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4 THE TWIG tiaplor’s! The Show Place of the Carolinas Buy your hats from Taylor’s $5.00 and $7.50 School Specials I Kodak Finishing I ‘‘The Best in the South” I Double Daily Service I SIDDELL STUDIO Boon-Iseley Next to Darnell'Thomas Stop in and see our store Sandwiches Cold Drinks Drugs Luncheonette Emjravcil Vi.s-in'njif Cards linwAiiiis & Bum:ciiiTON Puintiko Co. The Social Stationers of Raleigh ANM’AL STUNT MOHl’ «1(3 SUCCKSS THE SUPERBA Features First National and Paramount Pictures ORCHESTRA—PIPE ORGAN Your Pleasure is Ours Show Begins 11. !, 3. 5, 7, 9 o’clock The best attractions are always at THE SUPERBA (Continued from paye one) “Age oi: Innocence.” The programs were cut In the shape of an oval, hav ing n silhouette of an old-fashioned girl in poke bonnet and crinoline on the biick. The niune oC the stunt was "To J3c or Not to Be,” and was made up of two episodes: I. Place—a dress ing room in Misa Choate's Seminary for Young Ladies. Time—7:30 o’cloci? of an Octol)er evening in 1S35. Martha Ann Heath (Mary Love Davis) in a charming rose-sprigged dress, the hoop-slirt of which was covered witii tnilTs nnd panniers, is being made ready for Ihe party to be given to the young ladles of the seminary. The colorcd nuunniy (Clarissa Poteat) is pinninK a wreath of flowers In her hair when Mi.ss Choate (Mary Herring) enters with a letter from Martha Ann's aunt. In this letter Martha Ann is bidden to take Miss Arabella St. Clair (a very precise young woman in the same school) for her model in all tilings, and to refrain from seeing a certain young man who bears the name of Allen Berkley. On the heels of this letter comes another delivered by mammy and written by Allen plead ing with Jlartha Ann to elope with him. He tells her to drop a rose in the reception room that night and he will take it as an answer in the affirm ative. Next enters Miss Arabella St. Clair (Carolyn Peacock) who in a very officious manner tells Martha Ann that she is going to "moUl her character,” and be her monitor in gen eral. Martha Ann does not at all rel ish the prospect of having her char acter molded. At this juncture the otlier young ladies enter; they are: Betty (Emily Cheek), Jane (Mary Crawford). Penelope (Ruth Leary), and Jiutilh (Lucllo Jones). All wear costumes of the same period, crino lines in pastel shade with filmy KParCs around their shoulders. After 11 little girlish chatter they depart for the approaching event. Kpisode II takes place in a room off the reception hull in the same semi nary. The time is 9:45 the same I’Vt'ning, Hotly, .lane, Penelope and .luditli come in and dance a minuet, which is very beautiful by reason of the svvecpiiis drosses and the graceful steps of the dancers. As they get ready to leave Martha Ann enters, and gives the soiiloriiiy from which the name of the stnnt is derived: “To be or not to be; whether ’tis nol)ler within (he mind lo suffer theslinssand insuUs ol' Miss Choate—or by eloping end all." Just as Martha Ann takes a rose from a howl on the table. Miss Cluiate enters to bid her return to the others, and Martha Ann drops the rose. A moment later she reenter.s, and the handsome Allen Berkley (Jnliette Coleman) enters from the balcony and clasps her in his arms. As the curtain falls Martha Ann cries, "What's the use of an education when you’ve got a man to love?” Allen is indeed a lovable man, with his high beaver hat. side-burns, and swallow tail coat, and tight trousers with a strap under tlie toot. The costumes were the distinctive thing ai)out the Junior stunt, although (he presentation was extremely well done. Anything more bewitching than the dainty Martha Ann would be hard lo imagine; she might have stopped from the pages of Godey’s Lady Book.' The other girls were hardly less beau tiful than she was, and Allen was the ideal old-fashioned gentleman. The prim Miss AraboHa St. Clair succeeded admirably In making the whole audi ence cordially hate her for her Puri tanical, ironbound virtues. Tlie old mammy was fat and good natured, as all mammies are supposed to be, and she supplied the necessary touch of humor. Miss Choate was a black-clad figure formidable enough to strike terror to the heart of the wrong-doer in her school. The Senior stunt won the cup, and even the most ardent sympathizer with the odd classes will agree that they deserved It. The fact that the Senior class has received the cup for the past four years has led some to think that it has become a custom to award it to that class regardless of the merit of the stunt. But this year the judges were warned in advance that this was not the case. The win ning stunt featured the troubles caused in modern households by the radio. The programs were in the form of a radio cabinet bearing the caption “Station M.C. '2G Broadcasting.” Tlie cast of characters was as follows; Sally Katherine Cook Jackie Leone Warrick Gertrude Marguerite Blackstock Jim Blanche Stokes Milly Katherine Shields Freddie Ruth Janet Sikes Lib Martha Livermon Harry Ruth Bruce Mary Crystal Davis John Bernice Hamrick Scene I, entitled “Tuning In," shows the five young married women bewail ing the fact that they are radio widows, their husbands being so en grossed in listening in and talking about the radio that they no longer have time to notice them. Sallie tells how Jackie invited his friends In to hear his radio, after having told them all tlie wonderful things he could get over it, and then got nothing but static all the evening. Gertrude re lates her experience when she mis took a bass voice heard over the radio for a burglar. Mllly recalls when she found her Freddie dancing around the living room crying “Cuba! Cuba" with all his might, and Mary with tears in lier eyes and realistic sobs in her voice tolls how she has lo tiptoe around her own house to keep from disturbing John at the radio. Milly sings a tear ful song, the refrain of which is “Boo hoo, boo boo. boo hoo.” The much- abused wives plan to give a radio party and invlle the men. They intend to show (hem juat how silly their conduct has been. Sccne II. “Static,” shows this party. The men come in singing a rollicking .song; "Radio buddies, that's our name, listening in's our favorite game. We listen in till two in the morning, we lislen in till the daylight Is dawning— For anything else we don’t give a cuss! Radio buddU's, that's us.” The wives seated around the radio, turn around angrily and command them to be ciulet. They, stricken dumb with amazement, fall into seals around the'room. Sud denly the wives, divesting themselves of the head-pieces, spring up and go dancing around the room crying out "Culja! Cuba!” in shrill feminine tones. Sally seizes the astounded Jackie and waltzes him over the stage. The men stop their ears from the noise, where upon the wives ask if they have had enough. When the husbands ask for an explanation, the fact emerges that the girls were only trying to beat them at their own game. This excites the men lo hilarious laughter, and then the women get very angry. The hus bands singing lo them “You never can tell what you’re apt to do till you're caught by the radio fad." The scene ends with the emphatic statement from the women that they never will get caught by the radio fad. Scene III, “Hook-up,” reveals the men telling their grievances lo each other. Gone are the good dinners wilie used lo cook before she got the radio fad! Now they have to wear socks with holes in them, and their wives seem to have forgotten the clause in the marriage ceremony which promises to “love, honor, and obey.” The men never get a chance at the ear-phones any more, therefore they have bought a new loud speaker so they can forget their troubles in listen ing in. The wives enter, expressing acute displeasure at finding the men there ahead of them. Next ensues a spirited argument between the hus bands and their lady loves. It all ends in glad surprise when the women see the loud speaker, however. They take it for granted that the men have bought it for them, and begin thank ing them accordingly. The men, nothing loth, fall in with the way things are going and assert that they have bought the loud speaker as a peace offering. Then there follows a grand reconciliation, when every wife flies Into her husband's arms, and after Freddie sings “Now we all can lislen in. we need not fuss or fret. You all can see that we agree this Is the best thing yet” the others joined m; “Mister loud speaker, you've saved our lives, Mister Loud Speaker, you’ve saved our wives. Now all our married woes will cease, now at last we’ll have some peace; now we’ll live like lovers true, Mister Loud Speaker, here’s to you!" After this Jackie warns them to be silent, and the radio sends out: Station XYZ, Havana. Cuba!” “Cuba!” they all cry in chorus, as the curtain falls, each couple clasped in an ecstatic embrace. In this stunt a number of stunning dresses were worn by the lady mem bers of the cast. In the first scene Ihoy wore afternoon dresses, in the second, dinner dresses, and in the last, full evening attire. The men appeared in tuxedos throughout the three scenes. They well represented the typical well-to-do young American business nuui, and the wives were ex amples of the usual type of young married women. The plot of the stunt was the product of a number of Seniors and was put together by Mary O’Kelley and Margaret Wheeler. The songs also were written by Mary 'Kelley, and she played the accompaniamenls as they were sung. The spirited act ing contributed not a little to the suc cess of the whole. There was always a suggestive pantomime going on be sides the speech that was being given. The judges were Mr. Jasper Memory, Mr. Alvin M. Fountain, and Prof. C. C. Cunningham. Prof. Cunningham is the head of the public speaking depart ment at State College and is well qualified as a Judge of dramatic pro ductions. In his speech upon present ing the cup to the Senior class presi dent he said that if the awarding of Uie prize had depended on the beauty of the costumes It would have gone to the Junior class; if it had depended on its portrayal of the seamy side of college life it would surely have gone lo the Freshmen; If it had depended on the class spirit shown, the Sopho mores would have won It, and If it had depended on truthful presentation of outside problems of modern life the Seniors would have certainly won it. This was said to create an air of sus pense. Prof. Cunningham said that the crowning ambition of his life had always been to keep a crowd of women waiting. At last, however, he awarded the cup to the class of 1926, and the even classes broke forth into a pande monium of cheers. As Grace’ Neathery, president of the Athletic Association, said in the open ing sipeech of the evening. Stunt Night was instituted to foster class spirit, and there is no room for the slightest doubt that it has succeeded in its aim.
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