Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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The Golden Sheat The second scries of plays conistcd of four one-act plays given in the Little Theatre also. The first was The Golden Sheaf. a California Folk-Play by Leonard Bartlctt. The cast included: Barney Garner, owner of the saloon CLINTON Casad ■ Kelley, a habitue of Front St WILLIAM CROUCH McCrellis. employee of Garner HAROLD CORRIGAN Clark, a ranch foreman WAYNE BeRTHOLD Hurlburt, employee of Garner RAYMOND Wallstrom The Captain GORDON KELLEY The second play was Sacred Symbols, a pantomime of California ' s early religious history, by Elsie Cunha. The cast included: Majel, daughter of the chief of the Hoopas Elsie Cunha Chief Big Bear, her father JOSEPH BiSPO Fleet Foot, her fiance Matt CORRIGAN Flying Eagle, chief of the Yumas, father of Fleet Foot Sanford Tiedeman Medicine Man FloyD ROSE Soldier EiNAR AhNSTEDT Monk Florence Hahn Spanish Settlers — GERALDINE PACKARD, DOROTHY BEARD, Dorothy Poulson, Necia Reynolds. l! [40]

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I he Pnntt ' ss and iht- Pfdiuck One - Act Plays Mrs. Hoch has discovered much new talent in her playwriting class, and as a result the following plays have been produced. These plays, created in the playwriting course, are acted by students in the Little Theatre Workshop, staged by members of the stagecraft class, and directed, as far as possible, by the student authors. In the playwriting course the student is urged to preserve in dramatic form the life about him, the heroic deeds of his ancestors, the ideals of the pioneers, and the rapidly disappearing folk-lore of California. These plays were entered in the state playwriting contest which closed in May. Among the first plays presented in the Little Theatre was Bright Lights a tragedy of Modern Home Life by Dorothy Hill. The cast included: Mr. Davis Theron Cline Mrs. Davis Eleanor Brophy Marianna MARIAN DAVIS Bud LaVerne Leiter The second play was Drifting Snow. a burlesque of College Playwriting. by Kathryn McClure. The cast included: Gordon, a college genius Carleton LEHMAN Miss Thornton, a college instructor RuTH McBride Batty, a co-ed Marjorie CarlSON The third play was You Can ' t Kiss Her, a comedy of the younger generation, by Kathryn McClure. The cast was: Mr. Wright JOSEPH BlSPO Mrs. Wright Marian Pettis Edith Wright, the daughter JEAN RiCKENBACHER Robert, the brother MATT CORRIGAN Isabel, a school chum - Florance PipeR ' iommy, a boy friend of Bob ' s Sanford TieDEMAN 139] ■£L.

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iucrfJ Symboh n The third play was The Princess and the Peacock by Kathryn McClure, a comedy of changing customs. The cast included: Princess.:. . MARTHA TUCKER Prince MatT CorrIGAN Lord High Chamberlain JOSEPH BiSPO Queen Dowager RUBY StrEETER Lady Arabella . ViOLA DONKIN Lady Marian LUCILLE ANDERSON Trumpeter .: Clemons Ellerson Page FLORANCE PiPER The last play, which, by the way, won first prize out of the whole series of one-act plays that had been given at the Little Theatre, was The Conquering Hero by Kathryn McClure. It was a comedy of the smart set and included the following cast; Mrs. Brown, a designing widow Muriel Hauser Mr. Cornngton. a widower JACK McMahon Jean Cornngton. his daughter, a poetess.-. .Marjorie Carlson Arthur Train, her fiance, an artist ... EiNAR Ahnstedt These plays have been decidedly a success. Each time they were presented in the Little Theatre, the room was filled to overflowing. Furthermore, the students themselves seemed to take an interest in presenting them, because they had been written by their own classmates. i