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Seniors Present Howard Comedy for Fall Play BY NORMA SKILLMAN Through the willing cooperation of directors, teachers, cast, backstage hands, and students, members of the June ' 39 Senior Class success- fully presented The Late Christopher Bean ' 7 by Sidney Howard on November 17 and 18, 1938, in Manual ' s auditorium. This comedy, dealing with a family of New Englanders who had years before given refuge to a drunken, unrecognized artist, revolves around the attempts of an excited world to gain possession of the work and any details about tin life and character of the late Christopher Bean. The Haggett family, who have some of Bean ' s canvasses, suddenly realize their value and be- come hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. Dr. Hag- gett, impressively played by Noble Pearcy, an amusing picture of a small man bcsd with many troubles ; Mrs. Haggett, as enacted by Marjorie Roempke, assuming certain citified airs in dress and bearing because she feels herself above the standard of her native village; Nadejda Popcheff as the elder daughter, Ada, glorying in thinking she possesses babylike prettiness and manners ; and Elizabeth Scott, as the younger daughter, Susan, a pretty girl of nineteen — turn in better than average performances as a small town fami- ly suddenly finding themselves in the prospect, of becoming neb. But it is Abby, the family servant, who ulti- mately holds them all in her power. She has one of Bean ' s greatest paintings which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. It was she alone who understood and appreciated the artist before he died. Because of her kindness, he left her his greatest painting, a portrait of herself at work. Abby, as enacted by Evelyn Rutledge, is a wistful sort of girl between youth and middle age, undecided, assertive, and independent under-dog of the Haggett house- hold. The attempts of various critics and defrauders to possess Bean ' s paintings, the love affair be- tween Susan and a village boy, the going away of Abby. Mrs. Haggett ' s attempts to marry off Ada. and the bit by bit unfolding of the history of Bean, lend to the clever situations and sur- prising twists of plot to the play. -Toe Schmalz as the village painter and paper- hanger in love with Susan turns in a well enacted 30 role. William Stuckey as Tallant, a smooth, youngish, shabbily dressed New Yorker; Keith Wilson as Rosen, an ody and too affable Jewish gentleman of middle age ; and Kenneth Keubler, who portrays Maxwell Davenport — as the per- sons who seek to buy Bean ' s paintings give cred- itable performances. The success of the play was also largely due to the director, Mr. E. Edward Green; assistant director, Mrs. Vivian L. Siener ; and student director, Jean Hoeferkamp. Geraldine Zix and Doris Sohn demonstrated their capability as prompters. The senior class is also indebted to the splendid backstage work of Mr. Lewis E. Finch, technical manager; Carl De Felice, assis- tant technical manager; Bessie Rosenberg, stu- dent stage manager, and the stage crew. Properties were provided by Martha Vander- Schoor, Jean Kline, Charlotte Craig, Shirley Marks, Kathleen Sponsel, Leo Costello, Harold Miller, and Bemice Berger. Beatrice Pacey, Annette Thornberry, Eliza beth Kehl, Alma Czinczoll, Emmajean Sickbert, and Betty Lou Baker selected the costumes. Publicity was in charge of Miss Gretchen A. Kemp with the English VIJ Class, Sam Chernin, Alfred Hubert, Joe Shupinsky, and Olga Phillips assisting. Miss Helen A. Haynes directed the advertising campaign assisted by her Salesman- ship II Class. May Jones, Annette Thornberry, William Alte, Norma Lee Bottles, Carl De Felice, Lela Mae Fox, Myrtle Gresham, Dorothy Han- nan, Charlotte Heck, Doris Linville, Ernest Mador, Alma McKee, Laura Myers, Robert Tay- lor, and Ben Yach under the supervision of Mr. Charles Yeager, made posters advertising the play. Miss Lena Brady, aided by William McCrary, Louise Maier, Sarah Monath, Roselyn Wischmey- er, Winnifred Ragsdale, Lucille Williams, Har- old Robertson, and Joe Trester of 217, and Charles Angelkovich, William Fair, and Mar- jorie Arnold of 135 were in charge of the ticket sale. Miss Arda Knox, house chairman, was in charge of sixty-one seniors who acted as ushers. The memory of a successful production will long be cherished by the June ' 39 Seniors as one of the outstanding events in a happy senior year.
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