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

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OP O' MIC THUBIBN IIAHL SALHN. ANNE I,II'S1'HI'l'. VICIIIC LIVKIZY. FIAPIII-INVIC STIHLIX1 HHXYAIIIP TICNNI-TY. HIILHNI-I IIHI l'1'H '1'IlRICIC PILLS IX ,X BOTTLE U, KELSICY. XVILLIARI RHAMY. S'l'IKI,IXH 'l'I'liNICR. IPIVK SVHO ANN1-I XVICAYICH. RHSALIA I'VbLL0l'K. SYLYIA I-ll-IHNIAN 92

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rgtpsvgm THE CALDRON- i925 ll11l1l1 PRINOIPALS OF 'STO THE LADIES with the wide ribbons we1'e wonderful. and a great aid to Hourishes. Vile found our- selves admiring the inquisitive upward turn of Hubert Roe's nose as he sat looking up at and sometimes retreating before, Mr. Cas- sidy's forensic onslaughts. The finished effect of this banquet scene. both in setting and in pantomime, cannot be passed over without an extra word of praise. The curtain went. up at the end of one of those monotonous and long winded addresses that occur only too often at banquets, Stirl- ing Turner being the proser of the hour. On- ly excellent training could have turned Stirl- ing into so good an elde1'ly bore as that. One 's first impression as the curtain rose was first of that marvelous blue background. and then printed against it. a long tableful of tired, variously behaving ladies and gentle- men of assorted ages. Each character was distinct. Each was. therefore, a. major part. Martin Schick as the deaf old gentleman who remained standing after the moment ot silent, tribute, was a major success as a min- or character . It was the marvel of this play that as acted by the U25 there were no minor characters. One of the big hits was the few moments when the truckmen, Henry Kowalczyk and Poynter McEvoy, were try- ing to take away the piano. Poynter 's fierce and unmistakable toughness was not less Startling than Henry Swede accent. stride. and generally terrifying calm. NVe can 't men- tion all the major-minors, but Maurice Roth- lvlf-1-ill berg was another whose brief part. that of the photographer. was a bit of perfect by- play. For the rest Margaret Holden's hand- some, white-haired, matron effect, Allen L0- 1l1flllllS slender elderly distinction. Evelyn Richard 's fan and vivacity-well. there were twenty-two at that table. Perhaps the men- tion of these will bring the whole scene back to you when you turn to this Caldron page somewhere up in the year and remember those good old grads of thirty years gone by. And don 't forget David Bernstein. He used to get A's remember. he was an educated boot-black. But all this time the superb principals have been waiting. But who can forget them, even up in the year '55! Do you re- member the oh 's and the ah 's for the beauty. vivacity, and intelligent playing of Anne. who was young Mrs. Beebe. sure that she would go on loving Leonard even if Baker did get the promotion instead of her hus- band? She made a real speech, not one out of a book, for him at the banquet when Ba- . ,AIN x lf Q ' u Xl' X nfl' p Q6-as .1 of M

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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