East Aurora High School - Speculum Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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Go back ,Mage with drama groups l made up the end-men! See that stoogel I put his make-up on. These were the boastings of the girls in Miss Lulu Bredlow's drama group. Setting up scenery, costuming, and making up for the class plays, Minstrel, and Variety Show are considered among the regular duties of the drama class. The elementary schools, as well as East High, enjoyed fire prevention assemblies put on by a group of drama students, These as- semblies were adapted to the different age levels. Christmas Fantasy, this year's annual Christmas program, was based on Hans Chris- tian Anderson's fairy tales. Among the class's more serious undertok- ings were One Small World, an original play- let given for the Human Relations Council of Aurora to celebrate Brotherhood week, Xingu, a one-act play for the Woman's Club, ci panel on Radio and Television for the Youth Conference at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago, and a rodio broadcast over station WMRO entitled ls College Worthwhile? During the year work in pantomime and voice training was stressed. Stage Crew at Work,--- Setting up the movie equipment? -- No, not this time, for their job now is getting ready for the junior class play with its Oriental setting, Members of the crew shown are Don Ninke, Tom Richert, Dick Doemland, Mike Melody, and John Farsberg, Make-Up for Minstrel Show+Girls in the drama class make up boys forthe l952 Minstrel, standing: Mildred Fuller, Janis Dowell, Doris Dweke, Mary Lou Hanny, and Nancy Boyd, seated: Jerry Biltgen, Dave Morgan, .lack Falkos, and Richard Johnson. 'Ss-A

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77Z6n419zeZ show hos cost of 125 boys Minstrel Days are Here Again . . . With Mr. Simansen as interlocutar, the l7th annual minstrel included a cast of more than l25 East , High bays-endmen, chorus boys, stooges, or- chestra members, specialty acts, and the foot- L- ball and band dances. Ml ha d The show, given three nights, made a net profit of S48l .O7, the band received 60 per cent, and the Boys' club received 40 per cent. Directors were Aaron Albright, Jay L. Hunter, and J. V. Trotto. ff- , ,YL-f ,. Entire Minstrel CostfThe entire Minstrel cast as they came on for the finale are, back row, the Minstrel band, fifth and fourth rows, Minstrel Chorus, third row, Coke sextet, varsity dancers, end men, varsity dancers, and Merry Music Makers, second row, special novelty acts, first row, stooges. Minstrel Days Are Here Again -End men sing out as the Minstrel gets under way with Gordon Simonsen as inter- locutor. The end men are Calvin Morris, Richard Johnson, Henry Wendling, Don Schmidt, Bill Heath, Wayne Fichtel, Bob Bieritz, Warren Rahn, Willis Abbott, and .lack Falkos.