Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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EEEEEHZHHHMZ DONNYBROOKLET hielHHHHHHHlHH C MARGARET W'ILSON, POCOMOKE CITY, MD. 011, maiden with those dreamy, soft-brown eyes, Those gentle, loving, Southern tones; V'ho would not start in protest and surprise To know you like to cut up worms and bones? FLORA A. VVINKELMAN, 207 W OODLAWN ROAD, ROLAND PARK, MD. As our president Junior year, Flora won a fame thatys rare; New 51165 head of Agora And wears a Fork and Solitaire. VIVIAN A. WYNNE. 122 S. FRONT ST., PHILLIPSBURG, PA. She s always happy, busy too, From when the day is scarcely light Till when her keysterys book in hand She guards our door on Monday night. ANGELICA VVIRT YOUNGE, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA Angelica, Angelica, Your dimples fair have won you fame, And I have often heard it said Your disposition fits your name. 3l

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EEKHEHMEZEHH I : gNIHHlllHHHHL , , czsv DONNYBROOKLET LENA VVEINBERG, LoNACONING, MD. As president of Vingolf Hall, She issues theater permissions; In going there, herself, itis said She very seldom makes omissions. ANNA MARIE WHELAN, 1412 MULBERRY ST., BALTIMORE, MD. Mathematic precision and poetic grace Are combined in this maid with the wistful face. Just look to the future, and Iim sure you will see That she,ll open the door to success with her key. EMILTE WILKTNS, 6 N BROADWAY, BALTIMORE, MD. An athletic type we here behold Of strength and capability, A maiden Hworth her weight in goldh And no Hlightweight is Emilie. DOROTHY WILKINSON, 116 N. W'ASHINGTON AVE, MASON CITY, IOWA Very happy to have you with us; Eighteen greets you, Dorothy, dear; Droll and clever, witty ever, Bostoxfs gift to us this year. 30

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l:l 3 tttttttttttttttttt ymummumw: Eis. DONNYBROOKLET E began rehearsals in February in the dining-room of 2402 Calvert street. Here we read the entire play, using the dining-room chairs and parlor sofa for setting, while Dot, ready for bed, sat a blessed ten minutes and listened to the Beatfs persiflage, Mrs. Sti Aubynk and the Duchess nvery severeii repartee, Mr. Vincenfs efforts to marry off Mariana, and Mr. Abrahanfs oriental exuberances. Even so early the rehearsals took on the air of a lark, which they never wholly lost, whatever discouragenlents we suffered from grippe and colds. The Bean began it, probably because his lines CTI have contracted a coldU suggested it; Mariana took it up, as was appropriate; and Kathleen continued it, because, as she says, T'I confess there's an air about Mr. Brummelf and even his colds were fashionable. He himself says, H1 suppose everybody will have a cold nowf' I mention this to show how seriously the caste took the study of their linese an artistic conscientiousness that had its drawbacks, it is true, but that helped to make the play the success it was. When we finally got to the stage, this same conscientiousness continually grew, and Mr. Vincent could at almost any time be discovered practicing bowing to the gas-stove in the kitchen, Reginald prac- ticing tiwalking from the hips, in the locker room and Simpson practicing the butlerian strut in the Dean's room. The coach was particularly struck by the fact that the Bean, Mrs. St. Aubyn and the Duchess carried their characters well over the boundaries of the stage and were often giving him glances 0f the eye of the fashion of 1816. If the play had any one outstanding excellence, above all others, it was to be found in that minute attention to detail that is so rare in amateur acting. Every evening saw some new tibusiness thought out overnight, some play of hands, head, eyes, some new inHection or intonation. And this was true, not only of the leading personages, but of Bendon, with his delightful touch of an English throatiness, and the Bailiffs with their Cockney toughness. It was shown, too, in the way every character played up to every other so that each speech of one was reHected responsivcly in the faces of the rest. The rehearsals were a constant delight and endlessly interesting. Mean- while, below stairs, the stage gang was absorbed in a hundred activities. Their voices, raised in song, Heated upwards, at times reminding us of sailors singing a charity around the capstan; and their songs so well deserve preservation that they are here reprinted. 32