Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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BWENE FACULTY Armand R Mrller Prlnclpal Maynard M Hart Assn tant Prlnclpal Gertrude Blodgett Dean EXLLISH HISYORX -NND O l-XL Florence Baker Anlta T Battle H Castleman Margaret C Dockery Blanche Flanlgan Charity C-race Lldmrla A Nerud Kathleen Nlcholson Margaret B O Connor Hllma C Peterson N E Rlley Florence L. Runge Eudora Smlth Early G Tyler Beatrice Wade Helen Whltelaw FOREICTX LANGUAGES Gertrude S Bennett Elolse Brxstol Marlan C Comfort Georges Lamy De la Roche SLIEN E Sarah A Connor Gladys L Craig Lxlllan Cromer Helen E Duffett Flora E Henke Edward C Kammerer lrene Kavana h ulle Koch ames Lewis Margaret O Leary Mllerna Schlutlus Esther R Simon M ATHEVIATICS Charles Ammerman essle R Barrlnger M A Comack August Grossman Lycla Long Annabel Remnltz Susannah Wlllxams H C ZCIS L C OS EPPelS COMMERCIAL susjscrs Cecllla L Hospes Rachel R Lawton Geo C Llndsay Marne Rothman GYMNASIUM Mlm: H Garesche William Gerber Walter Lorenzen Marxan K Varnan Fred C Voss L W Beers Lee R Carlson Edna Crowder Edrth M Hewitt R M lnbody Ednth M Johnston S C Smxth Laura B Solfronlt A E Spaulding M B Stone Ann O Watt enme A Whltbeclc I' r ART Loulse S Barbee Margaretta C Brown Anna L Place Nl-XXL,-XL TReXlNlNC Edward F Card Neal C Davls Delbert L Fmdley Ernest Cu Reynolds Frank P Rohrer Peter B Ruch ulxus E Tarlmg DOXIESTIC SCIEN E enme W Gllmore Meta E Mler 'NILSIL Blrdle E Hrlb H B Magmn OFFICE Bessie M Carney Effle C Ramsay Maude Rule SLIENCE Clifford Crosby Lou Ewers Walter Cammeter W H Crocott H S Katterhenry Bertha Koehler Edward L Loughlm W A Ludwig L M Parrott Martm C Wllson .vi . g l . 1 l . ' J' - ' . 1.1 . Eva C. Thiesenif X I ' . 'JC . J . U . A T A .' J '. f .h .'

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BUJEHH STEPS IN THE DEN ELOPMEWT OF THE DRAMA HEX we approach the study of the drama we must begln by remmdln ourselves that thls art drd not orlglnate ln the falr countrles whlch now use lt to perfectron but ID the anclent country of Greece The word drama IS of Creek derlvatxon comma from the word Spau dran to act The first trace of wrltten drama was found ln Greece and arose as part of the perxodxc celebratlon of DIOHYSIUS the god of wlne Thus as early as the fourth century we find the drama ln a class of its own From the days of ancient Greece until today the evolutlon of the drama has been very slow but as we look back on the Greek dramas we are entitled to feel that we have taken a long step ln advance durlng the slow wearmg away of the years There have been four perlods when the drama has rlsen to supreme helghts The hrst of course was ln Greece when Aeschylus and Sophocles and their contemporarles were the representative writers of drama Wlth the Greeks both the comedy and the tragedy developed around the life of their wine god lmpersonated by choruses of men clad ln goat skms whence probably comes the word tragedy literally meaning goat or goatskms But soon this crude way was replaced by Thespls who Introduced an actor to fill the intervals of actlng with stories and mlmlcry ln a short tlme two actors were used and finally a thlrd made his appearance Later more serious per formances came to be llmlted to the sadder parts of Dxonyslus s lxfe and to the famnlxar stones of Creek mythology Then prnze dramatrc contests were included ln honor of the god and thus the further development of the tragedy was contrlved A tragedy m general was made up of a serles of episodes sep arated by lyrical passages sung by the choruses the whole of whlch was Introduced by the prologue and termmated by the exode The second period was the Ellzabethan perlod when Marlowe Shakes peare and ohnson towered aloft as dramatlsts leading the way to the perfec tlon of the drama Wrltlng ln this perlod was dlsheartenmg but through perslstence and the show of gemus the dramatlsts of thls age made their names go down m the hlstory of literature and also made thelr country re nowned and famous Each of the outstandmg Elizabethan writers revealed the lyrical rlchness of the tlmes The thlrd period was nn France when Mollere followed by Cornellle and preceded by Racine made the period famous with dramatic productions He contributed much to the advancement of his times by Introducing the sollloquy for general use ln the drama The drama of the French period contained ln general touches of the frlvollty of the court and the folly of the court llfe ln France but behind this might often be seen the gravity of polntncal affairs Qu f , r A . . o' 3 y . - . .. .- an ' ' ' , . , - n y 1 , v v v - 1 ' ' . . . . . . r Q y - , . . .. .- , - .I v ' 9 , - . . . ., . v , . ,