Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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30 SAMARA Luella Irvin, Betty Toller, Marian Gale, Jean Finnie, Catherine Bate, Betty Hogg, Jean Burns, Marian Coolidge, Enid Palmer, Betty Carter, Isaber Grant. Montreal. — -Roslyn Arnold, Ruth Seely, Jean Brodie, Mar- jorie Wallace, Catherine Grant, Betty Vaughan, Margaret Sy- mington. Toronto. — Kitty Gordon, Medora Britton, Mary and Mabel Dunlop. Jocelyn White has recently been operated on for appendicitis and is doing very we,ll. Mrs. John Belcourt (Hope McMahon) has a small daughter. Catherine Dougherty, Sylvia Smellie and Sue Houston have been in Ottawa this winter taking part in various activities. Lorna and Mary Blackburn, Dorothy and Alice Peck and Mary Devlin have also been in the Capital most of the winter. Vivien Palmer was abroad with her people last summer. Claudia Coristine is at school in Paris. Charlotte Bowman is studying at the Lisgar Collegiate. Ruth Bostock is studying at the University of British Colum- bia. Beryl Brett is engaged in literary work in London, England; Monica Brett has been acting at the Old Vic Theatre. Mrs. Buck, when in England last summer, was delighted to have a glimpse of the latter, who came to see her off at Euston when she returned to Canada. Hyacinth Lambart got her B.A. degree from McGill last spring. Congratulations, Hyacinth! Clare Borbridge has been in Toronto this winter, studying art. Ruth Eliot is travelling abroad, with her family.

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SAMARA 29 Mrs. F. C. Chiswell (Nora MacCarthy) is living in London, England. She paid a visit to her parents last summer. Julia MacBrien is in London, England, studying Dramatic Art at the Royal Academy. She is expected home in August. Louisa Fauquier is travelling abroad with her parents. Marjorie Borden is studying art in New York. She was a bridesmaid at Patricia Fosbery ' s wedding. Vals Gilmour has done some good work for the Drama League again this winter. Diana Kingsmill also took part in one of the plays and did very well. Nancy MacCarthy worked hard for the Twentieth Century Liberal Association last fall and made election speeches in the Maritime provinces. Mabel Dunlop, Molly Houston, Letitia Wilson, Betty Carter, Enid Palmer and Hilda Salmon are all at Toronto University. Elizabeth Kenny is studying at McGill and Gladys Jost is at Dalhousie University. Mrs. Douglas Blair (Gwendolyn Borden) is now president of the Ottawa Branch of the Twentieth Century Liberal Association. She worked very hard during the last elections. Betty Hogg expects to go abroad again this summer. Mrs. Henry Gill (Vera Birkett) is living in Ottawa and has two delightful children. Mrs. Shirley Woods (Catherine Guthrie) is living in Ottawa and has a little son about a year old. Luella Irvin has been in Beverly Hills, California, visiting relatives. Olive Wilson has been in Ottawa this winter and is working hard for the Twentieth Century Liberal Association. Sybil Rhodes has returned to Ottawa to live. Sybil was an ardent worker for the Conservative cause in the last elections. Elmwood Old Girls were largely represented among this year ' s debutantes and, we may say, had a very busy season. Ottawa. — Janet Southam, Jocelyn White, Edith Baskerville, Janet Wilson, Frances Drury, Morna Peters, Catherine Macphail,

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SAMARA 31 THE OLD GIRLS ' PLAY After all the excitements of the holidays, the first days at school always seem rather tame. So we were delighted to hear when we came back after Easter that the Old Girls were giving their play the next day, April 10th. But I don ' t think any of us expected it to be such a very exciting an d entertaining evening. The play was a comedy by Noel Coward, called Hay Fever and although there were four men ' s parts, sp well did they disguise themselves in make-up, voice and movement, that we quite easily forgot it, even in the love-scenes. And the combination of Noel Coward ' s witty lines with the performers ' clever way of putting them over made the play one long laugh. But at the end I think we of the school (for there was a large public audience), came away in quite a serious frame of mind; because we were resolved to work extra hard at our Dramatics, so as to be good enough, when we leave, to join such a highly talented company as the Old Girls ' Dramatic Society. The caste of Hay Fever was as follows: — Sorel Bliss Vals Gilmour Simon Bliss Diana Kingsmill Clara Catherine Dougherty Judith Bliss Sylvia Smellie David Bliss Sybil Rhodes Sandy Tyrrell Frances Drury Myra Arundel Nancy MacCarthy Richard Greathem Lorna Blackburn Jackie Coryton Catherine Macphail