Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-28
Senior Play, 'Mishaps Of Min
erva," Wednesday Afternoon
And Evening yes A
Screamingly Funny Farce
. Comedy-Grand Ball, Ends
Three Day Fair

The grand annual Chizzle Wizzie
Ball. the occasion when all the old
graduates of Cony High school come
bacy to the city Of hills. nesting in
the Kennebec valley. to join with the
younger generation OF students of
the school in the celebration Of an
other successful school festival.
That of Wednesday evening at City
hall maSked the thirty-third annual.
Probably no secondary school in
New England has ever attempted so
ambitious an entertainment as is
Cony's annual Chizzle Wizzle Fair.
ana certainly few high schools in the
whole United States have a record OF
80 great adventures in as many
years.
Successful in its every depart
ment. as an entertainment, as a pro-
duction to provide the funds to un-
derwrite the expenses of Cony High
students, alumni and friends of the
school Probably some thousand
people. participated in the general
dancing at the grand ball, Wednes-
day evening, which followed the
Senior play. the third nights enter
tainment. Never did Douglas and his
Sterling aggregation of musicians
dispense more enticing and thor
oughly enjoyable dance melodies
than for the function of last night.
and the young people were SO OBJ
viously enjoying themselves even if
the floor was at all times crowded
with dancers, that many of the elders
remained in the balconies to watch
the colorful scene.
Replete with funny situations that
resulted in laughter without end,
was the Senior play, "The Mishaps
both afternoon and evening Wednes-
day at City hall as the feature Of
the final day of the three day
Thirty Third Annual Chizzle Wiz
zle Fair. The show was a farce in
two acts and the various parts were
taken a most natural manner by
members of the senior class, who
were chosen because OF their fitness
for the part which they We're to pOr-
tray.
Briefly stated the action of the
play is as follows: Minerva Sterling
is too willing to oblige her society
friends when there is an opportun-
ity to give a reception for charity
and as u result she Is picked to do
the greater amount of work. Victor
without much success to get her to
marry him, but she is too busy with
her charity work to give him the
answer that he wants.
While her parents are away. with
reception in prospect, DIR. Brown.
her sister Clara, and Harry Steven
son, q cub reporter who Is very at
tentive 70 Clara, put up a job" on
Minerva in order to spoil the recep-
ton, feeling that she will then give
up being SO obliging. They accord
ingly steal the silverware. jewelry,
money, and In fact anything that she
will need for the reception, and take
1t to DR.. Browns office. They also
bride the servants to leave, or rath-
er bride the butler and scare the
housemaid into thinking that she has
the smallpox, so that Minerva sends
her to the pest house.
Before the reception Mrs. Jennie
Van Deusen Spuyker. a parsonage,
appears. She is a tall, willowy per-
| son with very expressive hands and
q deep contralto voice, and bears a
close resemblance to DIR. Brown.
Minerva begins to get suspicious
OF her but in the excitement fofgets
her suspicious.
In the second act. which takes
place the morning after the recep-
ton. Minerva Is found talking with
Mike Shannon. q new cop" with a
startling brogue. She tells him what
things were missed prior to the re-
ception and of several other things
which disappeared during the re-
ception. In answer to his questions
she speaks of Mrs. Jennie Van Deu-
sen Spuyker, and of her suspicious.
Belle Brantley, q sob sister from
the "Screamer," who has been stay
ing there to report the reception,