Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-04
HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES TO
PRESENT PLAYS
Youthful Actors Are Well Drilled and
Expect to Make a Histrionlc
Ht-Senior AS Will
Have Banquet

] the day and when the curtain rises at
1880 p. m. high school students expect
to present q production high above the
average amateur performance.
The play chosen by the class is the
popular Janice Meredith" With
powder and patches and quaint con-
tinental garb the youthful disciples of
Henry Irving and Julia Marlowe will
seek to captivate their audience.
Janice will be portrayed by a sweet
faced. dark eyed winsome daughter of
the golden west, Miss Grace Brown.
Miss Brown took part in the class play
last year, when the pupils gave Jer-
| ONES comedy, Sunset" and the sue
cess she made at that time assured her
a coveted place in this years senior
| a production.
The other feminine characters of the
drama are Mrs. Meredith, portrayed by
Miss Ruth Widney, Miss Jettie Basket
playing the part of Tabitha, and Miss
Beatrice Kilifer, who will be Suky.
The Masculine Actors
The leading masculine role will be
played by Harry Seward as Col. Jack
Brereton. Seward is a tall, handsome
young fellow, who also took the lead
ing mans part in the class play last
year. lie has been manager of the
school track team and is chairman of
the class executive committee.
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have an important place. as will Walter
Jacoby as Col. Rahl. Minor Ressel as
Mobray and w. f. Pettingill as Philla-
mon. Charles Snyder, Chris Wilson,
| Walter Duzan and Walter Hartung will
also take part.
The play will be preceded by a cho-
rus of the class girls. who have been
| training for the occasion under Mrs.
| Parsons. The class president will also
| make an address
Following the play, the Josh" songs
on the rival class will be sung by the
! class.
Although the senior A class day is
usually considered the greatest feature
of the graduating class exercises, this
| year another feature is taking more
| interest
Immediately following the class play
| the class will adjourn to Levys cafe
where a banquet will be served at 6 80
o'clock. Tables will be laid for seventy
people, including half a dozen visitors,
special guests of the class.
Have Special Guests
Miss Grace Stoermer, the vice presi-
dent of the class, has charge of the af-
fair. The tables will be decorated in
the class colors, rose and green; pen
nants, flags and ribbons of these colors
being everywhere in evidence. The
reception rooms will be decorated with
palms, ferns and potted plants of all
kinds
The affair has been restricted to
| class members, a few exceptions hay-
ing been made in the cases of Principal
Housh, Vice principal Mrs. Dorsey DIR.
E. c. Moore, Mrs. Parsons, who has
drilled the class in it's songs, and the
two class teachers, Misses Oliver and
Web.
Fair Janice. the heroine of the class
play, will occupy a seat of honor at
the head of the table, as will Miss
The menu prepared for the seniors
consists of almost all the delicacies
on the market, beginning with oyster
cocktails, and ending with vanilla ice
cream and demi tasse. Between these
extremities will be sandwiched chicken,
SQUAD, brussels sprouts, and other
good and dyspeptic things to eat.
The feast will be enlivened by the
strains of music coming from a con-
cealed orchestra.
The toasts that are to follow promise
to be as good as the gastronomic tick
lers of the earlier part of the evening
The class president will be the toast
master, and a set of original toasts
has been prepared for the occasion.
The Toasts
"Our School, will be responded to by
Prof. Housh; "Our Visitors" will be
toasted by Miss Nola Landrum: Miss
tistic little toast ITO U.s.; Harvey
Housh, the son of the principal, will
reply to Our Girls; Senior B OFF,
GERS" Will be toasted by Walter Hart
ung, while Charles Snyder will do the
same for the officers, and the toasts
will close with Miss Belle Baer respond
ing through the mediumship of a rare
bits dream to the toast Our Future"
Of interest to the retiring officers will
be the presentation of gaVels. Howard
Krueger the A president, will present
the gavels to last years officers, Miss
Landrum and Mr. Snyder; while
Charles Snyder will do the same for
Helen Meade, talented member of
the class, will offer a flute solo during
the after dinner speaking.
At an early CD hour the lads and
lassies will repair to their respective
homes. Those who awake in time the
next morning Will come to school to
form the alumnus association.
The class officers are: Howard
Krueger, president; Grace Stoermer.
vice president; Edith Sutherland, sec
rotary; Ed Hillman, treasurer.
The class roster consists of the names
of Ruth Aubury Belle Baer, Alma
Baird Jettie Basket, Alvin Bayley,
Brennan, LeOnie Bretz, Grace Brown.
Priscilla Butterfield, Harry Cain, Linn
Christopher. Florence Conlee. Norman
Crandall, Frances Day, John Dodge,
Dixie Douthett, Leila Dozier, Walter
Duzan, Gala Edmiston, Ruth Gill, SUI
same Cough. Ethel Hance, May Han
son. Walter Hartung, Hearst Hill, Edith
Hillman, Edward Hillman, Annie Hill
ton, Margaret Hobart, Hazel Hostetter.
Harvey Housh, Florence Hurst, Walter
Jaeoby, Jessie Johnson, Beatrice Kill
lefer Earl King, Howard Kruger, Elsie
Lafferty, Nola Landrum, Hazel Manatt,
Pearle Maynard, Molly Mcdonald,
Helen Mead, Robert Miller. Fred Nick
erson, Alice Nye, Paul Ogilvie, Roberta
Percival Hazel Perfect w. r. Petten-
gill, May Phillips, Minor Ressel, Nigel
Ryan, Ida Segerstrom, Harry Seward,
John Skinner, Charles Snyder Carrie
Stafford. Grace Stoermer Edith Suth-
erland, Wallace Tanner, Violet Thayer.
Paul Wagner Edwin Walker. Florence
Wickersham. Ruth Widney, Minnie
Wilson, Chris Wilson.