Balboa High School - Galleon Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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ENID STOUT FIRST DAY AT HIGH SCHOOL FROM THE GREAT CAREER JUNIOR DATE PROM THE GREAT CAREER STAGE CREW GV6d5tZDdZ.WZ, Fooilzgghig Cothurnus Players may boast of an enthusiastic and successful part in Balboa's fall '39 showboat with student actors displaying unusual, well-trained talent under the able and gracious sponsorship of Miss Anna May Price. First drawing of the curtain was on The Great Career, a series of tableaux, which tell the story of a girl from her childhood days, through school on to her marriage and motherhood. Outstanding in this drama was Valerie Larson, who acted as commentator. Hats ofT to Virginia Hunter, Enid Stout, Nauman Davidson, Bob johnson,A Bob Von Glahn and others who did superb work. Second drawing on November 21 ushered in three one-act plays: i'Daily Bread, My Lady's Lace, and The Ring and the Lookf, My Lady's Lace, comedy which took place in a Holland garden about 1660 A. D., concerns a young girl who is being forced by her father to marry a man not of her choice. After much pleading, the girl wins out. Credit goes to Lydia Riedener, Jane Warshawski, Jim McGill and Charles Howard, who did excellent comical as well as dramatic acting. The Ring and the Look found another amusing situation taking place in the living room of the Tuttle residence at the present time. This story deals with a lady-killing youth who gets himself into difficulties with his lady love by lending the ring he gave her to the leading lady of the school play. Prominent in this production were: Bob johnson, Angelina Lopez, Margaret jane Halonen, Elmina Bontempi, Vera Premenko, Joe Silva, Virginia Hunter and Madelyn Palmer. Daily Bread de5 seriousness of earning ones daily meals. This story takes place at the present time in the kitchen of a tenement PAGE TWENTY-SIX

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BOYS' CHORUS RHYHARDSON, ANDERSON, CHENEY, FARRANT MIXED CHORUS BAND Of Marital Knowledge hard and gave splendid performances, thrilling all of us with their harmonizing at the Armistice Day Assembly and the Christmas program. From the orchestra room come overtures and symphonic selections. Under the baton of Mr. Billeci, the orchestra has kept its place in the entertainment world, performing at several night school and day school assemblies, most important being the Move-up Assembly and graduation. A brand new set of tympanies fkettle drumsj was received from the Board of Education. Orchestra members are proud of their new music blocks and are working hard in appreciation of them. Something new was started this term in the form of a girls' quartet of string instruments. Barbara Warrender and Christine Johnson play first and second violins, Mary Jane PAGE TWENTY-FIVE Landi, viola, and Elma Oddstad, 'cello. Carmeta Sacchi accompanies on the piano. The lovely voices that form the girls' chorus have added many moments of entertainment to assemblies. The chorus represented Balboa in music competition at the Univeristy of California on October 21. Boys' chorus, under the direction of Miss Robinson, sang at assemblies. Songs studied by the chorus were, Pale of the Amber West, Wl1o is Sylvia? and Go Down, Moses, a Negro spiritual. The theoretical classes of the music department help the young composers toward their success. Miss Robin- son's harmony class deals with the study of chords, scales, transposing and creative writing. The history of music class goes into the origin of the different instruments, sym- phonies and the like. fn I

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- 5 , J fyljfff' Xl:-iff' 3 fi UA! N f MY LADY'S LACE COTHURNUS PLAYERS RED PHANTOM THE RING AND THE LOOK STAGE CREW BABY FROM THE GREAT CAREER . Cmfmm Calif house, and tells how a man goes out to his newly-assigned job, only to return home unemployed. He sorrowfully relates to his wife that he is unable to hold a job due to his physical condition. His wife, a courageous woman, goes out to scrub floors leaving her bewildered husband at home fearing the future. Those who took bows for their brilliant acting in this play were: Angelina Lopez, Jane Cheney, Hazel Poitz, Alice Westpliztl, and Kenneth Kidd, As the hnal performance of the fall semester, The Red Phantom, complete with the gruesome murder and unwarranted deceit, takes place in a deserted Spanish ranch house off the coast of California at the present time. This three-act melodrama finds Nauman Davidson, Jacqueline Horne, Enid Stout, Stanley Bell, Kenneth PAGE 'I'XXfIEN'I'YfSEV1Z N Allen, Octavio Ortega, Harold Vawter, Kenneth Kidd, Bob Johnson, Suzanne McFall, Bella Xepoleas, Elmina Bontempi, Valerie Larson, Ed Sirianni, and Donald Foye, a capable cast for an appreciative audience. Christmas assembly saw the presentation of the drama, The Silence of God, wherein two diplomats from neighboring European states are endeavoring to reach an agreement about the tariff for a harbor outlet. Their in- ability to reach a decision almost starts a war. However, the powerful legend of St. Stephens Bells, that will ring only on Christmas Eve, if the land is at peace, settles the decision in favor of the people. For their grand perform- ances, Robert Von Glahn, Harold Vawter, Octavio Ortega, Edwin Sirianni, Kenneth Allen and Jasper Leone are saluted.