Grossmont High School - El Recuerdo Yearbook (El Cajon, CA)

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Dorothy McCarthy as Johnny and Tinkag Max Yale and Azelda Turner as Gabrielle and Maria, the Portu- guese couple, Don Floto as the taxi driver, and Lee Clapham as Armand, the professor. ONE ACT PLAYS All of the plays in this list were presented publicly, on from one to three occasions. Those presented on the Grossmont stage were Sub- merged, Sparkin', and Two Crooks and A Lady. Personnel was as follows: SUBMERGED: Lee Clapham, Ray Fellows, Charles Hofflund, Harold Colby, Scott Piazzoni, Don Floto. GOOD MEDICINE: Don Floto, Dorothy Beidleman, Elsie Reid. TWO CROOKS AND A LADY: Bill King, Beverly Brott, Ruth Wickert, Bettie Horton, Ray Fel- lows, Rex Huffman. Groups particularly concerned in drama this year ' d b ' rde the ca t f LafI picture a ove are, in 0 r, s o 'That OE, cast of Two Crooks and A Lady, Stage Crew and Electricians, cast of The Trysting Place, cast of Farewell Cruel World, cast of Count Pete, and cast of Hints to Brides. SPARKIN': Susan Couts, Mary Anne Bliss, Martha Winterton, Harold Colby. TRYSTING PLACE: Lee Clapham, Barbara Lee Andrews, Emily Thacher, Qrry Petree, Rex Huffman, Christine Thomas, Jim Parks. 'm N' S'ti 'W' A HINT TO BRIDES: Bill King, Bettie Horton, Virginia Lippert, Leonard Stone. QUOTE AND UNQUOTE: Scott Piazzoni, Beverly Simmons, Marjory McKinney. COUNT PETE: Don Floto, Rex Huffman, Dorothy Beidleman. Elsie Reid, Student Di- rector and author of the play adaptation. FAREWELL CRUEL WORLD fTwo casfsy: ' Elizabeth Halbert, Beverly Simmons, Dorothy Beidleman, Marjory Mc- Kinney, Irving Lewis, Edwin Sunbury. Twenty-seven

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i ramatics HE Grossmont Dramatics De- partment has maintained its reputation as one of the most active and interesting parts of the school. It has participated in two three-act productions and innumerable one-act plays, played important roles in the annual Christmas Pageant, and its members have built no less than five effective sets for various stage pres- entations. Following are the three-act plays produced during the year: LAFF THAT OFF A. S. B. play, produced in Nov- ember. A comedy of war time in which three pals adopt as a sister a pretty girl who, after giving them some cause for worry, justifies their confidence in her. The cast included Scott Piazzoni, Wesley Kelley, and Bill Westbrook as the pals, Grace Jamison as the girl g Mary Anne Bliss as the Mop- The sets appearing above are for LaH That Off, uP'uSi .lean Brady and RHY Fellows A. S. B. productiong Submerged and Sparkin', as the landlady and her hl1Sb2.I'1ClQ one-act plays presented for assemblies, and Petti- coat Fever, alumni play. They were all constructed Earnest Sutton and Ruth Bagby as by drama students under the particular supervision the V3.l.1ClCVlllC team, and Leonard of john Wilson, Clark Harris and Don Floto. Stone as the iceman Elsie Reid and Mildred Peterson handled advertising, Marjory McKinney and John Thiele, business, Betty Avery, props, and Chauncey Martin and Don Floto headed the stage crew with Gordon Gershon handling the lights. PETTI COAT FEVER In March the Alumni presented, with an all-star cast, Mark Reed's clever comedy of an ice-bound Labrador wireless operator and his adventures when unexpected feminine company dropped in. In the leading roles were Karl Busch, Amorita Treganza Turnbull, Zelda Schumann-Heink, and Lawrence Powell, supported by Lisle Shoemaker, Eugene Vacher, jane Wells, Betty Anne Jackson, Don Pearson, and Lloyd Patterson. FLY AWAY HOME The senior play, cast barely in time to make the Annual deadline, was entertainingly original treatment of the theme in which modern youth realizes that its elders may know something after all. It was written by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White. The cast follows: Marston Westbrook and Dianthe Brown as james and Nan Masters, Beverly Brott, Dorothy Beidleman, Clark Harris, and Harold Colby as the four Masters children, Elsie Reid as Penny, the housekeeper, Scott Piazzoni and Twenty-.fix

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