Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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m Robin Hood and his merry men held sway in Modesto for one night this year when the combined glee clubs of the college, under the direction of Edna Barr Love, presented DeKoven ' s opera, Robin Hood. at the Strand Theatre on the evening of March 2 1 . Archers, foresters, milkmaids, villagers, tinkers, monks, pages, lords, and ladies, came and went, re-creating a bit of Sherwood Forest with all the verve and color of old England. Edith Wishart in O Promise Me and Leo Bonney in his drinking song carried off the musical honors of the evening but shared with Sarah Frances Welch and Manfred Hansen in the dramatic laurels. Marie Snare, Cecil Davis, and Vernon Baird added appreciably to the comedy while Marian Davis and David Gray did much in lending color and melody with their solos. This performance was the second presentation of the opera Robin Hood. by the Junior College students; the other presentation was given in the spring of 1924. Mrs. Love was very fortunate in having an adaptable and well rounded cast, considered by her as the best she has ever worked with. Mrs. Love was assisted in the production of the opera by Mary Aline Polk, assistant director, and Jessie M. Kline, who helped to train the soloists. Much credit is also due Hugh Gillis and his staff of student assistants who took care of the very excellent stage effects. Iris Booth was a sympathetic and reliable accompanist: Fay Quisenberry and Leo Matesky did good work in training the dancers. !».- [42] .J

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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

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The principal parts were cast as follows; Robert of Nottingham (afterwards Robin Hooci) Carleton Lehman The Sheriff of Nottingham MANFRED HANSON Sir Guy of Gisborne VERNON Baird Little John LEO BONNEY Will Scarlett DAVID GRAY Friar Tuck CECIL DAVIS Allan a- Dale EDITH WiSHART Lady Marian Fitzwalter Sarah Frances Welch Dame Durden Marie Snare Annabel MARIAN Davis The principals were supporteci by the following well trained chorus: Hortense Mottram. Bettye Baird. Margaret Hiatt, Esther Cook. Rachel Hoist, Willie Mai Montgomery. Avis Jean Rose. Glenna Hosmer, Eleanor Brophy. Mary Gruenig. Margaret Gruenig, Elsie Cunha. Bernice Jensen. Adeline Dudley. Evelyn Foster. Mark McGehee, Robert Sherman, Sanford Tiedeman. William Miles. Grant Cowden, Norman Satow, Milton Simms. William Denny. William Crouch, Roderick Donkin, Harold Francis. Stanley Aitken, Richard Strain, Einar Ahnstedt. Charles Neuman. Maypole dancers: Mary Hawkins, Edith Cole. Eleanor Schell, Marjorie Sisson. June Becker. Ruby Ramont. Maxine Fitzgerald. Marian Mensinger, Page: LeVernc Leiter. [43] -m