Forest Hills High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Hills, NY)

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w..,,,wM 2 QAQ i, WA Q... 2 2 1 ENTER LAUGHINC Most of us have ambitions to be something other than what we are. However, few of us ever take any steps towards achieving those ambitions. David Kolowitz is an exception, and his futile attempts at becoming an actor form the basis for the play ENTER LAU CHING. David is a delivery boy for a sewing machine factory, a job he doesn't like. His par- ents want him to be a druggist - but his idea doesn't appeal to him either. David wants to be a somebody, so he joins a semi-professional acting company, which for a price, will put anybody in any show. Davidis futile attempts at acting make for situations that are hilariously funny. In additions a live quadrangle between David, a secretary, the ham man- ager's daughter and Davidis school sweetheart creates scenes which are tenderly amusing and abundantly human. IMPROMPTU Of all the skits, sketches and playlets that Play Pro has presented to us in our assembly programs, Impromptu by Tad Mozel was probably the most interesting. An experimental play, it dealt with the nature of acting, and tried to determine the relationship between an actor's own personality and the part he plays. The cast consisted of Ernest, a popular, well- known actor, Winifred, an embittered actress who never really made it, Tony, a young actor concerned with the meaning of the situation, and Lora, an ingenue who wants to do what is expected of her. As the play begins, we learn that these four actors have been hired and sent directly on to the stage to improvise a play. However, they don't have much luck. Though they try to separate themselves from the scene and act within the setting they have decided upon, their own personalities are constantly interrupting them, and they find that without a script, they cannot be anything but themselves. They have discovered by the end of the scene that it is much easier to act a part in a written, organized play than it is to try to direct one's own impulses. Life, says Tad Mozel, is a play without a script. 27 ,,,gx...-.-- lil l