Miami Killian Senior High School - Catamount Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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., 'Q uh? ,gp .la ,WWE wwf' jp , , ,1'f f f,H'4r,b , , g- j M' DRAMA STUDENTS MASTERED THE ART OF APPLYING STAGE MAKE-UPS AS WELL AS ACTING SKILLS. DAWN FREIWALD AND ROCHELLE ZALIS SHOWED MR. FREEMAN STAGE AREAS. Budding Dramatists Emerge To Conquer Stage Stardom With Thespis guiding the budding dramatists into the history of acting and Ethel Barrymore's style, a basis of acting technique, the drama classes forded the barrier of the stage and audi- ence. Technicians emerged from the room with the new found knowledge of lights, props, sets and set designs. The designing of costumes, an art itself, with the added highlight of applying make-up was taught to glamorize the actors and to establish less of an imagination stretcher. Actual acting experience was the most neces- sary part of the course and the taking of parts in plays was the best way to get it. Filling po- sitions of Hawk's Well , Riders to the Sea , and Stage Door in order to be evaluated by classmates was the class technique for scru- tinizing and discussing mistakes and skills. The teaching of method acting, pantomime, special techniques of acting were also intro- duced in Drama l classes and developed and advanced in second and third year classes. 29