New Marion High School - High School Daze Yearbook (New Marion, IN)

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'Frm Row Snutlizrziss. Mart, Johnson. Hardy, Faiznn, Kc-im .I,utz, Fixel, Smlih Svconil Rim' Macdonald, Snyder. Fuland, Davis, Phillips, Fenslerrnaker, Jones, Callahan, Irwin Third Row Weaver, Day. Custer. l'Iehc-lbarirer. Carter, Choclms, Green, Cline one of which required the most exacting study in characterization. lThe stage presented a charming picture with its specially constructed set. novel lighting ef- fects. and the new black tormneotrs. which threw it into bold relief.J The part of Minick, the lovable old man who comes to live with his son and daughter-in-law in their Chicago flat, was splendidly conceived by Victor Day. The young Minicks lEleanora Lutz and Leo Keimj were easily recog- nizable as the typical, modern young couple, well-meaning, but too hopelessly engrossed in the social doing of their young married set to have much time for an old man, Lil and .lim Corey tAnna Louise Fagan and Stephen Johnsonl manage pretty well to demoralize even the best intentions of their friends. and what they leave undone in the way of destruction is more than accomplished by Marge and Al Diamond lVelma Poland and Robert Custerj, two jazz babies whose combined wind power is enough to wreck any home, be it ever so storm- proof. Top all of this with an Irish maid CRebecca Snyderl in a perfect fury and you have a fair crossfsection of the first act. Donnel Weaver and Everett Callahan developed unsuspected feebleness as Mr. Price and Mr. Deitenhoffer, Minick's friends from the old men's home across the street. and Josephine Hardy kept the comedy going as Lulu. the slouchy, indolent. but dictatorial new colored maid. One of the features of the play was the club-scene in which Mildred Echelbarger, Ruth Fenstermaker, Anna Chochos and Ruth MacDonald create pandemonium in their efforts to be rid of the talkative old Minick, who interrupts with his stories. Ruth Mac- donald was especially outstanding in her character as the stern, off-with-your head Miss Crackenwald.