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

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The scenery, created at the hands of Manship and Hardy, was very appro- priate and cleverly made. Afterwards there were refreshments and dancing, which successfully con- cluded a very entertaining evening. RUTH MAGOR, VH. THE VII'S HILARIA 1 ' The fact that the invitation did not include Will Hays gave rise to some apprehension, we arrived in a highly critical mood but found nothing to censure, and everything to praise. . After the opening chorus, Lucky Seven, which was led by Peggy Vander Veer, Mary Esther Stilwell, as mistress of ceremonies, announced that they would exhibit a day's performances at a broadcasting station. At the unhappy hour of seven o'clock, Penelope Hunter felt constrained to seek Health to the music of Barbara Hall and the instructions of Elizabeth Washburn. Margaret Robinson gave a few monologues which revealed her as a local Ruth Draper. The audience found especially amusing the one which showed the plight of a woman in a portrait gallery, torn between the pictures and her anxiety for her Philistine son. Then Barbara Sims, Peggy Vander Veer and Ruth Magor out- Boswelled the famous sisters when they sang Bye Bye Blues. The real stars of this Hilaria were two pianos on which Ruth Magor, Mary Esther Stilwell, Barbara Hall, and Nancy Etherington played their expert jazz. Ruth Magor and Nancy Etherington number among their other accomplish- ments that of composing. They played arrangements of some of their own songs. Many of our illusions about radio plays were shattered by Penelope Hunter, Gretchen Ridder, Barbara Sims and Alice King, who were more con- cerned with certain smaller carnivora than with the Romance of Angelica. Whoever wrote the speech on our feathered friends was satirist of no mean powers, and Mary Dewart's rendering of it was enough to scare anyone away from the radio. Class VII then preceded us around the corner and brought us television numbers of Margaret Robinson, and Nancy Etherington tap dancing. As a final number, Nancy Etherington, Barbara Hall, Mary Esther Stilwell, Ruth Magor, Caroline Sawyer, and Margaret Robinson formed an orchestra dressed in black and white costumes. This was very impressive. Their songs were all the popular tunes of the last summer. Nancy Etherington played a piano and saxophone at practically the same time. This was the most impressive f ll. O a BERYL DAWSON MARGARET VEEDER i441

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TRANSLATIONS Qlirom lbe Greek of Meleagerj Everywhere on earth a tear for you will I shed Heliodora, yea, sadly wept tears shall pour into Hades. Beside your tomb shall How a stream of mourning after the dead. For sadly, ah, sadly, do I, Meleager, lament my dear Who walks among the shades, on graceless Acheron's shore. Alas, alas for my child! Where is she? She is not here. Hades has seized her, has seized her. The flower is laid in the dust. O earth, O nurse of mankind, O mother, embrace most gently The maiden bewept of all men who is given into your trust. BETSY WYCKOFF flirom lhe Greek of Czllli.ffl'dlll.fD I shall carry today my myrtle-covered sword Like the two young men who killed the usurping lord And made the Athenians equal men and free. O dearest Harmodius, men say that you have not died, But dwell in the blessed isles of the sea Witli swift Achilles and Diomed standing at your side. I shall carry today my myrtle-covered sword Like the two young men who killed Hipparchus, the lord, At the time of the feast the Athenian people decree. Your fame forever and ever upon our earth shall abide O two young men who killed the usurping lord And made the Athenians equal men and free. BETSY WYCKOFF i 46 I