Grant High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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D U L C Y ■ SENIOR CLASS PLAY CAST Friday Saturday Dulcinea Smith Marvel Twiss Sheilah Beckett Mr . Forbes Kathryn Ward Kathryn Ward Angela Forbes Rosemary Shelley Rosemary Shelley Gordon Smith Larry Snyder Larry Snyder William Parker Herbert Lauterstein Holly Cornell C. Roger Forbes Jack Macken Jack Macken Vincent Leach . Ed Casey Ed Casey Schuyler Van Dyck Bud Sloan Bud Sloan Tom Sterrett .Jim Ludlam Jim Ludlam Blair Patterson Fred Hammond Fred Hammond Henry George Campf George Campf ■ The play, coached by Miss Libbie Krichesky, and presented on Friday and Saturday evenings, December II and 12, in the school auditorium, was judged to be a successful production. The assisting staff consisted of Jim Gruetter, business manager; Dorothy Tupling, property manager; Mary Stiles, wardrobe manager; and Bernita Pallay and Alice Weil, prompters. — Rosemary Shelley. « 21

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in your sports. It seems improbable, since you do them all so splendidly, but deep down in your heart, have you? ® I haven't any real favorite. I like the one I am playing at the time the best. Sometimes I rather lean to football. I think that will be the sport I shall go out for in college. The spirit and enthusiasm in college footbali is greater than in high school football. Training is harder, and the technique of the game is more complicated, buf I know I'll enjoy it as much as I have high school football. • Would you like to be a coach, Hugh? • No, I don't think I shall go out for coaching. I think I could find plays all right, but I couldn't put the pep and enthusiasm necessary into the team. There has to be something inside a man to make a good coach — and I don't believe I have the right sort of a vocabulary to be a coach. I'll get my four years of training at college, and then get a nice, steady, well-paid job winding a seven-day clock — or sumpin'. D U L C Y By George S. Kaufman and Marie Connelly ■ Oh, dear, dumb Dulcyl Always trying to do someone some good — and always getting that one in trouble! Always resolving to keep out of the path of entanglements, and immediately jumping, with a giggle of innocence, into their way! Her long suffering husband, Gordie, takes more than his share of punishment, and her brother, Willie, avers that sometimes he thinks his family must have adopted Duicy. ■ When she decides to help Gordon out in a business way by asking his future business partner, Mr. Forbes, and family down to their home for a week-end, she outdoes herself. In the space of one week-end she manages, with very little trouble, to estrange Mr. Forbes from all thoughts of helping out Gordon Smith financially; involves Mrs. Smith in a flirtation with Schuyler Van Dyck, a Wall street magnate with burning eyes; and engineers an elopement between Angela Forbes and Vincent Leach, a very feminine scenarioist heartily despised by Mr. Forbes. On top of it all, Angela's pearls disappear — and Henry, the butler, is an ex-convict out on parole. Tom Sterrett, Forbes' advertising manager, and in love with Angela, further complicates matters with his high-power salesmanship. A Mr. Patterson comes to the Smiths' home inquiring for Mr. Van Dyck, his cousin, revealing that Van Dyck is not the millionaire he professes to be, but a poor man with an hallucination that he is wealthy. As a result, Smith's jewelry merger with him goes up in smoke. ■ But, as was never expected, things turn out all right. Angela returns from her elopement with Leach — married to Bill. Van Dyck leaves with his cousin, though Mr. Forbes was never convinced that Van Dyck wasn't the great financier, there for the express purpose of cutting out Forbes in the merger with Smith. Henry brings in the pearls, having picked them up from the floor the night before. ■ Duicy, of course, takes all the credit for arranging things, and promises, again, never to meddle in her husband's affairs. CURTAIN.

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A C H A L L E N G E A Symposium Does the Peace of the World Concern the Graduates of January '32? • Can we be anything but serious facing the world crises, of increasing armaments, unpaid debts, prejudice among nations verging on the point of war? We have seen through the experience of our fathers that war does not pay but that disarmaments and peace are the great factors for a lasting prosperity. We will use those three great means of transportation — air, sea and land — to bring about closer friendship among nations. We will exert our powers to bring about disarmament, for without armaments war is but an idle threat. — Jim Ludlam. I like to think that some day soon We'll realize the way of war, Which doesn't heal earth's petty wounds But irritates the angry sore. — Maxine Reed. ■ If the people of the different nations can overcome that feeling of accentuated individualism and think in terms of the world, then war is undoubtedly at an end. — Neola Jones. ® If the peace of the world does not concern our January '32 Class then just whom does it concern? Our Class is a part of Young America that in event of war would be among the first to enter the ranks of hard-fighting soldiers; and our girls — would they not comprise a part of those left-behind to bear that awful burden of anticipation? The January '32 Class is needed in the maintenance of world peace as much as the people of the world need relief from anxiety, fear and horror of any repetition of that last mammoth spectacle — the World War. —Virginia Younie. • As children we have played the game of Heavy, Heavy, Hangs Over Thy Head. Then it was played with trinkets and toys at stake; now we are playing the game with our happiness at stake. The burdening war debts and the increasing threats of war hang over our heads like ominous clouds. The members of this January graduating class can help to clear away those clouds. ■ Another World War would mean the ruin of civilization. We do not want the destruction of this wonderful civilization which we are just beginning to appreciate. We of Young America feel kindly goodwill for the young folks of other lands. We should like to follow Lindbergh's example and fly to the foreign lands as ambassadors of goodwill. We are the coming law-makers and diplomats. It is time to start right now forming the best ideals for our country. —Maxine Rankin. 82