South Whitley High School - Reflector Yearbook (South Whitley, IN)

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Wilberforce ' s victim, Gwendolyn plans to save him even though she be forced to violate the confidence of Wilber- force and sacrifice his love. She leases the telegraph wires in the hotel and manipulates Wilberforce ' s tele- grams to Wall Street with the result that Wilberforce loses his battle and her father wins. Wilberforce learns the truth and spurns Gwendolyn when she reveals herself to him as the daughter of his Wall Street foe. He later realizes the sublimity of her conduct and renews his avowals of love for the woman who, obeying the prompt- ings of filial love and duty, had vanquished him. Their betrothal follows and all ends happily.

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THE ALTAR OF RICHES CAST Of eHARAeTCRS- Charles Wilberforce - - - Wesley Graham. Samuel Thornton . . . . Briant Edwards. Thomas Seward - - - Clifford Marye. Robert Fitzgerald - - - Arthur Hardy. Walker - ... Verne Gingher. Gwendolyn Mordauiit Austin - Lulu Howenstine. Lucile Harcourt - - Elizabeth Havens. Harriet Bosworth - - - Feme Miller. Maria Stanford - - - Elizabeth Smith. Madeline .... Leona MeConnell. SYNOPSIS Gwendolyn Mordaunt Austin, daughter of Philip Austin, a Wall Street operator, goes to the White Mountains in. cognito to spend her summer vacation. She is accom- panied by Lucille Harcourt, a novelist and her friend. The latter is directed by her publishers to write a novel based upon the subject of American finance and Gwen- dolyn suggests that a suitable hero for the novel be found and studied. Charles Wilberforce, a financial king, is staying at the same hotel, and in pursuance of the plan to make him the hero of Miss Harcourt ' s novel, Gwendolyn enters into an agreement with Wilberforce to engage in a stock battle on Wall Street with him. Unaware that Gwendolyn is the daughter of Philip Aus- tin, the Copper King, upon whose downfall he is resolved, he enters into the spirit of the occasion and prepares to give Gwendolyn and Lucille salutary lessons in the meth- ods of American financiers. He declines to reveal the identity of his Wall Street opponent to Gwendolyn and she is in consequence unaware that she has arrayed her- self against her own father and is assisting to ruin him. She receives a message from her father that he has a con- test on his hands which might end in his downfall. Gwendolyn begins to suspect and she discovers from Wil- berforce that he is determined to corner copper. Driven to despair by the knowledge that her father is

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Calendar for Commencement Week Sunday, May 5, at 7:30 p. m. Class Sei ' mon- Metliodist Church -E. S. Rilev. Thursday, May 9, at 8:15 p. m. High School Auditorium THE ALTAR OF RICHES, A Comedy of American Finance, in Four Acts. Cast of Characters. Charles Wilberforce Samuel Thornton Thomas Seward Robert Fitzgerald Walker Gwendolyn Mordaunt Austin Lucile Harcourt Harriet Bosworth Maria Stanford Madeline Wesley Graham. Briant Edwards. Clifford Marye. Arthur Hardy. Vei ' n Gingher. Lulu Howenstine. Elizabeth Havens. Feme Miller. Elizabeth Smith. Leona McConnell. Scene — A Hotel in the White Mountains. Time — The Present Time. Act I — Pai ' lor in Summer Hotel. Morning. The Com- pact. Act II — Gwendolyn ' s Apartment. Afternoon. The Dispatch. Act III — Same as Act II. Next morning. The Battle. Act IV — Same as Act I. Ne.xt day. The Judgment. High School Auditorium. George H. Tapy. - Orchestra. Friday, May 10, at 8:15. Class Address Music Presentation of Diplomas. Presentation of Bibles.