Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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Little i The Little Theatre Players of Ft. Hays State have been most successful in their pre sen Utions this year This success is due to the ceaseless direction and efforts of Mr. Or- vis Grout the youthful but efficient director of the Little Theatre Group Top - — We see The Old Ladies of Ft. I lavs State Mary Pat in the upper left hand corner of the picture May Borglund to the right and Doris Swanson Mow. — Izella and Scotty in a pose from Rockwell Kent ' s etch mgv In the middle picture Judgment Dav descends when I yman Wooster calls Cloyd Pugh onto the witness stand while the other witnesses and spectators watch breathlessly l ella and Scott v are being prosecuted for j crime id which they are innocent Van Shaw, as the Bloody l sankow. in a most realistic performance Brooks Rickard adds plenty of Jevcr bits in the form of badly timed takes. Kr ou Making up— it requires much skill to obtain the correct stage effects For some it takes more than one to do the job right a% witness the assistants But the re suits appear to be worth the efforts. Pour I u’cniy four

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even’s Qlce (?lub Outstanding events of the Men’s Glee Club were .1 three d.» tour ot 1 1 1 • northwestern part 1 Kansas, the annual Home Concert and the Music Festival. The glee club under the direction ot Hobart S Davis also sang at several other programs during the vear The leading social ac tivitv was the spring formal Max Hughes pianist for the group was an added attraction t r the audiences To vunter balance the classic playing of Mr Hughes was Van Shaw, pianist prankster who gave readings and accompanied himself on the piano. The Varsity Quartette was called upon to entertain before manv id 1 1 crent group Members of the quartette (from right to left) are Lciaitd Flora. George ciglcr Karl Carson, and Clin ton Meyer. Other members of the glee dub are Bruce Bcmdt Maurice Blalu Clair Bondurant Wilbur Brock 1 . eland Brown Leon Clark. Duane Garnet Eugene Gishwillcr Kenneth Hcitschmrdt John Hemphill, Ivan Hill Harold Hocrsch Donald Kaufman Paul Kewlcs I hilhp I m ir Warren McHlroy Marion Mathews. Helmet Miller Allen Mttchem I U vd Moore Kenneth Moore. Rex Pearson Melvin Robbins, Lewis Schafer Eugene Schlcgci J D. Sharp udr, Stincmetz Philip Thomas. Robert Tichcnor Robert Yeaggv Walter Gaumer C.lenn Garlson Charles Lacey John Butler Maurice Albertson. William I usk, Loyd Willison Page T uttniy- thfvt '

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theatre our guess is as good as ours on that first picture — In the middle, rhe five dignified judges from Judgment Day hold counsel Max Hughes .vs Count Slatarski. an old but honorable man Ken Wells as the wise crack- ing Colonel Jan Sturd a. Brooks Rickard as Professor Murusi Lyman Wooster as Dr. Michael Vlora and Van Shaw as Dr Taan kow. the bloody one I t Hays State students who have had the privilege of seeing the plavs presented bv the Little Theatre are agreed that the work of this group is one of the finest on the campus. Among the many successes of the Group may be added this year ' s selections. State Door Dover Road ' and Burv the Dead . The work is strenuous and takes much time and practice but those who are in it are agreed in one thing and that is that they love it that it ls worth all the hours spent on it (hat it is one grand expression of art To those people we sav go even higher. Page T uteri tu five