Denver South High School - Johnny Reb Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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.A ,ax JUNIOR PROM COMMITTEE Back Row-Charles Puyne, Jimmie Evans, Helen May Lininger, Chairman, Berton Stackhousc, George Wright. Front RowfNuomi Fahring, Margaret Deel, Margaret Finkel, Bette Lee Bails, Charlotte Mayer. JUNIOR PROM . . . not to be outdone by mere elders, the younger generation blazed forth with a first class barn dance themselves. Swooping down on the opera house they unscrewed the seats from the floorg then, after placing the pianner player and the fiddler on the stage, they swung into a frenzied Virginia reelf, A modern parallel was the Junior Prom. They might have transported the South Pole as a scene for the dance, so real were the artists' decorations. Snowballs, icicles and penguins were on every hand in the gym, but with strange inconsistency, the South Corridor was drowned in palmsrpillows and plants. This, they said, was Southland. Here in Antarctic tropics the Juniors laughed and dancedg here they gamboled and romped in one of the year's most effective social capers. U81

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SENIOR PLAY Standing in Back-Robert Hartman, Conlon Olinger, Gertrude Finnell. Sitting'Carroll Hutchins, Fred Coorlale, Virginia Lee. Martha Lawrence, Miss Alice Aronsun, Directorg Bertha Lackner, Eleanor Reese, Ted Davis, Wayne W'ernc!. THE SENIOR PLAY . . . The Amalgamated Thespian Association decided to give 'Camillef and with that decision the settlement experienced the equivalent of volcano and earth- quake. While the women scratched and shrieked over the title role, the men nobly gave their parts away. Handsome but painfully shy Biff looks, when given the herois part, suddenly left for Santa Fe. Two more comely gentlemen followed him when offered the role. Months later that trio quietly returned and resumed house- keeping. 'Camille' had been given fwith an all-female castj weeks agog relieved, these gentlemen once more felt at home. That is probably why Big was so easily cornered one day. From a circle of expectant faces a voice said, ':We're giving 'Romeo and Juliet, and we wondered . . . i' This worthy book comes out before the performance of Big Hearted Herbert, but from the rehearsals our correspondent saw, success will surely perch on Herbs, shoulder. The play is balanced with humor and homey logic, enough of both to sustain interest. There are, of course, domestic complications and amusing situations that promise much. Those that you wonit see but that really deserve more than just these words are those costumers, prop men and make-up artists that every play has and depends upon. After the play words may fail youg but, during the play, if they fail the actors, ,lane Harrison will be there script in hand. Costume supervision falls to Marjorie Line, while the traditional office of props men becomes props ladies with ,lean Hatton and Doris Rhoads doing their best. As for makeup, Judy Easton will wield the puff and eye shadow. Willy Phillips linds the programs and advertising her job. The direction comes from Miss Aronson and Edith McDonald. It is upon these 'cfaces in the wingsw that the play depends. We salute youl l17l

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A ,,,,.A . SENIOR PROM COMMITTEE Back Row-Coach Howard L. Johnson, Eml Young, Al Wilscwn, Dick Carwuoml, Charles Adamson, Jack Anderson .lack Morris. Front Row-Virginia Fislxburn, Miss Ruth Ringland, Doris RhoaLls4Chairman, Jane Harrison, Doris W'ilkins. 1 a i i SENIOR PROM H. . . beneath diamond studded skies they danced. With comets in tin lanterns to shed golden light, they laughed and stamped out rhythms on the rough wood floors to a raucous fiddle. Perhaps they laughed louder than their progeny would on another far of and bright night when young moderns danced on smooth wax to a softly humming orchestra . . .U Amid planetary airs and with the then1e of Lstars, predominating, a galaxy of Southern satellites and their male meteors danced to the heavenly strains of Mars Kramer and his twelve exponents of the melody way at the four-star event of the year-the Senior Prom. In the starring roles Doris Rhoads, chairman of the dance committee, and Charles Adamson, prexy of the senior student diadem, led the sparkling and dazzling array of dancers, who enjoyed a night of starry pleasures. The five-point theme was carried out in the decorations. A huge star, draped with spirals of gleaming cellophane, formed the apex for hundreds of streamers from all corners of the Rebel gym. The programs and the refreshments also carried out the star motive. It was truly a celestial evening in an ethereal paradise. ll'll 'SUV ....,.. 11, .....- 53-ft .. -...--f M , fit, e.-r 1 -wi ' -19 ,4 --5'i-...-. 1 1 4