Arts High School - Vignette Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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 I have a feeling we're not alone, whitpert Sally Strychnewitx to Anthony Marcantuono. OUR OPERATIC SPECTACULAR 22 Janet Cavanett. Oreleen Orr, and Ronald Seely are relating Down in the Valley . The presentation lost sprinq of Down in the Valley was an entirely different production for Channel 25. A folk operetta which has a single plot depends on its cast and directors to make it a genuine success. So it was with Down in the Valley. The staging, vocal and instrumental direction were excellently done. The scenery was of modern design and. together with the lighting, formed beautiful backgrounds for the music. Oh, it I had th wingt of an angel, wailt Anthony Marcantuono. The plot of the operetta is quite simple. Brack Weaver, condemned to die, escapes from prison to see his love, Jennie Parsons. When he does speak with her. they relive with their memories the time they first met at Prayer Meeting and Brack took Jennie home. He asks her to the Shadow Creek dance on Saturday night, but her father forbids it. because he wants her to go with Thomas Bouche to whom he is in debt. At the dance Bouche gets drunk and picks a fight with Brack. Bouche is killed by Brack in the struggle. After this vision of the past. Brack is recaptured and put back into jail and so the story ends in tragedy. Throughout the presentation thero were times when one was inclined to laugh in glee, or to sing right out and still other times, when, if it weren’t that we were wellbred. we would have been dancing in the aisles. The charming solos, the first scene and the Prayer Meeting—the singing, shouting and clapping entranced us. It was. all in all a truly worth-while evening that wo spent with the cast of Down in the Valley.' ’Funny, but it teemed to have a different tone quality when I heard it in Carnegie Hall, mutfert Mr. Petile.

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TOMORROW'S CAREERS (Left) Miu Johnston. Morio Anicito. Rosann lns«bell«. Madge Freiwald. and Barbara Martin prepare the Christinas murals for tho Board of Education display. (Above) The Occult equilibrium of dynamic tensions result in iconoclastic expressionistic monocular perspective. explains Mr. Landsman. But dear, must the boy in the portrait have a qreen shirt with yellow stripes and purple polka dots? Life it not still in Mist Howards art clast when itill life's being discussed. AHS-TV studios recently sponsored a guided tour tor visitors. We wore lucky enough to receive an invitation for a special one. along with other television and radio critics. When we arrived the guide greeted us and explained that wo were to see the staff in action. The first place we visited was the art workshop. A group of scenic designers were discussing the plan and design of a house to be featured in a coming play. The script called for a special set design. And the artists were in the process of putting their ideas on paper. From there we went to one of the studios from which a few of the important programs are broadcast. The artists were painting the back drop right on the spot. In another room, we found some girls designing costumes for an operatic production. While some were sketching, others were piecing together muslin miniatures. Farther down the hall we discovered a few artists preparing oil paintings for rooms that are televised; others were modeling lamp bases, ash trays, and knick knacks which were to be used as props. These artists are particularly talented and ingenious. Of course they have to be. for producing a television program requires many different forms of art put to use in many ways. 2