Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1910-05-12
HIGH SCHOOL COM
MENCEMENT PROGRAM
To Be Held in Elite Opera House
Friday Evening May Twentieth
Twenty-Five Members in Senior
Glass This Year.

On Friday evening the annual
commencement exercises of. the Pay
ette High School will be held in the
Elite opera house. This year there
are twenty-five members in the grad
uating class as against eighteen
members last year which at that
time was the largest class ever
graduating from the Payette High
/ School. The increase of the gradu-
ating class every year shows the
growth of the community and it is
certainly with commendable pride
that the patrons of the school real
ize that the school keeps pace with
modern times not only in numbers
but in quality of work as well.
The following program will obtain
on the evening of the graduating ex-
ercises and the class play which
will be given is arousing just little
more than the ordinary enthusiasm
for the reason that the class has
several members Of exceptional talent
along this peculiar line and the play
promises to excel all other plays of
like nature:
Commencement Program.
Music, THE Oars Are Flashing
Girls Glee Club.
Invocation-Rev. David Cary Peters.
Music, Take My Love To Rosalie"
Girls Glee Club.
Presentation of Diplomas-Dr. o.
H. Alvey, President Board of Edu-
cation.
Music. Morn Rise" stephanie
Gavotte-Girls' Glee Club.
Senior Class Play.
"The Merchant of Venice Up to
Date"
Bassanio, a Junior. is a suitor for
the hand of Portia, a Venetian heir
ess, whose father, in his will, has
decreed that each suitor shall choose
one of three caskets, each of which
contains a list of examination ques-
tions in Latin. If the chooser pass
es successfully the examination, he
is TO have fair Portia for his bride.
Bassanio has no hopes of passing
the examination without the aid of
pony" and Antonio, his friend,
secures one from Shylock who asks
pound of Antonio's hair as forfeit
if the pony" is not returned at a
stated time. The bond being for
felt, Portia and Nerissa, her maid,
take charge of the court room at
Antonio's trial and by a close inter-
probation of the law, release Antonio
from the power of the cruel Jew.
Cast.
The Duke of Venice-Claude Polly.
Antonio, a Senior, Captain of the
Football Team-Robert Burns.
Bassanio, Suitor to Portia-Tom Dris-
coll.
Gratanio, His Frlend-Frank Her
line.
Shylock, a Wealthy Gambler-scott
Brainard.
Tubal, His Friend, Captain of the
Belmont Team-Banks Kinnison.
Launcelot Gobbo, Servant to Shy
lock-William Orcutt.
The Professor, an XRay Photograph
er-Vernon Holt.
Policeman-Verna Wright.
Portia, a Rich Heiress-Leila Her
line.
Nerissa, Her Friend-Esther Mick
Lesson.
Jessica, shylock's Ward-Cordia Gies-
Ter.
Miss Abbie S. Threedyce. a Teacher
10 Kenward
Polly. Portals Maid-Inez Scott
Antonio's Margaret o'Neill. (
Mrs. Gobbo, Launcelot's Mother
Fred Watts.
Foot Ball Players-Senior and Junior
Boys.
Synopsis.
Act IA Street in Venice.
Act ia Room in Portals House.
Act II-Shylock's House and Yard.
Act IVA Room in Portals House.
Act V-Scene 1, Football Field.
Scene 2, The Court Room.
Class of 1910.
Thomas Driscoll, President.
Esther Nicholson, Vice President. /
Robert Burns, Secretary-T Treasurer.
Lucy Asmussen, Scott Brainard, I
Alice Chaplin, Mildred Chapman, Cor