Holton Arms School - Scribe Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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M. , , And Bright Stttrsw Tms YEAR the few girls left in the Dramatic Club elected Mary Holt Whittle president and Katharine Colvin secretary. After the tryouts we again had quantity as well as quality. On the nights of the fifth and sixth of De- cember the theater was crowded with an audience anxious to see the three one-act plays produced by the club under the expert direction of Mrs. Rice. They were not dis- appointed-if we do say so ourselves! Shin- ing Armour, a scene from the life ofjoan of Arc, had as its star Dottie Moore-straight from the Barter Theater. Penny Reid, as the romantic Dauphin, made us forget that she is a mere female. Little Roberta Veverka, Joan's chaplain and advisor, was almost lost under that monk's robe and hood. The play had everything-costumes, acting, music. The latter was rendered by Jean Hurd as a page. Gthers in the cast were Jackie Herring, Miriam Tittmann, Joan Briggs, and Sally Norris. Every time we see Katharine Colvin she seems to grow older. Last year she was Julia Mill's mother, and this year she was seventy- year-old Gran, the dominant leading lady in What will our mx! play be? arkf Mfr. Ria. Ringing in the Groom. She had her hands full, Bertha, the maid Uean Gittinsb, was always betting her money on the races, Wil- bur, her grandson CMary johnstonj, quit col- lege to join a band, Aunt Ella, Gran's daugh- ter CMartha Clarkb, was out to make all Hollywood mission-conscious, and Harriet, her daughter Cjulia Ann SparkmanD, strove to get her picture in the papers! Gthers didn't give quite as much trouble. Sylvia Lewis played Mildred, money-borrowing sister of Wilbur and George. George, the backbone and financial prop of the family, was por- trayed by Marie Vallance, who rushed in one week before the plays to learn the part and gave an excellent performance. Jackie Her- ring was Ruth, George's sweet and patient lady-in-waiting. Screams, ghosts, noises, and mysterious happenings were the keynote of The Ghostly Passenger. Holtie Whittle was so natural as the worried mother that it hardly occurred to us that she was acting. We cer- tainly were surprised to heat Sally Norris's deep voice as she changed from her part in the first play to Holtie's husband in the third. Others who made that quick change were Joan Briggs, the frightened colored maid who

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and the director of Bancroft, Holtie Whittle, have done good jobs this year and are among the most popular of I-lolton's officials, We should certainly miss the efforts of all these girls to keep us boarders reasonably quiet, to see that our lights are turned out at the 1o:1o curfew and, last of all, to say goodnight and tuck us in bed. The policies and punishments of Student Government are decided upon when the stu- dent directors of the day school and of the boarding school meet each Thursday afternoon with three faculty advisors CMiss Brown, Miss Johnson, Miss McClellanD to discuss everything from sockless legs on F Street, un- tidy desks, and talking problems, to late- nesses and smoking-room troubles. The Wise referee of this Cooperative Board is Mrs. Holton. Our Student Government is an admirable organization, which serves to develop our characters and train us to shoulder responsi- bilities. These qualities, along with the edu- cation we receive at Holton-Arms, make us well prepared to follow the democratic Way of living. mpnzim. H Signing out. ft u M .t fl M' wflif M,-Vligx' f'4f'1Q4 ' Qt , X ,vj Y N in fobman nz with the hour:

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Spike, tlfillj' Marjorie Hifl, telli' 17014056 eazzglrt the kidmzpper. almost stole the show, and Miriam Tittmann as Mrs. Stillman, who did all of her thinking and her husband's, too. Ann Luetzen, as Clarice Ccry-babyjjaekson, andjeanne Clark, as Edgar Roof, were suspected of being a pair of confidence Workers, and turned out to be F.B.I. agents. The hero of it all was Marjorie Hill, as Spike Owens, rescuer of the kid- napped child, capturer of the kidnappers, and winner of his girl, Juan Williamson. ln the next set of plays and in the senior plays We expect to see Lucy Brown, Olivia Chilton, Ellen Galvin, Jewel Davis, Daphne Fay, Mary Alice Stoddard, and Ann Gins- burgh, the latest additions to our circle of dramatic-fanatics. Penny Reid and Dottie Moore take ui' buck to the defy! of form of Arr, while Jeanne Clark dom ez nzlzrtaehe and joinf the F.B,I. jackie and Marie are the rommztie team in Rirzgirz,g in the Groom.