Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Under The skillTul direcTion oT Mr. Samuel K. Polland, This Term's dra- maTic presenTaTions have proven very successTul. The oTFice oT PresidenT oT The DramaTic AssociaTion has been Tilled by Richard BarThol. Many shorT ski+s have been produced beTore class audiences. ProminenT in These producTions have been Barbara McAdoo in None Too Good Tor Dodo : Richard BarThol, Florence Waller, and Adele Merri- man in lT's an lll Wind : Lois Von Morpurgo, BenneTT McGuire, and Irene Spears in BabbiTT's Boy g Jane STriTTmaTTer, Helen Proll, and JaneT Levey in WomenTolks : RoberT Farrell and Burris Bly in Bargains g Richard Lynch, l-larold Chandler, and Norma GeoTTry in BeTTer Days g Arlene Callahan and BeTh Dahleen in Saved p Barbara GilberT and Lydia Parin in Lady Luck p BeaTrice SchwarTz in Their l-lusband g Dolores Riddell, Thomas Brennan, and Norman LowensTein in The Dwellers in The Darknessug NaTalie Zisser and RoberT Camp in TeapoT on The Rocks : Claribel CoTTman and Virginia l-leiman in Woman oT JudgmenT g Eloyas Cagle and Geraldine Dolan in LeT IT Burn g and W.lliam GoeTze in ln The Spring a Young Man's Fancy. Each year The mosT ouTsTanding characTerizaTion in acTing by a dra- maTics sTudenT is selecTed and his name is added To The DramaTics l-lonor Roll, which is framed and displayed in The Lowell audiTorium. Two oT The presenT graduaTes have been Tound worThy oT This honor: Florence Waller, Tor her characTerizaTion oT Mrs. PeTers in TriTles, and Adele Merriman, Tor her porTraiT oT The young wiTe in a scene Trom OuTward Bound. Lowell was awarded The cup Tor The annual Shakespearean conTesT Tor Wfj l The second Time, when Richard Lynch was chosen Tor giving The besT inTer-T L preTaTion oT a selecTion Trom Shakespeare's works. Lucile Simmons, also excellenT, was The second enTranT Tor Lowell. Ten San Francisco high schools parTicipaTed wiTh Two represenTaTives apiece. The school ThaT is awarded The cup Tor Three Times will be allowed To keep iT permanenTly. The Shake- spearean dramas always provide proTiTable enTerTainmenT. i if

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DRAMATICS DramaTic presenTaTions Tor This Term have been limiTed, due To The lack of proper TaciliTies. l-lowever, The subsTiTuTion oT Tour one-acT plays Tor The TradiTional VarieTies consTiTuTed an agreeable change. They may be summarized as Tollows: A Wedding, by John KirlcpaTriclc. An amusing comedy depicTing The Trials To which a young couple is subiecTed beTore becoming uniTed. All The acTion Talces place in The groom's room. The casT included: The Groom .............. William GoeTze The Bride . . . . . Olive WhiTe The BesT Man . . . BenneTT McGuire The Groomsman . . . . RoberT Camp The Bride's FaTher . . . Norman LowensTein The Bride's AunT ..,. ...... E lizabeTh Singer The Groom's MoTher .....,..... Eloyas Cagle The second play was enTiTled Five MinuTes From The STaTion. The ploT revolved abouT a series oT calamiTies which happened To a young couple endeavoring To enTerTain a supposedly hard-hearTed boss. The casT was as Tollows: NN' X BerT Adams . . . . . Joseph MorTon X James Mason .... ...,... H arold Chandler ' Carrie Adams ............ Adelle Merriman WT fx Amusing in iTs individualiTy was The Third play. showing The aTTempTs oT all The characTers To cure one oT The hiccups. The name was The Cure. and iT included The Tollowing casT: Mary ..... . . . . . . Sylvia OnesTi John .... . . William SalT Mrs. ParroT ............... Burris Bly Mr. ParroT .............. William Goelze The lasT play. Thank You DocTor, was laid in The oTTice oT a prominenT docTor. IT showed how a clever crook was apprehended. AcTing in This were: The Nurse ............... Sylvia OnesTi Dr. Gurney . . . . Norman LowensTein Mrs. SesTer . . . ElizabeTh Singer CorT . . . . . William GoeTze A PaTienT ............., Thomas Brennan Original cosTumes and sTage seTTings added much To The success oT These plays, To say noThing of The abundance oT dramaTic abiliTy displayed in Their presenTaTion. Also conTribuTing were The sTage crew. The orchesTra. and, mosT imporTanT oT all, hard-working DirecTor Samuel K. Polland. 50

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Mlwfll K w ' My jf!! l I BOYS ATHLETICS Progress has urged humanify onward and forced iT To conquer obsfacles which frequenTly seemed impossible. Since earliesT Times we have builT dams To hold ThaT precious subsfance known as waTer wiThin our conTrol. YeT as laTe as yesferday The mighTy waTers ofThe Colorado dared confronf man wiTh an obsfacle ThaT finally yielded To even greaTer opporTuniTies for expansion and consTrucTion. Such a facT we have exemplified in The building of ThaT monsfrous pro- iecT, Boulder Dam. In I928 a bill was passed in Congress aufhorizing iTs consTrucTion. EnThusiasTic engineers drew up plans and calculaTions in a shorT Time, and work was begun immediafely on The masTer proiecT. Workmen, Thrilled wiTh The aspecT of such a monumenf, labored Tirelessly, and zealously. for days. weeks and monfhs ThaT lengfhened inTo years. AT The end of each day someThing. no maTTer how insignificanT, was finished To bring iT closer To compleTion. l-learTs of millions of counfrymen. as well as Those of The workmen, were consTanTly hoping and praying for iTs suc- cess,' ThaT waTer mighT combine wiTh sunshine To reap naTure's golden harvesf. The eyes of The world were follow- ing each small deTail. Today, sTanding before us. nearing compleTion. a masTerpiece of beauTy. arT, engineering, and workmanship. a sfupendous sTrucTure of five hundred and fiffy feeT-Boulder Dam is one of The lasfing monumenfs of The progress of This glorious naTion.