The Bush School - Tykoe Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

Page 36 text:

DRAMATICS Twelfth Night with Nlarilyn Smith as Olivia: Barhara Ludherg as Violag jackie Vkfanamaker, Feste: Virginia Poole, Malvoliog Pat Pope, Marial: and Beverly Connelly as Sir Tohy Belch, This year's Christmas play which was pref sented hy the junior class at the annual Christ' mas dinner, was an adaptation of a story from The Long Christmas hy Ruth Sawyer. The main purpose of the play was to show how the life and memory of a simple Spanish peasant, one Bernadino, inspired the first nativity to he plaeed in a Spanish church. Berf nadino throughout his quiet hut holy life in the Spanish hills, had always possessed one great wish. He wished ahove all things to worship Christ, not as represented on the cross, hut as the Child, newhorn, in the Holy City of Bethle' hem, itself. Bernardino never realized his great wish, hut on his death some grateful monks rememhered it and a nativity scene was placed for the first time in a Spanish Church. The script, which took ahout ten minutes to perform, included a east of nine parts and a narrator. The parts were as follows: Marilyn Goetz .i.i...,,... .,,,,. .,,,t,,,,.r,..i.. B e rnardino Nancy Calvert .,,,... ...,,,,,,,,,,..,..,,.,,, T he slave boy jeremy Anderson ,,r,,,,, The slave boy when young foan Broughton ..,.,,e,,,,i,,,,e,,,,,,,.... The slave trader M. E. Donworth .... The friar and Father Superior Alanna Pratt ,,., ttt,,,,i.,..... lst monk and the angel Nancy Gallagher ...... ,.,.....,..,,,,,,,,,,ir.. 2 nd monk Petie Smith ,,ei,i.., ,....,. T he Virgin Mary Patsy Donald ,,,,.. ,,.,,,,,.,,.i..,...... I oseph Pat Pope ..,.,. ,,,,,.. N arrator THE LONG CHRISTMAS Left to right: 'loan Broughton, Mary Evelyn Donworth, Nlarilyn Goetz, Nancy Gallagher, Nancy V Calvert. Page Thirty-two

Page 35 text:

DRAMATICS LADIES IN WAITING Left to right: Leslie Denman, jean Stirrat, Patti Plank, Jean Osborne, Bonnie jean Berg, Jeanne Goss, Marylu Parker, Virginia Poole, Virginia Price. DRAMATIICCS HE first dramatic production of the year was Pink and Patches put on hy the seventh grade. The two alternate casts included Texie , Janet Lister, and Susan Curtis, Rexie , Marilyn Ridgeway and Georgia Callison, Maw , Betty jean Tongue, Mrs. Allen, Lois Byrholdt. The line which brought tears to our eyes was, I'll keep on afgoing' after the cows just as l'll keep on wearin' old brown calico dresses, but I'll keep on afhatin' brown and afhating' calico and afhatin' patches! Miss Kells' next production was The Romance of the Willow Pattern Plate. KoongfSee was played by Virginia Poole, Chang by Jean Os' borne, the Mandarin by Jackie Binns, the Prop' erty Man was Adoria Schultz, the Incense Bearer, Bonnie jean Berg. Perhaps the loveliest line was given hy Jean Osborne when she said, Like the waterfowl in the cleft, so shall you dwell forever within my heart. The dramatic schedule reached its height with the production of Ladies in Waiting by the seniors. The cast was as follows: the hrideftofbe, Marylu Parker, her aunt, Lady Spate, Virginia Poole, Miss Dark, the lady detective, Leslie Denman, the psychic, jean Osborne, a com' panion, Patti Plank, bridesmaids, Jean Stirrat and Virginia Price, Irish cook, Jeanne Goss, Maid, Bonnie Jean Berg. The play proved ex' cellent entertainment as well as a financial suc- cess. Lines which swept the school included, Be provocative and You'll go up the pole one of these days. During the last semester Miss Kells conducted a class in Shakespeare appreciation, in which they considered the life and times of Shakespeare, and acquainted themselves with plots of about a dozen of his plays. Besides paying special attcn' tion to famous scenes and speeches they pre- sented at the Fine Arts Tea a scene from Page Thirty-one

Page 37 text:

ART RS. PRATT, Q Sprattie to those who study under herl, has once again taken up the joh of teaching all those enrolled in the upper school who are artistically inclined, to model heautiful pieces out of sloppy gray clay, or per' haps to attempt a more difficult medium, such as plaster, or stone. Some examples of this work are a lovely snapdragon hlossom, spirited thoroughhreds, heautiful women. as well as a numher of comical figures. It has heen a different sort of Drawing and Painting course this last semester, with Mr. La Grille in charge. The 7th and Sth grades have done quite a hit with fashions and posters. The upper classmen have struggled over charcoal drawings representing articles to he preserved in the war effort, decoupages, and many other interesting as well as novel things for the Bush students. Grease pencil drawings proved to he of great interest, since the student, with a little care, is ahle to create the effect of an etching. A portion of the senior class has endeavored to enlighten themselves hy studying under Mrs. Livengood and Mrs. Pratt the history of Music and Art in relationship to each other. They have studied this relation from the first mud pieces, and sound uttered, to what is now called the music and art of today! This course has proved to he an interesting as well as educational exf perience for all. The Fine Arts Committee could hardly he left out of this hrief summary. This committee is a product of our struggling student govern' ment: it has attempted to increase our meager knowledge of the arts as well as of educational suhjects. This has heen accomplished hy arranging exhihitions in the hall, hy careful choice of material for class hulletin hoards and also hy aiding the asseinhly committee in developing musical programs. ART Sylvia Clise and Mrs. Pratt. Page Thirty-three