Schuster School - Proscenium Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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DO YOU REMEMBER The second performance of the HDark Lady of the Sonnets? The First performance of USpreading the News? Mrs. Fallon's make-up? The basket that wouldnit upset? How Al. Cash said iiYes, papa? Mr. Agin's moustache? The time Hilda Ruthman lost her skirt on the stage? The performance of nThe Forest? How indignant Bert Thompson was when Miss Butler rang down the curtain on his only speech in Judas Maccabeus? Mr. Kappen's legs in uMuch Ado? Lucile Livingston in uThe Minister's WifePh Jennie Maurie? The performance of uLady Bountiful at Pleasant Ridge? The Big Cake Sale? When we et at Chester Park? SCHUSTERS AT CHESTER PARK One time, when we wuz at Schuster's And we went to Chester Park, Where they's ist hut thrills an, dips and bumps An' ali's out doors an' air! And spiral slides, an' merry-goerounds, An' horses on 'em, yes, and these Jolly girls, ist ride all they please. En stop 'em ef you dare. Wy' wunst one time when we wuz there We et out on the porch. Wite where you looked out on the lake The table wuz; and we Let all the Seniors come an' take Their lunch with us - an' tea. Twaz awful funny - I could see The redacapped dolls nod their heads at me. And we ist sung an' laughed to see Miss Bridgeford kick so high An' Faculty there, an' all, an' we e We et out onIthe porch. Page seventywsix

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Beneath this stucco roof, that borders shade, Behind these footlights turned off now to keep Down the electric bills, Frank Gau hath made His hearers roar with laughter till they weep. For him no more these blazing foots shall burn, Or busy prop-man ply his usual care, No audience will here ask his return For encores, beg for more and more to spare. Oft dithhe people to his power yield, He had a knack of telling an old joke With such persuasive unction, it appealed To one and all till laughter from them broke. Let not Ambition mock his short-lived toil, His Heeting wit, his destiny obscure, Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile That he was Comedy's apt cynosure. Nor you, ye proud, impute to him the fault If Memory to his wit no trbphies raise, Where thru the aisle and thru the Playhouse Vault The loud applause swells with the note of praise. Th' applause of listening thousands to command, Managers and Directors to despise, To scatter bathos to a smiling band Of tired business men with heavy eyes. His lot forbade; ah, Frank, what can assuage Thy loss, for thy airtistic soul is fled? We scrawi thine epitaph and leave the stage Empty save for the phantoms of its dead. THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Art, Genius, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Thalia smiled, but he could not depart From Business, who has claimed him for his own. Edwin Rickey, recently returned from the road, has announced his engagement to a Georgia girl. Is she to be congratulated or mourned? asked Mr. Agin. Page seventy-Eve

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An' we ist et ice cream and sweets At ma donyt 10w us to - An' beefsteak san'wich, don't like meats Like other folks, do you? An' all the time the wind blowed there An, we could feel it in our hair An, ist see coasters everwhere! An' we ist yelled and laughed And they don,t care, When we et at Chester Park. - Marion T. Reeves, ' l 6. Page seventy-seven