Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-02-25
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
FIRST NIGHT OF COMMENCEMENT.


Salutatory. Herman Block
The senior class of the high school has
begun work on the commencement
opera which will be "Pinafore. The
opera is so old and so well known that
a synopsis seems almost unnecessary,
yet for the sake of brushing away the
cobwebs, it may be we'll to give such a
sketch here. The story RUS like this:
Captain Corcoran of the good ship
Pinafore has a pretty daughter,
Josephine, with whom Ralph Rack
straw, one of her fathers sailors is in
love. Ralphis cautioned by Dick Dead
eye to give up his suit because of the
difference in their social positions.
Josephine has another sutton, Sir Joseph
Porter, first lord OF the British admiral
ty. Sir Joseph accompanied by his
female relatives, comes on trip of in
spection to the Pinafore, and takes the
opportunity to press his suit. Josephine
in the meantime, is wavering between
her love for Ralph and her ambition
for the high social position which her
marriage to Sir Joseph would bring
her. Ralph, in despair, decides to end
his life, thus awakes in Josephine a
realization of her own state of mind
and heart, and she, knowing that her
father will never consent to her marry
ing, Rackstraw promises TO elope with
him.
Mrs. Cripps, known as buttercup, a
little market woman, hints that there
is something mysterious about the
whole affair, but no one seems able to
understand her. Sir Joseph, in con-
Yersation with Josephine, presses his
suit, and when she talks of the differ
ence in rank between themselves, as
sures her that love levels all ranks, lit
tie thinking how eloquently he is plead
ing his rivals cause. Captain Corcoran
is told of the planned elopement, inter
cepts the party, and is furious with
Rackstraw because of his presumption,
and Ralph is sent to dungeon. Now
Buttercup clears up her share in the
mystery by confessing that years be-
fore she had had the care OF two chill
| dren, one plebian and the other a
patrician, that she, unknown to any
one else, had mixed them up, and that
Rackstraw should be captain of the
Pinafore and Corcoran common
sailor Because Josephine is the
daughter of an humble sailor, Sir
Joseph, even tho love does level all
ranks, hands her over to Ralph, con.
soIes himself with his Cousin Hebe, and
Corcoran marries Buttercup.
The parts assigned are as follows:
The Rt.. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, X. c.
B. First Lord of the Admiralty
. Herman Block
Capt. Corcoran, Commanding IL.
M. S, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Merit Jones
RAJ phi Rackstraw, Able seaman.......
............,...............C Clinton Bismarck
Dick Deadeye, Able seaman............
........>................... Fred Schaer
Bill Bobstay Boatswain's mate......
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Louis Raduechel
BoatSwaln. ....... ......s...4..... VIII Koch
Rob Beckett, Carpenters Mate......
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Louis Woitowski
Tom Tucker, Mi Shiplnate. ,............
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Harry Kiefer
sergeant or MarlneS.............., ........
............................. ..Myron johnson
Josephine, the captains Daughter.
............................ Iona Nickerson
Hebe, Sir Joseph First cousin......
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. johnson
Little Buttercup, Portsmouth market
woman.................... Bertha Jaeschke
The choruses consist of Sir Joseph
sisters, cousins and aunts and of the
crew of the Pinafore. Several under
classmen will assist. The senior mem
bers of the chorus are as follows
Lillian Berbaum Eleanor Benson
Edna Blank Ellen johnson
Margaret Marshall Mabel Arthur
Alta Pond Alice Hudson
Bessie Campbell IneZ Morley
Elizabeth Plantz
The following underclassmen will as
sist:
Elizabeth Montgomery Frank Morley
Grace Panabaker Frank Mumm
MafgareL hOacn marry wick
Edith Weeks Willis Foster
Leah Deutsch Fred Levenhagen
Ruth Kreutzer Wallace Shymanski
Marie Brands Wylie Sampson
Ruth Ingraham Louis Taugher
Myrtle Dunnigan
Accompanist-Hele Single.
Leader of Orchestra-Theo Mayer.
Scene-Quarterdec of II. M. Spin
afore, off Portsmouth
Act I. Noon-Act H. Night.
SECOND NIGHT
Grafton. Ina Martin
Playa Night in Sleeping Car.
Mrs. Roberts. Alma Huebner