Lexington High School - Minute Man Yearbook (Lexington, NE)

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' ,, te o. it ,,f, f f ,1,', ff x. f .yi HANS KOOLEN-Science. B. Sc. Midlanclg University of Nebraska. HELEN KREJCI-Horne Economics. B. Sc. University of Nebraskag Ames, Iowag University of Wisconsin. DOROTHY PETTIBON-Normal Training. A. B. Kansas City Universityg Missouri University. MILDRED RINGER-Music. B. M. E. Northwestern Universityg Midland College: Yankton College. GERTRUDE ROBINSON-History. M. A. University of Nebraskag A, B. Nebraska Wesleyang Peru fdciq' Teachers Collegeg University of Chicago. 3, ' OSCAR SWANSON-Manual Arts. A. B. Kearney State Teachers Collegeg Summer Coaching School, X Notre Dame. BERTHA SOKER-Commercial. B. Sc. University of Nebraskag University of Minnesotag Doane College. HELEN WILES-Spanish. A. B, Nebraska Wesleyan: Northwestern Universityg Mexico University. Margaret Knapple 5 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. ,,.K 't A. B. Cotner College, Graduate Work, University i of Wisconsing University of Nebraska. I At the showing of every play we are conscious of 15 the people behind the scenes. After a first night of 'E The Minute Nlanf' the staff sat thinking of the Ji months of work that had been spent on it. Then came to their mincls the woman who had planned each scene, ,L in who was responsible for each actor and who supervised if the lighting and the scene shifting. The players will remember Miss Knapple for her guiclance, her sugges- 5 L Q tions, and her encouragement during the making of this picture. X ,MXL '17 Agfa., ':T f-1 iiii .- T ' X 1: TZ W it J . . so 3

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K QW .K l 2 L i l linton Ellsworth ollett CORPORATION DIRECTOR. A. B. Nebraska Wesleyan, M. A. University of Nehraslca, Graduate Work, Columbia University. As president of the Lexington Motion Picture Cor- poration, Superintendent Collett always commends the good and censures the inferior. Ever ready with friendly counsel, he has assisted the players to carry on even when depressions and moratoriurns threatened to halt the production. Undaunted lay signs of doubt or fear Mr. Collett teaches his players in every production to face the tem- pestis roar and say: Fear not each sudden sound and shoclc, ,Tis of the wave and not the rock, ,Tis hut the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! ZELDA ANDERSON-Latin. A, B. Vvesleyanz Graduate Study University of Colorado. LILLIAN BREHM-Home Economics. B. Sc. University of Nebraska: Graduate Study, University of Minnesota. WILMA l7ARRAR-Mathenmatics. B. Sc. University of Nebraskag Graduate Study, University of Nebraska. NED GREENSLIT1English. A. B. Hastings College: University of Nebraska, LILLIAN HANSON--English. A. B. State Teachers College, Kearney: Columbia Universityg Uni- versity of California. CLARENCE JAMES-Music. B. M. Colorado Agricultural College. LORINE JOHANSEN-English. A. B. University of Nelvrasl-ca: Central Wesleyaix College: Colorado University. MONTE KIFFIN-Physical Education. B. Sc. University of Nebraska. if l l . V QI . . g 1 ly ,l ff' il ll .41 li all FE., ' . ,fret 23152, fs-. J , ,,... , .. . f 'rr is ' a ' ' ,,, ff Ja..--

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ui 5 Q3 . 3' N' l it 39 1 xiii RQ a K gexi-Q -XS--x xxsz Hot off the W1re Again SCREEN REVIEW springs a brand new form of interview. A newsy cross-examination, the U 4 . kind which allows you to form your own opinion Interviewer. When did YOU begin YOUI' CUBE? of a director. Moreover, no director can wail, 35 2 d1I'9Cf01'? But no one knows the questions I was asked. V I A These answers reveal the early training of some Miss J- BHCk In mY high 5ChU01 d3Y5- of th directors. Q e 5 Interviewer. What were some of the plays which constituted your first steps to stardom? MISS FARRAR. ' I I Miss J. Oh, I was in Nothing But The Truth Intervicwer. 'You starred in several productions and 3 senior play- I Gantt remember because it last summerg d1dn't you? was so Long ago, Miss F. I was in some three-act and one-act Interviewer. Were you in any other la S be. . . . P Y plays at the University of Nebraska. X Sides the one you have named? Interviewer. What were some of the plays? , Miss J. I donlt remember. Miss F- I was in it-rhe Youngestfl U-I-he Noble liWhenevlelr any interviewer comes to see Miss Lordu and it-I-riflesyy 1 Jo ansen, er memory leaves the room.l Interviewer. Did you play the leading roles? MR. GREENSLIT. Miss F' Au the parts m which I played I had Interviewer. As a dramatic coach, no doubt, our to be a manll Y career has been full of plays. What were some ' CAmong great mathematicians, that's something of the first of these? L' that even Einstein hasn't done.j f MISS SOKER. Interviewer. To what do you attribute your suc- cess as a movie magnate? Miss S. To my early training. E Interviewer. What play would you consider as your first hit? n Miss S. Home Came Ted. And it was a hit all rightg I had to wear a red dress and play the P part of an old maid!!! It struck me a Little too i hard, don't you think? 1 M 1 .' ,LLM--' ', I MISS HANSON. 1 Interviewer. What was your greatest ambition as a child? Miss H. To play the part of Eva in 'lUncle Tom's Cabin. but I was better suited to the li: role of Topsy as I played about under the Kansas S . sun. ' Lg , Interviewer. As a star, what was the greatest .ik 7 X -' surprise you received? Miss H. When I tried out for the old lady in , . l Y Peg O' My Heart and wa-s cast for the so- , phisticated English girl. s ' V Interviewer. What other plays would you con- 5 sider among your most successful? 4 Miss H. Prunella, which was given by the i i , dramatic class and Zangwill's Too Much Money, lp Y, the college senior play, in which I had the lead. ' 1. Too Much Money, fshe said musingly as she . ' fingered the permits on the file.l What a pe- 1 h, culiar title. X Interviewer. You were a member of the Theatre , Arts League at college, weren't you? Miss H. Yes. Trying out for that dramatic club . was a momentous event in my life. When I was . president, lshe went onl we shocked the literary I artists by dramatizing The I-Iighwaymanf' You know how it goes- The moon was a ghostly gl galleon- and up popped a pasteboard cresent I 1 above the cretonne screen. Nevertheless, we won , ' a ten-dollar prize with it for the best stunt on IX, l Orpheum Night at the Y. M. and Y. W. benefit. I fefrfffir . . Q Q3 --e-- , .. Mm...s.ss,, .p,..- I., ' 'ili ' l Q , jlu,,,f 1. 4, Mr, G. Some of the plays I was in during my high school days were the first. Let's see, there were Gypsy Rover, and All-of-a-Sudden Peggyf' I had the lead in the first and comedy lead in the second. Interviewer. What other plays besides Babette were you in at college? Mr. G. I had the comedy leads in China Shop, Sweethearts and The Poor Nut. Interviewer. You traveled with a troupe one year, didn't you? Mr, G. That was in 1930, the summer before I came here. I was in the one-act play Two Jews From Judea and later that year I had an offer to play with a lyceum circuit for thirty weeks in Canada to play in New Brooms. However, I couldn't accept because I had signed my con- tract to direct here. fAlthough Babette and Sweethearts,' seemed to have influenced Mr. Greenslit, the only re- maining evidence we have of his fitness for the role of The Poor Nut is that he is now a school teacher. Mrs. Greenslit played opposite him in this production. Mr. Greenslit will never fully realize how well fitted he was for the role until some day she forgets herself and says, I told you so. MISS ROBINSON. Interviewer. To be such a marvelous director, you must have had much training. Miss R. I received my first training when I was a member of the drama club in college and played in small productions. Interviewer. Were you ever cast for any pro- ductions? Miss R. No. I almost had a part in Booth Tarkington's i'Man From Homen but I was too small to play the part of the heroine. fOh, Ripley! Where art thou? And John Hixl This is stranger than it seems.j After reading this, no doubt, every one will wonder why these directors are not in Hollywood. Well, the questions asked might have been im- pertinent but not as revealing as they could have been. EL' . Lab, .. . E. ,.L......,.i.... -. s..........a.4.--,.e,. Imran. ,..,.,,L,.,,I,,-1 K..