Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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'42 Master hire the use of the hall. Among those outside groups with whom the Dramatics Club has workctl this year are the Girls' Latin Dramatic Cfluh, the Emmanuel College Dramatic Society, and the Eire Society of Boston. Other prom- inent mc-mlwers of the staff are Richard C. Apprentice MacLaren, '44g Richard V. McDermott, '42g Herbert Phillips, '42g Blaise Alfano, '42g Stanley Hatoff, '42, and Donald McMorr0w, i I . Page 'luwztjy-rlirze

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ramcztic Lights! At the beginning of the year, Messrs. Russo, Marnell, and Callanan began their arduous task of reading scripts in order to find a play suit- able to be produced as the twentieth annual pro- duction of the Boston Latin School Dramatics Club. Finally they chose john Fuller's humor- ous adaptation of Mark Twain's famous story A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Mr. Russo was about to cast the play when it was announced that the school schedules would be changed in order to eliminate part of the rush on the Casting was post- poned because of the impossibility of rehearsing if school closed at 3.30. However, the seventh period system was adopted at B.L.S., and it was announced that clubs would meet during the seventh period. Mr. Russo immediately Page Tuwniy-eight cast the play with Alex Courtney, last year's Bishop , playing the leading role. The cast rehearsed as much as possible and had learned the first act and part of the second when the April vacation arrived. The vacation was im- mediately followed by draft, sugar, and gaso- line registration. So much time was lost that the date of the play was postponed. Later the play was cancelled because the faculty advisers didn't think it possible to produce the play be- fore the senior graduation. If the curtain had risen on The Connecticut Yankee , the cast would have included the following: Alexander Courtney, '42, Pedro Urbina, '42, Milton Stamatos, '42, Mendel Levinson, '43, Leonard Corman, '42, and S. Raymond Suchecki, '42. However, the Production Staff, under the direction of Production Manager, Frederick MacDonald, has been kept busy all year, for it is the duty of this staff to prepare the stage for assemblies, assist in the presentation of movies, and to work with outside groups who Rehearsal Scene

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C769 megzister The sixty-first year of the Latin School Register presents a weighty magazine of six issues, which is an amazingly far cry from the four-page Bedford Budget of a century ago. It is the result of excellent co-operation among members of the literary and business staffs, who have satisfactorily attained their primary pur- pose of giving opportunity to boys with literary or artistic ability to have their compositions printed. These stalwart guardians of the fourth es- tate are headed by an executive board, which aids in selecting and setting up copy. Alvan Berner, Chairman, and William VonBergen, Mendel Levinson, and Frederick MacDonald constitute the board. Stories, essays, verse, and editorials are com- posed by a group of contributing writers, whose sole reward for their work is the publishing of their articles. Among these boys the most prolific have been Robert Kagan, Lawrence Loughlin, joseph Grossman, Pedro Urbina, Al- bert Tray, Murray Rosenberg, Louis Isenberg, and Theodore Price. Regular columns are writ- ten faithfully by Richard Kobrin, Milton Brave- man, Bernard Levinson, Frederick MacDonald, Isadore Mason, Robert Casey, Norman Silberg, and Harold Band. Art and photography are handled by Fred- erick MacDonald, Morton Rosenblum, Thomas O'Connor, Frank Orlando, and james Foley. However, despite this array of literary talent, it remains for the bold fellows of the Circulation Staff to deliver the Regifler to customers whom they have cajoled and coerced into subscribing. Directing these audacious lads has been the task of Manager Richard Kobrin, Associate Man- agers George Berman, Milton Braveman, Ber- nard Levinson, and Leon Green, with Alfred Page Thirty Convincing Salesmanship White, Noah Fieldman, Robert Keller, Melvin Fine, and Isadore Mason, ably assisting. The staff boasts that eighty-four per cent of the students have succumbed to their persuasive tactics. Business Manager Myron Simes and Adver- tising Manager joseph Coopersmith have se- cured plentiful advertising copy through the efforts of their small but effective staff. We refer you to Stanley Hatoff, Benson Cohen, Robert Berns, and Norman Silberg. Mr. Matson, Mr. Bourgeois, and Mr. Rosen- thal of the faculty have aided immensely in bringing this sixty-first year of Regifler pub- lication to a successful termination. The staff and advisers earned national recognition when the Register was awarded second prize in the country-wide competition held by the Colum- bia Scholastic Press Association.