The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-21
WAS A GREAT EVENT
High School Day Exercises
Much Appreciated
BY LARGE AUDIENCE
Class Orator Was Greeted by
Rotten Cabbage.

The senior class of the Wichita High
school gave their class day exercises at
the Auditorium last night. The house was
filed to overlooking and all were well
pleased with the performance. The pro-
gram opened with the class Grafton by
Nose Johnson. entitled National JUS
tice." As Mr.. Johnson stepped to the
front Of the stage a junior in the north
gallery threw a rotten cabbage-head at
the speaker The missile struck at his
feet and splattered all over the wings.
Mr.. Johnson showed his ease on the stage
by his control at that time. Mr.. Johnson
opened his speech in clear strong voice.
He spoke of the injustice Of the ancient
nations, and the trampling of right and
freedom under foot by the nations of the
present which keep large standing arm
les. He cited the instance of Russia and
her tyrannical policy. England would at
tack America but for the fear she has
Of this country. The speaker took up
the brutal policy of the powers IN Cuba
and the action OF Christian nations at
tempting to destroy the ancient customs
OF that people at one blow.
The class play, "To Have or To Lose,
or Hades Up-to-Date," was the feature.
The first scene opened with Friday,
the servant of Mephisto, singing and the
imps playing all sorts of pranks. There
was to be a garden party for Mary,
Queen OF Scots. and the guests arrive.
Madame Yale created a sensation by
rushing in and declaring that the queen
had lost her head, and the whole play
rested on finding her head. Mephisto
ordered that the best head in his coal
bins be given to her and after it is
fitted, the. queen offers her hand to any
one who would find her head. Mephisto
then ordered the following program: Hot
Air quartette, led by John Phillip;
Sousa's 100000 Eyes" by the entire
chorus, and some specialties by Anna
Held. Aneas hires Pinkerton to find the
head of the queen, and Dido finds out
that Aneas is in love with another and
gracefully dies on funeral pyre.
The second act opened with the arrival
of Sherlock Holmes and an Instance of
his methods. Mary accidently breaks
her head and Sherlock comes in vending
heads of different varieties and a Chinese
head is bought by Mephisto. st. Patrick
rids Hades of all pests and the mad
scene from Hamlet is given. The scene
closed with Holmes relating the facts
in the chain of evidence.
The third act opened with Aneas being
jealous and accusing Pinkerton Of double
dealing. Holmes believed that Charon
is the guilty party, and Charon says
that he threw the head into the Styx
during "a storm, and Jonah enters with
the original head, which he found in the
stomach of a whale. Aneas. seeing his
cause is lost, is reconciled to Dido, and
Mary goes to the Devil" The play was
a rake-off on the faculty and was pre-
scented in fine manneC,
The juniors tried everything to break
UP the play and threw three cabbage
heads during the last act. At the close
Of the play, when the drill girls IN
furled the class banner the juniors made
an attack and a rough house was the
order for a few moments. The Juniors
did not think that they viii give q play
next year, and that decent people VIII not
patronize a crowd that would lower
themselves TO such a level as throwing
cabbage and trying TO break up a play.