Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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Page 74 Buccaneer T936 WARTIME IN CELLAR THEATRE World War Scenes Re-enacfed On Four Consecufive Nighfs By Sfuclenf Direcfecl Cast Maurice Corbefl' Wins Praise For Emofional Porfrayal. By HARVEY koEHN lvlonThs oT preparaTion, and hours oT grueling rehearsals pre- ceded The debuT oT Journey's End. All Too soon came The TirsT MISS JEAN WILLIAMS . . . arTisT, designer nighT. WiTh Evelyn BarneTT ad- minisTering The painTs and DirecT- ors Barbara BarreTT and Bob Eley doing The backsTage cheering, The play was given March 4, 5, 6 and 7. SpecTaTors-agreed on orchids To Maurice CorbeTT Tor his en- ThusiasTic perTormance as Lieu- TenanT Raleigh. Lee Clark, as CapTain STanhope, was judged by some as The ouTsTanding Tigure oT The presenTaTion. Lynn Windus, in The parT oT PrivaTe Mason, made a major oT a minor role. Judd STurTevanT, porTraying LieuTenanT TroTTer, was declared equally eTTecTive by observers. Lee VincenT's acTing as Lieu- TenanT l-libberT was especially commendable, nor is The.consisT- anT and sincere reenacTmenT oT LieuTenanT Osborne by George Maze To be overlooked. Clyde Oden as SergeanT Maior and Warren Deering as Colonel made commendable ap- pearances as did Charles Oakley in The role oT CapTain l-lardy. . Ahcred WhiTman as a BriTish privaTe and John Den Dulk, in The parT oT a capTured German soldier, added color and suspense To The producTion. l-lorrors oT war, iTs superTicial glories, and Terrors oT being aT- Tacked, made war seem a realiTy as specTaTors lived Through The various scenes. Copious Tears were shed, and convicTions oT war as a beasTly, ghasTly shame permeaTed The air. THE FATAL MINUTE COMES I . -. . Lee VincenT, Lee Clark, George Maze awalT h

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Buccaneer I936 Page 73 QUEEN'S HUSBAND IS BRILLIANT SATIRE Roberi' Sherwood's Modern Comedy ls Gay and Ironic In ITs Derisive PorTrayal of Presen'I' Day OuTsTancIing European Figures. Bob Eley and Evelyn BarneTT STar, As Usual. I By cARoL EVANS The play: The Queen's Hus- band. The background: an or- naTely Typical palace room. Re- sulT: an ouTsTanding Fall play. In his characTerizaTion oT The queen's much-married husband, Bob Eley became a lovable, kind- ly man, whose Twin passions were penguins and checkers. His in- valuable buTler, Phipps lcludd STurTevanTl aided him in This lasT named oT his weaknesses. The Tyrannizing consorT was Evelyn BarneTT, who demanded marriage oT her daughTer, Anne llsabel Walshl To Toppish William oT Greck, convincingly done by Ed Perry. The queen was aided in her plans by General NorThrup, a Mussolini-HiTler Type, played by Lee Clark and Lord BirTen, a suave diplomaT enacTed by George lvlaze. King Eric revealed his True naTure when daughTer Anne Tell in love wiTh his secreTary, GranTon lhflaurice CorbeTTl. Then, in The Tinal acT, puncTuaTed by cannon shoT, he Took The governmenT inTo his own hands and demanded ThaT Anne leave wiTh GranTon, Thus happily climaxing The drama. Minor roles were well-played by John Den Dulk, AlTred WhiT- man, Lee VincenT, Alice Collins and Alice Frederiksen. GRAND FINALE OF THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND

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Buccaneer I936 Page 75 f ONCE IN A LIFETIME. CORRECT! R1oTous Comedy STaged By College Players In Wmd-up of Busy Dramahc Year Miss BarreTT Capably Handles D'FficuIT Produchon of Hollywood Farce CAST OF CAMPUS COMEDY SMASH By CAROL EVANS The ruThIess spoTIlghT oT Once In a LlTeTlme Turned upon Holly wood and 1Ts glamorous sTars To expose The eccenTrlclT1es oT The moving pucTure mdusTry an an amuslng saTsre The play was sTaged In The M I-I S audlTorlum May 22 and 23 by The IvIodesTo Junior Col lege Players on Their luck hear abouT The new discovery movies sound pIcTures May Evelyn BarneTT Jerry Lee VlncenT and George John Babcock decide To open a voice cuITure school To Train IU experienced acTors George a dumb cluclc Through luck and encounTers I-Ielen I-Io barT a Louella Parsons Type Isa bel Walsh and I-Ierman Glog huer The Czar oTT1Imdom played by Bob Eley rises To be The greaT esT movie magnaTe In Hollywood Ivlovle queens pampered dar lungs 1mporTed auThors and Thousand airplanes add To The hllarlous Time had only once In a IlTeTlme An unusually large casT oT over 30 players presenTed The play Mass Barbara BarreTT as coach was responsible Tor The success oT a play wnlch broughT hllarlous merrlmenT To IvIodesTo audiences Bob Eley was asslsTanT As Tlve seTs were necessary Tor The play each scene was In charge oT a dlTTerenT person MISS BARBARA BARRETT d I Iy 1 ' . I u I I , a , . . , l, . I Three vaudeville acTors down . - ' ' ll ' ll T In - I . i l : l I I I I I I I I ' I ' T . . . rama's Idy