Glendale Junior College - La Reata Yearbook (Glendale, CA)

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hlizabcth Talbot-Marun. George McClammy. Don Offill. Doie Arbenz, Bob Harper. Maxine Manninj;. Wcs Weils, Truman Curtis, Lee Jarchow. Mary Lou Whithani, Ruth Selkirk, Helen Read, Genevieve G iss. Helen Read. Jean Lyans, Blaine Cline, Tom Blackburn. Echo Bennet. Mary Lou Whitman, Madeline Julian, George Lockwood. Catherine Henry, Frances Mabry, Frank Hoopes and Geraldine (Joss. Don Hatch and Norma Jean Harris acted as organists. The play was significant for breaking away from the traditional theater. It promises that we may expect a liberal art-theater attitude to characterize the activities of Instructor Hamilton, who must necessarily dominate the college theater here. With a liberal arbiter of our dramatic destinies we may hope for almost any achievement on the junior college stage in time tc come. Wesley Wells was an appealing hero, and Doje . rbenz gave a con- sistent performance in the role of a bad girl turned good. Elizabeth-Talbot Martin, dressed in cheesecloth, monk ' s cloth, and oilcloth showed herself versatile, capable, and grotesque. She plaved the part of a nun. a dancer, and a circus performer, all with good effect. .Maxine Manning as a stupid maidservant, was the onlv really amusing character in the plav. Ruth Selkirk is an admirably poised and dignified actress, and she offered one of the most experienced-seeming performances in the presentation. {Page Sixty-one)

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Don Offill. Doic Arbcnz, Wts Wells, Elizabeth Talbol-Martin, (;. McClai Lee Jarchow. EL DESTINO CAMBIADO On Friday, February loth, in the auditorium of the junior college, Instructor William Hamilton presented his drama classes in a play of his own compilation. El Dtstino Cumhiadio. it was a singular produc- tion, the script itself being an aggregate of several Spanish plays. It was without definite time or place, occurring as it did Yesterday, today, or tomorrow, somewhere along the streets of life. It was in seven scenes of varying lengths; it was accompanied by music from the organ of the Presbyterian church across the street from the college; it contained a cabaret scene which presented dancers and a murder; and it presented a variety of sets which were made by JVlr. Herndon and his stagecraft classes. The cast was of phenomenal length. It was composed of William Leslie Nichols, Jerrold )ackman, John Saylor, Evan Shaw, Robert Hankey, Wesley Wells, Truman Curtis, Doris Jean Arbenz, George McClammy, Robert Harper, Elizabeth Talbot-Martin, Lee Jarchow, Marjorie Wienke, Lester Steers, Shirley Stenson, Maxine Manning, Don Offill, Ruth Selkirk, (Page Sixty)

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ONE-ACT PLAYS The Drama Department of Glentlale ]unior college has co-operated this year with the local chapter of Delta Psi Omega, national honorary dramatic fraternity, in the presentation of numerous one-act play programs. They were given in the college auditorium, once in approximately two weeks. These plays were decidedly well received, and the attendance was gratifyingly large each time. They offer Instructor Hamilton a very desirable opportunity to practice his policy of student direction. The one- act work constitutes a veritable laboratory of experimental dramatics and affords students the very necessary occasion for acting before an audience. This year the following students have appeared on the programs: Gvvynne Wolfe, Catherine Henry, Robert Hankey, Lester Steers, Frances Dodson, Helen Read. Keith Brownell, John Sayler, Norma |eanne Harris, Neil Henry, Gerald Stone, Catherine Jackman, Orville Carpenter, Hardin Cheney, Maryalis Hadley, Neil Stone, Leslie Nichols, June Hitt, Evan Shaw, Dorothy Gray, Ruth Ostendorf, [can Lyans, Genevieve Goss, and Lee [archow. The outstanding play was Not Such a Goose. Catherine Henry, Geneva Dellbridge, and Orville Carpenter presented plays of their own composition, these being, respectively. One Emerald. Beg Pardon, and Mistaf es. , The student directors, who worked in a very professional manner, were; Leslie Nichols, Keith Brownell, Catherine Henry Hardin Cheney, Bob Harper, and Rosalie Hagen. {I ' age Sixty-two)