Racine High School - Racina Yearbook (Racine, OH)

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The Racina Ben: (Has been reading paper and jumps up excitedly) Would you please listen to this? (Reads) ‘A rising young poet is making her appearance in society circles. Her depth and eloquence of expression have been recognized by all the great critics of the dhy. A stanza from one of her simple unaffected poems is reproduced to show her originality of subject matter. It reads: I have the blues, I know not why I feel so bad, I just could die It seems so bad it should be so But it is true, where’er I go. No, I’m not going to tell you who she is, but I’m going after her and make some other arrangements. I have sent for Mile. Caquot who has just returned from Europe to come up and give us some of her classical danes, so if she comes before I return make her feel at home. (Exit) Myrtle: Sure, we can do that can’t we Trix? I hope she has some new steps to teach us. (The girls wander about examining things and Dons and Ed look on in amazement) Say, this is some place! Kathleen: Yes. if it iust had some bright cushions and a few trim- mings. Can’t you imagine that chair done in turquoise blue and that window draped with real honest-to-goodness red velvet. Doris: Disgusting, isn’t it Edward? Edward: Quite so, my dear, quite so. (Knock is heard on the door and both rush to it. A Salvation Army lassie and a well-dressed man enter) Kathleen: Good afternoon. Come in if this is the place you’re look- ing for. Ruth D.: Why this isn’t,no, this couldn’t be Kathleen Bentz. Kathleen: N° THIS is now Miss Trixie Gwynne and this is mv pal Miss Flossie Vincent, at your service, (she curtsied) Ben S.: (Coming forward with Ruth) What changes can be made in ten years! I never expected to see you girls so different. What are you doing now? Myrtle: (linking arms with Kathleen) Oh, we’re in vaudeville now. Ruth: (seeing Doris and Edward) Now, this is a delightful sur- prise. I haven’t seen you two since you were married. Ben: Nor I, and just think how long that’s been. Seven years. Doris: And how short it has seemed hasn’t it Edward? Ed.: Quite short, my dear, quite short. (Myrtle and Kathleen look at each other in disgust.) Edward: (turning to Ben) But, what are you doing now, Ben. What trophies have you gathered for old ’20. Ben: I am at last realizing my boyhood ambitions and I’m now real- ly practicing law with great success. Doris: Edward, let us go and sit on the fire escape and watch the sun- set. Edward: Certainly, my dear, certainly. (They go out thru the win- dow.) (Door opens and a woman rather foreign looking in dress enters. She comes forward.) Mary C.: Could you please tell me if--ma foi, you can’t be, you aren’t Ben Spencer and Ruth DeWolfe? Ru h: Why, Mary Crooks what-------- 26

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Edward P.: But, Doris, this can’t be the place. So shabby, don’t you know. (adjusts monocle) v Doris: I believe I said before, Edward, that this was the place, so we won’t discuss it. Edward: Quite so, my dear, quite so. Perhaps you’re right. Doris: Of course I’m right. I’m always right. I don’t know how you would ever get along without me. I-----------(She bumps into Alice as they come forward.) Alice: I protest! You people seem to be extremely fond of bumping into me. ' 1 I ‘ . y,’ '. Doris: Well, if it isn’t—(seeing the others) well my stars! Now,Edward, you see I was right. fk. Edward: (hurriedly) quite so, my dear, quite so. I. . • • Doris: (to all) You see when Ben told us of the reunion we (point- ing to herself) decided to come. Didn’t we Edward? . Edward: Yes, my dear. We (pointing to Doris) decided to come. Alice: Ben, when is Coell coming? Ben: I think she will be here on the eastern limited before long now. « 1 ;' Alice: I’ll just go down and meet her then. Don’t let anyone Teave till I relurn. (Starts to door) Edith: (who has been looking on in amazement) And I’m going with you. I want to collect my senses. Maybe some fresh air will help me. Freda: Say, I’m going to slide in the back door and change my clothes. Wait a minute and I’ll go with you. Alice: Well, then hurry before anyone sees you. One would think hat you belonged to a circus. (Exeunt) (Doris wanders about examining things and Edward follows her. Ben goes to the door and looks out.) Ben: Here comes two of our old class whom I think you would scarce- ly recogn;ze. (Doris and Edward rush to the door as two girls enter dressed very gaudily and chewing gum.) Myrtle: Do you reckon this was the place Trix—well, heavens to pat- sy, look who’s here. Say. I’ll bet you two are married. Edward: Well, you see we—that is, Doris and I-er-ahem—agreed to get married. Didn’t we, Doris? Doris: Yes, Edward. But what are you girls doing to be dressed up so hideously? Kathleen: Huh, guess she doesn’t know when she is looking at the lat- est styles on Broadway, does she Floss? Remember, please, that my name is now Trixie Gwynne and my partner here is Flossie Vincent. Doris: Thank heavens, you did have the common sense not to subject your old respectable names to such giddy creatures as you now seem to be. Kathleen: (airily) I see you can’t appreciate us two. But if you come down to the best theatre in New York you’ll see us perform and maybe you’ll change your mind. We’re two of the best to be found in vaudeville. 25

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Mary Mile. Caquot, if you please. Perhaps you have heard my name before. My classical dances are very well known both in America and Europe. Ben: Not THE Mile. Caquot? Mary: The same (bows slightly) Myrtle: Say, would you mind teaching Trix and I a few of those steps? Mary: (looking at them in surprise) Why, how odd, I didn’t recog- nize you two. Of course I’ll be glad to oblige anyone from old ’20. Is there a room handy? Kathleen: There’s the bedroom in there. We might use it. Mary: Fine, make haste, girls, before all the guests arrive. (Exeunt) Ben: Well, would you ever think that ten years could work such won- ders? Ruth: I really do not know whether I’m dreaming or not. I wish we had them down to the mission for several nights. It grieves me so much to see any of our class be so worldy. (Voices heard outside and door opens admitting Alice, Freda, and a woman dressed severely in a traveling costume and a man in sport clothes) Coell: So this is where Dorothy lives. How comfortable! No one but a missionary knows how to appreciate such aplace after five years of h rd work among the natives of China and India. Dillon: I ought not to have left when I did. I suppose I’ll be dis- charged but the thots of this reunion were more than I could resist. (Ruth and Ben come forward) Ruth: Why, it’s Coell and Dillon! (Alice has gone to the window. She g'ves a start as tho having seen something and starts sketching) Ben: What are you doing now, Dillon, to make old R. H S. proud of you? Dillon: Why, I’ve been athletic director at Yale for five years now. Ruth: There, I knew it. I always predicted something like that for you, Dillon. I wish we had YOU down at the mission. Coell: Well, I know for one thing that there’s no danger of him los- ing his job. Dillon’s all the rage over there. (Freda has followed Alice to the window. She looks over her shoulder and breaks into a broad grin) (Two girls enter, one in a sport costume, and the other rather plain in dress.) Ora: Hello, everybody! I’m here, but I can’t stay long because I cannot leave my farm. Coell: (grasps her arm) Ora, don’t say that you have married a mere man and are wasting your life on a farm. Ora: Well, I should say not, my farm is run on a strictly scientific bas's by women and women only. Ruth: Oh, I’m so glad! Frances: You don’t seem to see me so I guess I’ll have to establish my identity. I was out to visit Ora last week on my vacation and you should see her farm, and I have to be surrounded by four walls all day long. 2 7