Evening star., 1923-03-04
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.

The spring play. Twelfth Night"
the dates for which are announced as
March Is and Il. 23, "a and 81. is
bringing into action all the forces of
"Old Central" 1t is the one big CO.
operative effort Of the year. For its
success the student body. the faculty
and the alumni have united. The
English department furnishes the
play. Miss Sibyl Baker. and a part
OF the coaching force Through the
Dramatic Association the cast is Sc
lected from among the students.
This department also directs the pub
1icity work. From the art depart
lnent come the posters and the de-
signs for the scenery and the cos
tunes, all of which are designed and
executed by the students under the
direction Of Miss Jessie Baker, Mr..
Rathburn and Mrs Kirk and Miss
katherine Sunny. The wood shops,
in charge of Joseph Wilson, carry the
heavy work of building the scenery,
and the business department., through
Mr.. Harmed, manages the sale of tick
cts and the finances in general. The
domestic art department does the
sewing on the costumes; the domes-
tic science folks make the vast guam
titles of candy, which it disposes OF
along with ice cream during the in
termissions of the show. No mean
proportion of the proceeds is obtained
from this means. Members of the
faculty from all other departments
assist along some line of work, us
ing their avocational ability for the
good of the school. Thus, one finds
a history teacher enjoying the costum
ing of the cast, a Latin teacher serv-
ing Ice cream and a business teacher
coaching. This year the Alumni As
sociation proposes to take over the
responsibility for the fifth perform
ance. Tuesday, March 81.
Figures compiled at the end of the
majority of both students and teach
ers contributed in some way toward
the success Of the enterprise.
Harrisburg (Pa) Central High
School has accepted the invitation of
the Central High School Debating As
sociation to hold dual girls debate
in April. This will be the first girls
interscholastic debate held in Wash
ington.
Central, is selecting the girls who
will represent Central in this test.
Trial debates have been held at Cen
trail by the girls interscholastic de-
bate committee under its chairman,
Miss Ethel Bailey.
The final tryout was held Tuesday
afternoon, the subject being. Re
solved. that France was JUSTIFIED IN
side, consisting of Miss Frances
smith and Miss Yvonne Levy, was
awarded the decision over the mega
tive team. composed Of Misses Mar
garet Somerville. Ethel Bailey and
Virginia Poole. Miss Somerville, who
was awarded one of the alumni asso-
ciation medals for debate last year.
won first honors
With the final agreement of the
girls schedule, CentraliteS will have
Two interscholastic debates this year.
'The other will be a boys debate with
Harrisburg (Pa.) Tech. The boys
team will be announced next week.
Candidates for the proposed Cen
tral golf team have been called out
by Manager John Brawner.
Doc" White. Centrars base ball
coach, has issued call for candidates
for pitcher and catcher. A great
many have answered the call and are
practicing daily in the boys gym,
Rehearsals of Centrars spring play.
Twelfth Night" are being held daily
in the auditorium. Several changes
lave been made in the cast, and the
play is rapidly being perfected, SO
that the opening night will find an