San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-11
SCHOOL K|DD|ES
RAISE s12F0R
ELEPHANTS
Entertainment Puts Travis
III Votes Nearer
Contest Leader.
By BEss CARROLL

The elephants of Breckenridge Park
zoo are all stuck up-and they didn't
step on fly paper. either.
Likewise, the kiddies Of Travis
school are all stuck up, and they
didn't sit on prickly cactus or play
with sticky candy.
You see, the elephants have a rea-
son to be stuck up, because they have
whole trunkfull of happiness today
that is, trunkfull apiece, because
TWO elephants couldn't get along with
just one trunk. And the reason for it
is this: They are exactly $12.15 near
er belonging to the Riddles of San An
tonic.
NEARER TOP.
And the reason the Travis School
kiddies are so proud is because they
raised that $12.15 at an entertainment
Thursday afternoon-and thereby sent
Travis School 121 IL votes toward
the top in the elephant contest.
The low fifth grade. under direction
Of Miss Angela Kvinta. its teacher,
staged a benefit performance and the
proceeds were sent to the Elephant
Editor Of The Light for the elephant
fund.
Two performances were necessary
because every student in Travis School
wanted to spend cents to see the
show and help buy the elephants, and
they couldn't all crowd in at Que
time.
And no wonderland was a WOW Of
show, even including the intermis-
sions. For when the tiny actors
and actresses were offstage making up
or something, the enthusiasm of the
audience-like the strength of some
kind of Christmas cheer--got beyond
control and exploded in various species
of cheers for the elephants"
RAY for the clefants !" and ave
gotta keep them elefants" whooped
tow-headed little boys and frcclded
little girls, and the teachers didn't
once look stern and demand order. In
fact, Miss Bonita Berry, principal of
the school, was as enthusiastic as the
kiddies and confided the fact that
Travis School just had to win first
prize in the school voting contest.
GIVE MRS. WIGGS' SHOW.
But. of course, the show itself was
. the whole show. and remarkable dra-
matte ability was displayed by the
youthful performers. "The Theatcr
Party. from Mrs. Wigs of the Cab
bage Patch" was the stellar attrac-
ton.
! Radio experts and young ladies
r'who are seeking permanent wave
rould be astonished to know that
.nYhen Mrs. Wigs lived in the Cab
:, age Patch it was proper to iron the
Thinks out of plaits with flatiron.
rrind rs Mrs. Wigs, little Mary Anna
" icIlhenny welded a wicked nat
ron on the plaits of her "childcn"-
who were William Balm rs Billy
Wigs, Betty McDavid as Asia Wigs,
Edna Miller as Austr... 4, and Lor-
rsinc Mallory as Europeana Wigs.
Each member of the wigs family"
is eleven years old except Australia,
who is ten. Avis Thompson played
the part of Eliza Jane Wigs, and
Boyd Barber was "Mr. Bob"
GIVES FAN DANCE.
Following the play little Miss
Edna Speero gave fan dance, and
Adelaide Van Hoogenhyze recited
THE Delinquent"
Sarah Elizabeth Mcintosh, 10 years
old, Is the business manager and
cheer leader of the Travis school ele-
plant campaign. Sarah Elizabeth was
the "doorman" of the show, and she
might have been Mr.. Shylock Of the
Merchant Of Venice" the way she
counted those nickel sand visibly re-
joiced cents worth more with each
nickel. For in her work outside of
Travis school among her friends Sarah
Elizabeth has already won an ivory
elephant. but she wants to win that
5000 first prize for her school.
Il want to. you say?" said Sarah
Elizabeth. You're wrong-Tm
gonna. :"
And when the net and gross receipts
Of the show amounted to so many
nickels. Sarah Elizabeth was as happy
MS if her biggest air castle had
petrified and had been handed to her
ON q silver platter.