Marlborough High School - Sundial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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XJl14 ihhll-f ii: X our dramatists are busy in Caswell Hall, which is filled with rising young actresses. ln that hall of fame three unobtrusive Freshmen garbed as wise men Csuch ironyl chat with Santa Claus Karr. Simple Simon Ca Seniorll carries on a whispered conversation with her foil, a rising Iunior. Morris-dancer Murphy tries unsuccessfully to quiet Tawney , whose friendly but fero- cious bark frightens our handsome Duke Montague. Dancers and English peasants drape themselves happily over empty desks while in the Music Studio Miss Dickinson runs the chorus through Silent Night. The Gym is filled with gay, velvet, be-spangled mummers who twirl becoming moustachios. Mrs. Bmflat prac- tices a difficult run, while Miss Hill beats out the measure. The auspicious Gym Office is naught but a fitting room where Miss Rogers pins cheerful troubadours into colorful costumes made by our own promising needle pushers. Everyone everywherel And then at last the night of nightsl A golden sun sets on an expectant vicinity. Eager guests and twinkling stars arrive at the same time to view our Christmas Festival. At last! In our moonlit patio we are greeted by the odor of a shimmering Christ- mas tree, decorated so bright and early in the morning by the Seniors. Then on into Caswell Hall where the lights gradually die down, and the darkness is soon filled with the flickering candle light of the chorusers. Down the aisle with solemn tread go the three Wise Meng two heralds read from ancient books the story of the Nativity which is acted before us by members of the Lower School. Then the curtain closes to open again on a festivity scene in the great castle of Southumberland, which tonight is ruled by Polly, our Lord of Misrule. Here are lords and ladies, the stewards with their cheery Wassail , the mummers-Percy, the dragong lane Wildey, our lisping St. Georgeg Murrow, the mysterious necromancer, and lay Brandel, the Turk who simply won't stay dead. Down the long aisle comes Phila, a twirling, whirling jester, and Lucy May, whose lovely voice causes every- one to buy her wares. All are making merry in the style of Fifteenth Century Merrie England. All too soon our costumes are changed for those of the Twen- tieth Centuryg our Fifteenth Century celebration must give way to that of today. But the memories will color all our lives, and

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1-xx : 1 :' I.- . -1' xr! 2-is? .3 ii we will always look back to the days when Southumberland came to Marlborough. THE VALENTINE PARTY A brand new ideal The clever luniors originated the idea of a Valentine Party for the whole school. Everyone came to school laden with intriguing lace Valentines. After lunch we assembled in Caswell Hall where the multitudes of hearts were distributed, and a delightful play, A Bachelors Dream put us all in a most romantic mood. E rom there we went to the Gym where the boys received their programs and hastened to fill ours. Orches- tral entertainment was provided by musical luniors, and delight- ful cookies and punch were served from the showersl The Faculty members who attended acted as judges for the dancing contest, and after a final popular elimination, Miss Blake pre- sented the loving cups to Maxine Gerard and Edina Nagel, who thrilled us all with their graceful steps. The affair broke up at the late hour of four, and the guests all joined in a hearty, We thank you! to the gracious Iuniors. DEAD MEN'S GOLD HAT'S gold in them thar hills, strangerlu-and with these words the Senior Class, via Kay Moran and Willimina Mon- tague, plunged the School into a gold rush such as the world has not experienced since the days of '49l It all started with a desire to raise money for the Annual f Sun Dial to youl in some way other than a Good Humor Sale. Miss Dickinson dusted off Over The Footlightsn, thought diligently for awhile, and 'Dead Men's Gold , by Stephen Lea- cock and Charlotte Dickinson , was ready for casting, rehearsals, and presentation. Dead Men's Gold , for the benefit of the uninitiated, is a melodrama of life, love, and the great-out-of-doors, set in Tomb- stone, Dead Bones County, Nevada. The story is as follows: Ascot Wright, a Harvard graduate and the son of a boyhood sweetheart of Bessemer Steel, interests the great steel magnate in a proposition involving millions and a trip to Nevada where