Central High School - Caldron Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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' ,Sswfe A an - ' i K? T thjdv K-xfxf Mariorie Suter Director of Dramatics NVho began saying that' certain leisurely types of people were slow as a stage- eoaeh? That mistaken person lived before the speedometer began registering the rapid- ities of our stage coach here at. Central. She is Miss Marjorie Suter. who has returned to us after a year in New York in the studio of the Russian Players. Naturally we have all of us. director. players. and critics. felt the added interest of watching the effect of that year's work. And it did count. To the La- dies was in detail the niost notable of an ambitions series given by senior classes un- der Miss Suter's direction during the last tive years. 'tMilestones , Prnnella . f'llHl'll1 School and To the Ladies. From the front rows we have enjoyed the points laughed. we trust. at suitable ino- l11911fS. wept where tears were due. and fallen in love with the leading nian twe are femi- ninel at each of these plays in succession. Now the townspeople have found out Miss Suter work. They come in increasing nnni- bers to this event of the senior year. Many of tl1e111 make a point of attending the regu- lar plays put on by the Student Players. the drainatie club of Central inaugurated by the director. lVe owe inuch of our interest in Central activities to this talented Stage Coach whoin we have learned to admire and love. 'AYLYl1lA BUILDING FORT WAYNE EDU111

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Yllifll THE CALDRON- I925 A134111 BAXQUET SCENE FROM TO THE LADIES ker stole every word of his thunder out of the book that cost three dollars, borrowed from Chester Mullin. and Leonard was struck with laryngitis at the awful moment Mr. Henrici called his name. But small won- der that she believed in him for Leonard Beebe tPerry Thomasj was a lovably absent- minded but adoring husband who needed a charming wife to get him out of a clerkship into the position of confidential secretary which the unpleasanfifBaker might have had. YVe feel sorry for Baker CHoward Tenneyl. There was a lady with l1i1n at the banquet. but it must be that she was not so much of a help as Elsie or Mrs, Kincaid. Vere Lipkey as Mrs. Kincaid was stunning- ly frocked and beautifully poised. She gave distinction to the picture, and matched Well the authoritative manner of her handsome and prosperous husband. Ralph Popp. But the delightful satire of the plot turned on the point, as the program said, that Nearly every man that got any place has been 111ar- lled and that couldnt be Just a coinci dence A good deal of fun of this satne and many of the good lines tell to the amaz h9H1t yy as in vaudeville Theie his checked clothes should have taken him but somehow ing Chester Mullin QJOIIII Roudebushl. His ff Y , - 1 X ' Q f , X I 1D1l i1lIj ' ' E 93 he stayed with Kincaids in the filing de- partment. Hehad no wife. perhaps if we had been writing the play. we would have married l1i1n to the stenographer CFlorence Stirlingl. But she was such a snip, so ob- servant Ellld eificient, though pert, that I doubt whether Chester would have been happy. Hut with Chester, Beebe, and Kin- caid making the company go so big, we per- sonally refuse to give all the credit of WTO the Ladies to the actors alone. The Seniors to be sure were determined to give the credit to Miss Suter. and they said it with lovely flowers. But she is quoted as saying that you cannot make something out of nothing , which distinctly the seniors of nineteen twenty-tive are 11ot. She made that quite clear. So here 's to you, Mr. Toastmas- ter. and all the ladies and gentlemen of Kin- caid one last toast to To the Ladies . 1 'X , u

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