Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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First Row, left to right: R. BIGGAR, P. STERN, T. PICKERING, A. AHRENS. Second Row, left to right: E. COGAN, R. ALLEN, V. GOOKIN, P. LASSELLE, PROF. QUINBY. MASQUE and GOWN eason The last half of this season, dedicated to the late Professor Stanley Perkins Chase, saw the first performance of a new three-act farce- comedy by Professor Walter Whitney, '23, of the University of Maine English Department. The play. One on the House, was presented by a cast of Bowdoin faculty actors on March 19. This was notable as the fourteenth full-length play by a Bowdoin man to be tried out by the Masque and Gown. It was produced entirely by the faculty and their wives. Ivy House Party was sparkled by the second presentation of Dulcy by Kaufman and Con- nolly; the initial performance was on May 14. Dulcy was played in full flapper regalia as a period piece, and proved as amusing as it had been in the early twenties. A highlight of Commencement Week was the presentation of Shakespeare’s Richard II, with Donald Dennis in the title role and Charles Forker as Bolingbroke. The play, forced into Memorial Hall by the rain, suffered by its removal from the Art Building terrace. But colored movies of a rehearsal in costume have made the production available to future Bow- doin students of Shakespeare. The costumes obtained from the Brattle Theatre were not- ably effective. In April, the Masque and Gown also handled, as it has for many years, the production for the final contest in the State High School one- act play competition. Ex-president Raymond Kutan was the first recipient of the Alice Mer- rill Mitchell Award for Acting, given by Pro- fessor Emeritus Mitchell in memory of his wife. Rutan is now doing graduate work at the Yale Department of Drama.

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[n April 1951, the Bowdoin College radio station is completed and daily broadcasting commenced nn the Moulton Union studios. This fall, WBOA [tin swung into action with a five-hour-an-evening, -day-week broadcasting schedule. The typical programing schedule included The w York Times Newscast, local and national sports, tl Campus News, twice each evening. Classical ordings entitled “Music To Study By,” were lyed between nine and eleven. “Live” student ws and various transcriptions, furnished by gov- unent agencies and foreign embassies, completed B i schedule. Special features included the airing of most var- • football, basketball, and baseball contests, both ne and away. Local merchants sponsored these y-by-play commentaries to cover telephone line irgcs. hiring the week surrounding Winter house- ties, WBOA ran an “air-time marathon” by trans- ting over two hundred continuous hours, thus demonstrating that the equipment of the campus station was in good condition, although the precise state of the personnel may have been in doubt. During the first year of campus operation, Lin- wood Morrell guided the up-and-coming organiza- tion. David Dean planned the daily program sched- uling with Business Manager Russell Kelleran, Chief Announcer Bruce McGorrill, and Chief Engineer Bruce Wald completing the Executive Committee. BOWDOIN-ON-THE-AIR — First Row. left to right: N. RUSSELL, B. McGORRILL, R. KELLERNAN, L. MORRELL, B. WALD, D. DEAN, G. WEBBER. Second Row, left to right: R. LEVY, H. SLEEPER, L. BULL, J. HUPPER, C. SARRAUF, P. NICOLET, R. BERGMAN.

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 YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER Mother, What Do You Think? Loft to right: MeBRIDE, COGAN, LYONS, DAGGETT, OSGOOD. 49 The 49th season, dedicated to “our alumni whose interest and support after graduation will reach a climax when they return to play Hamlet as a tribute to KCMS,” started with the summer session production of Mark Reed’s de- lightful comedy Yes, My Darling Daughter. The first performance was in the gymnasium, arena style. The author attended and made an elo- quent plea for a Bowdoin Theatre, despite his pleasure in having, for the first time, seen one of his plays produced arena style. In several parts, actors alternated in the two presentations of the play, for some were unavailable for the second performance. To open the fall season and to interest entering Freshmen, the play was repeated on October 15 in a three-sided arena in the Moulton Union. The second production of this season was an original musical play by Ronald Lander, ’52, with music by Allen Hcthcrington, ’54, Gordon eason . . . Stearns, ’54, Robert Brown, ’53, and Edward Cogan, ’51. Entitled It's a Fact and called “a fantastic farce in two acts with thirteen songs,” it followed the tradition of five earlier Bow- doin musicals in burlesquing the faculty and student body. The Meddiebempsters sang three songs especially written for them, and Don Hayward, in the leading role, sang four. Spe- cial props by Vincent Gookin and scenery designed by President Philip Stern added to the gay spirit of the play, which was presented to packed houses on January 25 and on Febru- ary 16 for Winter House Party. Four one-act plays were picked from eight manuscripts submitted for the 18th annual contest held on March 20th. Two of the chosen plays were short story adaptations by Richard Goodman, ’53, and Ronald Lander, ’52. Ed- ward Cogan, '51, had two plays accepted, both of which wrere original.