Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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THE PILGRIM 27 perhaps the biggest worry of the al- ready gray-haired committees-in-charge, was the sickness of the Ethereal Visi- tor, who proved earthly enough to contract a bad case of the grippe. Of course, this misfortune had to occur a week and a half before the presentation itself! But there were bright moments, too, and many of them. Perhaps our bright- est moment came during dress rehear- sal, when Kay Ghent arrived with an enormous box of thick, creamy, choco- late-walnut fudge, sent by her sister with the promise of more when, and if, we'd come up and see her some time. And a close rival for that moment was that other night, when the roads were icy and we slid around corners and skidded by cross-roads, miraculously landing whole at the Ghents' domicile, where the cast was to be inspected for make-up, and where we were again - stuffed with peanuts Cby requestl and more fudge. Excellent and faithful work was done by both the cast and the committees, and we only hope that next year's Christmas play will be as successful as OUFS. ELIZABETH Woon-General M cmager. Class Song LlFE'S PALACE A Our lives are palaces, unexplored, With corridors long and many-doored: To every door there's but one key, That which is held by you or by me. Some rooms we cannot see again, For childhood joys come not to men, But some things of life we have not seen, For in some rooms we've not yet been. But the rooms which are loveliest, prettiest, best, And those that we love far more than the rest Are the rooms of friendship and love, we know, Through which doors we may always go. In these last days of our senior year. God, give us rooms which will be most dear: Give us the rooms of truth and love, And send us strength from Thee, above. MARJORIE STEPHENS BELCHER '34 Pestilential Personals Write personals and GET RICH QUICK. - All the Seniors seem to be offering bribes to keep their names out of this column. -4- Stew Bad. Doc Goodwin doesn't want his name mentioned-we're always ready to ac- commodate. Tarzan Burns is stepping into the limelight, he gets his haircuts from our women barbers, Betty Mordt and Helen Brewer. Here's a secret. lf you want to im- prove your voice, sing in front of a mirror. Alton claims he's getting good results. Roberto Martini, our young scientist, has discovered a new P. K. Pearl gum among the Freshmen. Cheer up, Brad. Lois will be a Sopho- more next year. We suggest that Shirley have the seat raised in her car since the three pillows that she sits on while driving are begin- ning to wear out. A correspondent suggests that Guer- ra move to 79 Spooner Street. Why don't cha, Andy? We wanna know. Does Professor pay Barbara rent for living in the office? 'Tis said that Bill keeps Mordt com- pany. Rock is still training on a Camel. Phyllis Ryan doesn't sound bad at all. Why don't Givens and Volta flip a coin about this girl Gilda? Has Clark been getting letters from Peggy Cameron in Weymouth? Bertha Bouchard must have settled down. She's all through with her mov- ing Van. Lucy seems to have overcome Dun- ham's bashfulness. Good work, Lucy. Have you made up your mind yet, Elizabeth? fFrank, Lindy, Mike, Alton, Bud, Gordon, Frenchy, Oliverj. Now which? Chaplin's Taxi Service seems to be prospering. Keep it up, Barbara. Dot Perkins, the actress, has the peculiar habit of winking when speak- ing to a person. She can't control that Blinker. Annie doesn't live h-ere any more. The blond Duchess has moved in, says Bill Mac, This is station WHDH. Our next number will be, I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby, sung by Paul Warnsman, the romantic singer. Lindy has been having a hard time deciding whether it is going to be Iliena or Margie Tracy. I don't blame im.

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26 THE PILGRIM CAST OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOCK Reading from left to right: Lawrence Bongiovanni, Robert Martin, Florence A Armstrong, Shirley Dutton, Gilbert Andrews The Cathedral Clock , the one-act Christmas play sponsored by the Senior English Classes of 1934, proved to be one of the outstanding dramatic events of the school year. The committees were as follows: Programs: Maxine Russell and Dor- othy Perkins Costuming: Josephine Montanari Cchj, Muriel' Minott, and Frances Hall. Make-up: Katherine Ghent fchj, Marjorie Belcher, and Harvey Barke. Lighting and Sound Effects: William MacPhail fch.J, William Brewster, and Harry Young. Stage: John Ferreira Cch.J, Alton Cavicchi, David Rushton, and Artos Bonzagni. The prologue was given by Jeannette Martin. The action of the play took place dur- ing the fifteenth century in the little old town of Danzig on the Baltic Sea. Among its most famous buildings is the cathedral, around which the story of the play was written. The cast included some of the school's best talent: Peer, a sick boy-Shirley Dutton Margaret, his - mother - Florence Armstrong Frederick Alfort, his father-Gilbert Andrews .A Blind Man-Lawrence Bongiovan-- ni The Visitor-Robert Martin. However, there is more to this than meets the eye. Seemingly unsurmount- able barriers rose up to confront us, but we came through them all successfully and can look back upon them, now, as a pleasant memory, and laugh at what seemed tragic then. It was tragic having to wait on a stormy night with the freezing cold wind blowing a hurricane, for the gen- eral manager to arrive with the key. 1That didn't happen many times, but when it did, it took a week to thaw out.J There were bad moments, right up to the morning of the play, when we con- scientious people trembled with the fear that the German clock might decide to strike one instead of tweloe,'despite the excellent supervision given it. There was the question of where to procure a fireplace and, once that was taken care of, how under the sun to convey the heavy thing to our stage in Room 1. We spent much of our time wondering if the blind man's cane would last until the day of the play, under the emotional display of Lawrence Bongiovanni at re- hearsals. The costuming committee was faced with the difficulty of getting trou- sers of the correct style, large enogh for Frederick Alfort, and poor Fred- erick found it nigh unto impossible to almost commit suicide with realism. So much artistic clipping was done on his mustache at the dress rehearsal that finally a fresh start had to be made with a new piece of whisker . One afternoon when the stage was being set, one member of the stage com- mittee forgot his iiawless record of con- tinual attendance and decided he must go skating instead. CAnd he did.J But

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28 THE PILGRIM The girls are now writing books for a new library. They are: How to Roast a Chicken, By Mary DeCost I EMMA Redhead, By E. Paul How Not to Grow, By Shirley Dutton It's Tufftsj to be Famous, By Jeannette Martin Me and My Shadow, By E. Wood and M. Minott The Fourth and Seventh Dance, By Onc-e Again The Illuminated Cemetery, By Special Request Tillie, The Queen of Hickville, By Wouldn't Cha Like Ta No Florence is getting her license. That's because she's going to buy a dog. Has something happened to Jean- nette? She does not seek the shelter of room 12 since Gilbert graduated. We feel lost without her cheery voice. Why did Charley CCarverJ have to step in, Janet? Did someone else dis- appoint you? If Fat should get a little more ser- ious, there might be a wedding on Oak Street. MISS Elizabeth Ryan has made a special request in asking us to mention that her name is NOT L-izzie. Thankful are they whose names are not mentioned in this column. Not that there is nothing to write about them, it may be that the incidents are too ob- vious. CARL MARK MY WORD CAST OF THE TRYSTING PLACEH Left to right tfirst rowlz Ruth. Murphy, Robert Martin, Elizabeth Wood, Warren Sampson, Csecond rowiz Gilbert Andrews, Dorothy Perkins, William MacPhail THE TRYSTING PLACE The senior class play, The Trysting Place by Booth Tarkington, given on Friday ev-ening, April 6, 1934, was en- thusiastically received by an exception- ally appreciative audience which filled to overflowing the upper hall in the Me- morial Building. The trysting place proved to be in the lounge of a country hotel-'l'the only quiet place in the hotel. The cast Cin the order of its appearancej was: Mrs. Curtis, a widow of 25 years- Ruth Murphy . Lancelot Briggs, a boy obviously un- der 20-Robert Martin Mrs. Briggs, his sister, a young girl of about 20-Elizabeth Wood. Rupert Smith, the young man-War- ren Sampson. Mr. Ingolsby-Gilbert Andrews and The Mysterious Voice-William Mac- Phail The general committee in charge of the Senior Project was Lawrence Bon- giovanni Cchairmanj, Katherine Ghent. Elizabeth Wood, Carlo Guidoboni, and Thomas Roncarati. The ticket-selling campaign was led by Marjorie Belcher and Eleanor Brad- ford. The properties were in charge of Miss Charlotte Brown, a member of the faculty, with assistants, Harry Young, Jeannette Martin, William Brewster, Joseph Sayre, and Josephine Continued on page 55