Commencement

Fete
Students of Des Moines University

1June secono

Direction of Miss Jesse S. Herriot

THE

OlF THE POT OF GOLD'

-"
Adapted by GLADYS GIBSON
SCENE I
The Flower family lived in a little house in a broad grassy
meadow, which sloped a few rods from their door down to a gentle,
silvery river. There was Father Fldwer, Mother Flower and their
child, Flax.
Father Flower had in his flower garden only those
flowers of complimentary colors. They grew in adjoining beds, and,
as often as possible, were rhymed in' their names.
.
-One day, when there had been <it heavy shower and a beautiful
rainbow, Father Flower and Flax were strolling about the garden.
He told Flax all about the Pot of Gold at the end of the Rainbow,
and repeated a;,-littl~verse about it to her. '
"Oh what is it shining so golden clear
At the rainbow's foot on the dark green hill?
'Tis the Pot of Gold, that for many a year
Has shone, and is shining and dazzling still.
And whom is it for, 0 Pilgrim, pray?
.
For thee, Sweetheart, should'st thou go that way."
When the rainbow appeared again.. Flax saw that one end of it
seemed to touch the ground at the foot of a tall pine tree.
"I will try the end where the tall pine tree is," said she, running
off towards the woods.

. By

MARY

RAINBOW
E. WILKINS

LEGEND

SCENE

II

As Flax ran through the woods the clouds over on the northwest piled up very high and black. Everything was still and dark
and solemn in the woods. But on .and on she sped through the wind
and rain and the thunder.
She was very much afraid that she could
not reach the tall pine before the sun shone out -and the rainbow
came. Just as she was becoming very much discouraged, a joyful
little wood nymph greeted her. aqd encouraged her to continue and
followed her.
SCENE

III

Flax sped on for dear' life. Red and green and golden rays were
already falling thick around her, and at the foot of ~the pine tree
something was shining wonderfully
clear and bright.' At last she
reached it, and just at that instant the rainbow became a perfect one,:
and there at the foot of the wonderful arch of glory was the Pot of
Gold. She sank down beside it, and put her hands on it.. Trembling, she lifted the lid. She expected; of course, to find it full of
the gold pieces that her father had spoken about.
To her great
astonishment the first thing she saw was the face of her father.
As.
she looked longer, she saw her mother smiling up at her out of the
golden gloom iriS'i'clthe Pot.
'
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Presentation

of the King and Queen of Fete

Queen
.
King
..
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J ester ----------------------------------------Children

The Girl
The Boy

Hazel Capps
George Plagman
Elmer Osberg

of the Court

Mary Alice Robinson

Gayton Germane

Heralds

The Girl
The Boy

Abdigai 1 Rowe
Vergil F ogdall
SCENE

I.

GARDEN

OF THE

FLOWER

HOME

Flax Flower
Ramona Miles
Father Flower
Lulu Anderson
Mother Flower
-------------AdelIa Anderson
The Flowers of the Garden:
Rose
:
:_Selma Rose
Buttercup
Gertrude West
Violet
Beatrice Canfield
Breeze and Raindrops which scatter the Flower- Family
Olive Cruikshank, Helen Bork, Lucille Dewey
The Call of the Rainbow Girl
Amy Scott ,
SCENE

II.

THE

WOODS ON THE

WAY

TO THE

RAINBOW

The Wood Nymph-joyful

in her woodland home
Eva Harris
The Storm Approaches
Lucille Brooker, Margaret Newcom, Caroline Giles
The Sun breaks through the clouds
Miriam Brownell, Edith Nelson, Mabel Gould, Velma DeLong
SCENE

III.

AT THE

FOOT OF THE

RAINBOW

Rainbow Shadows Irene Shippey, Maurine Parker, Marjorie

Butler, Lucille Brooker, Vera Mae Conwell, Reba Wright
The Mists of the Rainbow
Alice Olson, Mary Alexander, Marion Osborn, Helen Hunt
The Joy of the Rose..
L
" Flax Flower

ORCH ESTRA

Dean Raymond Carr, Director

Elsie Franklin, Piano

Ada Jones, Violin

Sumner E. Klove, Flute'

Robert G., Willaman, Clarinet
STUDENT

STAFF

General Manager

Stage Managers

Leila Gibbs, Ida Young

Artist

Eva Harris

Costume Construction
Publicity

Edi th Baxter

Helen Ostrus

Margaret Schlaman, Dorothy Jastrum