Northrop Collegiate School - Tatler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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1936 TATLER THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON On Saturday evening, December seventh, the majestic rising of Northrop’s curtains disclosed a sophisticated circle of English society, exchanging epigrams in the purest Oxford fashion. Jane Creamer, known for her superb performances in Alice Ducr Miller’s Charm School and as Quince in A Midsummer Sight's Dream, played the title role, the butler, of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton. Opposite her as the lovely Lady Mary was Betsey Deems, sometimes called the Divine Deems, also of Charm School fame. Martha Pattridge in the pan of chief cpigrammist Hon. Ernest Woolcy, proved truly that she was a bachelor, but not of arts. Reasons for the success of the play may l»e jotted down with three general ideas in mind: mainly the perseverance of Miss Fawcett, the staunch support of the art department (Scybold, Neils, Seeley) heads, in the creation of non-flappabic, lean-resisting scenery, and the sincere support of the entire cast. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DRAMATICS The seventh grade gave an interesting play called Nevertheless concerning two children whose mother was having a hard time correcting their grammar. The boy with a terrible temper, portrayed by Mary I laglin. wanted to run away, because of being corrected all the time, and was ready to murder grammar. His sister, Lou, played by Kitty Rand, stopped him, anti the burglar, played by Mary Davis, finally acted out the puzzling word nevertheless. A charming play, written by Edna St. Vincent Millay while she was at Vassar College, was given by first the eighth and then the ninth grade. The play is named The Princess Marries the Page and is an interlude with a theme that might have been taken from an old fairy talc. As a princess sits in her tower, a gay young page breaks in on her privacy. There follows a war of words accompanied by soft looks. Suddenly an alarm is sounded; soldiers are marching to the tower. The page is not a page at all, but the son of a neighboring ruler. The curtain falls on a happy ending. In the eighth grade Lois Belcher made a lovely princess and Jean Price a fine page. Mary Jane HclTclfingcr played the part of the chancellor and Barbara Bisscl was the king. The soldiers were Jane Dobson, Martha Larkin anil Gloria I-cc. Jean Dain took the role of the princess and Ruth Deems her page, in the ninth grade. The chancellor was played by Mary Hardenbergh. Grctchcn Luther was the king and Martha Sweat!, Anne Carpenter and Ruth lx-slic the three soldiers. Ttrrnty-Sii

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THE WELFARE COMMITTEE In addition to their plea for support issued in the fall, the Welfare Committee—Ellen HuiT, chairman, Katherine Warner. Whitney Burton. Barbara Hill. Gretchcn Luther, Eleanor Stevenson, Ellen Rider, representatives, and Miss Pease, faculty advisor -put on a skit to emphasize their great need and were rewarded by a very successful Northrop Welfare and Community Fund Drive. Just before Thanksgiving the whole school joined in making its offering of food. The meat, fruit, vegetables, and canned goods were carried into chapel by the girls, deposited on decorated tables, and later packed in boxes, and sent to the Family Welfare Association, the Children's Protective Society, anti the Northeast Neighborhood I louse. Clothing was sent to the Frontier Nursing Service in the Kentucky Mountains. At Christmas, the lower school donated to the Holiday Bureau a collection of toys for children of all ages, while the Northrop Welfare sent the usual sums, accompanied by baskets of provisions, to the Family Welfare Society, Children’s Protective Society, and the Northeast Neighborhood House. For the past three years Northrop has provided a certain large family with shoes. During the long period of intense cold this winter, we helped meet the emergency by furnishing coal and the services of a trained nurse to a family suffering from scarlet fever. Our scholarships at Edison High School have again made it possible for three deserving girls to graduate, who otherwise could not have done so. ENTERTAINMENT The entertainment for this year has been most successful under the capable direction of Mary Anna Nash. Two dances were given, one on November twenty-third, the second on April twentv-fifth. The school was turned into a show-boat on Friday, October fourth, for the “Old Girls’ Party for the New, with everybody wearing suitable costumes. Each of the seniors invited a seventh grader and became her escort for the evening. The stunts included a gay Gay Nineties skit by the seniors, a minstrel show by the juniors, an amateur show, a symphony orchestra, and a mystery drama by the tenth, ninth, and eighth grades respectively. The faculty produced two acts including a takeoff of the Northrop Study Hall and one entitled, If Men Played Bridge as Women Do. DEBATING This year for the first time Northrop has brought debating outside the classroom. Martha Pattridge and Peggy Farr represented Northrop in a debate on April first with Clara Bertels and l orrainc Kuzer from North High School. The subject was: Resolved: 1 hat the several states should enact legislation providing for a system of complete medical services available to all citizens at public expense. The debate, an innovation at Northrop, called forth all the oratorical powers of the debaters, who all exercised them so admirably that the final decision was a close one. The North girls, it was decided, however, had more points and won the debate. Miss Rewey Belle Inglis was the critic judge. 1936 TATLER I nfi'ffht

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“THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON” IN ACTION Right: Betsey Deems, Kaddy Da in, Rosamond Bull, Mary Lou Benson. “You know, girls, I constantly find myself secreting hairpins. Right: Jane Creamer, Chloe Doerr, Janet Wycr, Mary Jane Van Campen. Butlers may—but they do not keep company. Left: Ellen I luff, Mimi Pattridge. ‘‘How do I know that they are not lying?” Right: Betsey Deems, Jane Creamer. “Crichton, your manner strikes me as curious.