Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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If I take the Wings the Morning, and dw G Dear Bill, Although to do it justice, John Mason Brown and Walter Winchell should review our senior class play, Wings of the Morning, they have neither the time nor the pictures, and I have. For weeks the senior dramatists mumbled in their lunch- room macaroni and cheese in a frenzy of forgetting their lines. Everyone came to recognize the yellow playbooks that each carried as marks of distinction — and work. Work they did, and on the night of Saturday, May 1, they put forth a three-act comedy drama. More drama than comedy, Bill, for W.O.T.M. was a deep play about how Master Geoffrey — that was Milton Bohard, a scien- tist, philosopher and philanthropist, took upon himself the task of unraveling the lives of the main characters. Everyone had a problem. Joyce Calvert, a young dress designer who was disillusioned and bewildered in love, played by Rosalind Hoffman, and Benedetta, lovely ambitious Benedetta, an Italian girl, taken by Esther Cohen, were feminine leads. Joyce couldn ' t decide between Adrian Powell, Ed Levinsky in the role of a poet, and Herman Hurwitz ' s character, Dr. David Banning. All were flown by Stanley, an aviator, Gilbert Cohen, to Master Geoffrey ' s home in a mine shaft. Edgar Hamer, as Eben, the philosopher ' s trusted friend and messenger, also called Mrs. Ellis from an old ladies ' home. Betty Hawkins was frail Mrs. Ellis, and Roberta Read, Trudy, a teen-ager who enters with her. Then came real comedy when Benedetta ' s parents, Tonio and Carlotta, Meyer Solotkin and Libby Kipp, began to wrangle. OH! Those accents! Also, the role of Ellen had Marian Reidweg as Master Geoffrey ' s sister in his weird home. Loa, Joyce ' s maid, Jean Cubel ; Effie, the student nurse who was constantly on the phone, Mary Cory, and Miss Wanley, superintendent at the aged ladies ' home, Mollie Bernstein, were good, too. Well — the master mind succeeded in getting his subjects to think and react satisfactorily. Joyce found that she preferred the young doctor; Benedetta secured Adrian, and the audience ap- plauded the senior class play of 1943, Wings of the Morning. Miss Guleff, she ' s the new teacher, you know, who used to go to Manual, is senior dramatics instructor, and she directed the play with help from Mrs. Vivian Siener and Betty Hawkins, student director. The music added to the moods . . . ummmm. Please note that the scenery received the very special talents of the stage hands. They created watermelon pink walls with a Hershey brown trim . . . yum. Even the cast took a day off to dabble as painters and carpenters. Note to Messrs. Brown and Winchell: So there! Affectionately, fifiiL 22

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Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! He Dood It !