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

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M .usic, besides being the theme of our 1944 year- book, played a big part in our class play, Four Daughters, for it was all about composers and music teachers and musicians. I ' m sure the Lane sisters and Gail Page, who played in the movie version of Four Daughters, would have enjoyed every minute of Fannie Hurst ' s story with our super cast, just as the audience did. Bob Murray played the role of Felix Deitz, young music student and composer who tried to teach Adam Lemp, Bill Freije, to like boogie- woogie as well as he liked Beethoven. Ann Etherington as Ann Lemp was Adam ' s youngest daughter and the violinist of the family, with whom Felix fell in love. It seemed they both liked to swing on garden gates. But when Mickey Borden, Max Cohen, fell in love with Ann, she forgot Felix. Ann ran away with the despondent, pessimistic young composer on the eve of her marriage to Felix. In fact, t he wedding guests were already assembled and had to go back home without seeing the wedding. Ann and Mickey were quite happy, but Mickey was killed in an automobile accident after a few months of marriage. Naturally Ann turned to Felix for consolation and they were eventually reunited. Barbara Turley portrayed Aunt Etta, sympathizer and adviser for both the young folks in the family and her brother, Adam. Thea Lemp, Lucille Cassel, played the piano and was ambitious to meet and marry a rich business man. Gerald Tutterrow played Ben Crowley, who became Thea ' s knight in shining armor because he owned a big car and had plenty of money to spend on her. The part of lazy Kay was done by Betty McDonel. Kay brought the family hopes and predictions for herself into reality by singing over the radio. Emma Lemp, the cellist, was heartbroken when Felix an- nounced his love for Ann. But she concealed her feelings from all except Aunt Etta and, in time, fell in love with her modest but untiring suitor, the florist, played by Richard Deer. Viola Woodard was cast as Emma. There was a little matter of singing and playing the instruments which could have stumped the perform- ers had not members of the music department come to the rescue off stage. Virginia Swaynie supplied the singing; Elsie Stefan, the piano parts; Mary Rose Benjamin played the violin, and Mary Hittle, the cello. The disappointed guests at Felix and Ann ' s wedding which didn ' t happen were Helen Carter, Virgil Cron- ley, Victor DeFelice, Mary Fritsche, Josephine Penna, Louis Popeheff, David Stackhouse and Miss Swaynie. • •

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T or the last two or three months a certain group of Manual students has been very deadline conscious. Every time they looked at the calendar, a printer ' s deadline or deadline for Senior Booster payments or an engraver ' s deadline or the photographer ' s dead- line would stare solemnly at them. But now they ' ve stopped humming Nobody Knows the Trouble I ' ve Seen: they ' ve packed up their trou- bles in that old kit bag, and those happy smiles you see above are on the faces of the Senior Booster staffs. Doris Colligan, editor in chief; Barbara Arnold, business manager, and Betty McDonel, art editor, directed the work of the three staffs. Betty Brickert, Bettyann Haller, Don Smith and Louise Mikels helped Barbara collect all the forty centses. They were di- rected by Miss Helen A. Haynes. Betty ' s staff of Barbara Schmedel, Charles Heck, Almarie Hoffmann, Evelyn Davis, Jack Shipp, Con- stance Kinz, Carolyn Badger, Wendell Stevens, Willa Mae Boesche and Juana Griff ard, under Miss Betty Foster, drew the shiny black records, music staffs and stick figure illustrations on every page. Molly Threlkeld, Tommy Neal, Mr. Lewis Finch and Mr. Carl Hanske took the photos for snapshot pages, and under Doris on the literary staff were Dorothy Reinacker, Virgil Cronley, Almarie, Mary Fritsche, Helen Carter and Betty Strols. Miss Gretchen A. Kemp was adviser. 21

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