Central High School - Centralite Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Admini tm o M Mr. Thomas Gunn Principal . . . Efficient . . . friendly and considerate . . . Calm, never too busy to greet one . . . winning the respect and ztdnnrn- tion of all he meets .... Our Study Hall Counselors: Miss Bridge, Miss McFarlane, Miss Slyfmld, Miss Grace, Miss Delbridgc and Miss Carr. Mr. Harry L. Davis- Assistafz! Principal . . . Willingly helpful . . . bringing about a closer under- standing bctween faculty and students . . . energetic . . . always on the job . . . 21 ready smile. . . .

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'Pria es I 4 Falling leaves . . . falling faster . . . faster . . . just as the pages of the calendar are torn away, so do the golden tones of autumn fade into bleakness . . . as if one were about to embark on a long, dismal journey . . . a journey on which perhaps the survival of decency depends .... Autumn is almost ready to sign her name to another year . . . it is cold . . . Centralites are just a little bored. . . . What to do? . . . Ask the Science Department. Hey, Science Department, what to do? . . . I d0n't know! Hey, English Department, what to do? . . . I don't know! Hey, Music Department, what to do? . . . That's easy! Produce an opera! . . . and that is just what the Music Department did! Multitudes of Centralites thronged the Central Auditorium to witness one of the outstanding events of the musical season, Gilbert and Sullivan's tuneful operetta, Princess Ida. It is doubtful whether a Metropolitan audience could have enjoyed more those two very musical evenings on which the opera was presented, than did that audience in the auditorium. After the lively overture, the First act wastes no time in unraveling the inimitable yarn which W. S. Gilbert, alone, could have concocted. With Harlan Hudgins and Harold Landis as the two kings, and Howard Waterstone as Hilarion, Hudgins' son with a Goldilocks coiffure, the first act rambles on with a maximum of interest and is brought to a close, Mr. Koerper having done an excellent job of con- ducting, and the audience bubbling over with excitement, wondering what will happen next. And the audience is not disappointed, for the second act is truly a riot! Mr. Wells conducted this act, which is probably the meatiest of the three from a musical point of view. To begin with, the setting is an isolated university, where Marion Hall, as Princess Ida, has collected a group of females, man haters, their purpose being to live alone and like it. But when the heads of Hilarion and his two com- panions, portrayed by Danny Arnold and Bill Leever, emerge over the wall surrounding the school inhabited by the fanatic enemies of the male of the species, things start happening! Probably the most hilarious scenes in the whole production ensue as the three very masculine gentlemen don the scholastic gowns of female mem- bers of the school, assume falsetto voices, and then attempt to make everyone believe that they are girls trying to enter the university fwhich plan the boys don't seem to mind at alll. However, complications arise, and the plot becomes even thicker as the cur- tain drops on the second act. With Dr. Seitz now conducting and Mr. Berlin, as in the previous acts, at the piano, the third act involves more trouble. We see mobilizing armies and scheming conspirators in the persons of Odell Warren, Kathleen McCallum and Ruth Soifer A quasi-Wagnerian aria by Marion makes the situa- tion tense and more dramatic. The three boys on the home team take up hostilities with Marion's trio of brothers, and a grandiose fencing engagement, a la Dumas, follows. However, the pay off occurs when Marion loses her hairpins, making her look like something out of the museum of natural his- tory. Now, Marion's three brothers, ingloriously defeated, effect a musical disarmament. Hilarion, in the end, gets his girl, and the extravaganza comes to a brilliant finale, with everybody, including the audience, very, very happy. . . . A superb performance by everyone con- cerned . . . so the dismal days of winter are de- layed just a little longer .... Fall ends happily after all .... So long, Fall. Twenty three

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ment flea Dr. Harry Seitz Miss Ruby Richardson Mr. Spencer Fishbaine Mr. Donald Kelley Miss Helen M. Nvatlles Mr. Clyde Kammerer Mr. Verne Rogers Mr. Harold Taft Tuff n 111'-fllll'