Richmond Womans College - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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re-roaredg the judges came awfully near to giving' the prize then and there. lint it was all the same to Esther and Louise, they clogged on for pure joy of it until their time was called. The two Literary Societies tried to outdo each other and succeeded in outdoing themselves. The l'hilomathean gave a pantomime as a grind of the Adelphian spring pnblic meeting-an entertainment so good that the l hiloma- theans were pretty jealous and this was their come hack. and the :Xdelplnans gave an entirely new version of Three lllind Mice. human and heroic size they were-- Rats they'd be called out our way, and the farnier's wife was so good and her knife so keen, and the Mice's squeals so heartrending you just had to believe in it allg and the cheese looked so natural and smelt so truly that Louise Xorthington almost forgot she was a .lnnior and tried to be a Rat again just for tonight! The Music Class had it all their own way with their l.ay Symphony and show off. They simply beat the band and Sousa's band at that. The sound of that tife is with us yet. The Senior Class put on a Suffragette Meeting, all their own that would have been a picture for Park and a full page for Life. Their oration to Mrs. l ankhurst was original and line and the meeting broke up in the most feminine way even a masculine mind could conceive of. Then the Art Classg those wonderful shadow pictures which they did and that Painless Extraction scene put on hy Truman Miles and june Shancr was so realistic that it touched even the hard heart of our own dental surgeon who, sitting in the audience afterwards declared himself a sadder, wiser man. The clever, funny, side-splitting skit, On llroad Street, given by the junior Class bowled everybody over, even the judges: and to the juniors went the prize, the coveted Martha X'Yashington candy. The realism of that skit will he handed down from class to class. The llroad Street landmarks, the girls, the teachers. the chaperons, the policemen, the paper inan. the lfive and Ten Cent Store. Millers the City Hall Clock with its accusing linger, and all the loved spots which our infancy ill knew. all passed in review before the audience who perceived that of these things they were no small part. Oh that Stunt Nightu! XYhen shall its glories die? l'lere's to it and all its successors. May yon, O future Stunt Night. be as good! You can't be any better. And that's all there is to that. II2

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Stunt Night IIIQRITS always a Iirst time to everything that happens. Sometimes the Iirst of a thing is the worst of a thingg sometimes the oftener we do it the better we do it--and sometimes again all signs fail in dry weather. Be that as it may, on December 12, IQL3, the Woman's College had its tirst, its very first Stunt Night and if it did not blaze a trail for other years to follow until time shall cease to be, certainly it is not because the blazers didn't blaze, nor the trailers trail, nor the stunters stunt, nor the jokers joke. nor the punsters pun, nor the grinders grind, nor the shiners shine, 'for it was all of this and then some. It was a show night, Everything had a chance. .liveryone was notified, lf you have Stunts prepare to do them now. Iixllll there were no regrets. Everybody accepted the invitation extended by the College to show oH', and it was a show oft and a show on and a show down and a show up, and the whole evening was one glad, gay. snappy, something- drning-all-the-while moving picture show. No one was stage struck, the lime- light rattled not even the most amateurish and the professionals were scarcely distinguishable from the maiden adventurers. No one was embarrassed except the judges, and their embarrassment was the unusual one of richesg and they handed down their decision with trepidation. hesitation and much laudation. lint the plaudits of the galleries assured them that they had accidentally struck it right. 'llhe program, impartial and generous, allowed 'The Faculty Iirst place and Miss Frank, of the Voice Department, and Miss lleauchamp, of the Chair of Expression, did their respective stunts to the glory of their respective and respectable callings. 'l'he Sororities proved what Sororities can do if you will only let them alone. Who can ever 'forget the clever skit written and put on by the Delta Alpha Sigmas, entitled Rushing a New tiirlu? And the Qmego Sigma Chi's, After Reception on Saturday Night. was so true to life it made the guilty quake and the suitors in the audience realize what it means to go into the hands ol a receiver -after the reception. The Singing School, suggesting bygone days, was put on to perfection by the l'hi Zeta tiammasg they even excavated from the ruins of ti1ne the old melodeon of prehistoric times that it might be a fitting accompaniment to the tunes of long ago! Oh, it was just nothing that somebody didn't do Stunt Night and the l'hi Phi Delta's, weren't they the spooky' ones? They tangoed in shadow and one-stepped in sheets and did a ghostly bunny hug until we had lhc creeps! And the Dramatic Club put up two stars to dialogue together, and Minnie Hell Atkins and Lillian Savage. soprano and alto by nature. showed how two perfectly nice ladies can quarrel and make up all about a man. The Athletic Club put up two high-steppers if ever you saw two, and the clog dancing of Louise Northington and Esther Savage was nothing to the double bow-knots theygtied themselves into, and though they plunged into space somehow they always landed on their own feet. The audience roared and III

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