El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-01
CLOSING EXERCISES OF GIRLS SCHOOL
MARKED BY PRESENTA TON OF AlASOUE


Their hats and stockings furnished the
leaf colors Of green and red The
woodland folk turned handsprings and
somersaults, played leap frog, and kept
up a continuous play and sport through
the entire scene that was capitally
Determined to keep the mortal with
them the dWarfs decide that ''DeOdata
will be contented to stay if she has
another mortal with her, so the king
"Andvari" sends his dwarfs to the
earth and they steal a mortal baby.
acted by little Shirley Booker, leaving
a troll changeling in its place. Dec
data" shocked by the heartless cruelty
of the trolls to steal the baby from its
mother, leaves the dwarfs and trolls
to try to find the way back to the
earth and restore the stolen baby The
dwarfs and trolls call in the fairy peo-
pie to weave a fairy spell to keep the
mortal maid and baby among them.
The fairies were Jeanette Raw
lings as "CobWeb," Paula krupp, as
"Flowerheart" Julia Hawkins as
"Dawnmist," Irene Campbell as But
tercup" Barbara Wallace at silver
cup" johnny AIcCabe as Acorn Cup"
marion Hurd as "ROSeleaf, and Nlr-
ginia Cadwallader as "HarefOoL"
These eight girls dressed in gauZy
fairy costumes With tinsel edged wings.
bands Of tinsel about their curly heads,
and waving tinsel streamers, dance
and frolic about the green until the
queen "Titania-" acted by Eva Steven
son, and "Oberon." the king, acted by
Louise Crawford, come in state The
queens dress was covered with span
giles and tinsel and her royal cloak OF
pink hung from high Medici collar
OF lace She wore silver star tipped
crown The king was dressed in palest
green, with a cloak Of yellow and a
silver crown. The fairies dance for
their queen and 'Oberon." and weave
magic spells with their strands OF star
dust to keep the mortal children in
Fairy land. 'Deodata'' protests TO the
Queen for her heartlessness and does
her best to break through the spell
and take the baby back TO its mother,
but the fairies do not relent
Then the voice Of the mortal mother
is heard singing her wall over the loss
Of her baby. Miss Georgina Martin
was the singer, and the song was
adapted from an old English folk song.
The girls Of the school behind the
scenes sang the plaintive chorus
The mortal mother, acted by Char
lotte Ormsbee. finally seeing her child,
breaks through the fairy spell and re-
gains her baby while the fairies vanish
into the woods. "Deodata" at last has
found that the true heart Of the world
lies in the love Of mortal hearts and
is ready to return TO earth and her
mortal kind. But before she goes the
Spirit Of POesy again summons the
whole train Of dryads, nymphs. god
With the school thus assembled. Miss
Ora W l. Slater and Miss Olga Tafel,
principals Of the school with Richard
Burgess and Rev. Henry Easter. came
on the stage. and the diploma was
presented to the graduate, Miss Henri
eta Courchesne. by Mr. Burgess in a
brief speech Of appreciation Of the
work and the standard Of ex-
cellence maintained Miss Gladys Buie
and Miss Dorothy Ormsbee were given
certificates for their satisfactory COM
pletion Of three years work in the
school, as these two girls do not ex-
pect TO continue in the school TO their
Rev Henry Easter pro-
nounced the benediction, which closed
the exercises
The dancing through the play was a
part OF the regular class work in
asthetic dancing Of the school and
Miss Georgina Martin, the physical !
raining supervisor, was in charge of Z
his. Miss Olga Tafel planned the pro-
iuction OF the play and directed the I
,OlOr scheme and costuming The
raining Of the girls for the Grecian /
Episode Of the play was done by Miss 1
stella Ireadweu and Miss Marjorie ,
5teuart, Of the school faculty. Miss
Marion MaddOcks trained the girls for
he dwarf scene and the fairy scene !
was trained by Miss Cora B. Key and 4
Miss GeOrgina Martin. A F. Sievers
played all Of the music for the dances Z
and songs and incidental music Oc-
u AAAes BEAff EEA AAlE EDAEO4EE OF the
play. The boys who were the ushers Z
were Irwin Schwartz. Mott Rawlings,
John Crockett, Wilfred KranzthOr, Ed Z
ward Simmons. Leonard Goodman, Har- 4
wood Simmons, John Thompson, Joe 1
Magoffin, Manuel Stolaroff and Solo /
non Stolaroff.
Preceding the play, H D. Slater, on 1
behalf Of the school, announced the !
generous gift Of a site for the new 4
school buildings in Kern Place, on the /
Mesa The site more than a city Z
1lOcl1) is now worth $4,000, but with the !
improvements being rapidly made in 4
is vicinity, the value is expected to be 4
ioon greatly increased The donors of I
he site are c. 0. Coffin, P. Z. Kern, I
Frank Wells Brown and Frank G. Nor /
is Mr.. Slater spoke Of the recOgni-
ion that had been given the school by I
eastern colleges saying that Wellesley, /
Tassar, and Smith college colleges have (
granted the certificate privilege to 4
graduates of the FL Paso School for
Girls, permitting them to enter these !
colleges without further examina lions. 4
lie further expressed the thanks of the .
'hcOOl for a gift by Mrs. B. F. Ham I
nett Of 500, which she has presented Z
n the name Of her blue Bird club" to I
he school, and which will be used as
he beginning Of the building fund of
he new school,