Monroe High School - M Book Yearbook (Monroe, WI)

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DRAMATIC CLUB OFFICERS: Monday Club Pres. - Betty Zimmerman Sec.-Treas. - Marian McCauley V. Pres. - Bernice Bloom Sponsor - Patricia Damon Miss Damon's Club has been active in several phases of stage work. Special committees are picked at each meeting to have something prepared for the next. Stage management, makeup and acting itself have been discussed. Pantomines have also been given by individuals or groups during the year. At some meetings, one-act plays have been read aloud before the club by members or acted out with various members taking part. Tone drills, dictated by Miss Damon, have been practiced and quotations from Shakespeare and the classics are read by each member to see who can get the best expression or show the greatest emotion as the case requires. The merits and faults of motion pictures, among them Lost Horizon and Camille , have been discussed, as well as plays. Several members of the groups presented a one-act comedy, Wienies on Wednesday for the student body at Christmas. The masculine parts were well taken by several girls, because of the lack of boys in the club. Another one-act play, The Neighbors , was prepared and presented before members of the Tuesday Club later in the year. At the right is a picture of Ruth Elmer and Martha Fritz taken from a scene in the play Wienies on Wednesday , which was presented by Miss Damon's club before the Senior High in the Lincoln Gymnasium. 29:

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DRAMATIC CLUB OFFICERS: Tuesday Club Pres. - May Hofer Sec.-Treas. - Betty Lanz V. Pres. - Dorothe Mae Larson Sponsor - Margaret Haugen Within the walls of our high school we have what promises to be some of the future stars of Broadway and Hollywood. What am I talking about? I am talking about our Dramatic Clubs. Because of the great interest in dramatic work, the clubs are held on two days, Miss Margaret Haugen's club meets each Tuesday. At Christmas time several members of the club presented The Ring and the Look a one-act comedy centering around a ring which belongs to the leading man, Archie Myers,and is coveted by several girl friends, as well as his best girl, portrayed by Norma Archibald. To complicate affairs his sister, Dorothe Mae Larson, also desires the ring. At the end, however, everything turns out all right. Besides this work, several one-act plays and short stories have been read by various members of the club. Pantomines have been given and plans for a demonstration of makeup were made. Two one-act plays, Swamp Spirit and Up Stage were prepared and presented before the members of Miss Patricia Damon's Monday Club. Members of the cast in the Swamp Spirit .

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BOYS' COOKING CLUB OFFICERS: Sec. - Louis Janke Pres. - Homer Martin Treas. - Robert Goetz V. Pres. - Clarence Elmer Sponsor - Pauline Bonesho Ah, what a sweet aroma of cooking we do smell. Is it a convention of great chefs being held at the school? No, in reality it is the group of boys interested in learning the culinary arts to show the girls a thing or two. It is rather disappointing though, when an ambitious lad tries and tries but .iust doesn't succeed in getting Dutch Cleanser to form suds in dishwashing. Outdoor cooking is a point of great interest which is a part of the club's activities in the spring. There is where the boys learn cooking from the ground up. John Pfaeffli portrays the part of a real Swiss chef observing his work. Any of the persons who attended Scout camp as well as Boys' Cooking Club will testify that John does good work. Here's a group of Boys' Cooking Club members who really seem to be getting ready to show off some of their culinary arts. If our eyes don't deceive us we see on the table there the makings of a lunch. What is it going to actually turn out to be, boys? If their mothers could see them now probably those members would be hurrying home to prepare meals daily. 30