Norwalk High School - Reminiscentiae Yearbook (Norwalk, CT)

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4.2. ---.,--af 5, gs, ' gf., . I U -- ,i Q,Q ? ' it-Q, v , if 1 J- ce.: J is ' ML.- ,+.3..-B5 A...4,f FIRST Row Cleft to rightj-Constance Stawkowski, Mar- guerite Quinlivan, Alice Lockwood, Eugene Talone, Faith Gregory, Tessie Messaro, Eleanor DiProspero, Leo Jasmin, Alan Burr, John Aiken. SECOND Row-Phyllis Herring, Eleanor Madden, Louis Haizel, Thomas Bell, Silvio Spinola, Robert Kircher, Russell Byington, Robert Paulovich, Dorothy Nick- erson, Melvin Orlins, Selwyn Landman, Jack Smith, Donald Bonis. THIRD Row-John Fabrizio, Fred Davis, Victor Fillow, Louis Hall 11941 graduatej, YVayne Bloomquist, Robert VVerme, Frank Slaker, Herbert Herring, iVil- liam Haas, Norman Meyers, Nicholas Annase, Ira Perelman, Vincent Romeo. Tor Row-Phillip Aaronson, Russell McGregor, Marion Hubbell, Harry Hefferan, Howard Robinson, John Callahan, Jack Slattery, Sheldon Kenworthy, Nich- olas Coppolo, Clifford Hayes, Richard Brunjes, Philip Pimbell, Dan Nuzzo, A. L. Fraleigh, Director. NORVVALK HIGH SCHOOL BAND The Norwalk High School Band is one of our outstanding musical organiza- tions. Last year the group traveled to New London to compete in the State Mu- sical Festival against practically all the high school hands of Connecticut. and received a superior rating. This year the group started with comparatively few veteran members of last year's band. However. thc newcomers studied during the summer in summer school so by the time the football season had arrived thc baud was large and efticient. The hand is expecting to travcl to Stamford and lVestport to put on assembly programs. These schools will in turn send groups to put on programs here. This organization also gave a joint concert with thc .lunior High Schools early in the Spring.

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inn , aa! ll l W9-f Ill l M.. ll as an 46 FIRST Row fle-ft to rightj-Lorna Henry, Helen Yates, Jacqueline Hoban, Marilyn Nutting, Ida Maestri, Alice Lutz. SECOND Row-John Petropolous, Fred Horvath, Ralph Perschino, Edward Glanz, Lewis Lane, John Maestri, Rudolph Palladino, John Fabrizio, Joseph Kilbourn. THE ROYAL FAMILYH The graduating class of 1911-2 presented their play on Thursday and Friday evenings, April sixteenth and seventeenth, before capacity audiences in the Norwalk High School auditorium. The play, The Royal Family , a three-act comedy, hy George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, was chosen by Mrs. Innes D. lNIacCammond, director, and her com- mittee for its sparkling good humor, its appealing characters and its unfailing versatility. The Royal Family concerns the private life of the first family of the American theatre, the Cavendish family, which is comprised of three generations. First, there is Fanny Cavendish, who, at seventy, is planning her tour for the coming season, and who rules the Cavendish family with courage and a sharp tongue. Then there is Herbert Dean, a pompous actor now in his decline, who is the brother of Fanny Cavendish. Kitty Dean is his nagging wife. Julie, the oldest daughter of Fanny Cavendish, is at the crest of her career as a Broadway star hut is unhappy in the midst of her extraordinary family. Tony, the only son of Fanny Cavendish, having forsaken the stage for Hollywood, rushes home, only to dash to South America in order to escape a dancer who' has heen pursuing him. Gwen, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Julie t'avendish, jolts the family by marrying Perry Stewart, a non-professional, and forsalting thc stage-temporarily. The actual portrayal of a family whose cntire life is devoted to the theater was realistic-ally enacted hy the entire east.. The unsellish devotion of Fanny Cavendish to her family gave human interest. to the story while the amazing vitality of Tony and Julie Cavendish lu-pt. the play moving at a fast tempo. However, the huge success of the play was due to the superli acting of the entirc cast..