Camp Pasquaney - Annual Yearbook (Hebron, NH)

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, THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL 69 Photograph by A. 5. Cochran SCENE. FROM THE, SCUFFLETOWN OUTLAW5 entertaining moments with his 'dis- play of magic and- easy Ho-wing chatter. He teamed with Mogie', Morton for one of the best dfarky dialogues heard in these parts. Elihu Howland made his debut -as Ka playwright as well as an act-or in a sensational masterpiece enftitled, The Qld Mole Cigarette Test. I-Ie was supported by a well chosen cast. Willie de Zaldo and Tony,' Mendoza, two -o-f our representatives from Cuba, gave ra dialogue in Spanish with appropriate gesture-s which was highly amusing and well received. An-other outstanding hit of the year was the Ford Act of jimmy H-ooper, which was con- ceived by himself -and executed by Casey', Casler, Willie de Zaldo, Ujoei' Fox, Brad Higgins, Tony Mendoza, and F-red Jennings. A can -of pebble-s was the motor, twfo of the cast were the tires Qwhich had to be changed, by the wayj, and all kinds of difficulties were encount- ered and overcome. It would take t-oo long to describe the details but all who s-aw it will remember them with .a -chuckle. Un two -occasions we were enter- tained by outside ltalent. The Domino Marionettes from Tufts College gave a performance that was excellent entertainment. It was

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68 THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL as of a serious nature in s-ome cases. It is not the purpose of this resume of the season to list each Saturday night performance, but merely to note the high-lighlts of the year. A chorus which sang pieces of various types ranging from Negro spirituals to musical comedy hits, appeared' several times during the season. lt consisted of Phil', Geiger, Hank Brewster, Pete Carey, Tommy Wilkiiiso-11, Frank Brewer, Tom Prout, .lack', Pat- terson, Pat Riley, Jack Rouse, Carter Higgins, Dave Sm i t h , Dick Prouty, Mr. Nordstrom, and Mr. Reed, the director, to whom is due much of the credit for the suc- cess -of this chorus. Another new and in t e r e s t i n g feature which appeared on the pros gram from time to 'time consisted of a tumbling act by Phil Geiger and Tack Hardwick. They delighted their audience with well executed pranks. However, they were not a little non-plused when they broke a rather firmly built table in one of their acts. Another outstanding performance of the 1929 season was entitled It VVill Be All Right on the Night. This was coached by Mr. Bissell who also took the part of Coach in the play. Casey Casler, John Stoddard, G r a n n y S w o p e , XYillie de Zaldo, and Dave Moore made up the rest of -the cast. lt was a clever piece of w-ork and well executed, keeping the audience in good humor from curtain t-o curtain. Instead of attempting a play this year, the Council introduced a few well-chosen acts of vaudeville which were, of course, the choicest bits of the sea-son task some -of the coun- sellors, if you don't believe itj. Mr. Morton an-d Mr. Mudge did one of the finest balloon dances ever seen this sid-e of New York. Other members of the council dramatized Service's g'The Shooting -of Dan McC1rew. And perhaps the best act o.f 'the evening was a take-off on a VVah-Kee-Nah Council Meeting. The success -o-f this act was largely due to Mr. Jackson who so admir- ably impersonated Herr Myer, the director of the camp. The musical numbers which ap- peared from time to time were not entirely limited 'to choral selections. There was also an up-to-th-e-minute orchestra which added spice to the pro-gram. Its personnel was as follows: piano, Mr. No-rdstromlg banjo, Mr. Richardson, lst saxo- phone, Mr. Stanwoodg 2nd saxo- phone, Mr. Mudge, and Welnb Tilton was added after the arrival of his drums. ln direct con'trast to the peppy music produced by this ensemble, there was some very fine singing by a vocal qu-artette com- posed of Mr. Morris, first tenor, Mr. Roots, second tenor, Mr. Reed, baritone, and Mr. Nordstrom, basso. jack Patterson furnished many .

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70 THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL VVater Sports Day when the Pas- quanev Theatre presenfted T h e Scuftletown Qutlawsn hy XY. N. Cox, The Pipe in the Fields hy T. C. Murray. and jane Clay hy George M. Cohan. The Scuftle- town Qutlaw-s was written by a student in one of Professor Fred- erick Koch's plavwriting classes at the University of North Carolina. It is the recording of a true incident in the lives of the Lowrie gang, a tribe of Croatan Indian outlaws. The plav is not the work of an experienced playwright hut is the Photograph by F. O. Reed SAVELI WALEWITCH AND MADAME Our Delightful Russian Guests and Entertainers made more remarkahle hy the fact that the producers had made all the apparatus themfselves and were most dexterous in manipulating it. Monsieur and Madame Saveli XYalewitch were with us again this year. The former held his audience spellhound for over two hours. Both Monsieur and Madame were in native costume. The latter spoke verv charminglv as she descrihed the tolli songs which he was to sing. XYords cannot descrihe his delight- ful music. Of course the height of the dramatic season was reached on Photograph by F. O. Reed JOHNNY TILLSON AS JANE CLAY'