Cumnock School - Chronicle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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SIX ORIGINAL ONE-ACT PLAYS Concluding the I934-35 dramatic season at Cumnock, the School of Expression, in cooperation with the English department of the lunior Col- lege, presented a program of six original one-act plays, written by mem- bers of the creative writing class, under the direction of Mrs. Lilian H. Woody. The plays were produced by Miss Helen Crane Hardison. A bedroom comedy by Carol Hover, whose plot revolved around the schemings of some hardly-reputable ladies' maids came first, and the cast of women included Frances Hooks, Eleanor Maxfield, lulianna Monroe, and Helen Beckwith. The second play was a drama of hospital life called NARROW COR- RIDORS, by Carol Hover, which showed the stalwartness of the hospital nurse. In the cast were Gwendolyn Dorsey, Lillian Targen, Frances Hooks, Dorothy Drew, Ruth Gardner, lulianna Monroe, ludd Cox, and Elliott Hen- sel. The third play was a farce comedy of college life, CUPID IN THE RAW, by Elliott Hensel, featuring Guy Moore, Cutler Huebener, Leland Moore, and Elliott Hensel. A more serious mood was struck by the next play, a tragedy by Guy Moore, DAWN IN CORSICA, dealing with the ignorant inhabitants of Cor- sica. lncluded in the cast were Dorothy Drew, Lillian Targen, Elliott Hen- sel, and Cutler Huebener. The next play was a sorority play, THE RISE AND FALL OF ALLAN BOWING, written by Guy Moore. lt concerned the metamorphosis of a rather unattractive young pledge. The cast consisted of ludd Cox, Gloria jenkins, Marie Brown, Ernest Megowan, and Helen Beckwith. The program was concluded by a detective mystery by Elliott Hensel, called TWO BULLETS, in which a secretary, Lillian Collins, flees to her friend's apartment, played by Ruth Gardner, to avoid her employer's wife, Helen Beckwith, and a detective, Elliott Hensel. These plays were presented rather informally to an audience of most- ly students, and were interesting as laboratory demonstrations of the cre- ative ability of students. 78

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LITTLE WOMEN Although the cast was somewhat awed by the motion picture produc- tion, nevertheless on Thursday evening, May l5, l935, the Cumnock High School presented as its senior play LITTLE WOMEN, based on the story by Louisa May Alcott, under the direction of Helen Wright Hovey. The cast was adequate and sincere, and the performance was exceptional for so in- experienced a group, many of whom had had no previous experience. Two beautiful sets by the Calkins Studios lent the proper atmosphere to this charming presentation. The cast consisted ot: IO - - Rowena Cook MEC - - Suzanne Vidor AMY - - Lois Rosenthal BETH - - ludith Marks MRS. MARCH - MR. MARCH - AUNT MARCH - LAURIE - - - MR. LAURANCE HANNAH - - BROOK - - - PROFESSOR BHAER june Rhinock David Carnahan Edith Snyder - Ed jenkins Meyer Lebow - loan Okey Donald Creen Ben Sternberg 77

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Helen Crane Hardison lmay her classes increasel, awoke one night from a dream of peaceg and saw a horrible mess of faces, Taken in many shows and places. Grease paint and putty combined to make beautiful drama with faces all fake. 79