Liberty Memorial High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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'1 Left to right, first row: Shirley Spector, Eula Belle Skillman, Lucille Walter, Betty Miller, Gaylene Kennedy, Carolyn Laing, Ruth Ann Kieffer, Donna Cooke, .lane Underwood, Beverly Smith. Second Row: Tommy Hankins, Allen Moore, Alden Brownlee, .lack Elvig, Edward Ruese, Harry Elliott, Mrs. Marjorie Ril, fdwroctor', Martha Greene, Pat Davis, Sally Six, Barbara Elam, Barry Patterson, Carolyn Zimmerman, Earla Majors, Jack Fletcher, Marlene Stayton, Kenneth Holladay. Lights dim, a hush falls over the audience, and the curtain raises on the opening of the first play of the season at LMHS. 6'Stage Doorw swung open to give the juniors their first success as young Barrymores and Bernhardts. This is a story of seventeen young women living from day to day hoping that their Hbreakv will come and they will get their big chalice in a hit play. Sally Six, who played the lead, ably portrayed a young woman who was continually called upon to for- get her own troubles to boost anotheris morale. Through- out the play the audience got some good laughs from the accents and antics of Martha Green, a temperamen- tal Russian pianist, Ruth Kieffer, who played a dancer with Broadway aspirations, Shirley Spector, the fly in the hoarding house ointment, and Gaylene Kennedy's deadpan humor. Marlene Stayton achieved several high moments by her portrayal of a girl who finally commits suicide. The performance, directed hy Mrs. Marjorie Rix, required a crew of 31 plus the 25 cast members. The Junior class is to be commended for a fine evening of entertainment. BIHIND THf SCENES AT YHE JUNIOR PLAY. Lucille Walter, Eula Belle Skillman, Jackie Johnson, Betty Millcr, Beverly Smith. 17

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lHiSPIA SA Il Top row: Kenneth Holladay, Ronald Frome, James Wallace, Norman Wilson, Margaret Black, Patty Clem, Jo Anna March. First row: Martha' Lawrence, Margaret Barr, Rocelyn Roney, Sally Six, Barbara Elam, Betty Lou Davis, Jean Denny. The little two faced man on the official Thespian emblem which depicts Comedy and Tragedy, laughed and cried through the year with the Thespians. He laughed until he cried through iiThe Boot, a oneaact play sponsored by the Thespians. A Russian play, it is the story of a young woman widowed by an unfaithful husband. She lives alone with her servants and her mourning until a gallant artillery officer in- vades her life. He jars her out of her morbid resignations and the outcome is a melodramatic success. Broken chairs, shattered drinking glasses. and a cringing servant added to thc pseudo-operatic atmosphere. Dramatists turn decorators as the south dressing room gets its Pain rs are: Norman Wilson, James Wallace, Racelyn face lifted. te Roney, Margaret Barr. if i tiki t 'f R 4 y usb x ,M i o ts! 'l 'tl , e,,,lfs,F't . ff' The two-faced little man struggled through the trials and tribulations of redecorating the south dressing room with the theatrists. The Thespians tinted the walls light green and painted the floor dark green. They added make-up tables, two long make-up mirrors and generally brightened the gloomy outlook of the room. The troop, numbering only 13 at first, journeyed to Kansas City to see 'iThe Red Shoes. The club went as a group to the plays at the University. Two of these were: The Male Animalff and 'Talse Godsfi Officers were: president, Rocelyn Roneyg vice- president, Martha Lawrenceg secretary-treasurer, Sally bix. Heroine Jo Anna March screams the servant, Jim Ireland, hovers nearby. s fi I. 'K if .' 3' kk it My -' ,,,. f K., .A ' Mrs. Mariorie Rix, who directs the school plays and sponsors the Thespians, came to LMHS two years ago after graduating from the University of Wichita with an A. B. degree. She has cast and directed the entertaining plays presented through the year. Besides her dramatics work teaches classes in Sophomore English at hero, James Wallace, while

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