Immaculata High School - Immaculata Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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:Stage oar, peru, Now ini Ji Quaini. Title: Stage Door, a play in three acts. Time: Those uncertain years between 1934-36. Setting: A brownstone house in the West 50's of New York where the once-exterior splendor has yielded to the exciting hub- bub of the Footlights Club. In and out, in a constant stream, go the aspiring ac- tresses who live for the day when their names will brighten the Great White Way. Hoping some day the stage doors will open to her, plain but talented Terry pur- sues her first love-the theatre-and spurns the Hollywood contract offered her by David Kingsley, motion picture pro- ducer. However, vivacious Iean Maitland seizes the opportunity of a screenland career and becomes rich and famous. Terry's struggle for fame and her bitter disappointment in the radical Keith Bur- gess, portray traditional life in the theatre. Light touches are afforded by Mrs. Or- cutt, the house-mother, and Iudith who claims co-billing with elephants. A would- be concert pianist, a debutante, languid beauties and southern belles, help to color the production. Mattie, the maid, keeps action, and her lazy husband Frank, go- ing at a lively pace. Big and little Mary prove contrary to their titles while Bea- trice Neimeyer, convinced she is a great actress, develops writers' cramp filling out her own recommendations. The sometimes humorous, sometimes sad experiences of all weave an interest- ing and thoroughly enjoyable back- ground for stage-struck Terry. David Kingsley's belief in her ability leads them, hand-in-hand, through the Stage Door. Page Eighty-nine

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uaiciana Sirum luflzile a4rii4i.4 faint, Talent is a seed-gift of God that develops cmd blossoms under the nourish- ment of expert guidance. .The courses in music and art furnish this careful supervision. For those girls on whom were bestowed promising voices or ar- tistic hands, the fourth floor studios may hold the key to a future in Fine Arts. Frequently, the other students share the fruits of the Art department's colorful bulletin displays in the halls of the school. That ability sometimes is rewarded even while training for a career is evidenced by the awards merited by the de- signs of some of the students. Mechanical drawing technique, a phase of art which attracts many, is seconded only by fashion designing which interests not a few who pass the portals of the paint and brush room. A world without music would be a sad world indeed. Erasing all chance of an aria-less earth, the music students practice their scales with vibrant effort. Their lovely voices and pianistic skills resound through the corridors. Their songs lend school life gt. --r-re' 'Hiw-' 1, e -ig 1 im g a light note as they ring pianissimo-soft and low. W 'iSn4s-, Page Eighty-eight masterpieces get the brush oft here to aid in music appreciation. Left: Dabbling in oils results in painting per fection. As Virginia Wertheimer, Ianet Flem ing, and Doris Wicky evidence, no potential Lower right: No, it isn't a Frankie Laine tune that's holding the interest ot Ioanne Staaden Eileen Mallon Cstandingb, Mary Ann Zentara and Margaret Wentland in this record session

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