Adlai E Stevenson High School - Ambassador Yearbook (Prarie View, IL)

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 Take her away, Mrs. Pearce. If she gives you any trouble, wallop her.' It began in March with tryouts for the cast and selection of the pit band. It continued into April. Costumes were selected, sets constructed, and the program designed. The lighting crew spent long hours experimenting with techniques, while the make-up crew planned and perfected methods of transforming Stevenson students into Cockney or tailored Londoners. For the cast, there were endless rehearsals and long pages of script. And then the awaited night arrived. Tense students in full costume and make up stood backstage as last minute adjustments were completed. Then the curtain was drawn back and viewers found themselves outside the Royal Opera House in London. Three hours later, the round of applause which closed the show indicated indeed that My Fair Lady had been a successful all- school production. Eliza makes her debut at the Ascot. In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, . . With a little bit of luck . . .'

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Paint, brushes; and a set takes shape. Look at her—a pris'ner of the gutters; . .

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As the Wheel Turned Fine Arts Week, sponsored by the Folk Song Club, presented demonstrations of many types of ort, ranging from painting to modern dance. It was 500 students along with a faculty and adminis- tration of 45, united in a dynamic force, which made the wheel turn at Adlai E. Stevenson High School this year. The spokes of the wheel were the classes, home- work, games, dances, and clubs of a school year. They were students studying, learning, cramming, and learn- ing some more,- crowded halls, weary bones, and confused minds. They were the satisfactions and frus- trations faced by student body and faculty alike. Finally, they were the passing classes, talking, laughing, and walking on—and then they were memories, mem- ories of an unforgettable yeor. 10