Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Specula Galtonia Yearbook (Galt, Ontario Canada)

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SPECULA GALTONIA 49 ccDu1Cy99 THE STAFF PLAYERS CLUB HE Staff Players Club of our school presented for their Autumn Pro- gramme, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 21st, 22nd and 23rd, of 1929, the Three Act play Dulcy, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. This play was one of the very best pro- duced by the Staff Players Club and the audiences every night were loud in their praise of the entire cast. The first act takes place in the suburban home of Dulcinea and her husband. The time is about five o'clock, Friday after- noon. Dulcy's husband and her brother Wil- liam C Bill J Parker are sitting, chatting, in t'he drawing room, Henry, the butler who had been engaged by Dulcy, out on suspended sentence, enters the room. Dulcy also comes in and announces that they are going to have several visitors over the week-end, including a Mr. Forbes, with whom Dulcy's husband is about to plan a business merger. After many hum- orous incidents and tense moments, Dulcy innocently mixes up everything and the curtain falls on the first act. The scene of the second act occurs after dinner, on Friday night, in the drawing room of Dulcy's home. Vincent Leach, a scenarist, one of the guests, falls in love with Angela, the daughter of Mr. Forbes. Mr. Leach is a very enthusiastic yet quite effeminate man and plans to elope with Angela. Bill Parker accompanies them because he knows where a marriage li- cense can be secured. Mr. Forbes is furious at the outcome of events and packs to go home, but is unable to do so because the couple have taken his car. Mr. Forbes practically breaks the merger. Dulcy confides this to Mr. Van Dyck, an apparently wealthy man, who is another guest. He decides to give financial aid to Dulcy's husband. An attornev comes to take away Mr. Van Dyck who had a mistaken notion that he was a millionaire. To add to this predica- ment Henry and Angela's pearls have disappeared. In the third act which takes place the next morning in the drawing room, Mr. Forbes finds out about the departure of Mr. Van Dyck but thinks it is a trap to throw him off the trail. Mr. Forbes de- termines to hold Dulcy's husband to the agreement. Henry returns the pearl-1 and Angela comes back with no one else but... Bill, Thus everything turns out happily. Mrs. C. Knowles as Dulcy gave a splendid impersonation of the character of Dulcy and the audiences certainly ap- preciated her skilful portrayal of the part assigned to her. Mr. Boyd, as a new member of the Staff Players Club proved himself a splendid acquisition and portrayed his role of the young business man, in an excel- lent manner. Mr. Hamilton in the role of the irrit- able Mr. Forbes played his part to per- fection. Mr. MacLennan as the effeminate Mr Leach, Mr. Elton as Schuyler Van Dyck, and Mr. Appleyard as the rejected lover, greatly pleased and interested the au- dience, as did Miss Dorothy Biehl as An- gela, who was very charming, with Miss Pooke very ably taking the role of Mrs. Forbes. Mr. Hambly, as the attorney, and Mr. Stuart as the peculiar butler, fur- nished surprises for the audience. The scenery and the splendid lighting effects added much to the reality of the play and the Staff Players Club are cer- tainly to be congratulated on their splen- did production. MAXIMES Celui-la est riche qui recoit plus qu'il ne consume, Celui-la est pauvre dont la depense ex- cede la recette. 4. -1. .y. ,,. .,. ,,. A quoi correspondait cette generosite? A une dette de reconnaissance de jeu- nesseg a une sentiment souvent si juste que les universitaires ne sont pas gates par la fortune? UN POLYGLOTTE Le Directeur de Concerts: Je vous ai fait venir, car je desire un artiste qui puisse chanter des chansons dans plusieurs langues. Connaissez-vous l'anglais? L'Artiste: Non, monsieur, mais je la sifiie a ravir. J, .y. .-. Soyez juste, humain, bienfaisant. Aimez les autres et ils vous almerontg servez-les et ils vous serviront.

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48 SPECULA GALTONIA The Crigin of Music study of the savage races shows us that the first and very lowest type of music is the purely rhythmical. Music is a necessity among all primitive peoples and is an equal necessity in the lives of modern nations. The fact that man produces and appreciates this rhyth- mical sound distinguishes him from the rest of creation. The so-called songs, of the birds which appear to have rhythm are not in the same class as those of humanity. Un- like that of man, the song of the bird is involuntary and unvarled. The bird merely supplies wind to his vocal mech- anism. He cannot vary his song. No ani- mal, not even the highest type of ape has ever been observed to produce a series of beats at regular intervals and to combine them for the sake of its own pleasure, and to vary them when so combined. This difference divides man at his lowest from the rest of creation at its highest. Man in his earliest stages expressed his emotions, as did the animals, by means of howls and moans. However he found out how to use his lips, his tongue and his teeth in combination with 'his throat and then he broke these sounds up and no longer were his utterances vague cries for he had invented speech whereby he could express his ideas. Man's great need now was a means of satisfactorily expressing his emotions. Through time he finally learned that both words and music could be made to express the same emotional ideas. Now he had invented song. This was a step of far reaching possibil- ities for rhythm, pitch and articulation underlie all musical art. Music may be described as the conventional expression of human emotion or feeling. The fourth factor, the musical instru- ment, was made to imitate then to sup- port and then to elaborate the vocal phrase. Thus we see that from this point in the History of Music we must study it' in four separate lines-tone schemes, the means of communicating music, the means of recording music and the devel- opement of music. MARGARET COWIE, 4A 'cgi The Popular Song RITERS of popular songs usually work in teams, that is, one man writes the words while the other writes the music. When a song becomes popular with the public most of the teams start writing songs of a similar nature. Take, for instance, Great Day. Soon after it became popular, another team wrote Oh Lord, Please Take Away the Rain. The similarity between these is that they are both adaptations of the negro spirituals which were so popular recently over the radio. Also, soon after Tiptoe Through the Tulips was published, another song Counting The Stars Alone appeared. These are both of the same type. Usually the original song is much more popular than those that follow it. The theme song is a common type of popular music. Most of us think that it dates back only to the advent of the talk- ies. This, however, is not so. When the picture Ramona was being shown, the theme song of the same name swept the country and added greatly to the popular- ity of the picture. Laugh, Clown, Laugh also had a theme song of the same title as the picture. In The Big Parade an- other silent, picture, the soldiers could be seen singing while the words were flashed on the screen and the orchestra played the same tunes. If we delved back still fur- ther into the history of motion pictures we might find that the theme song has a still earlier origin. There are usually spells of a certain type of music in which a great many songs of the same nature are published. At present we have songs of a fairly wide range. There are the snappy fox-trots like Hello Baby and Turn on the Heat and the dreamy Vallee type, as well as the light operatic works such as Lover Come Back To Me and The Desert Song. G. WILDMAN.

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