Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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CBUCCANEER - 1937 -nn1nu--nn. -im-m.-.nu-n1,1...,1ml-.,,.--nn1...,1,m-.ml.-..m1nn-. 47 n -nn,nn.-.,,,.....,m1,nel1nninninu-,,,,1nn-,,,,-IH,-.m,1...,.-4.,...uu1H The Modesto College Players of a man, confined to an insane asylum for fifteen years, Who returns to his home on Christmas Day to change the entire course of his daughter's life. Olson had the audience howling again, this time as the austere minister. Pool produced another line perfor- mance as Gray Meredith, in love with Margaret. Windus Was Well cast as the kindly old Dr. Alliot. Ashley was behind the footlights once more, as Kit, engaged to Sydney. Miss Fitch portrayed old Aunt Hes- ter, tight-laced and disapproving. Pa- tricia High was the housekeeper, Bassett. Gay, frothy arid light-a direct contrast to the sobriety of A Bill of Divorcementu-was The Ro1mm1fic Young Lady. Rebellious and romantic Rosario, the title role, Was played by Miss Friedrich, convincingly the senti- mental young Spanish Senorita. Dona Barbarita, Rosario's under- standing and pert grandmother who 'Qsaves the day was done by Miss Whit- more in a successful departure from juvenile roles. Within three days, three of The Romrmtic Young Lady cast were in Pasadena at the Pasadena Playhouse Tournament to give Fixi11's, Paul These three won honors at Pasadena Playhouse Green's one-act tragedy. Vincent brought home first actor's honors and the production placed second. Miss Whitmore and Pool completed the cast of this rural drama. Fixivfs was presented in the Little Theatre's last production with The N 0 'Count Boy and Dead Men Cmfft Hurt You. The cast for the former, directed by Pool, included Ashley, Charlotte Smith, Bob Sturtevant and Miss Cool. The latter was directed by Vincent' and had as its cast Jean Hodgert, David Rydbom, Carl Hunter, Bob Hazard and Martha Ayer. N ,

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46 -un.-nn- 1m--unimica-viii-:ian-11.11lm-un--nn..m.1mn-nnn-lm- - Rose Webster, John Fiske Jane West, friend of Susan, Betty Fitch appeared as fluffy facef' Mrs. Fulver- ton-Fane, Widow, and Howard McBee traded his Southern accent for an English one and became Adams, the butler. Rip-roaring, side-splitting melo- drama found its Way to the Little The- ater next in the form of an 1840 moral lesson, Murder in the Old Red Barn, directed by Lynn Windus. 1937 - BUCCANEER Robert Ashley turned in a highly creditable performance in the role of the heavy lead , the villain, empha- sizing his dastardly deeds With dra- matically outstretched hand, leers and asides. Barbara Whitmore as the heroine, murdered by Ashley, handled the com- plex role deftly. Facial grimaces of Charlotte Smith in the part of the heroine,s sister con- tributed materially to her portrayal of this amusing role. Her partner in laugh- provoking was Comer Goble as the Hirst low comedian . Mamma and papa of the erring heroine were characterized by Jeanne Cool and Richard Lyng. Others in the cast Were: Bernard Larson, Clinton Mack, Lavern Carlson, Donald Montgomery, Leonard Weston, Floyd Allen, Martha Ayer, Pool, Pa- tricia High, Helen De Laney, Benjamin Roseman, and Bernice Lamb. The audience helped on this one too, pelting the Villain with peanuts and shells and colorful backdrops and an advertising-covered drop curtain added to the atmosphere of the produc- tion. Tense, gripping drama was presen- ted in A Bill of Diiforcement, the story Cast of The Romantic Young Lady

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48 1937 - BUCCANEER ..nn1nn1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 W 1:m..-.,1,,-.,m1.uu1nn1,,.,1.,,,,1,,.,1M1,,,,1im1vm1.nn1m.1.,m.-.1 L SW Aw Professor Frank Mancini, director of band and orchestra THIS YEAR, the tenth consecutive Prof. Frank Mancini raised his baton above the heads of his instrumentalists to Hnd forty-five band members and thirty orchestra members instead of the four members in the two organizations combined in 1927 when he first directed here. Growth in quantity is not its only advance for growth in quality finds tes- timony everywhere. Two members of these instrumental 3 LWW' groups, Jean Overman, flutist and Mar- shall Atkinson, oboist, were selected by Bohumir Kryl, world famous cornetist, band master, and orchestra leader, to make a five months tour of the United States with his symphony. The tour will begin in September, before which time, the pair will receive training in San Francisco under skilled symphony artists. They will occupy second chairs. Easter vacation found band mem- bers competing for places in a compo- The Modesto Junior College Band ' f-Wai- .' t H W of Q-W mf M. fl 4 i 1 T H A ft' I ' H MT' i T ' y 4