Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-10
BEGINNING OF LIFE'S WORK.
Seventeen Young People Complete Their
Studies to Assume Greater
Responsibilities.

Oh uis success, ne Is rather ulppdHt VIII
the dignifed preceptress, meets her en-
thusiastic outburst about the greai
Caesar amid the cannon's roar at the
head of his immortal twelfth legion
with the remark tnat-he thought-they
would make good foot ball players
drops the pony and upon the teachers
inquiry replies that it must have been
his spirits she heard fall; he quite dis
gusts the instructor with his light head
edness.
Shylock wishes to marry his ward,
Jessica wanda Hopp) who loves An
tonic. In rage he locks her in and
goes off to consult with his friend
Tubal, Orchard Goetsch) captain of the
Grand Rapids foot ball team Launce-
lot Gobbo Chester Bishop coming in
holds his soliloquy on the advice of his
conscience and the hend. This speech
has been transformed into modern
slang and Gobbo's rendering of it was
fine. just as he is deciding to follow
the advice of the fiend and get hump
on him." and slide from Shylock to
the service Of Antouio his mother
bessie LaPierl enters and after teasing
her with his remarks about young
Master Launcelot" he finally discloses
his identity and advises her to take the
present she was bringing Shylock to
Antonio. Launcelot tries to enter the
house for lunch before he departs and
jess lea from the upper window drops
him note to Antonio and a slice of
bread
Antonio arrives in haste and begs
Jessica to jump. She throws out vari,
Gus bundles and belongings, but finally
refuses to leap into the arms of her
lover. Launcelot calls off foot ball sig
nails and Antonio, making a center
smash through the door, enters and
brings Jessica out. Soon afterwards
Shylock and Tubal come to find the
house broken into. Revenge is
planned. The pony is not returned
and the month has passed; it is decided
that while the great Thanksgiving
game is in progress Shylock shall APP
pear with a policeman (Alfred Wilson,
and demand the pound of hair. That
will spoil the game as Antonio's great
prowess lies in his hair, and it will be
"the most unkindest cut of all
Launcelot who has gone into the house
after helping Antonio and Jessica off
overhears the plct and takes the news
to Portia and NJ. issa who decide upon
a plan of action in the matter.
While Portia and Nerissa are discuss
ing their plan the teacher informs them
that she has sad news, for Bassanio has
passed the examination, and Portia is
doomed to marry ma whose only
idea of Caesars INN. .ortal twelfth
legion is that they would make good
foot ball players The preceptress ends
with the assertion that "the man who
cannot appreciate Caesar can never ap-
preciate wife, but Pertia and Neris-
sa think otherwise.
The next act opens on the foot ball
field, first down, five yards to gain. "
In the midst of lively scrimmage Shy
lock arrives with the policeman who
valiantly seizes Antonio from the melee
and warding off the irate champions Of
the gridiron carries off his prisoner
Then comes the court scene, presided
over by the Duke of Venice Frank
Boettcher Shylock demands the pay.
ment of his bond, the noble Antonio
acknowledges that he has forfeited his
hair, Bassanio begs Shylock to take
money and the pony instead; Portia in
the guise of the young barrister utters
her famous dissertation on "the quality
of mercy" which "droppeth like the
bean bags in the gym upon the heads
beneath" But Shylock steadily re.
fuses to be influenced by her plea and
preparations are made for the cutting
of the pound of hair which Shylock is
warned must be no more nor less, and
if it be g so much as in the estimation
of a hair" more or less his bond is for.
feited. Then Portia calls his attention
to the clause, nearest the brain and
brings learned X-Ray professor Zulu
Bauer) to examine Antonio's head
The X-Ray apparatus (bearing q
strange resemblance to the Holtz ma
chine so familiar to Physics students) is
applied to Antonio's head and the pro
fessor ascertains that her subject has nc
brain. Shylock fees from the cona
while the foot ball players gather tc
congratulate Antonio and the appear
ance of mouse discloses the identity
of the young lawyer and his clerk who
jump onto chairs and scream. Expla
nations follow and it is suggested that
the happy couples be married Gu the
spot by the duke, whereat Gobbo offers
his services as best man. and mOmen
tary shutting off of the lights hides in
kind obscurity the meeting of the low
ers, and the curtain falls.
Miss Nina Kickbusch gave an anus
ing class prophesy, illustrated with ex'
cellent crayon drawings. The prophesy
made some startling revelations of heE
classmates as they viii appear in 1922
The illustrations proved beyond a
doubt that Miss Kickbusch knows how
to draw well--a thing most of US knew
before-while her rapid changing OF
the expression on the faces of several
and the chalk drawing of one Of the
graduates made before the audience
was done swiftly and with decision.
Friday evening. as the closing event
of High School life for the class Of 1902
was in more serious vein than Thurs.
day evenings program.
The High School glee club opened the
program with two songs Pilgrim
Chorus, Wagner; and A Merry Life,
Denza.
Rev Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Pastor ol
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