That's For Us to Know and You to Find Out

In honor of Halloween, here's a couple of boys dressed up as a donkey, on the grounds of the Ainsworth school:


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Image courtesy of Eldon Harms.

They weren't dressing that way for Halloween — it was their costume for a performance by the W.G. Haan students of an operetta, Seeing Nellie Home, in May 1937.*

The two boys were Eldon Harms and Lorin Butt Delmer "John" Foreman.** Which is which in the photo I cannot say, and back in May 1937, whenever anyone would ask them who played the front and who the rear of the donkey, they'd say, "That's for us to know and you to find out."

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*This seems to be the gist of the notes on the back, but I haven't been able to locate any such operetta. "Seeing Nellie Home" may have been a featured song rather than the name of the operetta.
**[11/4/2014 update] Whoever wrote the notes on the back of the photo was wrong, or so Eldon Harms has told me: it was Delmer "John" Foreman under that donkey suit with him, not Lorin Butt. And they took turns playing the front and the back of the donkey.