Holland High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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' 6'5t5'bt3l5E3lrS55?S55slS56'?5645655455Glodtodtbdtodlotab5452545E45645645643564564525456l556f55t5l5t3lEStS?56l564S5 4' ' Senior Play Visscher, Mcl.ean, Van llaalte, Leland, Evans, Good, Witteveen, Damstra, Souter, Kronemeyer, Rottschaefer, De Neff, Lindsley. MARTHA-BY-THE-DAY HE SENIOR PLAY given by the class of 1932 under the direction of Miss Lucille Lindsley was an outstanding success. Large crowds enthusiastically greeted the play every night, as the curtains parted to disclose a drab tenement scene, while behind stage the theme song, East Side, West Side, was musically UQ shouted. Margret Van Raalte, as Martha, won the hearts of the entire audience by her hon- esty and homely philosophy. Martha was a hard working scrub woman who went out By-the-day to support her family, and she always succeeded in everything she under- took. This was a very difficult role and much credit is due Margret for her splendid portrayal of the lovable Martha. No audience could have wished for a sweeter little hero- ine than Barbara Evans, who took the part of Claire Lang, while john Leland, as Frank Ronald, a wealthy bachelor, thrilled the feminine hearts in the audience by his ardent pursuit of Claire. Among Martha's biggest worries were Steve Lundy, a penny-grasping landlord, played by George Good, and her crabby old mother-in-law, Helena Visscher, who had a wonderful rheumatic limp and who provided the audience with plenty of laughs. Martha also had two spoiled, sassy little daughters, Francie and Cora, respectively Clara Witteveen and Vera Damstra. Sam Slawson, better known as Baxter McLean, was Martha's husband, who had lost his job and was threatened with tuberculosis. To im- prove Sam's health, the entire Slawson family had to leave their tenement house and go to the mountains. Mrs. Sherman, jean Rottschaefer, was Mr. Ronald's sister and the vil- lainess of the play. Her misdeeds were found out upon the return of her ex-convict hus- band, Austin Kronemeyer, who had gone to prison in his wife's place. Amy Pelham, or Harriet De Neff, was the sweet young lady who managed to mix things up for the two lovers of the play. Shaw, the English butler, was played very well by Raymond Souter, while one of the most popular of the actors was Flicker, the little dog who was always falling down wells. Miss Lindsley has said, I think this is the best play I have ever given, and if future classes produce a group of actors who are as anxious to co-operate and as loyal to a coach as this group has been, we need never fear for the success of future Senior Plays. I23l

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4 4 dl-3645Z?f5Z?f5t3f5ZSf5Z5i5Z5i5E5t56'l5ZSf35Z5t35?al55Z5f56ff3Z5f56f5Z5f5tSfS5Ef56'lt-3H5656455Z3i5t3ff5Z5i5t5ff55pt556t5Z5f56fS5f f Council Plays Boter, japinga, Visscher, Cook, Combe, Wislimeier, Evans, Steketee, Van Kolken, Notier, Damstra, Smith, Te Roller, Dykema, Rottschaefer, Gross, Van Raalte, Leland. O AID in financing the Senior Year Book the Council decided to sponsor an eve- ning of plays coached by Miss Steketee and Miss Smith. In the play Two Crooks and a Lady, Jean Rottschaefer, as Mrs. Sims-Vane, proved herself the perfect lady, though a helpless, paralyzed one, in dealing with two crooks, Barbara Evans and Louis Dykema. On her thirty-fourth birthday, Mrs. Sims-Vane had received from her husband a diamond necklace with a stone for every year. She is much older than that at the rise of the curtain, but her necklace is still prized by this widow, who is now absolutely unable to move from her wheel chair. She discovers that her maid is an accomplice to Miller, the Hawk, who has come for the necklace which he believes to have thirty-three stones. Mrs. Sims-Vane cleverly outwits the crooks when she finds that neither one shows any honor, not even toward each other. justice is meted when the two officers, Earl Cook and Fred Jappinga, are brought in by the old lady's companion, Olive Wishmeier, and the necklace remains with Mrs. Sims-Vane. Nevertheless, an interlude acted before the curtains, was introduced by the Pro- logue, Betty Kremer. The device-bearer, Ivan Bouman, set the scene in which the Boy and the Girl, Victor Notier and Marian TcRoller, cause a would-be burglar, john Leland, to take the straight and narrow path by letting him act out the word nevertheless In the comedy Calzbagef, the audience was much amused at the trials of the Gross- meier family in their attempt to be a First Family. Margret Van Raalte, as Mrs. Gross- meier, did her best to make her husband, Stuart Gross, and her daughter, Tildy, played by Helena Visscher, live up to the social altitude to which their newly acquired money had raised them. james Boter, as the intrusive reporter, William Combe, as a Chicago geneologist, and Elizabeth, the maid, played by Gene Van Kolken, put the Grossmeier family back in its place, so that they are glad to be on a level again with their old friend, Mrs. Lena Fischer, played by Vera Damstra. r 24 J