Boise High School - Courier Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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.. Oh, lut, lul, M Lord Opening of Act l Hurry home or your ankles will be soppingn Do you have any suspicions? asks Novoiny ffouom 7Tme l.ilLTlNCf songs by a chorus of two hundred voices, witty dialogue, tender romance, gay costumes, and dancing feet brought old Vienna to life on Boise High School's stage Cctober 30 and 3l, when Sigmund l?omberg's delightful 'Blossom Time was presented to large audiences at afternoon and evening performances. This popular operetta was successfully produced under the direction of Kenneth Hartzler. The high school Symphony Qrchestra with its director, Ernest Green, interpreted the music with professional skill and feeling. Ray Wood as the composer Franz Schubert, and Barbara Ward, as Mitzi Krantz, the Winsome girl he loves, played their parts splendidly. Richard Hansen portrayed Papa Krantz with delightful abandon. Qther leading characters well depicted were Baron Franz Schober, Philip Wilson, Whom Mitzi loves, the singer La Bellabruna, Barbara Burns, her husband Count Scharnto, lohn Worth- wineg the opera singer Vogel, Bob Smith. Cray comedy was furnished by Fritzi Kranz, lunella Sanford, her sister liitzi Krantz, Connie Carver, their friends Binder and Frkmann, Bill lameson and Floyd Chamleeg and the two Viennese gentlemen, Harlow Qberbillig and Edward French. Perhaps the most melodic of the numbers were l'Serenade, l'Cnly Cne Love, and t'Ave Maria. 16

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lsn't the view wonderful from these upstairs windowsf' Emily Webb and George Gibbs :ire married Mr. and Mrs, Gilulms 'lGirls, did you hear ihatff-- First dale al the vorner drug store Out TOLVI1 ii THIS PLAY is called 'Qur Town.' lt was written by Thornton Wilder and produced by the Boise High School Dramatic Club . . . The name of our town is GroVer's Corners, N. H. The first act shows a day in our town. The date is May 7, l9Ol, just before dawn. From these opening words of Stage Manager Donald Bish to the heart-warming close, UMost everybody's asleep in Grover's Corners . . . You get a good rest, too. Good night, fifteen hundred Boise people experienced something splendid and beautiful in playgoing. There was no scenery in 'lOur Town. Gnly a table and four chairs on one side of the stage which was the Gibbs' home, and another table and four chairs on the other side which was the Webb's home. Against this background life was unfolded- the life of ordinary people who knew happiness and heart-ache, love and death. There was tenderness, and laughter, and compassion in HCur Town. The Dramatic Club members, all of whom took parts in l'Qur Town, played their roles with such feeling and understanding that they drew the audience into the heart and soul of Grovers Corners. To Director Helen Mayer Farrer went praise and honor for the exactness of detail, the beauty of production, and the professional quality of the acting. 15

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lt's disaster, Complete disaster. l'm qomq lo l e a career gurl who dam:es. lFr lllimk our ::ori1'tvr.iml lf 1 ide lliimg t ir limi f-l' Oh, you lxoys are lust slaying mel Innocence is no 'usel Now, l've qu! lv arrest Ilie wli. lf- kit fm' lm! ml dl you fvet .Qnce fare ll JUST like a womanfno logic, gloomily decides Orval Porritt. UMe? Ch, l get by, l get by. l wouldn't want to brag, but there just seems to be something about me the tems tall tor, airily announces Stanley Burns. Ever Since Eve is the ideal Senior Class play. lt's as modern as May 29, l942, as true to lite as Boise l-ligh School, as gay as the teen age, and as old as Mother Eve. There is Mr. and Mrs. Clover, Carl Burke and loyce Howard, who look with amused amazement at their own seventeen-year-old ottspring. lohnny Clover, Crval Porritt, puts out the school paper with the help ot Spud, Stanley Burns. Everything proceeds splendidly until Susan, Patty Ann Cxley, becomes girls' editor. Spud's little sister, Mary Louise lrlarter, is always under toot. Qt course, every boy in school, including the handsome but tritle dumb tootball hero, Bates Murphy, completely loses his head when Lucybelle, Phyllis Field, enrolls and begins tluttering her eyelids. There is the attractive young principal, Frank Church, and the pretty journalism teacher, lunella Sanford, Gardner Bultinch has his troubles as the police otticer. 17