Mars Area Junior Senior High School - Planet Yearbook (Mars, PA)

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Mars High School ton a bill and discovers the fact that the so called Mrs. Benbow is a man in disguise. She informs the police and immediate discovery is prevented by additional advice from the ever ready Sandy. Why not introduce another wife? No sooner said than done, and Mlle. Fleurette, a French Costumer, 1s introduced as Bootles’ wife. She is wife number two. s A suffrage parade is held and Bootles’ father and mother arrive to visit him. Both wives appear on the scene at the same time and Mrs. Ben- bow, Sr., is informed by the faithful Sandy that Bootles has joined the Mormans and has two wives. Bootles’ father is not easily taken in. He employs a detective to search out the truth. This detective is an absurd Irish policeman, and when he tries to disguise as a Freshman he is hazed by the students and tossed in a blanket. At last the truth comes out. Mr. Benbow threatens to disinherit his son, but the agent of the Motor Car Company accepts Bootles’ air brake and makes him a liberal offer for it. The faculty reconsider Bootles’ expul- sion and he is allowed to re-enter college. Under the circumstances his father relents and he wins the hand of Miss Jonquil Gray and promises soon to introduce her as his third little wife. i a... eee ee eee Page Twenty-two

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t Mars High School Senior Class Play The Senior Play ‘Kicked out of College’? was presented in the audi- torium of the High School building. The characters in the play were as follows: poe tiecp ben Dawei aa. Ash Opulat SEMIOLss ratte ee Loyal Purvis MideGnescidine. ...... 6s. +. The College Cut-Up..-....... Milton Ellis emGlEN SMA Gr oe Sercs uss eds Fs alrevAce: of opAdesyn ee ante Paul Steiner peotche WicAllister: «0. 2... Do Lardostudentsana te ae ee David Roberts BMOCEYEUONG eter. es ts On the Glee Club.............LeRoi Norton BlivetsUViavee.. 268 2. ates. es Apiappyva| UlIOGs. qatar, © oem Graham deCoux Merapenjamime |. Benbow... Bootles Father: 3.0.2.7. .22. 5... Alfred Morrow MipoanrdyVvicCann:. 5.24. Coach of the Dramatic Club. ..Loyal Walters Oiicemhiley.. 2 aie fois os From the Emerald Isle. 4). George Harbison WAC ADS M chon girant. cree Of the Speed Motor Car Co... .Clyde Frisbee email Gray ioe: as) oi. a ‘abe Littles Ghattier, 28 aerecces Vera Hyett Betty DenbOW. cii4.2 6c... = Bootlessupist Chigast vac. cee tee Edna Hill VLEs he DeTLDOW vo... 2: Her Mother, a Sufferagette....Jean Vandervort MipsmeVi CC annie testes. wo ates Atlealouss Wy ies seer eee Mabel Werner PehnawNicGanh ©. s.e0.. 220: Aeoed= Lhirt een ivase 4 geet Mabel Cashdollar Miss: juliet Snobbs......... The College Stenographer..... Jane Stitzer Mies Mimi Fleurette....... Auirench Costumer 2c. ase Helen Boyle Salamanca Spivins.........A Black “Wash Lady.......... Edna Seaburg Story of the Play: Bootles Benbow, the most popular boy in college, is so busy with inventing a patent air brake and with his various social and athletic activ- ities that he finds it impossible to go to class. Accordingly he is dropped from the roll and is “kicked out of college.” This news is received at the college boarding house when the lads are in the midst of a rehearsal for the annual college play. Bootles’ father arrives and is furious to think that his son has wasted his opportunities at college. He threatens to disinherit Bootles but promises to relent if Bootles will marry and settle down. Sandy McCann, the coach of the dramatic club, is a lways trying to ietixastiinus 1On his friends. He therefore informs Mr. Benbow that Bootles is already married and introduces Bootles’ roommate, Tad Cheseldine, who is the “leading lady” of the college play, as Bootles’ wife. The scheme works successfully. -Bootles and Tad move to “Honey Moon Flats” and live off the fat of the land, entertaining the college boys every night and doing as they please by day. Bootles completes his blue- print drawing of his patent air brake and sends it to the Speed Motor Car Company. A colored wash lady, one Salamanca Spivins, calls to collect nn Page Twenty-one

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- t Mars Hig School The Senior Class Prophecy It was the first day of May, 1921, and I had gone to the forest to search for May flowers... When I should have filled the basket I meant to carry it to aniavalid. Crossing the brook to gather some wind flowers I was amazed to see a tiny old man caught fast to a log by his long white beard. At first sight | thought him a horrid thing to see and would have passed on but the misery of his face made me pity him and I released him. Instantly a handsome young prince clad in costly dress of pre-Elizabethan times stood before me. He thanked me gravely and asked me if he might not help me fill my basket with May flowers. With true English he told me he was Dr. Faustus. I started back in horror, but was reassured by his gentle smile. Then he began to speak in the quaint old English manner. “Kind lady! In truth I am Dr. Faustus, the bond servant of Mephis- topholes, my soul is in his keeping. I sold my soul for knowledge and youth. I learned everything except the curse of too much knowledge My sins are unpardonable yet one day each year I return to this world and try to atone for the misery I caused. I can appear only to those who pity me.” After gathering the flowers we walked to the piazza. I brought out a tray bearing two glasses of iced tea and a dish of sweet cakes. On one table was the Senior Class Prophecy which I had tried to write that morn- | ing and upon which I had so miserably failed. After seeing Dr. -Faustus glance at it a couple of times I burst out and told him how hard I tried and how hopeless was my effort. A smile spread over his face and bowing very low asked if he might help me toward him. Then, although I am sure I never left the plazza, I found myself stand- ing before an immense marble building. At my side was Dr. Faustus dressed in a faultless American business suit. I found him a perfect gentle- man and an interesting companion throughout my wanderings. Together we entered the building and were whizzed skyward in an elevator. On one of the upper floors we found Edna Seaberg in a luxurious office managing the great World Church Movement. By patient work she told me she had risen from secretary to president after leaving old Mars High School. “That was Success,” I said to myself and started to ask a question when I felt myself magically transplanted to a quaint old New England garden where I saw Alfred Morrow, better known to his classmates as Alt, sitting in the shade of an old maple. At his elbow was a small writing table. On it was the manuscript for the latest Fatty Arbuckle movie and also a Page Twenty-three