Peabody Demonstration School - Volunteer Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Senior Prophecy Tiine: june j, 1931. Place: In a woody. Characterr: Dick Polkj witch, Diana Richmond. SCENE I Setting: Before the curtains. A hay if .fitting under a tree rnuring. DICK: It's line to be out of school. No more worry about lessons that haven't been done, but it's tough missing the old friends and knowing I won't see them all together again. I wonder what's going to happen to them all. It's a crazy idea to think about it. QYawnr, .rtretchef and lier hack. In a few rninutef he morerj CWitch enterfj pauxer over the ho-y,' then poker him with a rtick.D DICK: Oh, g'wan away. CWitch poker hiin again.D Oh! Qfity upj WITCH: Ah-ha! Come, I will take you to my Cavern and you shall see the fate of your class-mates. Follow me! Cftage darkenx .fuddenbf a.r hoy riser to follow her.D SCENE II Setting: Curtainr part rhowing wood scene with hoy and witch revealed dimly hy a fire under a huge cauldron. Witch .rtirf cauldron niurnhling. Boy if reated near her. In the Jmoke over the cauldron variour ineinherc of the clam appear in a light which glows there. WVITCHZ Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. CDavid Atkinron and Katharine Weir appear in hathing .ruit.r.D DAVID: How does it feel to be Olympic breast-stroke champ, Kat? KATHARINE: Swell! You certainly broke all records for the distance swim. CMaJon Burhy enters carrying a cainera.D MAsoN: That's fine! Hold it! Now a big smile. DICK: Kat and David Olympic swimmers! They're good at it now. QMargf jane Peyton dreffed in shorts, and Bill Bruer in Jlackx and .furpenderrj MARY JANE: You may be the best dancer on Broadway, but I don't have to think so: I'm your partner. BILL: Well, you may be Broadway's darling but you're a pain in the foot to me. Let's try that step over. , DICK: As they were rated the best dancers in the class, they have gone on dancing through life. CNancy Orr in pujumef and coat and jack Hopton in jirernank .fuit.D NANCY: Oh, thank you so much! You have no idea how important a person you have rescued. The Hicksville News couldn't be published without me. My public will appreciate this. 23

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Pale moon leaning to the northern sky- Slender-leaning, music-silver- Makes a whirely mystic promise With a diamond star for surety. A street light bright In thick warm night of a mid-south railroad town, Patient-panting, red eyes glowing, great night plunger, hot breath blowing- is stopped for water. Arc light falls white And in its sight Black pansies grow. I want a sweep of dark blue water, Silky ruffled and flowered sparsely With broken stars-to rest my eyes On liquid Soft mobility. Dark Cedars are death-shadowy in deep lush green that sweeps brown-parted to red and time-soft walls. And the brown dust is a sweeping curve to a slender, pillared gallery, where ghosts in crinolines and white goatees are still gracious-welcoming. What's the dim heart-stirring of children playing at twilight out of doors? of front doors open on yellow squares in grey lavender, and shirt-sleeved men calling back and forth where they read papers on their own porch steps in spring gloaming? Rain in the wind earthy wind-alive with frogs and spring. The stars are warm and dim, fading-portently- Rain to-morrow. lt's good to live to-night. JULIA RAMSEY

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JACK: Aw, it was nothin'. - Qfirances Tucker and Bill Thompson in evening clothes, and Irving Boyd in riding ontft. He carries a inegaploonej FRANCES: That isn't true and you know it. If you weren't such a stubborn brute you would admit it. BILL: And ifl didn't love you so much I wouldn't care. IRVING: Cut! Put more emotion into it, Tucker, you're supposed to be mad. Show it. DICK: A regular reunion in Hollywood. Cllntlo Petty and Robert Neatheiy in business sicitsj ROEERT: Do you think, Miss Petty, that the sale for Pork and Beans can be increased if we increase our publicity? RUTH: Yes, I do. I predict a 5672, increase if my suggestion goes through. CHeniy Hepfon dressed in string tie, fancy vest, wide briinnied hat, and long coat.D HENRY: Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, you all know the government is in a sad condition. Elect me as congressman and your troubles will be over. DICK: Henry always was the best politician in the class. CGlenn Henderson, Herbert Dankerly, and Willard Brandon dressed in overalls, and Jaines Parker in vest and shirt sleeves.D GLENN! Well, Pank, when we goin' to get some rain round here? WILLARD: Yea! And wl1en's the government goin' to give us some relief? . JAMEs: Guess I won't get around to you this month, sorry, boys. DICK: So we have some future agrarianists in our class! Cfirances S pain, falia Ramsey, and Lillian Fenker in sports clotlvesj LILLIAN: As Pulitzer Prize winners for the novel and poetry of 1945 would you give me an interview for to-morrow's paper? FRANCES: We shall be delighted. , DICK: Two Pulitzer Prize winners in the same year from our Class, thanks to Miss Heath. CMorris Bark, Susan Ann Wallace, Lenna McMurtry, and Irene Eskelinen in evening dress. Susan Ann plays the end of a piece on tloe Xyloplooney MoRRIs: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that was Miss Susan Ann Wallace, our noted Xylophonist. Next we present Miss Irene Eskelinen, that famous come- dian. ' IRENE Claughingyz Oh Morris, I heard the funniest story to-day about two Irishmen. It seems-Oh, I can't remember how it starts, just a sec. MORRIS: Never mind, Irene. Lenna McMurtry, our featured pianist, will present a well known selection. QEinniett Wood and Jeanne Hogan in conventional attirej EMMETT: Miss Hogan, take this letter, please. JEANNE: Yes, Sir. 24