. ln spite of this. and the fact that our genial business manager, George Allan, refused credit, the seats sold like hot cakes. Cn Friday not a seat remained, that is not a reserved seat for our patrician patrons--as for the plebeian hordes, search the potter's field, er,-rather the rush seats. The dressing rooms were both numer- ous, costly and beautiful. There were two of them. The young ladies had a wonderful salon d'art. It was nicely decorated with numerous etchings and paintings of grapes, angels, horses and other choice objects diart. The gentle- men were assigned a little room, very cosy, l'm sure, with a temperature of about zero degrees absolute. After the leading man 'Andsome QHJ Ed. 'ull as the matinee girls called him, had stepped on Malachi Meek's eyebrows, and kicked Professor Spiggot's side-burns all over the room, he was forcibly ejected and told to seek a better 'ole. Likewise poor Miss Longnecker was exiled from both dressing rooms. She had to find neutral quarters for herself and her evening gowns. lmagine the art student trying to work in such a bizarre atmosphere. lr was Bo- hemian, to say the least. One budding artist was outlining a picture of the Soul of a Lily. just at that moment a coon cook lady passed the door in an elaborate costume of red, yellow and black, garnish- ed with green spots. Another chap, illu- strating C-ray's Elegy in a Country Churchyarcl, saw a bevy of beautiful dam- sels fox-trotting up and down the halls. To use, if l may, a hackneyed expression, such is the irony of fate. The curtain has gone up. A hush falls over the audience. The would-be actors and actresses await their turn, tremb- ling the while, in the wings. Their knees knock together. ln trying to repeat the cue. the old familiar lines fail them. Their tongues are so dry that the words refuse to come. Stage fright for the moment is about to fling its magic spell over the cast. Then looking out from a hole in the cur- tain-yes, there were many-,our actors and actresses see pa and ma and the whole

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, R' Q x ' gl. . , ,. if ' . .I- .. , - .x U .7 X J if X J p 5. xx . T iii . 5L.. X V! IX 'F .ti it ,fi-, - .1 a. T Q aw- i ' .yy X V 'V 0.3 -TT ' . rf H MILITARY I 4 W N I it 5 X WSW' 5 QW 1 -4 T. 2:- MATTERS URNBULW MAJOR ciao. R. ALLAN, Jr., Editor. -Q. HIS column should be written for the New York Sun, as we are chiefly concerned with prophecy and Thr: Prophet is not without honour :ave in his own country. There has nct bein rrtuch activity since the last issue of this pnper, but there is plenty of action pioriiccd for the near future. However, we will First speak of what has taken place. The place of greatest activity has been the rifle-range. Every day, after tour o'clock, the crack of the .22 rifles can be heard in the gallery in the basement. The Board of Education has bought us two new rifles, and good use is being made of them. The teams for the lmperial Challenge Shield Compe- tition are being chosen and we are getting a good idea of where the promising ma- terial for the future lies. Five of the prominent men of this city have established a trust fund and the in- terest from this money is to be used to pay the expenses of the five best shots in the school to the Ontario RiHe Association meet in the summer. Needless to say, there is very keen competition for these places. The Ordnance Department has sent us ten service rifles for outdoor shooting, and as soon as the weather is suitable we will be practising on the ranges at West Ham- ilton. The conditions for practising shoot- ing have improved greatly in this city of late, and there is no reason why the Col- legiate should not be well represented at the rifle meets this summer. The officers ol' the lfth Regiment have been very kind to us in the past, both in allowing us to practice on their ranges and in loaning us rifles. We take this opportunity to thank them and assure them that we will always be truly loyal to the Regiment. Another place where great things have taken place is the Stores Department. Upon the advice of our new quartermastf cr, james Houlden, we asked the Board of Education to fix up the armory. They took hold of the matter with characteristic energy and we now have an armory, the like of which was never dreamed of in this school before. And we might say at this point that the room is not the only excellent part of that department. We have a quartermaster who is absolute per- fection. Speaking of officers' uniforms they play the leading part in the biggest sensation of the year. We have new ones. They are the regulation army officers' material and cut, and are made to order. This year we will have two inspections, one in April and one in May. ln April we will be inspected by Sir Henry Birdsall, lnspector-General of Canada. This will be merely a straight military inspection. Continued on page 60