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

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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

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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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THE ORACLE 38 hasn't a acket, but there isn't any more material anyway. Also someone dis- covers the robbers' costumes are all one size and must be altered. Then there is that final search of the school for that long-lost vest someone was so generous as to take home and sew. Finally the last week everyone seems to be fitted with some .sort of thing or other and everyone heaves a sigh of relief -Ah! But wait, all those white stockings haven't been gathered. Oh, but worst of all those wigs! Some slow pokes still haven't them finished, and curls are forever falling and tearing. And will someone please help me with this night- cap? I'm stuck and terribly hot.', Now the property committee is on the rampage and making pleas of '4Please, has anyone an odd-looking sort of table? -which of course no one has ever seen. Then they ask for some chairs centuries out of date and probably only lurking in some museum. The picturesque back drop is well looked after by the property committee, with especial thanks to a well-known Elmira painter. Then to the surprise of most of us, the committee has a real grass carpet that looks like the real McCoy. Also I might here state, the lighting committee deserves three cheers, for producing what really did look like dawn and moonlight. The most difiicult part is to get the cast of sixty rounded up and arrange practices to suit everybody. You may say this is impossible, but we did it through our faithful and hard-working directors-and of course our pianists can make two pianos with the aid of a violin really worth hearing. We also must not forget those who slave 'over the make-up, and also the cast in the dialogue part, who stay up long hours studying speeches. Then the leads sing and sing, until hoarseness overcomes most of them, leaving very little voice. But, I really must confess, I believe we should do the same all over again for the sake of experience. ' -MARGARET BRUBACHER, XI The Aman nigh school Commencement c The annual High School Commence- ment was held on March I2 and 13 at 7.30 p.m. The musical comedy, nTh.e Gypsy Rover , was presented to a full house on both nights and met with out- standing success. The chairman of the High School Board, Mr. A. H. Vice, was chairman for the commencement exercises. On Friday night commercial and inter- mediate certificates, and proficiency scholarship prizes were awarded by the chairman and Mr. Currie. Commercial certificates were pre- sented to the following who completed the special one-year course last term: Gertrude Baechler, Norma Beitz, Ther- esa Jordan, Margaret Martin, Orma Stevens, ,lune Weichel, Grace Woods, Dorothy Mulholland, Bernice Thur and Bruce Ruppel. . Two year commercial certificates were awarded to Lorne Bolger, Audrey Burnett, 'John McCormick, Kathleen Bolender, Ruth Playford and Murray Pommer. Proficiency Scholarships were pre- sented to the following: ' Grade IX ........................ Kathleen Lorch Donor-Literary Society Grade X .................................... Betty Vice Donor-E. M. Arnold Grade XI ............................ Alice Henrich Donor-A. H. Vice . Grade XII ........................ Arthur Weichel Donor-G. Hollinger Grade XIII .................... Donald Freeman Donor-G. E. Currie Grade XI Commercial ,... Stanley Deckert Donor-A. H. Vice Grade XII and Special Commercial ...... Bernice Thur Donor-Blair's Drug Store Grade IX and X ' Special Agriculture ...... George Snider Donor-Albert Seiling All Grades Penmanship .... Connie Dillon Donor-Ullyot's Drug Store All Grades-Best All Round Student -Eleanor Arnold