Glens Falls High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Glens Falls, NY)

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THE RED and BLACK 4 THE SENIOR PLAY Fanny and the Servant Problem scored a big hit. The faculty say so, and a NS. R. U. audience' said so most emphatically. The play held the attention of the audience every minute. There were no dull moments, and interest never lagged. And an attentive audience is, after all, the real test. Orpha Spicer, as Fanny, made a decidedly modern, but thoroughly lovable and see1nly bride. Lawrence Pierpont, as Lord Bantock, was the real thing' in nice boyu husbands. Ruth O'Conn0r and Frances Kiley were the personification of fragile, helpless, yet adorable aunts of uncertain age. Fanny upon arriving at Bantock Hall finds that Her uncles and her cousins are numbered by the dozens, and her aunts, in the persons of the Bennett family, faithful, conscientious, and unselfish, servants of Lord liantock. The' surprise fand the clistressj, is mutual. Morris Halperin as Uncle Bennett, and Vivian Chamberlain as Aunt Bennett, aided by Honoria fKathryn Hickeyj and Jane fMary Sollyj, start a course of training to Ht the new Lady Bantock for the duties of your position, my dear, and so the conflict rages. When things look darkest, Fanny's former business manager, Newt CHarold Rowej, and Dr. Freemantle Uohn Weightmanj bring some measure of consolation and peace. Ernest Bennett fEdward Gerstenj is Fanny's only ally. But Fanny rises to the occasion, wins the hearts of the aunts, and at last, the respect of the Bennett family, and the darkness of the night passes into the sunrise of peace, happiness, and love. It was really good, unusually so, thanks to the judicious selection of the play, hard work by the cast, and particularly to the skill, tact, and labor of Miss Claire VVilliams. She leaves us in June. We wish she didn't. 1924, we challenge you to beat Fanny and the Servant Problem. P. S. Don't forget the delegation of chorus girls from London who came down to call on Fanny, to the astonishment of the aunts, the con- sternation of the Bennett family, and the delectation df the staid Dr. Freemantle. This highly modern and very attractive double quintette furnished a humorous contrast to the more serious action of the play. Edwin B. Robbins.

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bn eh anh Mark YM.. N. NU. 1 Vulmlisllenl zuinually by the Senior Class of the Glens lfnlls llijgh Suliuol Glens Falls, New York ,I une, N23 l'riec 500. ICIJITQJR-IN-Cllllili lXlz1rqui:s R. Clegliorn .fXSSUClA'l'li I2DITi DRS liclitli XVesc lizltliryn lirmv. Frances Kiley lilezinor l.ym:1n l l UM OR EDITOR Mary Solly - .LXR'l'1ilJI'l'UlQ SLCNIQ JR, I'lltJ'l'U1iR.Xl'll lilll I'1 ill Cerelin Smith liclwmcl licrsten All ll.li'l'lC lilJl'l'Ol3. SIQNIQ JR. NICXYS lilDl'l'4 bi-2. lfoster Rhodes: Irene Sll1l'lCY!llll BUSINESS BIANACZICIQ Orville Holland AIDVICRTISINKI NIANAGICRS Morris llzilperin ,-Xllreru .Xnmlcrswi XValter Been FACULTY .-'XUX' l SER S lXl'r. Rolmlmins Hrs. Alexziiiclei' Miss Byerly

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r 5 THE RED and BLACK SENIOR EDITORIAL In spite of the assertions of some people to the contrary, we firmly believe that most High School students. while Seniors, if not before, come to a rather definite realization of the value to them of their four-year High School course. Few students realize in their first and second years that what they are doing at that time is important in the end. It is then that they lay the foundation of their four-year course. The student forms habits not easily broken, which tend either to aid him materially or to be disadvan- tageous to him in the future. VVhat he does in school these first two years gives him something firm to build on, both as a Junior and as a Senior. While a Junior he begins to come in contact with the Seniors enough to realize that some dayfhe himself may graduate, consequently, he works harder and has more definite hopes and plans for the future. The Juniors should be observant and profit by the mistakes of the Seniors. We believe that it should be required of the Juniors that they attend the Commencement exercises and there sit en masse. So often a commence- ment speaker goes to a 'teacher and bewails the fact that he knows nothing of what a graduation essay should be like, whereas his attend- ance at the exercises the year before would at least have taught him the value of brevity as one of the chief virtues. Then we come to our Senior year. We begin to realize what High School means to us. Our study of literature has been a great pleasure, broadening and enriching our minds. Mathematics has made us think, an exercise good for our grey matter. Languages have made us work hard and learn to concentrate. History has steadied us, and with Science, which teaches us the wonders of life around us, has developed in us the ability to reason from cause to effect. And in activities other than our studies we have had ample opportunity to develop greater initiative and whatever talents we may possess. We are able to smile at the humorous school-boy definition of a Senior as one who knows and knows that he knowsfl realizing that we have obtained in High School but a foundation for an education, that we have completed only a good beginning, and that what we now are entering upon is truly a Commencement,