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

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DINNER IS SERVED WHAT S THAT VINNIE7 CLARE YOU KNOW PERFECT LY XA ELL MORE COFFEE SIR7 HOW MUCH DID IT COST7 COME NOW BOYS I Wglu of fl, Ffa? TI'IE OUIGLEY PLAYERS Among the many achrevements and OCIIVIIIGS of the LIttIe Semrnary the tradItIonaI pIay has a part In the trarnang of a semInarIan and aIso a very defInIte purpose It IS a fragment of OuIgIeys very Important speech course We needn t consult the footnotes of hrstory books to fund that IndIvIduaI Ieaders by FIEIY speeches have IIteraIIy swayed mIIIIons of peopIe and have drrven natrons to therr total rum Thus we cannot over emphasrze the Importance of a speech course as there are aIso present In the world today men who are strrvrng to pIIIage natrons and turn peopIe agarnst God SpeaIcIng and teachrng comprrse a mayor part of a prrest s duty It IS Important therefore that he speaIc effectIveIy In order to InIIuence people How ever a prrest cannot overcome Impendrng evIIs and IDCUICGIG truth If he IS tlmld and reserved An undertaIcIng such as a pIay teaches a stu dent to express hImseIf VlVIdIY and thereby over come the crIppIIng effects of trmrdness and shy ness whrch suppress hIs vocal power and con fme hIs effectrveness agarnst the evIIs of the worId Thrs year the pIay has brought the taIents of certarn students Into the spotIIghts under the drrectron of the very capable Father O Donnell who hImseIf starred In erght pIays whIIe he was at OuIgIey After Father chose hrs cast he ex pIaIned the proper Interpretatron of the IInes and after many hours of repetrtron Irfeless words were transformed and bIended IUIO a story of Irfe wrt and humor The protagonrsts In the pIay Lrfe Wrth Father were senrors DanIeI Brady as CIarence Day the father and Thomas Swade as Vrnnre Day the mother Many were surprrsed to see the reserved red headed Dan emerge as the hot headed borster ous but IovabIe father In the pIay But It drdn t 55 II II II I II II I I - I II ' -- V II X II II II II II II I - ' I O Ir II . . . I . I - , . . I . . . . ' I I . . . I I . , ' - I ' I I I - . . . . . II . . - I . . . . I II . . I I ' I I I I . ' , . I I ' ' - I - . . . . I . I I

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ONCE OVER LIGHTLY n LULEA flue .Slow the heart ol hrs audrence He lcnew n t only hrs own but also alm st everybody else s part per lectly and throughout the performance he non chalantly held command ol the stage The tour chrldren were played by senror ames Bonner sophomore George Reese and freshmen ohn Lowrey and Francrs Healy all natural red heads ames Bonner showed hrs slcrll rn portrayrng an erghteen yearold youth as the supposed hardness ol hrs heart rs prrclced by the meltrng porntol cuprd sarrow lr was a very frne perform ance by a very frne student Ir toolc qurte an effort for George Reese to settle down to the role of a rather narve cred ulous teenager but hrs portrayal ol the embar rassrngrnqursrtrvenessola typrcal hlteen year old CLARE YOU RE IMPOSSIBLE' tal4e Dan long to prove hrs abrlrty to act as he carrred hrs role flawlessly and rt wasnt rn frequent that he had to pause durrng the play untrl th laughs and roars subsrded Dan has acqurred a well des rved reputatron because of the hnesse of hrs actrng Thomas Swade played the part ol the rather srmple and sensrtrve Mrs Day Although he laclced the lemrnrne grace usually assocrated wrth a charm school he nevertheless charmed Y ohn Lowrey showed that frrst as well as frlth year has exemplars ol hne actrng when he carrred the role of Whrtney wrth such ease and exact ness The baby of the lamrly Francrs Healy frtted rnto the part so naturally that there was lrttle need for hrm to bother wrth actrng We expect to see more ol Francrs and ohn Lowrey rn Future plays And what would there be to drsturb the peace of the Day household rl there werent the vrsrt AS THE EVENING PROGRESSED K. O A ! C . is - r ' I ' ' ' J 0 l l l ' , ll ll I - ' proved laugh provoking. J . . I J 1 . I - ll n i - ' e ' . . - 3 . I . . . -A x, A ' F V vi If . . . LH I ' - Sr