College of San Mateo - Campus Yearbook (San Mateo, CA)

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90 The CAMPUS 1 1930 Auntie, stern, practical, domineering, old-fashioned . . . Cora Phillipsg Mar- cella, the emotional Spaniard, alluring, exotic, excitable, violent . . . Clara Mirvalsky, judge Sanderson, a likable man in a disagreeable predicament . . . puzzled, amazed, exasperated . . . Charles Blandford, Mrs. Vivvert, the voluble neighbor . . . Ain,t I the forgetful thing? . . . Elizabeth jackson. Two babies on the sofa . . . two bottles of elixir lying empty . . . Sylvia gone . . . the General gone . . . I told you to take one reaspoonful and you took enough for a horse!'! . . . Oh, Sylvia, I loved you! I loved you! I loved ou! . . . A sixt -nine ear old bab . . . action! . . . antomine . . . babies . Y V . Y . . P . howling . . . women screaming . . . police threatening . . . solution! The setting, again, designed and executed by the Art Club, headed by Myrna Bearce, president, and Miss Donna Davis, faculty adviser . . . a realistic living-room scene . . . the Professors modest home in the Middle West.

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-X okfpy SAN MATEO JUNIOR Co1.LEG13 S 89 nuummunmumnlummfIlininmuulmxnunnnmuIInmumunnumunn nu suulnuunmm unumn , flue Greer! Cradderr' UW-WVU WV' ' ' o'U2. ORDS that we remember . . . Tykes the cyke, sirl' . . . Ugive my love to the children . . . a damned nuisance, anyway! More atmosphere! Effective impressionistic settings . . . thanks to Miss Davis, Myrna Bearce, and the Art Club, excellent lighting effects, especially green ones . . . thanks to Carl Metz, realistic wireless display . . . thanks to the Radio Club, a wierd Green Goddess . . . designed and painted by Vernon Kisner. USECOND CHILDI-toon ' t May . . . and Second Childhoodf' . . . farce comedy by Zellah Covington and jules Simonton . . . winding up the season with a bang, and sending us off to Hnals with a smile! . . . the kind of a play that draws the laughs, the guffaws and the roars! Moth-balls and chocolates . . . old men and babies . . . the Elixir of Youth . . . misunderstanding . . . ghosts . . . frenzy . . . hilarity! Professor Relyea, inventor of the long-sought elixir of youth . . . discovered after years of patient research . . . Professor Relyea, father of Sylvia . . . Profes- sor Relyea,earnest,enthusiastic,unsophisticated,impractical,absorbed in science . . . played by Earl Roudag Phil, his young assistant, boyish, naive, the pro- fessor's ardent champion, and Sylviafs ardent sweetheart . . . John Butler, Sylvia, wistful, sweet, hopeful, and lovable . . . Kathryn Brown, the General, retired, rich, and middle-aged, who will pay the professor's debts in return for his daughter's hand in marriage . . . Dale Kearns in another character role,

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SAN Marizo JUNIOR COLLEGE 91 ununnmnnnuuuIuiIiannininnniu1Inmmvuuvinnmnnmilulunuunumunun I H'lH'I 'H The Players, Club at Home ln conjunction with the Art Club's exhibit, which was held in Room 27 Thursday evening, December 5, 1929, the dramatics department presented two one-act plays, The Valiant, by Holworthy Hall, and The Wonder Hat, by Ben Hecht and Kenneth Goodman Sawyer. The setting which the Art Club devised for The Wonder Hat was an excellent example of the artistic ingenuity of Myrna Bearce and her crew of workers. A fantastic moonlit scene in a garden contained a brick wall at the back of the stage and ivy trailing from the branches of realistic trees. A foun- tain and a garden bench, strewn with Howers, added to the charming setting. The cast for The Wonder' Harm included Faith jordan as Columbine, Byron Goodman as Harlequin, Wzilter Cosgrave as Pierrot and Virginia Hole as Punchinello. During the intermission the audience adjourned to the art room to view the exhibit of drawings, paintings and craft work which the art classes had prepared. The custom of giving the plays and exhibit on the same night is one that has proved very popular. The Valiant, while not in such a light vein as the first play, was enjoyed fully as much. Miss Beveridge had assembled an excellent cast for the pro- duction. Virginia Bennett gave one of the most outstanding performances of her career as a junior college player in the role of the girl who visited the prison to identify her long-lost brother, played by Wardell Jennings. Playing the part with a restraint and simplicity that made it particularly appealing, Jennings brought tears to many a feminine eye. The sympathetic Father Daly was characterized by William Whitlock, and Emanuel Cherin was seen as Wfarden Holt. Byron Goodman played the jailet. The play, in a realistic setting showing the interior of the warden's office, replete with desks, files and a barred window, was unusually convincing.