Lompoc High School - La Purisima Yearbook (Lompoc, CA)

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f X' Xt- 4 0 f , , ,, MUS I C - 'ffi : ' ' ,V l l . f ff fffff w D M A C S ES THE FLOWER QUEEN CANTATA' In October the Girls' Glee Club gave their first outside performance, in the form of a short cantata called The Flower Queen. It was given October 9 in the gymnasium in fourth period, and despite the fact that it was pretty cold, the girls didn't seem to let temperature interfere with their singing ability. The cantata was all about the meeting of the Flower Fairies as they came to crown their queen, and although there was no stage setting or costuming, the idea was carried out very well. THE SENIOR CLASS PLAY A SCRAP OF PAPER C A S T Prosper Couramont ....................... ...... E lton Nicoles Baron de la Glaciere ......................... . . . Frederick Marshall Brisemouche-landed proprietor and naturalist . .. ..... William Negus Anatole -his ward ........................ .. . Lsyle Hawkins Baptiste-servant ...................... .... D onald Cherry Louise de la Glaciere ................ . . . Vera Winebrenner Mlle. Suzanne de Ruseville-her cousin .. ...... Evelyn Arkly Mathilde-sister to Louise ............ .... I rma Learned Mlle. Zienobie-sister to Brisemouche ...................... Margaret Truax Madame du Pont-housekeeper .............................. Audrey lsom Prosper Couramont, having just returned from the Orient, finds that his uncle has given him six weeks' time in which to find a wife. Otherwise, some one else will inherit the family fortune. Passing thru the villiage, Prosper is struck with the beauty of Mathilde, sister to Louise de la Glaciere, with whom he used to be in love. He immediately goes to Louise, telling her of his idea. She playfully accuses Prosper of past fickleness, and hints that Mathilde may be in love with Anatole. He, in turn, charges her with having left him to marry the Baron de la Glaciereg whereupon she tells him of the note she wrote on the eve of her departure for Paris, where she married the baron accordingtoher mother's wish. She had left the note in their mutual post-box on the mantel, but Prosper, wounded in a duel that night, had never received it. The letter is still there, and Couramont secures it, keep- ing it as a means of getting Louise to consent to his marriage with Mathilde, for he knows of Louise's fear of her husband's deep jealousy. Later, Prosper, a guest of Brisemouche, who is guardian of Anatole, hides the letter in his rooms to keep it from Mlle. Suzanne de Ruseville. She comes to his rooms in search of it, and he leaves her, telling her that if she is able to make him burn the letter he will return to the Orient. Soon Louise comes to search for the note, Suzanne finds it just as the baron is heard aproaching. Louise hides, and to cover Glaciere's suspicions, Suzanne tells him that she was once in love with Prosper, and that she wishes to prevent his marriage with Mathilde. He promises to help her, and leaves. When Prosper returns, Suzanne endeavors to get him, thru trickery, to burn 24-

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SOCI Z-X THE F RESMAN RECEPTION At the first of the year the Upperclassmen gave the Freshmen their reception. The wild rumors that were spread about school for a week before hand nearly had the youngsters in a panic by Saturday night. However, they found that things did not turn out so dreadfully for them as might have been expected. After William Negus had given the Freshmen a welcome speech, and some bits of advice, a ghostly review of the class' entrance into High School was enacted. This was followed by some examples of High Happer life. The High School's Jazz Artists, led by Elton Nicoles, proved a wonderful and awful inspiration for a Freshman jazz band. The big hit was the tragi-comedy, Love Will YVin, with the heroine, Toby Negus, and hero Elton Nicoles, supported by an able cast of bandits and a truly mean looking villian- Don Cherry. And wasn't Randy a true-to-tradition mother-in-law? The savage chorus from Robinson Crusoe's Island, under the direction of their chieftess, Miss Arkly, rendered some interesting examples of their musical customs. After the program games were carried on and refreshments were served, the Freshmen seated in kindergarten style with unsweetened pink lemonade and animal cookies, were placed under the gaze of the others, who gloated over them with punch and cookies. Later, the newly-fledged students went home, content that the ordeal of initiation had been passed at last. THE F RESIVIAN RETURN PARTY The play that the Freshmen gave for the entertainment of the Upper-classmen at the Freshman Return Party, surely did succeed in entertaining. ' All the characters filled their parts so well that we are all looking forward to what the class will do in the Senior play of '26. THE DANCES OF THE YEAR The dances this year have been a big success-considering how they line up with the dances of last year. For one thing, the boys didn't hang around out in the corridor, peeking thru the door while the girls danced. Perhaps as they grow older their bashfulness dissappears. The third dance was given the night of the County Track Meet, and the visit- ing schools were invited. The decorating committee, Mr. Green, Evelyn Arkly, Irene Lewis, and Hal Stater camouflaged the Gym with flowers and vines so that it had more of a dressed appearance than usual. Steve W'hite and his orchestra usually supply the music, but rumor has it that there is an orchestra being formed of some of our own Hi students, so we hope that o11r next dance may be given to their music. ' 23

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Cast of Ghosts of Hilo the letterg but just as he lights a candle with it the baron's voice is heard, and Couramont throws the note out of the window. Suzanne explains the situation to him, and starts home, while Prosper goes after the note to keep it from the baron. That evening Anatole discovers the note wrapped about a beetle and stuck in Brisemoucl1e's gun. Not seeing what is already written on the other side, he writes a note to Mathilde on it and sends it by a new maid, who gives it to Mlle. Zenobie, sworn enemy to Anatole's love affair. A mix-up ensues when all the parties are hunting for the note, but finally Prosper gets it away from Brisemouche before the baron sees it, and burns it. Mlle. Suzanne mentions his bargain and he consents to keep it if she will marry him. Anatole and Matilde are together at last, as the curtain falls. lVritten by Victorien Sardou, and played first in the Theatre du Gymnase in Paris in 1860, A Scrap of Paper has been played by some of the most noted French, English and American actors. VVhile the Senior Plays for the past years have set a standard which requires hard and clever work to live up to, this year's Senior class seems to have set a new goal. The members of the class had an understanding of their parts that brought out all the play's best qualities and possibilities. GLEE CLUB oPERETTAlfH-osTs OF H1Lo On Friday night, March sixteenth, the Girls' Glee Club gave its Hawaiian Operetta, The Ghosts of Hilo. The girls worked hard on rehearsals for the affair, under the supervision of Miss Scroggy and Miss Williams, and the result was an opperetta which everyone who saw it pronounced a complete success. The tropical stage setting, with the Hawaiian costumes of the cast, gave an air of southern seas and far-a-away isles that was very pretty. This, with the songs, dances, and music, sometimes dreamy and sometimes wierd and ghostly in the extreme, made a lovely and pleasing background for the plot, which was woven mysteriously about the little village of Hilo, in the Hawaiin Islands. 25