Elmira District Secondary School - Oracle Yearbook (Elmira, Ontario Canada)

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,fri X52 ,AVS C vs ,uni w w? GRADE XI GIRLS' BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS Margaret Brubacher, Beverly Shurly, Kay Kalbfleisch, Ruth Klinck, Belly Vice Lucille Niergarth, Esther Soehner, Ruth Mulholland. GRADE XI BASKETBALL CHAMPS Clifford Gingrich, Donald Huehn, Roland Borchardl, John Arnold 2 1

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' l is fl .gg f ' ' x N . 'ly K ' fi The Gypsy Rover An entirely different type of enter- tainment was given at the commence- ment this year in the form of a romantic musical comedy The Gypsy Rover . The setting is in England in the time of George Ill, the first act taking place in a gypsy camp and the second and third acts in a nobleman's castle. This required a complete change of scenery and of costumes between acts. ln the iirst act the chorus and leads were sturdy gypsies, who in the second and third acts changed into dignified court attendants. To perform this change the committees had to do double duty, working on two sets of costumes and two scenes. Two of the musical num- bers were rendered in the melodrama of that time as was much of the acting of the robber leads. Three specialty dances in charge of Marie Simmons and Betty Yanchus formed added attractions. The accom- paniment. was provided by Alice Hen- rich and Mildred Mohr at the pianos and Mrs. Currie at the violin. Vivian Hoffer, standing backstage, eyes glued to the book, found little chance to prompt the cast, which included- Mar- garet Lutz, Glenn Watson, Betty Vice, Albert Lorch, James Vice, Dorothy Hill, Bruce Ruppel, lan Marr, Bernice Krupp, Ralph Robbins, Floyd Henrich, Ross Weichel and Glenn Plant. The directors, Miss McDonagh, in charge of acting, costumes, property, and make- up, Miss Evans, in charge of wigs and music, and Mr. Hobden in charge of music, together succeeded in making our musical comedy something to remem- ber. Due to the splendid cast, the direc- tors, and the committees it was a decided success. -KATHLEEN KALBFLEISCH .... lTii1 Behind The Scenes! Practically everyone has sat in an audience and enjoyed watching a play, but I don't'believe everyone has been in one. Have you? If you have, you will know what takes place. T I thought there was nothing to it until this year I had the privilege of having a very small part in the chorus of the operetta, and so to you who have not been in a play l shall try to bring the setting, not as seen from the audi- ence, but the scenes behind the scenes . Long before the play, or rather operetta as it was this year, is staged, there is much rehearsing and costume- making, there are many chorus prac- tices, property meetings and the like. It takes a long time for the voices to be- come trained and all seems to go finely until, about two or three weeks before the commencement, some lead or other is snowbound or else half the chorus break out in mumps and head colds. The costume committee does well until the last week or so and they begin the last fittings. Then-oh dear! some costumes are too small, others too big- what on earth to do! That one will never fit and anyway, so and so still