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

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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

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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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Chorus of Hawaiian Maidens The cast was as follows: Guardian of the Little Sisterzsglrma Learned. Princess Le-il-a-Ni Uvroath of Heavenj Ruler of the town of Hilo and Ru-u-le-i QMy WVreath.j Favorite of the Princess :-Carmen Oliver Ma-i-le CFragrant Vine.j Sorceress and governess of the Princess' house- hold.-Evelyn Arkley. Ke-alo-ha fThe Lovej The Little sister of the Princess, who has adopted her. Chorus of Hawaiin maidens. The curtain rises on the feast of Laka, the celebration held each year in memory of the Great Storm, when the Ghosts of Hilo saved the inhabitants of the island from destruction. On this night the Little Sister was found in the glen, with a small druin tied securely to her. This drum she has kept with her constantly ever sinceg and as Ma-il-e has not been able to gain control over the Little Sister, she believes the cause of it to be some mysterious power of the little drum. On this night of the feast of Laka, Ma-il-e finally breaks the drumg within it a letter is found, written by the Little Sister's father, King Hana-kah, just before his boat sank at sea. This clears up the mystery of the Little Sisters identity , and everyone is happy as the curtain falls. Between acts, the Boy's Glee Club gave a couple of Hawaiian songs, and Lawrence Armstrong sang a solo. This was the first time the boys had made a public appearance, but judging from the hearty applause the audience gave them the practice they have had brought some fine results. 26