Mechanic Arts High School - M Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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20 THE M JUNE, 1926 This quintet has long dominated the Metro- politan Opera with William Neujahr's re- vival of Wagnerian Opera. Alberta Shelby and Theodore Schmidt next appear in a skit called 'AThirty Years Ago, in which they do Alma DietZ's spe- cialty, the Bowery dance. After an interval which the chorus fills pleasantly, this time led by Florence John- son, Kenneth Guthunz appears and recites the Yarn of the Nancy Bell with great pathos or bathos. William Beisang and Marion Posel next beat and strangle each other quite lovingly in an Apache dance, and it is with a feel- ing of true regret that we watch the chorus close the first act of this inimitable review. During the intermission while Verna Brocker sings for us, we glance around the audience. We see Stanley Marsh, who has just swum the English Channel, Eleanor Roach, the greatest woman broker since Het- tie Green: and in a box we see the entire Cohler-Nemer dental clinic, consisting of Arthur Cohler, Sam Nemer, and his staff of nurses, who are Mary Blesener, Eva Wal- dren, Alice Trautman, Edith Zacho, and Pearl Bloom. I Marjorie Keaveny, Dorothy Kingsbury, and Charles Kocian, the trio which runs the chain of K. K. K. ten cent stores, are in the fourth row. Lillian Koch, star of the Vienese musical comedy, is also present and Elsa Obst, the new Secretary of War, with her assistants, Anna Pehrson, Edna Schwartz, and Clarence Nordrun. Albert Barke, master of properties, is cau- tiously giving the audience the once-over through the peep-hole made for the benefit of the electricians, Eugene Duncan, and Erank Hausmann. Prom the pleased way in which he is talking to the stage carpenters, Alan Salmon, Joe Paymor, and Edward Schoen, we judge that he is well pleased. While we look over our programs to guess at the rest of the show, we notice that Louis Brotsky is the editor of the delightful, little booklet. In looking over the ads we dis- cover that Leona Taylor is conducting a beauty shop, and Eunice Patterson and Eeronia Sweet are operating a candy shop called The Sweet Shoppe, Harriet Van Bergen, an interior decorating firm: and Magdalene Lasar, a dancing academy. The orchestra plays, the lights go out, and the chorus begins the second act. A short playlet in which figure Jim Stepka, Shirley Smith, Patricia Scanlan, and Emma McDuff, was written by Angeline Vorn- brock. Here Genevieve Haugen, and Harold Reid come on the stage, and with the help of Ragnhild Reque, Rose Johnson, and Ruth Rosenthal successfully transport the audience back ten years by singing A'Thanks for the Buggy Ride, a revival from 1926. Karl Heins, the press representative, looks anxiously up 'and down the aisles. He is doing a little ticket speculating on the side and wants to clean up big. He murmurs something about Bernice Resnikoff and fake publicity, and hurries away. Following this, Betty Schneider and Victor QVicj Len- nard dance while Gertrude Waldo sings. After a monologue by Dot Nelson and a dance by Genevieve Bayles, Mysterioso, the man who sees all, and knows all, dominates the stage with his two pretty assistants, Ger- trude Retka and Marion Kern. Dorothea Simon, Lenore O'Shaugnessy, and Stella Snyder, makers of S. O. S. CSave Our Skinsj soap, display a great deal of interest about l926 graduates of M. A. H. S. Mysterioso discloses his own identity as Erwin Jung, and from him we learn the following facts: Beatrice Priebe is running a ranch in Mon- tana. Laurence Berman is a professor of chemistry at Dartmouth. Amerigo Brioschi Cnow Count Brioschij, is the Premier of Italy. After he overthrew Mussolini, he im- ported Sabin Swenson and Harry Peterson to make skiis. ln this way he will make sure that Rome will have fresh milk from the mountains all winter. Bernard Grodin is mayor of Red Wing, Mae Waldron is a fashionable modiste: David Haynes has be- come sport editor of the New York World, and Evelyn Wick is running the women's page in the Los Angeles Morning Milk. Mae Zehnder is a lion tamer in Jacob Mar- goles' circus. Also affiliated with this are William Boehm and Alice Boehm as trapeze performers, Eva Yugend, Bernadine White, and Irene Wright as tight rope walkers, and Norma Seegmuler, an aviatrix, also travels with them. Mary Braverman operates a cabaret featur- ing Mary's delicious cakes, irst made famous at the Mechanic Arts football banquet ten

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lH??1EQ.1929.D . . T H E AIMNQ Wfhe Follies of 1936,' Henningers new show The Fol lies of 1936. It was given at Arthur Partridge's theatre, The Belvidere, which has opened under the management of Edward Bjorkland, Jr. The show is rather a pretentious one, with a cast of nearly one hundred and fifty. The largest orchestra ever seen with a revue is assembled under the direction of Edward Weinstine, who is ably assisted by his con- cert master, Carl Stober. Soloists in the orchestra are Emil Heir and Philip Cohen. This Junior Symphony plays to perfec- tion the exquisite lyrics written by Lorin Wollan, Will Schneider, and Robert Bell. The settings of the review certainly de- serve an article to themselves. For them Mamie Petrovansky, Dorothy Crawford, and Raymond Deeg are responsible. Robin Frost, however, designed the settings for the bal- lets, which show his usual skill and mas- terly technique. Cierald Knuteson and Ed- ward Ziegler deserve a good deal of credit for the construction of the settings. The review opens with a chorus, which is led by Theresa Robertson, and in the front row we find Dorothy Abbott, Violet Nel- son, Caroline Bruns, Esther Hoeflin, and Ethel Abbott, wearing to perfection the cos- tumes designed by Lorell Shugart and Adele Ciross. Immediately after the chorus, Ashley Rob- inson and Wilbur Rice c'onvu1se the audience with their brilliant repartee. Ash later doubles in the show as strong man, juggling Walter Olson, LeRoy Coffin, and Sam Roi- blatt from arm to arm. Ashley had been billed as the Ash-Man until the Ash- men's union objected: he is now billed as Young Hercules. Keith Yandon and Bernard Horowitz ap- pear next in a glorified buck and wing dance, which calls to mind the fact that during the 1926 Charleston craze both of them won several prizes because of their unique con- tortions. They are followed by Freda Brav- erman and Ray CSwedeJ Nelson in a skit written by Reuben Holm. Of course Freda's extreme height and Swede's diminutive stature brought down the house. Maxine Ries, a pupil of Pavlowa, is the AST night saw the opening of Leroy premier danseuse of the ballet which fol- lows. The ballet, a rather pretentious affair, is called A Night in Egypt. Maxine's partner is John Eldredge. In the supporting cast we find Eunice Johnson, Helen Hoose- man, Mary Irish, Dorothy Dorland, Frances Cosgriff, Antoinette Musacchio, Elizabeth Murphy, Mildred Olson, Ruth Shane, John Altman, Harry Angier, and Oscar Husby. Following the second chorus, which is billed as the Parade of the Models, and in which we see Dorothy Roe, Marion Far- rand, Eva Frank, Margaret Cassellius, the prima donna of the review, Martha Klotz, appears and sings several songs, which were written exclusively for her by her personal friend, Mabel La Doucre, who has just re- turned from Paris. Irene Hoivik and Ray Holzer next amuse the audience with their quips, and are fol- lowed by a second ballet, written by Ed. Howe and Marjorie House, and called Hia- watha and Minnehahaf' This features the famous Sioux scalp dance taught to LeRoy Whitlock in Northern Minnesota ten years ago. In the middle of the playlet, that follows, in which Sam Staberow, Christine Shepherd, and John Krema are featured, Bernice Res- nikoff, chairman of the Humane Society, was observed stalking down the aisle. Armed with a powerful pair of field glasses she stood silently until the middle of the dance by Esther Tuetene, when she at- tempted to arrest Ford Marshall, the stage manager, for allowing the dancer to appear in so daring a costume. La Tvetene is do- ing the Eskimo spring dance, and Miss Res- nikoff maintains that it is sheer cruelty to kill 743 polar bears in order to make a cos- tume entirely of their right ears. After Mr. Marshall was led away, weeping and re- pentant, Florence Anderson took charge of the show, and drove the call boys, Duane McFarland and Merwin Hoyt, to madness. The affair resulted in the wardrobe mis- tresses, Elma Morrow, Norma Johnson, and Irene Grudnoski's resigning at once. The next episode of the review features Stella Heinze in Wagnerian roles. She is supported by Leo Hemminghaus, Hilda Sandau. Cyril O'Bryen, and Joe Barnett.

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