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

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THE YEAR BOOK had made the most of his time and had won the ready heart of Nerissa, prettily played by Elise de Fremery. And while these happy things have been transpiring at Portia's home, that most beautiful pagan, ' ' Jessica, played with a demure grace by Ann Wyckoff, has possessed herself of her father's treasure and made off in her turn with the man of her heart, Lorenzo CMildred Smithj. Up to this point fortune had warmed with the sunshine of her smile these happy folks of Venice. But Bassanio, in order to woo Portia, had earlier had to bind over Antonio to the Jewish money-lender, Shylock. The role of this outraged social outcast was well taken by Edith Steb- bins, who only too realistically, perhaps, mumbled her soliloquies into her beard. However this may be, she successfully conveyed the idea of suppressed malice eating at the heart of the merciless Jew and showed with remarkable skill the effect of warring passions in leash and on the ramp. Shylock's is truly a hard part and Edith did well throughout. We were honestly concerned for the fate of the melancholy Antonio, Hfittest for slaughter, in the court room scene, and grieved with Shy- lockintheend. Among the lighter roles we found Launcelot Gobbo admirably inter- preted by the flippant Sally Rutter and old Gobbo done to a turn by Margaret Nibley. The various servants, Leonardo, Balthasar, and Stephano, played by Elena Blackaller, Charlotte Eddy, and Diantha Miller respectively, left nothing to be desired in the way of presenta- tion. Cf all the slighter incidents of the play perhaps the most appeal- ing was the song so effectively sung from the Balcony by Barbara Sutro -it came clearly and naturally through the night air, summing up the lovely things of the play. LEILA ROLAND --q.gn.v- v ,L l76l

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THE YEAR BOOK Alumnae Notes 1909 Mrs. Earl Cecil Long Q1-Tay FairbanksD is stationed with the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. This is near Washington, and she is enjoy- ing the music and the social life in the capital. 1910 Mrs. Arthur Pope QPhyllis AckermannD has spent the last two years in Europe. She is now an international authority on tapestries and other works of art. 1912 Mrs. Edward Bangs Cliathryn ThomasD has built a charming new house on the slope above the Claremont Country Club. G Mrs. John Harvey Goodman CHelen ReedD has built a house in the type of the Mediterranean Spanish architecture on Hazel Lane, two or three hundred yards from the entrance to the school. Mrs. Horace Pillsbury CDorothy HundleyD, after three or four years at the United States Naval Station at Panama, has now settled down permanently at Malden, Massachusetts. Mrs. Walter Van Dyke QHelen GoodallD has found time outside of the responsibility of her home to help Dr. Miriam Van Waters in her home visiting work. Mrs. joseph Wadsworth CAlice CookD and Mrs. Elwood Wright CEstelle Cook, 19143 have built homes on the higher land back of Oak- land, on Golden Gate Avenue. 1913 Mrs. Robert Roantree CHarriet Hunterj and Mrs. Herbert Hubbard CPhilena Wetmore? were in Piedmont in June, 1926, as guests of Mrs. John Welby Dinsmore. 1914 Mrs. Robert Waybur CAnne Elisabeth CrowderD is living again in Piedmont. Helen Holman went with her father, Alfred Holman, to a diplomatic conference in South America in the spring of this year. 1915 Mary Adams is connected with a home finding committee for adop- tion under the direction of the Native Sons of California. Mrs. Charles Zook Sutton QAmy Longb, the President of the Alumnae Association, has for the last two years carried on a small kindergarten for twelve children. She has a trained teacher who directs the work, which is done in the garden and in the little schoolhouse where Amy herself began to read and write. There are six girls and six boys now in the kindergarten, her little daughter, Cherie, being one ofthe girls, and l73l