Brearley School - Brearley Book Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Carlos ......... .............,.,,.. J ane Perry Pages ,......,... S Lucretia Osborne Uoy Hume Court Lady ....,.... gg:'Q.lQi.z.Mary Carter Bottomley In our opinion the most successful production of the year was Class II s Peter Pan. Even the usually horrible moment when Peter appeals to the audi ence to believe in fairies passed without a snicker. Wendy was very convincing and all the lost boys were delightful in their pajamas. The pirates were properly terrible and Nana was most amusing. CAST Peter Pan ..4,t... .,,..,,..4.... Wendy .,.,.., L Michael ...,...,... john .......,..........s. Mrs. Darling .,....,.. Mr. Darling ...,.., Nana .......,....,., Liza ....,....,......, First Twin .......... Second Twin ...,s,.,,.. Slightly ,......,..., Curly .....,...... Noodler ..,.,..,., Toodles ,.s....,.r. Nibs t.........,..,.,.r.. Captain Hook ...,,.s Starkey .4.,...s..s.,.,, Smee .,.,s,... Cecco .s..... Mullins ........ jukes ......,. s....4......Barrie Smith ,,...,.s..Margot Dethier Althea Loughran 4.........,Mary Halsey Anne Miner .,s..,..s......,.Mary Paige Betty Ann O'Connor ............Jeanne Poillon Evelyn Lovett Mary Callaway .......,,...Anne Wisner ...Barbara Ziegler .,..,...,Sophie Mason ,...4,4.,.....jane Bedford .,. .Madeleine Taylor ....s,....I.ouise Farrell Marion Cowles s..Martha Wellington .....s....,....jane Delano .,.....s.Pauline Washburn .......,,.Daphne Nelson N21

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DRAMATICS The first play this year was The Tumbler of Our Lady, which was drama- tized by Miss Du Bois from Isabel Butler's translation. It was directed by Miss Du Bois, Miss Elsmith and Mrs. Wing. Almost all of Class IV was in it. Carolyn de Chadenedes gave an excellent performance. CAST Foreword .,..,g.. ..,........ R osanne Wigham Prologue ........ .,..,............. J udy Markham Tumbler ...... ,,....... C arolyn de Chadenedes Virgin ..... ........,..,..... M ary Sprague Angels ........ ,,...... S Barbara Bflms 2 Barbara Field Abbot ......... ......,... D iana Gerli Miss Cutler, our new dramatics coach, has produced two plays so far this year. The Birthday of the Infanta, a dramatization of Oscar Wilde's story, was given by Class VI. It was an ambitious choice, and not perhaps entirely success- fully carried out. This, however, is very carping criticism since almost everyone in the play gave performances well above the usual school level. The Infanta and the Dwarf were especially good. The Infanta ........,. The Dwarf . Chamberlain ........ Duchess ......... Don Pedro ....... CAST l41l .,Marilee Becker .....,.,Flora Blanc Mary Washburn ......,,....,Alice Otis . ...... Dorothy Moore

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THE VllI'S HILARIA On Friday, March 11, the VIII's gave their Hilaria and those who came to it found that it was a very amusing and skillfully produced show. After several false starts, which rather embarrassed Ruth Lambert, but served to get the audience in a humorous frame of mind, Ruth succeeded in getting a small projector to work, and showed two reels of moving pictures which she had taken of the inmates of the Brearley. Everyone admitted that this was a genuine brain-wave on the part of the VIII's and it has been suggested that every class hereafter should do the same, and thus leave behind them some record of their days at the Brearley, over which they can chuckle when they return to class reunions. Visualize Sarah Key saying to her daughter, See now, there's Mother playing basketball. Mother wants you to grow up and be a basketball player just as she was way back in 1952. After this Helen Hanford appeared before the curtain, dressed at la Gay Nineties with bustle and parasol complete, and gave a very flowery rendering of After the Ball, which brought many laughs. We glanced at the program and saw Selected short subjects by our local artists. Helen was evidently one of their local artists. Then the curtain rose on the first act of Under the Gaslightsf' This act and the succeeding ones kept us laughing incessantly. Some of this laughter was caused more by the mistakes made, than by the acting. When the curtain snapped wide open, instead of closing, at the end of a thrilling act, and when the villian's enormous black moustache became slightly lop-sided, it was uproarious. Peanuts were thoughtfully supplied to throw at the villains, and Miss Carey joined in the fun and took several well-aimed shots at the most menacing villain that we have seen in a long time. Perhaps it was the moustache, which concealed most of what is normally Margaret Kidder. Whatever it was, the result was rather terrifying. Eleanor Gould was the proud, blushing heroine. We were almost as much impressed by her various costumes as by her acting, which was very skillful. Ruth Lambert, Frances Poor, Margaret Veeder and Pauline Manship also gave clever and amusing performances. The rest of the cast did their best and did it well, and succeeded in making it a very commendable show. Between the second and third acts, Bebba Chalmers entertained us with some Italian songs which came as a pleasant surprise to those of us who did not know that she had such a charming voice. N31