Miss Ransom and Miss Bridges School - Yearbook (Piedmont, CA)

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THE YEAR BOOK The Merchant of Venice PRESENTED BY THE SCHOLARS OF - V ig MISS RANSOM AND MISS BRIDGES' SCHOOL Saturday, May 15, 1926 Under tba :tags direction of MR. GARNET HOLBIE 8r MRS. JOHN HOWELL The Duke of Venice ........... Helen Peters The Prince of Morocco, ruitor to Porfia . , , . Jean Jamison Antonio, ll merchant of Vmioa . . , . Katharine Douglas Bassanio, loixfriend, mizor likcwin to Portia . . Helen Thompson Salanio Evelyn Bade Salarino friend: to Antonio ami Barmnio Dorothy Kroll Gratiano Harriet Sutton Lorenzo, in lov: with fenica. . Shylock, o riclajgw ..... Tubal, 41610, hirfrimd .... Launcelot Gobbo, tlu clown, Jervmzt to Sbjlock Old Gobbo, farhcr to Lazmcelor . . . Leonardo, .rorofmr to Barmnio E rerwmtr to Portia Portia, a ricb brirm: . . Nerissa, her waiting-maid . . . Jessica, daughter to Skylark ....., Clerk of the Courr of Venice: Mary Elizabeth MacLaughlin. Gaolcr: Marjorie Mott. G1mrd.rmerz: Alice Dalton, Elizabeth Lineberger. Mummer.r.' Edith Bentley, Alice Crane, Ithira Porter. .S'ing:r, atimdzmt to Portia: Barbara Sutro. Ladiex-in-waiting to Portia: Edith Menefee, Ellabelle Seagrave. Page: to Portia: Barbara Hurley, Dorothy Hurley. . Mildred Smith . Edith Stebbins .Florence Corder . Sally Rutter Margaret Niblcy Elena Blackaller I Charlotte Eddy I Diantha Miller Marjorie Furlong Elise de Fremery . Ann Wyckoff Pager to tb: Prince of Morocco: Phyllis Hills, Maryjewett, Patricia Richardson, Barbara Sherwood, .Yemen Partly at Venice, and partly at Belmont, the seat of Portia, on the Continent. Music by the Philharmonic Trio l74 l

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THE YEAR BOOK can , . if .fm 'f , -'. - .d'.qn. .- AA! 1 LD in za - , f iii' Q gf-,QQ Ivanhoe N the afternoon ofMarch 23d, 1926, a play, Ivanhoe, was given by the Fifth and Sixth Grades in the dining room after school. It was directed by Mrs. Howell and Mrs. Birtch. Mrs. Felt designed and helped the cast with their costumes during industry period. Altogether they made 354675, which went to the Lower School Dramatic Club for new curtains for the school plays. B. T. The important characters were: XVILFRED or IVANHOE . . . Barbara Townsend THE BLACK KNIGHT . . . Mary Vincent GRAND MASTER or THE TEMPLARS . . Betty Rix FRONT DE BOEUF , . . , Barbara Brodrick SIR BRIAN DE Bols GUILBERT . . . Alicia Maiden MALVOISIN . . . . Marry Virginia Hess SIR MAURICE DE BRACY . , . Ma1'ge1'y Creed REBECCA . . . . Jean Smith ULRICA . Virginia Higgins ISAAC . . , Barbara Day f73l

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T H E Y E A R B 0 O K I g The Merchant of Venice N the pleasant mildness of a perfect spring evening the imagination found the leap from familiar everyday sur- roundings to a street in Venice almost no feat at all. Nor, a Venetian oneself for two delightful hours, was it much more of a strain to parade intimately infancy with one's Venetian cronies. ln the com- pany of those debonair pals, Salanio CEvelynBadeD,SalarinoCDorothyKrollD, and that bubbling fountain of irrespon- sible youth, Gratiano CI-larriet SuttonD, mirth and laughter infested the air. Antonio, another old friend in the person of Katharine Douglas, was throughout the play his melancholy self, shrugging g off amiably the light-hearted concern of i i his carefree companions for the gloom that invested him. Katharine's studied indifference well portrayed his indisposition to enjoy life at first hand. She indicated admirably that the center of his life was the somewhat swagger Bassanio, with his re- current needs. Helen Thompson as this impecunious gentleman made certainly a delightful friend and lover-one for whom even the most beautiful and gentle Portia, for all her native wit and intelligence, might well fall. And Marjorie Furlong, this paragon of wit and beauty and intelligence, must inevitably have at- tracted all the warm bloods in the world -even from blackest Africa, the home Cfor the nonceD of the lordly Jean Jami- son, the dusky Prince of Morocco. This dusky prince, however, man though he was from his firm heels to his shapely, well-poised head, and irresistibly at- tended as he was by his adorable pages, was doomed to defeat by one who had already received fair, speechless mes- sages from the fairest of the fair. After the ideal love scene wherein Marjorie indeed charmed with the light of her countenance and the sweet grace of her acting and Helen played the im- portunate lover to perfection, came the i half pleading announcement by another pair of lovers of their troth. Gratiano E751