Norwalk High School - Reminiscentiae Yearbook (Norwalk, CT)

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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..

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kJA.v- l ,,,-f L,,,.,.. ,, !',,.-17 Q l Business Manager . Vice Principal, Ferroi B. Green oi june, 1942. Publicity l William Adams, Marilyn Spence, Donald Radley, jean Walsh, Beniamin OP Preesie, Charies O'Brien, Sue Wells, Chester Dc Mio, Ernest Nevidiohn, Martha Berndt, Fred Rooney, Norman Myers. e l . - ,pf 0 ,f l Norwalk Semor High School Malu'-up Servirus ll X Piwserlrs Miss Dorothy Harris Mrs. Peter Vaast X fo it Use Ro al Ushers ' , , Mrs, john Anderson and The Ushers Club ,Lf 0 ,...- on-balm I: ND EDNA FERBER A Mr. Alton L. Fraieigh GEORGE S' KAUFMA Donald Alien, Philip Aronson, Richard Brunies, Alien Burr, Richard l Bush, Russell Byington, Waiter Byio, Morris Byxbee, Betty Ann Callahan, john Callahan, Elinor Di Yrospcro, Florence Engiandcr, Victor Pillow, Faith Gregory, Louis Haizei, Leo jasmin, Ben Marcus, joan Lake, Sheldon Kenworrhy, Charles McMullen, Arthur Paris, lra Pereiman, Philip Reyngjdg, Vincent Romeo, Frank Shker, john Smith, jane Wilson. Produced by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH of New York ,f-f 0 2-' , . ff' 0 -Z' f The'Senior Class wishes to thank . NORWALK Hicaid SCHOOL AUDiTORlUNl A. j, Coihns Company THURSDAY and FRiDAY--APRiL i6 and i7 Dr. john P. Brennan yxllikrfr 4? W Y!-4 V f--- 2 f ',' 'l ' ' 'C' ' ' ' C 4 Y F. , CAST i - Den' . . an order of Je I y Q , appeafmcej S :seems X - er - - . y K - 'r Kjffy Lain . - W . ALICE XC C' 1 Gw,,, R JOHN FA I-UTZ X XS , Pm, . UDOLPH PA BRIZI0 COMM S V F s waf ' LLADIN ITTEE oifny C 'miLrh WIS I-AN? Prop S arwlf , JAC EN Y A effies Jul' 0 ' QUEL1 ATE5 M Mls M . Taxi? cglvendisla . , ,V FRED TEDHOBAN 20' Barat: - Dot Ruth Elan'-lriel Flaherty Hlllboylvendhh I ' , A ' . IDA MSETH Barbara MZ:I YhHall0ran Zen - Cbqgman G' ' ' ' . - , TR 3 . ' 3 - llberr Marsh -4 MARRY - ED GLA I on Hows,-dcquelme Fried Panch all . , NN N N2 E1 Slom man . o , ' , 1 JO UWIN ean0r D In - W- , ' Beg! M133 Peak V . I HN MA G e Palm llllgm M y GL-eenbe 4 C ' ' QISSEPH KILB ESTRI S CGf2:h V ' ' LPH OURN 0 l JOHN PERSC E PETROPOHINO Miss M Scam Tb, ,te b i 0 F-ORNA H Ulos 'fic me N nr IJ tb: J ENRY Y and St upltx apfrlmenl f C 286 Craft Club . 0 fb: of' Friday. Early f ACT Cawndisbey if, N June Und Miss Dorogmex a rernoon. I rw you crlnll Y Hams M Sullrda M Pr ary H y, r. W Gd . Var Between Matin ACT H esley Ketch ue-hon t ee and Night am and Sta A . +- Se Craft Year laser ACT H o S Club I STA Student D. GE CRAFT C J Electricialrectors N Jo LUB ns , Se oSePl1 Schick Thomas Gwizdak I ' Shefn-la mfll-le - D h J0l'ln R n Wane!-st l Onald Gu 08ers fm - Albers :ard 0 +- oldeak STAG o Diru-,M . MAR Y MacCAMMOND .. D0 - riiwvgndreson - W-I son Maru :fred Be - di Wallacfa James R em ' W' S - 0 k - . ll' neider - Mfr h W1lliam'S1am Magnet S an Slunde ansoud rs