Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-13
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS NIGHT
Nsught-Two Members Present a Unique
Program to Friends.
PLAY, PROPHECY AND DRILL COMBINE
Orpheum TheRter the Scene OF Enter
tainment at which wit and Beauty
of Class Is Given Full
and Free show.

Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and
friends Of the 14S members OF the High
school class OF 1902 were all at the orpheum
theater last night for the class exercises.
The young persons who are just completing
the four years course wished to celebrate
and to have their folks in for the fun,
SO the latter went.
II was a novel and a somewhat gorgeous
spectacle that was presented. Young men
who resembled pickings from Ellen M
Stones own story mingled with other young
men in mailed torso and with flower girls
and gentle shepherdesses. Red and white,
the class %colors, predominated everywhere
and the theater's most picturesque settings
were used.
The program was in two parts. the nrst
representing the class on trial in the Forest
Of Arden to prove II It be worthy to re-
main there. The king watson smith, as
sembled his court and subjects in the forest
and there sponsored a battle Of the wits,
in which there was a general interchange
Of sharp questions requiring sharper an
swers.
some Who Were I'm IL.
The participants and principal figures In
this were the lord high chamberlain (How-
ard Barrett), the herald (Clyde Moore).
the jester arthur Kelkenny). Folly Nellie
Connolly, and the Misses Mary Stearns.
Louise White, Mildred Slater, Ethel Part
ridge, Mabel Parker, Marie Manager and
Mamie Eldridge. Minnie Hitler. as the
court historian, Walter Standeven, as the
court minstrel and Harry Kelly, as the
court prophet contributed individually and
very successfully. The recitations were by:
May L. Brown, Charlotte Roe. Alta Hukill,
Emma Schrieber, Anna Dietrich. Lords and
ladies of the court were: Myrtle Cloud,
Claire Northrup, Mary Stringfellow, Her
bert stubbendorf. Howard Wareham, Rob-
erta Wilson, Florence Grimes. Alice Rance,
Cecilia Wilson, Harry Smith, William West,
Mary Mcnamara, Nellie Sprague, Percy
Powell, Clarence Wigington, Ruth Thomp-
son, Fredrica Mcintosh.
Pictures Presented.
The pictures we're a trihe marred by awk-
ward manipulation of the lights, but were
nevertheless a much applauded part OF the
entertainment. They we're scenes from
books read by the class in recent months,
first and second were from Comus,
representing the before and after effect of
the growth Of uncannX heads, on beautiful
shoulders. Webster Sutherland was Co
mus, Blanche Roe The Lady and for his
followers there were Ann Cunningham,
Josephine Blixt, Harriet Borglum. Albert
Heimrod, Wilson Buchanan, Mabel Fisher,
Earle Marsh.
Jessie Mason pictured the fidelity Of
Tennyson's Elaine. the fair, Elaine the
Beautiful" In the scene from "Iyanhoe"
Lawrence Sidwell was Front de Boeuf. Gill
| bert Stubs was Isaac OF York and Bert
Torginson and Jay Fuller were Saracens.
The "Illad" selection was enacted by Gray
don Fox as Hector, Alfred Gordon as Paris,
Edna Damn as Helen and Mary Bedwell
as a Grecian maiden. From THE Merchant
Of Venice" there was selected the scene Of
Portals avowal to Bassanio. Florence
Morden was Portia and Will Coryell was
Bassanio. The attendants were Eric STEM
berg. Carl Porter. Hildur Hartman and
Marie Ryan.
Drill of COIOrs.
The second part opened with a rally OF
the red and white. under the leadership OF
Alma Beckett, Edith Wright, Florence
Deverell and Cecil Ellitt. TIL class song
a tuneful setting OF bright lines, was sung
and a general drill given. The closing
feature was q special May pole and color
drill by Marion Cornell, Pearl Lester, Edns
Jensen, May Weeks, Fay Hooton, Ruth
Hammond. lola Delleeker, Mary Dallas
Gertrude White, Bessie Taylor, June
Phelps. Fay Towns. Jeanne Riddell. Daisy
French, Bessie Moorhead and Nell Brinker
led by Laura Congdon.
The music was furnished by the HlEl
school orchestra and juniors and sopho
mores were much In evidence. The elass Ii
TO be graduated at t-N san theater Fri
day night.