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

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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.

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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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92 The CAMPUS f 1950 gllusic REAT progress in junior College musical fields . . . big things in band and orchestra, Mr. Barron directing . . . immense strides with Men's and Wo- men's Choral Clubs, Mr. Fuhrmann directing . . . special quartettes and other vocal groups . . . growth in numbers, reaching higher artistic levels. Outstanding musical events . . . orchestra concert . . . Franz Schubert's uni- versally known lyrical Symphony in B-minor . . . Mendelssohn's thundering War March of the Priests from Athalie . . . Mozart's Overture to the graceful and classical Zauberflote . . . Alan Metzger's :flute playing 'iThe Swan, a vision, white, smoothly gliding, reflected on the still water . . . The Bach Concerto for Two Violins . , . two excellent student violinists, Donald Ripple and Roy Haus .... Choral Clubs in concert . . . orchestra assisting . . . English compositions . . . inimitable Gilbert and Sullivan tunes . . . pompous music of Sir Edward Elgar . . . the modernity of Cyril Scott contrasted with that of an older innovator, Purcell. Piano solos by Dorothy Connor . . . violin music by Roy Haus. Pleasant moments before curtain and between acts at Junior College plays . . theatre orchestra selections . . . numbers from Romberg's Student Prince . . strange rhythms of In a Persian Market. . . . . Musical assembly . . . first public appearance of the Band . . . Ballet Egyptian by Luigini, reminiscent of the Nile and strange dancers engraved on pagan temples at Thebes . . . Dvorak's Wfestern Worlcl Overture . . . Choral Clubs in many vocal selections .... Three violin recitals by Mr. Barron, orchestra conductor . . . Tartiniis classi- cal Sonata No. 10 in G Minor . . . a Mozart concerto in three movements . . . Caesar Franck . . . Ballade and Polonaise by Vieuxtemps . . . numbers of Weniawski's . . . The junior Clubs at Burlingame High School . . . vocal groups performing for various organizations during the year. Mr, Fuhrmann's many excellent records . . . works of master composers . . . advantageous to the students of Music History. Many new instruments for band and orchestra . . . indications of the growth of these organizations . . . musically speaking, a very sucessful year.