Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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THE 1933 i WARRIOR MIDLAND PLAYERS President ...............Rosalie Teas Vice-President........Sherman Frederick Secretary -Treasurer . . . Newell Mendenhall The Midland Players, organized in the fall of 1925 by Mrs. Sara A. Hawkinson. give an opportunity for actual participation in dramatics—a chance to put into practice the theories of classroom work. The organization presented three major plays this year. The play given last fall was The Ghost Train,” a mystery-thriller by Arnold Ridley. The scene of this play is in the north woods of Maine. The story concerns a group of tourists, directed incorrectly, left at a country station and thoroughly frightened by tales of the ghost train which appears at midnight. The train proves to be a real train run by rum-runners. One of the travelers, later found to be a detective, discovers the plot and arrests the law-breakers. This play was unique in that it required as large a crew backstage, to operate light and sound effects, as the cast itself. The Players again presented Why T he Chimes Rang at Christ- mas. Junior expression pupils gave The Birthday of the Infanta at the same time. A new practice was initiated this spring when the dramatists prepared The Rock. a religious drama for presentation on a trip. It was given in 1 7 cities outside of Fremont to a total of approximately 6.000 persons. The Midland Players, together with the music and physical education departments will present Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as the commencement play. The Players again sponsored Stunt Night and the Little Theater Tournament for high schools. Back row: Roberts. Sudman. I). Elder. Ellsworth. Beerbohm. Baird. R Wiegman. Scrvinc. Anderson. P. Wiegman Second row: Meyer. Zaloudek. Johnson. Lutzelman. Livers. Gicnapp. Hensel, Rieper. T. Elder Front row: Smith. Kendrick. Harper. Renter. Mrs. Ilawkinson. Chapman. Cordis. Moore. Teas. Schafersman Eighty three

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THE 1933 M WARRIOR MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL SUSPENSE and anxiety as to the May Music Queen’s identity was precipitated in the 1932 May Music Festival when Melba Ostby headed a procession across the campus and to her royal throne, constructed east of Clemmons hall. Her attendants were Pearl Jordahl, Charlotte Byars. Dorothea Smith. Ruth Lewis, Phyl- lis Bader and Lily Carstens. Anne Louise DeVol and Betty Ann Reck acted as flower girls while Sylvia Hawkinson and Phyllis Jean Reck were tr a inbearers. Billy Lyders carried the crown. The music festival lasted an entire week. It opened with a recital and concert by the Dana A Cappella Choir from Blair. The program for Mon- day was a Fine Arts recital. The Fremont Veterans of Foreign Wars appeared in a band concert Tuesday. T he schedule for the two following days included a community program and another Fine Arts recital. Mrs. Lily Rucgg-Button presented a group of Indian piano numbers Friday. This was followed by the corona- tion of the May Music Queen. The Midland - Fremont Symphony Orchestra presented a concert in Clemmons hall that evening. Another Fine Arts recital and band concerts entertained visitors Saturday. The week’s program was concluded Sunday. May 22. with an A Cappella Choir concert. This was preceded by a mothers’ tea in the afternoon and the festival chorus concert following. The entire presentation for the May Music Festival was arranged by Prof. Oscar Lyders. Musicians from a number of surrounding towns were invited to take part in the program along with Midlanders and Fre- monters. This was the first year that the music fest was held for an entire week. New phases were added to the schedule in 1932. The program grows in popularity and interest from year to year. ❖ • • Eighty-two

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THE 1933 H WARRIOR-u “BERKELEY SQUARE By John L. Balderston Cast of Characters Maid................. Tom Pettigrew . . Kate Pettigrew...... Lady Anne Pettigrew Mr. Throstle........ Helen Pettigrew. . The Ambassador . . . Mrs. Barwick......... Peter Standish ... . Marjorie Frant... . Major Clinton..... Miss Barrymore....... Duchess of Devonshire Lord Stanley......... H. R. H.. The Duke . . . Patricia Rieper . ... Fritz Krueger . .... Rosalie Teas .........Helen Quick . . Sherman Frederick .... Pearl Jordahl ........ Loutz Gage .........Olga Hilbers ... Roland Saeger .....Phyllis Bader . . . Jack Ellsworth ........ Clara Hcnscl ........ Faye Roberts .... Harrison Elmore of Cumberland. . . . . .Elwyn Zaloudek The action throughout this play took place in the morning room of a house of the Queen Anne period in Berkeley Square. London. The time shifted between the years 1784 and 1928. The story of the play followed the life of Peter Standish. a young American architect who inherited an old English house in which one of his ancestors had played an impor- tant role. When he took up residence there he found that he could walk back and forth through time, that he could step into the shoes of his ancestors and live the life that man lived in the Eighteenth century. He accepted the challenge of adventure and entered this early time, appear- ing in the drawing room dressed in the costume of that time but still essentially himself. He played the game as well as he could. Much of the life charmed him but much also shocked him. His knowledge of the future sometimes tripped him up. but the platitudes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were brilliant epigrams to those about him. Despite his success he was not really at home. The ghosts found something terrify- ing in him. just as he found something unreal in them. At last he returned to the present time, carrying with him only the memory of Helen, whom he had loved. ❖ ❖ ❖ Itiilcr. Gige. Hilbert. Rirprr. Jordlhl. Sieger. Robertt. F.lltworth. Ziloudek. Ilcntrl. Elmore. Ten. Frederick. Krueger. Quick nighty-four