Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The Dramatlc department began a new era thas year wrth the retirement of Father l.rslce from octave drrectrng of plays After twelve years of durectrng plays many of whrch were from hrs own pen Father Lnslce bowed out and left the stage to Father Hoffman who played the part of a shepherd boy In Father Lrske s very frrst play IH 1932 a Natrvlty ploy A hugh standard was set during the dnrectorshrp of Father Lrske To quote the offrcral newspaper of Quugley THE CANDLE All of hs plays were of hrgh calrbre frlled wrth excellent characterrzatuons sparlrlmg wrth rrch humor studded wrth jeweled wrt He rntends to contrnue the wrrtmg of plays urgley audrences wrll see more of has worlc The new director chose as hrs frrst offerrng of the season Room Servlce a modern comedy full of humor and good for many laughs Father Hoffman selected a cast from the lower school of lnterrms and Sophomores as the men of the upper school were on a wartrme autumn vacatron The players showed considerable talent ohn Kauzlarrch s Smrrnoff was qurte a show stealer Danrel Lupton very lllcely was the best on the stage with hrs portrayal of Faker Englund Ray ordans Leo Davis the bewrldered amateur play wrrght was very convrncrng Walter ferbrn as Brnnlon Don Nrersbach as Muller oe Poremba as Wagner Franlc areczek as the long sufferrng Grrbble and George Malone as the Senator were very commendable l the manor roles Elwood ONerll Sarsr Rohrrch and Dougherty were qurte satus factory The stage crew headed by AI Baranowslcr drd a fune job Most of all great prause must be grven to the new drrector Father Hoffman who gave lndlca tron of wonderful success rn thus and future plays I I' 14' J,-.,,.-dl

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HMHHUH Certarnly no rnstrtutron such a Qurgley could go on rn routrne fashion for a number of years wrthout havrng experrenced somethnng new and different during tat time That somethrng new occured durrng the summer of last year when For the frrst trme rn a perrod ol years an All Student Amateur Hour was presented Thanks to the splendrd efforts of Tony Chylewslcr and m Coffey both Nenrors who produced and drrected the show assrstea by Howard Turte of the unror class and also because ol the fme worlf of Father Grady the amateur hour was a brrllrant success Ray Carey a unror who offrcrated as master of ceremonres presented Act Number 1 lr was the Upper Srberra act wrth Bob Sponder supposedly Russran musrcran who excelled at the prano and Paul Schwartz has outstanding vrolrn puprl Then rendrtron of four drFferent numbers was good enough to have mented for them the drstrnctron of berng the bes' performers rn the entrre show Then followed Walter ohnson Cthrrd prrze wrnne 'lom Lynch and Phrl Wentzel The hlth act found Qurgleys Paderewsla ol memorres ol Chopin by playung some ol hrs memorable works The yudges voted hum second prrze rn the ballotrng The srxth and final act rl rt could be called that left not one member of the audrence srttrng rn hrs seat It was a panto mrmrc representatron of a prrze frght for the Feat er brarn charrpronshrp of the world between Horrrble Horan and Kung srze Kavanagh x J- ,vx ' , - , the piano, Stanley Rudclri, bringing baclf I , - , . . . . I J . . . ' I h -- g ' I . I . X O Il h . . ly I . ,

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Three years ago Father GraFl organrzed a cultural socrety t Quigley called the rush and Stylus Club Since then the club has grown both rn srze and rn value The need lor culture In a priest rs brought out by the Pope s statement The prrest must be graced by no less knowledge and culture than rs usual among well bred and well educated people of hrs day Cer tarnly rt rs obvrous that art has been re garded for centurres as an outlet lor the culture rn a man s nature Many people wrth whom the members of thus club wall worlr as Future prrests have an understand mg and love of porntrng It would help these future prrests to have a srmrlar under easily affords pleasure to these students erther whule actually doing some parntrng or whsle studying the worlc ol some of the truly great artists Throughout these three years of the art clubs existence Father Graff has held meetmgs with the members and has given them helpful advrce on therr work Also to grve the boys a broader lmowledge of painting lurther help has been given by several guest spealcers Fathers Christ Nremeyer and Morrrson Examples of the members worlc have been seen by vrsrtors to Quigley at the annual art ex hrbut Some of the parntrngs have been sent as far as South Amerrca lor exhnbrtuon Every day the students at urgley see examples of the club s worlc rn the prctures on the darly relrglous bulletms and the many posters placed rn the school The luture ol the Art Club under the guidance of Father Graff Indeed loolcs brrght V l . O . B . ' standing of art. The field of painting o r '