News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-06-20
Johnson High School.
Glass Day Exercises.


Class Officers - President, j. Grover
Fletcher; Vice. President, Sadie Nye; Sec
Rotary and Treasurer, Charles Redstone.
Glass Day, held on Wednesday af-
ternoon at the Opera house, drew
the usual large number of specta-
tors. The program was as follows:
Address Of Welcome,
J. Grover Fletcher, President.
Music, venetian Carnival" Emil Bront
Girls Glee Club.
Glass History,
Sadie Nye.
Glass Prophecy,
Alice McFarland-Helen Bailey.
Advice to Undergraduates,
Wilbur Barrows.
Response to Advice,
Mildred Collins, President Junior Glass.
Glass Ode-School
Doris Slack.
Three Under Glasses.
The last named feature was I'M
doubtedly the most popular with the
audience, and deserves special notice.
Last year the custom was INITIATED
of having the three lower classes
produce original stunts" ie., little
plays, farces, tableaux, or something
of the sort, entirely planned, writ
ten, and produced by the students
themselves. The contest this year
took an added zest from the offer of
permanent cup to be engraved
yearly with the numerals Of the class
producing the best stunt.
The judges Wednesday were Mr..
|. L. Pearl, Rev. A. N. Mandigo,
Mrs. R. G. Prentiss, Miss Della Bar
nard, II, and Miss Helen Fullington,
rs. They handed in five unanimous
ballots for "Yohnsonville Takes to
Suffrage" produced by the class of
1920.
Principal Davis, before the con-
test began, explained the rules, and
announced the names of the three
stunts.
The first stunt, "The Life History
of Class Day Stunt" was given by
the Junior class and won no little
applause. 1t opened with scene
picturing class meeting of students
trying to work out stunt, of course
proposing all sorts of impossible
things, disagreeing, wrangling, and
unable to come to any conclusion.
The lines for this part of the playlet
were especially good, and their eff
fectiveness was increased by the fact
that more than half of the girls in
school. whoIhave had some experience
in the school plays, came from this
class. The class meeting eventually
the dimensions of riot,
and everyone went home mad.
Two girls remained on the stage
after the others had left; these were
engaged in spirited dialogue, and
the audience, diverted, was entirely
unprepared for the scene which fol-
lowed. There came the sound of a
dirge and a singing choir, and a
black-robed procession, bearing a
coffin labelled Remains of the 1918
Stunt" appeared. The words were
an original composition by members
Of the class, and brought in an OPP
portunity for more good acting. The
curtain fell with the raising of big
1913 banner.
The Sophomores then produced
The School That Was and Is" lit
lie play in five scenes, beginning
With a mathematics class in j. H. S.
'efore the war propaganda began to |
fleet the school. The next scene |
rave humorous picture of the same |
lass some weeks later with a great |
carcity Of boys. Then came tab
eauX showing the activities of the
'oys in the navy, on the farms, and |
n the army. At the end the whole
lass grouped about the big yellow
nd white 1919 banner and sang a
parody on the famous There Is
Tot Sufficient Fish" from Pocahon-
as" by Madaline Fitzgerald, 10.
iere is sample:
You know the boys have left us
And have gone to work on farms;
With hoe in hand you'll find them,
Working round the barns;
They hoe corn and wheat and miIlet;
Great chunks of land each day,
While the farmer sits and watches them
And says they'll get their pay.
But he whistled, whistled, whistled,
In jolly sort of style;
As if happily confronted,
Saying, smiling all the while,
sob no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
III no, no, no, no, holl The
Work is not sufficient; there is not suffi-
cient work.
Joys just love to labor
IL their school work they can shirk,
tut the work is not sufficient,
There is not sufficient work.
)h, the work is not sufficient,
There is not sufficient work."
The first two stunts depended on
riginal ideas for the success of their
tunts. The Freshmen decided to
take theirs on a roaring comedy
With subject none too new.
'Yohnsonville Takes to Sugrage,"
however, made hit with the audi
nee with the rise of the curtain.
he costumes, the lines and the char
cters received bowls of applause.
he Freshmen even had the temer-
ty to put on the stage one or two
trikingly lifelike productions of
ocal celebrities. these first hrouobt