The Perry School Entertainment

The Perry School Entertainment

The Crowd Was An Immense One

More Than Twice the Money Needed to Pay for the Piano Was Raised

The W. S. Perry school was crowded Friday evening beyond the highest hopes of the children who had looked forward to and worked for, the entertainment which was given. The receipts amounted to $190, netting $165, which is over $100 more than needed to pay for the piano.

The audience began to arrive early and came in a steady stream until every seat and all of the standing room was filled. There were between 800 and 900 people present. The building was brilliantly illuminated in every room with electric lights and lamps. The rooms were decorated prettily with the work of the children and palms, ferns and potted plants were everywhere.

A fine exhibit of the manual training work was made in one of the rooms. The exhibit consisted of the work of all grades from the tiniest children to those in the eighth grade, who had baked tiny loaves of bread which they sold at three cents apiece.

The program, which was planned so carefully by the teachers, was given in the various rooms and halls, repeated in fact ten times in order to give the audience in each room and hall an opportunity to see it.

The children took their parts excellently and were entirely lacking in the usual school children's diffidence.

The Ann Arbor Zither club and Root's orchestra added materially to the enjoyment of the audience by giving a number of selections.

Mesdames Beal, Mills, McGee and L. P. Jocelyn served ice cream and cake in a vacant room after the program and were very generously patronized. Twenty-five gallons of ice cream was disposed of.