1905 West Des Moines High School Annual

THE "standing room only" sign was out at Foster's when the Senior class presented their seventh annual play, "Sweet Lavender."

The production was well received and the cast certainly showed talent and careful training. Every character scored a hit and it would be impossible to say that one surpassed another according to the part each one had to act.

The only regret we have to express is that the Senior class next year will not have the same stars to win them fame and glory.

The "Sweet Lavender" cast consisted of the following Seniors:

Cast of

Horace Bream, a young American...... J. Stuart Davis

Geoffrey Wedderburn, of Wedderburn, Green & Hoskett, bankers, Barnchester Raymond W. Huttenlocher

Clement Hale, his adopted son, studying for the bar Lawrence Patterson

Richard Phenyl, a barrister Ludwig Samish

Dr. Delaney, a fashionable physician Mark Hylan

Mr. Bulger, hair dresser and wig maker Lanning Tidrick

Mr. Maw, a solicitor Amos Pearsall

Minnie Gilfillian, an niece of Mr. Wedderburn Gladys Foster

Ruth Rolt, housekeeper and laundress
at No. 3, Brain Court
Temple Genevieve Zimmerman

Lavender, her daughter Irene Hirsch

Mrs. Gilfillian, a widow,
Wedderburn's sister, Minnie's mother Louise Cookerly

Alfred Evans, Business Manager

Scenes from

PROGRAM

Overture, Amazon . . . Kiesler
Opera House Orchestra
ACT I
Selection, The Royal Chef. . . . Jerome
ACT II
Evening of the next day, " Somebody's Business"
Suite, Antony and Cleopatra. . . . Gurenwald
ACT III
A week later, "Everybody's Business"
SCENE
Chambers of Mr. Phenyl and Mr. Hale, No. 3,
Brain court, Temple, London, Springtime
The present day.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The author of "Sweet Lavender" begs to remind his American patrons—amongst whom there may be those who are unfamiliar with the mode of life he attempts to depict in this play—that a set of chambers in the precincts of the Temple, though constituting of only a portion of a house, it is a distinct and separate establishment. Each set of chambers has an independent door, opening upon a common stairway, behind which door the occupant of the chambers is as much the lord of a castle as if he were in enjoyment of a mansion or a villa surrounded by a brick wall.
"Chambers" consists of three or four rooms and perhaps a pantry, and are often occupied by two boon companions. The female domestic attached to the house—who flits, not unlike the busy bee, from floor to floor—is, in the phraseology of Temple life, called the "Laundres;" and if, like Ruth Rolt, she dwells upon the premises, she enjoys the further distinction of being the "Housekeeper."
The man who shelters in the Temple precincts obtains a silent security fromt he conventionalities of society. He is untrammelled and uncriticised.

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Horace Bream, a young American......	J. Stuart Davis
Geoffrey Wedderburn, of Wedderburn, Green & Hoskett, bankers, Barnchester	Raymond W. Huttenlocher
Clement Hale, his adopted son, studying for the bar	Lawrence Patterson
Richard Phenyl, a barrister	Ludwig Samish
Dr. Delaney, a fashionable physician	Mark Hylan
Mr. Bulger, hair dresser and wig maker	Lanning Tidrick
Mr. Maw, a solicitor	Amos Pearsall
Minnie Gilfillian, an niece of Mr. Wedderburn	Gladys Foster
Ruth Rolt, housekeeper and laundress at No. 3, Brain Court Temple	Genevieve Zimmerman
Lavender, her daughter	Irene Hirsch
Mrs. Gilfillian, a widow, Wedderburn's sister, Minnie's mother	Louise Cookerly
Alfred Evans, Business Manager