Bay Shore High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Bay Shore, NY)

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Bah Bab a modern four act comedy by Edward Childs Carpenter was successfully presented on Tuesday and Wednesday December 6th and 7th I927 by the class of 28 The members of the cast were well chosen by the Misses Emily Gage and ulie Franchl and Mr Carl W Meyer Great credit is due Miss Gage for her excellent coachmg Miss Franchl for her plendid co operatlon and Mr Meyer for his willingness to help especially in the construction of the scenery The plot of the play was centered around the desperate and very amus mg efforts of a young sub deb daughter Bab played by Evelyn Greenberg to have her family and friends take her seriously William Wesselhoft as the father ames Archibald had the difficult role of a middle aged gentleman and handled It to perfection His clever make up together with his dlgnlfled manner was quite suited to the part Doris Curley as Clara Archibald the mother gave a splendid character ization She registered cleverly anger and disgust at the antics of Bab the combined efforts of herself and her husband to make the younger daughter behave was one of the real hits of the show Marjorie Magnuson had a prominent part as the debutante daughter Leila She was frequently provoked at her little sister but in the end forgave her since Bab arranged for her successful elopement with the mysterious Clinton Beresford Earl Bull played the part of Beresford titled Englishman who was very popular with Mrs Archibald but whose mysterious doings failed to impress the father Earls clever acting and English accent were very effective and brought much laughter and applause from the audience Lloyd Moreland as Carter Brooks a very dear friend of the family and Samuel Wlddiheld in the role of Guy Grosvenor a young actor and Carter s friend gave a very fine impression of a stage shlek ane Raleigh played by Natalie Maizel and Eddie Perkins played by Robert Stocks were friends of th Archibald family and provided much of the amusement Eddie who tries to be grown up smokes a cigar which gets the best of him and forces him to exit hastily He played the adolescent youth to perfection ane a young mnocent who tries to be sophisticated was portrayed effectively by Miss Maxzel Catherine Dixon as Hannah the mald and Kenneth Petty as William the butler also played their parts well Credit is also due Milford Klrkup business manager May Tecklenburg cl Qigmund Hirsch property managers and to the many others who helped to make the play such a great success that lt will long be remembered The proceeds of the play helped swefl the coffers for the annual Wash wngton trip Evelyn Greenberg 2 8 NOTE Evelyn Greenberg was of course too modest to mention her own fine acting in Bab ln due consideration of this fact we feel it our duty to state here that she played her part which was the largest fl most difficult in the play exceedingly well and contrlbuted in a great measur to the success of the performance Editor If if .. ,,. I . y . , J . ., . U ' . . . . 2 - S ' - ' : - ' .- . , J ' , ' . i g - . 7 L - , Bab's lover, played his part intelligently and with complete understanding. , , , . J . Y . . , . . y , , e . . v - , , , , . . . . y . Z an U , 3 , . , ' ' an V , r 1 S - 5 ..

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