Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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ur unior Ex. The Junior Ex. of the class of 11 was given at Baird's Opera House March 26, 1896. It was a very successful entertainment, and one upon which we, as a class, may always look back with pride. Besides displaying our talent, it filled our treasury with one hundred and forty-'tive dollars. PROGRAM PART I Overture- The Golden Wand. ' ' - 7. P. Laur:m1'mn M. E. S. S. ORCHESTRA. Greeting. --------- - Oration-A Cause of Freedom, - - . - - - Piano Duet- Musician's Serenade, V - - - LOUISE ALSDORF and FLORENCE TURNEX'. Declamation-Artemus Ward's Mormon Lecture. ---, Vocal Solo, ---4---- ANNA MACNEIL. Oration-Let There Be Light, ----- Music- The Baltimore American, - - - M. E. S. S. ORCHESTRA. Creek Symposium SCENE-A room in Penelope's house. Penelope, Archon of the Feast. . ZOE Coox Sappho, a. poetess, .... GRACE FERLE Praxinoe, a gossip. Isomene, a musician, Aspasia. an elocutionist, . . ADA LvoN Antiggne, , , , Zantippe, a shrew, . . KATHARINE SELLERS EnlyChi5, , , Alkestes, a scold, .... MAUD TRACY Gorgo, a gossip, .... ZOE FREEINIAN Attenda'm'5' ' Music- Fletterwochef' ----- M. E. S. S. ORCHESTRA. Farce- Aunt Charlottes Maid CAST OF CHARACTERS Horatio Thomas Sparkins, an innocent young man, - - Major Volley, his father-in-law-to-be, - Pivot, a lawyer, ---- Mrs. Puddifuot. Horatio's aunt, Fanny Volley, Horatio's intended, CLARA GOWER GEORGE A. FIELD -'7o.vq'vh Low - FORD PIATT Soledad HENRIETTA BETZ - C. P. Burton . BESSIE RON.-KN . . . MARYDAVI5 MINNIE BECI-:WI1-H . AGNES HAYDEN .CARL DARLING I DELLA KNIGHT Hyltly ERVY LAROSE DIARK LUDXVICK LELAND BRIGGS LOTTIE SMITH BESSIE HURD Matilda, aunt Char1otte's maid, - KATHERINE SELLERS

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1 BESSIE RONAN- 2 FRANK MCKIBBIN- Let me have a word or two. An affable and courteous gentleman. 3 ARTHUR DODGE- Thy boisterous locks have no worthy match. 4 BESSIE BEDFORD- Alack so mischievous and yet so wise. 5 KATE MORSE- A noble type of good. 6 WILL KNIGHT- 7 JOSEPHINE OSBORNE- The night is calm and cloudless There's mischief in this girl And still as still can be. 8 LOUISE ALSDORF- To laugh were want of goodness and of grace 9 BERT BAKER- And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face. I value science: none can prize it more. 10 JUNE DAVIS- She is pretty to walk with, witty to tal 11 ROY CHAPIN- with and pleasant to think on. None but himself could be his equal. 12 MINNIE BECKWITH- Blessed be M. A. C. if one does not have 13 RALPH HASTY- too much of il. He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit. 14 ETTA KING- Ay, every inch a king. 15 ARMEDA LANDON- It NVhatever any one says or does, I must be good. 16 HENRIETTA BETZ- H Will you lay a wager with me 7 17 LELAND BRIGGS- 1S BLANCI-IE BIRCHARD- He is a base man -first base. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. 19 GEORGE FIELD - It is strange so great an orator should be so sublime a poet. 20 MAMIE DELL- ' Language was given us that we might say pleasant things to one another. 21 MARY DAVIS- 22 LENA WILSON- Her air, her manners, all who saw admired. Her voice is like a nightingale's. 23 BESSIE HURD- 24 MAUD TRACY- Her bark is worse than her bite, In truth she is honest and gentle,