Columbus High School - Yearbook (Columbus, NE)

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r 6 Niixiihife Toreadorsgi On April 14th, the Glee Clubs and the Orchestra, under the direction of Miss Ella Beck, instructor in Music, staged one of the most successful operettas ever given by students of the Columbus High School, never was an audience more thoroughly pleased. Senor Dictorio, a wealthy farmer, fplayed by Royal Hipwelll, had two daughters, Benita and Juanita QMarie Dodds and Betty Robertsj whom he earnestly desired should marry toreadors. Juan and Pablo QPaul Insinger and Werner Alpersl were sons of neighboring farmers and admirers of Benita and Juanita. Juan and Pablo persuaded two beggars CAllen Eggert and Con Keating? to masquerade as two toreadors, Senor Swateo and Senor Whackeo. And then the trouble began. The plot unfolded delightfully, and held the audience to the very end. Blen Dena Zeller and Lillian Luschen played Dolores and Maria, friends of Benita and Juanita. Hazel Gibbon, Doris Stenger, Helen Galley, Esther Svislowsky, Mildred Goodwin and Mary Elizabeth Snyder were the dancing girls. The girls' chorus was composed of Lucile Randall, Marjorie Byllesby, Ann Heiden, Lucile Weber, Florence Deland, Zola Allen, Margaret Juhnke, Nolia Burgess, Pearl Grabe, Helen Gaver, Inez Hardy, Mil- dred Pike and Helen Rathburng while Hans Egger, Gerhardt Koch, Arthur Alpers, Lester Ernst, Harold Wurdeman, and Charles Sheldon made up the boys' chorus. The Orchestra with its staccato rhythm and glamorous melody completed a true Spanish atmosphere. But all this came not without method. All features of the pre- sentation were so thoroughly harmonized by the director, Miss Beck, that after all, there is no great mystery about the success of The Toreadorsu.

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GIRLS' GLEE CLUB BOYS' GLEE CLUB

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The Band Columbus High School is proud of its band. Under the direction of Mr. A. O. Lieber, a prominent business man of the city, it has not only become an asset to che school, but to the city of Columbus as well. The past two years the band was not large enough to accomplish much, but this year Mr. Lieber has developed a well-balanced group, not only improved in numbers, but also in quality. . During the year the band played at football and basket ball games. They aroused a good deal of enthusiasm and pepped the teams up considerably. So marked was the praise from the school and the citizens of Columbus that Mr. Jewell, manager of the Swan Theatre, consented that they give a concert at the Swan. The band played to a full house and gave a most splendid program. The proceeds of the concert will help purchase uniforms for the members. Much of the credit is due to Mr. Lieber for his persistent and painstaking efforts with them, but we feel that the boys themselves have been very regular in attend- ance-their interest was a factor in its success. V The school also bought new hornsi which helped balance the instrumentation. We hope that the band will improve in future years as much as it has this year, for it is something we really want to see grow. Vllllhce fwrcclhesltra This year the orchestra has been quite seriously handicapped by lack of members. However, considering its limited personnel, due in a large measure to the interference of other school activities, Miss Beck, our instructor, has done well with it and she is very capable in that capacity. The orchestra has played a number of times for the students and different organi- zations of the city. It also took part in the operetta staged by the Glee Clubs. May the new building see a greater interest taken in the orchestra and may it grow larger and better in the years to come! Vllllramatics Under the alert and watchful eye of our instructor, Miss Richardson, we were carefully drilled for our first public appearance in a series of three One Act plays. The curtain went up with a bang! My! How our hearts fluttered. But instantly there was a change and the poise and ease came back to us as we found ourselves in a fragrant florist shop, waited upon by a maiden, all too sympathetic for the good of her employer's business. Then like magic the scene changed and we were peering into a robbers' rendez- vous, listening to the outlaws planning to outwit their pursuers, while icy fingers seemed to play a tatoo on the very marrow of our bones. Zip! The fairies must have been at work again, for we were out on the rolling plains, in a far distant country. We gazed around in curiosity and in the distance could be faintly discerned three characters, a shepherd, a goat and a princess, gayly dancing around. The lights came on, and imagine our surprise, when we discovered that we were back again in the good old C. H. S. Thus our first public appearance ended in success, due solely to the untiring vigi- lance of our Dramatics director. Now our interests are again centered in reproductions, after having merrily wand- ered about in the midst of Fairy Tales for a short time. And in the near future it is a cherished hope of our teacher for us to put on some of these plays before the Assem- bly, so that they, too, may enjoy with us the supreme joys of imagination, I