Schuster School - Proscenium Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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THE DIRECTOR'S DESIRE O, for a Muse of fire that would ascend The highest heaven of invention. A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! THE. DIRECTOR MISS IRENE GRIFFIN MR. BERT THOMPSON AS VIOLA AS MALVOLIO Page thirty-eight

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How red Mrs. Burkeh nose is, thought the queen. She had just entered in her sleep, and the next moment uttered, Out damned spot,,, so realistically that Hilda Ruthman jumped, and forgot to put her hand back into her muff from which she had pulled it in her excitement. The Beef Eater, Who had left the scene, stood in the wings anxiously waiting the moment when Queen Elizabeth should discard her heavy cloak. tThey man- aged this business close to the wings so that he could help her get it offj uOn your life, take your hands from me, cried outraged royalty, wondering if the stranger in the last row was asleep or frozen to death. Shakespeare gave her the cue, and High treason! she cried, throwing off her cloak. The Beef Eater grabbed it, and wrapping himself in it, sat down on a white-washed stool OH stage. When the play at last came to an end, six pairs of hands patted a sardonic applause, and the queen waited to hear no more. During the performance of uOne Hundred Years Hence, Frank Kise came in. Florence was making love to Rollo, but was not too preoccupied to notice the increase in the size of the audience. Those Seven Noble Souls sat through the rest of the performance! When the last curtain fell on The Man on the Kerb they filed out. The stranger said Hlnteresting and shivered. Very interesting. He informed Mrs. Martin that he was a reporter for one of the morning papers, shivered again and went his lonely way into the bitter night. The critics? Critics may be cranks, but they are never fools. Brave the howl- ing winter wind to see a stupid Shaw play and a girl who thinks she can act? Even critics are human sometimes. e The Janitor. Pa ge lhirty-sevcn

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Mr. John Alexander, a talented member of The Little Playhouse Company, as he will appear in the title role in Richard LeGallienne's Orestes. Mr. Alexander has appeared with success in All-of-a- Sudden Peggy, Every Woman, The Man on the Kerb,H HThe Faith Healer,H uA Fan and Two Candlesticks, HBlanchetteH and 'The Gift. Last year he played Orseno in Twelfth Night and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing in the Shakespearean perform ances at the Zoo Garden. Pa ge thiny-nine