Cumnock School - Chronicle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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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

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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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lt is the duty of all school publications to keep their respective student bodies enlight- ened as to various activities and special events that occur during the school year. The twin headlights of the Cumnock Zephyr, namely: the Courier and the Maroon and Gold, Cast their illuminating light upon the rails enlightening the passengers as to the present and future happenings. The Courier is the bi-monthly student paper, the Maroon and Gold is the year book. Whether athletically, academically, socially, dramatically, or eatingly minded, Cumnock students all have their particular hangouts . The tennis courts furnish recreation for those who crave exercise of the limbs, the cafeteria furnishes food for those who live to eat g the auditorium is a meeting place for follow- ers of Shakespeare, et al, the study hall and Solarium can both be classified as academic- social meeting places, as well as the courtyard, for both students and classes are found there.