The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-04-28
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MARkDUOFROLIC
Washington School Scene
of Important School
Events Friday.
SUCCESS IS MARKED

The Washington school was the
scene of two gay and successful events
Friday evening when the Washington
school pupils presented the operetta
Mother Goose's Birthday" and the
members of Kenosha High Schools
Lyceum League staged the society's
first annual promenade. The Washing
ton school auditorium and gymnasium
have been long-desired mecca for
Kenosha school students and the CHM
ak in season of ultra events staged at
Kenosha newest school building was
the duo-event of Friday evening.
School officials and music critics pro-
claimed the operetta as the best ever
presented in Kenosha public schools.
Junior high and elementary pupils
participated in the fanciful operetta
wherein Mother Goose, celebrating her
birthday, is visited by her children.
There were variety Of dances such
as the Sailors Hornpipe and the Goose
Girls. The melodies of the operetta
were unusually attractive and each
member Of the cast was we'll suited to
his~or her part Each character, fam
ed in nursery lore, was deliberately and
realistically costumed Fifty pupils
participated in the principal action
and a chorus of one hundred and
twenty was arranged on the bleachers
during the entire program. A primary
chorus of sixty-fve pupils added to the
presentation. The school orchestra,
under Miss Edna Cameron, offered a
number of extra selections. Individual
and group characters worthy of es-
pecial mention, included Mother Goose;
Goose Girls; Mary, Mary Quite Con-
trary; Peter Pumpkin Eater and His
Wife; Bo-Peep and the Queen and
Knave of Hearts. Every time Humpty
Dumpty appeared, the audience was in
an uproar. The large auditorium, with
a seating capacity of 675, was entirely
too small for the crowd that stormed
the school and more than fifty people
were turned away at the door. A ma
tinee performance was given to an
audience estimated at 400
The success of the performance is
due to the excellent co-operative>work
of every member of the school faculty.
The work as organized and managed
in such way that every teacher had
a distinct responsibility The chair
men of the different committees in
cluded Mr.. Rahr, Mr.. Redstrom, Miss
Bentson, Miss Gensmann, Miss Jones
and Mrs. Baker, Miss Bentson had
charge of costuming and Miss Gems
mann arranged the chorus and solo
number. Misses Dave and Fullum
were accompanies.
The secondeevent Of the evening was
one of the most successful and enjoy
able parties ever staged by a high
school organization. The party was in
vitational and only members of the
Lyceum League, their friends, parents
and high school faculty were admitted
Miss Ruth Casterton, faculty advisor
of the organization, George n Trem-
per, Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Galligan,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Schmitt and Mr..
and Mrs. o. L. Trenary were chap
erones. Ed Regnier directed an ex-
cellent orchestra of four pieces from
eight-thirty to eleven-thirty o'clock
The jewellers were served with punch
in the intermissions between dances
The committees in charge of the af-
fair were: Antoinette Mayer and
Ethyle Goodman, refreshment commit
tee; Cassie Burns, Leona Schmitt and
Lucille Kiltz, decorations committee
and Ruth Schippers, music. The gym
nasium was gay in lavendar and purple.
1t is planned to make the Lyceum
party an annual event in Kenosha
High schools social calendar.