Published by The Dalles High School Students, June edition, pages 21-24 CLASS AFFAIRS by Marion D. Lay Characters: Class President. Secretary. Different speakers at the meeting. Louise - Pretty girl. Glen - Very romantic boy, - in love with Louise. Hal - A likable boy. Helen - Hal's sister. George - Another boy, - in love with Helen. SCENE I. - Class Room. Class Meeting. Class members stroll in. SCENE II. - Another room in the building at the same time, the following day. Preferably the art room, or teacher's room. Meeting of the Entertainment Committee. Act I. Pres. - Will the meeting please come to order? Bright Boy - Yes sir. Pres. - We shall have the minutes of the last meeting read. Sec. - I forgot to write the minutes for the last meeting. Pres. - Well, now - what comes next? Girl - Mr. President, I move that the president appoint a committee of five to plan the entertainment for the party. Pres. - Are we in favor of this? (Silence) I mean-er-uh-a-all those in favor of this please stand. (Everybody stands up and sits down three or four times.) Pres. - Well, I guess the motion is carried. I'll appoint the committee after the meeting. Boy -I move that the treasurer take up the tax, and pay the bills for the last party, before we give this one. Girl - I second the motion. Boy - I move the meeting adjourn. Second Boy - Address the chair. Pres. Just a moment - er- is there a second to this motion? Girl - I rise to a point of ordr - . There's a motion before the house. Pres - All right. Now, we'll hear from the chairman of the "Eats" Committee. Chairman - (Rises) The committee met last night and we find that our plans will necessitate a 20 cent tax. Pres - A 20 cent tax has been levied by the "Eats" Committee. All those in favor please stand. (Half the class stands). Pres - The members of the class please bring your tax to-morrow. Girl - Mr. President, I call for another vote to be taken. Pres 0 All those in favor of a 20 cent tax please stand. (Just three rise) Pres - The motion is lost. Girl - I move the "Eats" Committee change its plans and lower the tax to 15 cents. Fat Boy - I make the motion that they raise it to 25 cents so's we'll all have plenty to eat. Pres - All those in favor of this please rise. (No one rises) Pres - All those in favor of this please say I. (Chorus of Ayes) Pres - Contrary, the same. (Chorus of Ayes) Pres - The motion is carried. Voices of several - What was the motion? Girl - I move the meeting adjourn. Boy - I second the motion. Pres. - All those in favor, please - Crowd shouts - Aye. (Crowd rushes out) ACT II Enter- Louise, Glen, Helen, George and Hal. Louise - Well, since I am chairman, I start proceedings by saying that whatever we do, let's make this a regular party. Hal - I second the motion. - Let's have a big time of it. Helen - We must first plan what we shall do to draw the crowd together. Glen - A get- together idea of some sort, like Musical chairs of something like that -yes-you know what I mean. George - Yes, yes, - so we must. (Group moves around thinking hard) Helen - I have it! - We'll start off with drop-th-handkerchief, and after they get tired of that we'll have a grab-bag, or somethin with prizes. Hal - Oh, give it a rest! Bunk! Let's have a show - something "peppy". Louise - (Cooly) Since we have just two days in which to plan the entertainment, I thing it would be best to decide mighty soon, if we are going to have a SHOW. Glen - Why not have a clever little musical farce. I know who has one. Its entitled "Love's Mix-up"; and there's just enough characters for this committee. You see, its this way - the play starts off with a mix-up, and ends with a mix-up, and the hero has to kiss the heroine twice in the first act and then once more in the second act. This puts pep into it and then - George - Bah! Somebody choke him! He's just fixing it so he can be hero and have Louise for heroine, I'm on to you, old boy. Louise - He wasn't planning anything of the sort. I suppose you'd like it better if you were hero, and could kiss Helen as much as you liked. Hal - Say, we aren't getting anyplace at all. We've been gabbing here for almost an hour, and we haven't decided what to start with even. Glen - You poor fish! I've just been telling you what a good farce we could put on, and everybody would rave about the fine party, and the good entertainment. Hal - (Sarcastically) Yes, they'd rave all right, if you stood up there and kissed Louise some half dozen times. Louise - (Icily) Is this a Committee Meeting of a Discussion Club? Helen - You boys are the limit! Now, I think a mock court would be easiest, and most entertaining thing we could possibly have. You know, have a different ones come up to answer charges, and then pay bail with a stunt of some kind. Hal - (High pitched, to appear ridiculous) Oh, lovely. Everybody gets bailed out, and then the judge runs out of wit. Ive seen e'm before. Lousie - 0 Well, will you kindly inform us, just what would you like, Mr. Carroll? Hal - Oh, anything - but not a grab-bag, or drop-the-handkerchief, or a mock-court. The first are too infantile, and the last is too dry. Helen - If no one has any objections, I'm going to study my English for to-morrow. (Takes book and goes off in the corner to study) Louise - (Rather despairingly) As chairman of this committee, I really feel responsible for the plans, and I don't see that we have much to show. George - It seems to me that this would be a good time to refer the work of the entertainment committee over to some of the conscientious objectors to dancing at our parties. Why not go down to some the ministers and old maids who voted it down, and say, "We are trying to give a party to-morrow night - will you be so kind as to bring forth the entertainments you promised to give us in place of dancing?" O, yes, (sarcastically) I can just see them stare at us. But we'd have them there all right. (Every one laughs) Helen - I doubt if we'd get much practical assistance in that way, and what's more, the time to plan the entertainment is right now. Louise - 0 (Laughling) Glen and I are going to a dance out at Dufur that night, so we probably won't be here anyway. George - Helen and I aren't coming up till late eigher, we're going to see Theda Bara. Hal - Well, I didn't intend coming any way, there's a jitney dance Friday night. Glen - Its time to eat - let's go. George - O, let them do what they want to when they come up here Friday night. Submitted by Earline Wasser