The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-07
WEST POINTERS GET EVEN
Boys Who Wear Dress Blouse Say
Il Is Devils Dress
HUNDRED NIGHT" PLAY GIVEN
ANNUAL SKIT OF YOUNG SOL
DIERs THIS YEAR is AR
TISTIC SUCCESS.
HUNDRED NIGHT PLAY GIVEN

with Cullum Hall crowded to the
doors with friends and relatives, the
| cadets gave their annual hundred
night performance under the auspices
of the Dialetic society. This annual
night of frolic is a time hOnored Gus
tom at West Point, and annually
! marks the beginning of the last 100
days till June, when the members of
the first class enter the commissioned
ranks of the army, says the New York
un.
With the goal for which they have
striven for almost four years only 100
days away, it is little wonder that the
/ first class feel especially elated. This,
| too, is the one chance of the year for
| the cadets to hurl some good natured
| gibes at individual cadets, and few of
the instructors get off without being
| placed On the gridiron.
The entertainment this year was a
musical extravaganza in two acts,
with a prologue entitled THE Pluto
Mans" Charles Dunbar Rogers is re-
sponsible for the book. The interpo-
lations were by Cadet A. w. Chilten
and the lyrics by Cadet William A.
Canoe.
| The story of the play hinges on the
theft of a locket from Mildred Cush-
ing, an American heiress While trav-
cling in Egypt she comes across an old
Egyptian priest who, dying, gives her
a locket which she is not to open till
her wedding day. when she is to give
it to her betrothed. This she does and
! he absconds with it. The lOcket re-
veals the route to Elysian Fields Gan
intermediate resting place between the
earth and the world beyond and sing
ularly enough under the jurisdiction
of Pluto ruler of Hades), where un-
! told treasures of past Egyptian ages
are to be found. Arriving there Long
! Blossom, the fiance, finds that to get
| the treasure he must stand before the
door of the tomb containing it and
i say something in Egyptian. He is up
against it, when suddenly he remem-
bers that Hades is near by and.
according to history. Cleopatra should
be there. and he sets out to find her.
| HemIock Jones Pursues.
! In the meantime Mildred has en-
gagged Hemlock Jones, detective, who
lin his airship pursues. Arriving at
Hades, he finds that the shades of
Pluto are mostly West Point cadets,
and the chief instrument of torture is
the cadet dress coat. Pluto dispatches
| Napoleon and the detective, warning
the latter that if Cleopatra and her
| kidnaper are not recovered at mid
night two weeks hence he and all who
were with him will be hurled back to
Hades by a horrible transformation.
| The two depart in the airship and con-
tnue the pursuit through the act
which produces many amusing Incl
dents and gibes at individuals of the
cadet corps and instructors in many
catchy songs.
The last act opens with Cleopatra
and Long Blossom in Bohemian ca
fe. the time one-half hour to midnight.
som the lights are turned out and pam
demonium reigns. From the darkness
the hour of midnight strikes, and the
lights, slowly coming on. show all to
be back in Hades, kneeling before the
great black throne in the midst of dis
NAL doom. The spokesman of the land
of shades and shadows speaks to those
before him.
I'VE who are assembled here in the
awful presence of the miserable are
doomed to a period of torture because
of your failure to obey at the instant
the solmn command of Pluto Look We,
therefore, on the bulletin board and
see that you are reported for SIX sec
onds late in carrying out my order
and are doomed to remain with me in
hell"
How long, o Pluto. how long?'
cry the kneeling unfortunates as Pluto
4 thunders Zone hundred days till June.
4 George w. Beavers, Jr, as Charlie
Long Blossom" made a hit and rend-
. cred several catchy songs that were
!, we'll received. Charlie Rogers as Hem
!, lock Jones, detective, kept the audi
ence in an uproar whenever he ap-
reared with his assistant, Scraggles
whose acrobatic stunts were worthy
of the professional stage. The quar-
tet. "Furlough Days." by the 1mI
. Guard. was encored repeatedly. Ar
) innovation in the shape of calcium
lights was introduced by Cadet SAINT
/ chi, and many pretty scenic effects
: were had with colored lights. the but
|, terfly chorus being especially pretty
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