Miss Porters School - Yearbook (Farmington, CT)

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Seated Center: Nancy Tenney CPresidentD. First Row: Janet Parsons, Jane Osbun, Elizabeth Austin, Barbara Pitt, Rosamond Reed CSecretaryj, Betty Howe QProperties Nlanagerj, Georgeanne Burke, Alice Herninway, Cynthia Myrick, Joanna lVIitchell. Sefond Row: Lila Kilner, Nancy Grove, Elizabeth Holton, Helena Pate, hdarion Payne, lllarie Armstrong, Barbara Williams, Aline Cornwall, Harriet Watson, Harriet lwoffat. Third Row: Joan lllartin, Gene Tierney, Martha Nicholson, Audrey Ivison, Patricia Hall, Anne Schrafft, Peggy Delano, Nancy Howe, Prudence White, Emily Holcombe. -- '- The Perilhou Club The Christmas concert which was given by the Perilhou Club was one of the most beautiful and impressive events of the year. Into a hushed and darkened gymnasium, heavy with the fragrant scent of pine boughs, the sound of carols came, faintly at first and then louder and louder, as the Perilhou Club filed in, wearing choir robes of black with white surplices. They arranged themselves on the stage, which was set as a chapel, with a little altar and stained-glass windows. With Mrs. Clark conducting, they sang the following selections: Tantum Ergo ...................................... Beobide Rejoice in the Lord Alway .... .... P urcell Little Child Jesus ...................... . . . Brook Noel ................................... .. Roolham THE PIERILHOU CLUB Gesu Bambino . ....................... ...... P ietro Yon Personet Lodie .. ............ arr. by Gustav Holst Bells of Noel ................ ...... Il 1. Schloss THE CHORUS

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The Shepherds ..... . . Cornelius A Christmas Fancy . . . . Thiman Sleep, Holy Babe . . . . . . Snow Sancta lVIaria . . . . . Faure THE PERILHOU CLUB During the intermission, slides of famous pictures of the Nativity were shown. When the concert was ended, traditional Christmas carols were sung. The evening came to a close with a tableau, by the Perilhou Club, of the Madonna and Child, with angels, shepherds and the three kings. The stage was illumined by blue lights, and the effect was almost ethereal. THE SPRING OPERETTA UTANTIVY TOWERS A comic opera by Thomas F. Dunhill and A. P. Herbert Characters HUGH HEATHER, a singer .............. ..... N ancy Tenney JENNY JAY, a would-be painter . . . . . . Marie Armstrong THE EARL or TANTIVY .......... . . Emily Holcombe THE CoUNTEss or TANTIVY ........ . . . Anne Schrafft LADY ANN GALLOP, their daughter ........ Elizabeth Howe CHARLES, V1scoUNT HARKAWAY, :heir son . . . . . . Rosamond Reed CAPTAIN Loan BAREBACK, M.F.H. ...... . .. Margaret Delano Time: The Present ACT I The scene opens in Hugh Heather's studio in Chelsea, where Jenny jay, an artist who is in love with Hugh, is giving him a birthday party. She has invited Charles, Viscount Harkaway, and his sister, Lady Ann Gallop, to the party, the former is in love with jenny. Charles, however, arrives without his sister and immediately becomes the center of an admiring group of the opposite sex. Later, Lady Ann Gallop enters. She is immediately informed by her brother that their parents, the Earl and Countess of Tantivy, are coming to take her back to Tantivy Towers, from which place she has escaped. Hugh, upon meeting Lady Ann Gallop, falls desperately in love with her, thus making Jenny very jealous. The Earl and Countess arrive searching for their wayward girl, and promptly become so interested in Jenny and Hugh that they invite them to Tantivy Towers for the week-end. ACT Il The scene opens on the night of the Earl's Hunt Ball. Among the guests are Charles, Captain Lord Bareback, who is engaged to Ann, and Hugh, who is disguised as an entertainer but recognized by Jenny. Although Bareback is violently jealous of Hugh, he asks the singer to join the hunt the next morning. Hugh, however, shocks the guests by refusing. ACT III On the morning of the hunt, Hugh wanders disconsolately through the woods. He meets Ann and they become reconciled. She has just returned her engagement ring to Lord Bareback, and so Hugh asks her to marry him. While the whole party is lunching in the woods, the sound of the hounds and horns is heard. Hugh jumps up and shoots the fox. Ann, disgusted with his conduct, slaps him in the face and immediately decides that she loves Bareback. The latter enters angrily, demanding to know who has shot the fox. He starts to tussle with Hughg but the singer escapes, and he and jenny return to Chelsea.