New Britain herald., 1914-05-13
NO TANGO AT PROM,
 DECIDE A.S. FACULTY
Juniors Are Disappolnted- Activities
 Of Last Week Planned For.

Members of the Junior class of the New Britain High school are extreme ly disappointed over the decision o, the school faculty in regard to the 1 allowing of modern dances. at the annual Junior Prom The class
 presented a petition to the school board at it's last meeting asking that they countenance the dances at the affair. The school board decided to
 leave it to the faculty and the facul-
 ty last evening decided against the
 holding of a tango and hesitation af-
 fair. The class has decided, however,
 to hold the prom on May 29. If it is not success the Senior prom, the eliminating social event of the school year from time immemorial. will not be held this year, according to the consensus of opinion in the under graduate body. It is slated for June 29.
 The High school seniors have is- sued tickets for their vaudeville show which will be given in the auditorium Friday evening, May 22. The tickets will all be general admission. The program will be started off with the French play, La Dutchesse Mar tin.'' The students have been prac-
 
 and Miss McGuinness of the faculty,
 is sure the event will be the hit of
 the evening. Dancing will take place
 in the gymnasium, afterwards, un-
 til II o'clock.
 The program:
 1-La Dutchesse Martin.
 2-The Rhondo Mandolin Club.
 3-Acrobatic Act
 Farrell Norton, Hultgren.
 4-Curtin's Quartet
 Curtin, Ginsberg, Johnson, Maier.
 5-The Musicale Trio
 Porter, Horton, Maier.
 The operetta "BulbuI' presented by
 the Dramatic club month ago, was
 a financial success. After paying for
 costumes. tickets, programs and the
 use of the auditorium, $15S.67 was cleared This was the clubs hrst at-
 tempt in presenting a musical play,
 and it was such a success that 1t Is
 expected that Miss Mildred Weld will
 present a similar one next year.
 The tennis team is having exceeding
 ly hard luck this week. Tuesday they were forced to call off the match With Hartford here, and today the weather again made it necessary to call off the New Haven match in this city. The Hartford match will be played Thurs day on the Walnut Hill courts. A week from Thursday the New Haven team will play here, the weather per-
 hitting The school tournament will have to be postponed until the last week in May.
 The Senior banquet committee, under Arthur Sampson, chairman. has completed all the plans for the ban quet to be held at Enfield, June 2sth. Special cars will leave the green at 6 o'clock, and the hungry members will arrive in plenty of time to begin eating at o'clock. Sherrod Skinner will act as toastmaster, and will call on Mr. Slade, MT. Fay. MT. Moody, Mr. Davis, Miss Ward and Miss
 McGuinness of the faculty. Members of the student body will also be pre- pared to say something, if Toast l master Skinner sees fit to call on them
 The baseball team left on the 1908
 train this afternoon to play the Taft
 school team in Watertown. The last
 week has been poor one for prac- t;cing and Captain Cabellus' men have hardly had time to remedy their faults that were so noticeable in the Hart fcrd contest last Saturday. The Wa tertown team have been using their indoor baseball cage for the past few days, so New Britain will have to play
 excellent ball in order to defeat them l Miss Marion Long, chairlady of the class night committee. has hit upon a | novel way of presenting the class i night speakers. President Farrell of l the Senior class will give his address
 of welcome in front of the curtain on {. the auditorium stage. After his :, speech, the curtains are to be lifted
 and banquet scene presented on the 1 stage, with the speakers seated at the
 table. President Farrell will act as i tcastmaster, and call on Harry Fisher, 1 historian Julia Russell and Robert 1 Vance, prophets, and Mary Horsfall, l for the will. There will be no poem
 this year. At intervals during the
 evening the entire class will sing the i four official Senior class songs by
 Miss Helen Sullivan, Mary Walsh and /! Harry Fisher. The other song has not :, yet been adopted by the song com l nlittee.
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