Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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Crimson Frolics was a very appropriate name to lx- given the 1954 J.II.S. Min strel show, for never did one see such frolics! The main “frolicers”—interlocutor Ed Foreman and the end men—kept the show rapidlv and humorously moving through the various acts which included a real honest-to-goodness chorus line of dancing beauties. Another outstanding feature of the show was the seventy voice choir directed by Mr. Lord. All the acts were accompanied bv talented Becky Crouse. The riotous endtnen were: George Stevens, Mr. Sparkplug; Jim Symons, Mr. Ha tliator; Max Roegge, Mr. Tappitt; and Jim Woodward, Air. Dynaflow. The Rockettes, ably directed by Nancy Godfrey and Norma Jean Gibbs, were: Betty Hembrough, Gerrv Smith, Carol Tayman. Nancy Painter, Ann Pearce, Barbara Munk, Elaine Smith, Janet Elliott, Sharon Hegarty, and Shirley Pilkington. This year's show W'as under the excellent chairmanship of Miss Fergene Coddin and Mr. Donald Lord, with a committee consisting of Mrs. Isabel Baptist, Miss Helen Richards, and Miss Hannah Schwitzky. As the curtain fell at the close of the second-night performance, it w'as agreed that never had a finer Minstrel been staged at J.H.S. Max Roegge, George Stevens, Ed Foreman, Jim Symons, and Jim Woodward.

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''Death Takes a Holiday Duke Lambert ........ Bob Willard Corrado --------- - Jan Renolds Madame Alda - -.....Betsy Engelbach Duchess Stehanie ........ Kay Otto Eric Fenton -------- - Dean Perkins Rhoda Fenton ........ Donna Cosner Baron Cesarea - -- -- -- -- Bill Lewis Princess of San Luca ...... Connie I lenderson Grazia .......... Harriet Lee Prince Sirki ........ Charles Cleeland Major Whitread - Don Maxwell Cora......................- Carol Pond Fedele ......... Bob Thompson A tremendously successful production was staged by the juniors in their play Death Takes a Holiday,” under the direction of Miss Ann Bussell janes. The plav is unique in its plot: Death comes to earth for a Holiday in an effort to discover why men fear him so. He poses as a Russian Prince, a guest of Duke and Duchess Lambert. Complications arise during the Prince’s three-day visit, involving three young ladies, also guests of the Lamberts. 1 he Prince finds himself falling in love with Princess Grazia much to the sorrow of her mother and the Dutchess and Duke, whose daughter-in-law she was to be. However, it is Grazia's choice to make, and she decides to go with Death. There is a love which casts out fear . . And love greater than illusion, and as strong as death.