Schuster School - Proscenium Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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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

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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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A RAY OF LIGHT With a clear conception of the nature and function of Expression has come a deeper appreciation of Reading as an art. The just recog- nition of the study of modulation as a positive factor in education means that the artistic interpretation of standard and classic literature is commanding the serious attention of people of culture. The hour of the imitative elocutionist has struck; a new day is fully dawned for the serious scholar with artistic taste and inclination. e Helen Schuster-Martin. Mrs. Isabelle Carghill Beecher, the foremost American Reader, whose beautiful art has annually been the inspiration of the Schuster students for many years. In 1913, Mrs. Beecher gave a series of six readings before the stu- dent body. Page forty :