Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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DRAMATICS “The play's the thing. Hamlet. q you want some stars? The little wizard went to work. He mixed plenty of talent with plenty of training, put the result into a cast to bake before the footlights. And explosion punctuated the first applause. The stardust was terrific! Stars of this year's production will probably twinkle someday over Broadway. And four times during the year Mr. Arthur Flajole, S.J., used the Seattle Prep Dramatic Society for batter, added plenty of patter, and delighted filled auditoriums of spectators. Born Lucky, a comic presentation, first rocketed into the firmament of histrionic greatness, when Joe Russell, the old man of Capitol Hill, by-cracky-ed into town to see his elite son residing at a fraternity house. But Paul Claudon, not expecting the old man so soon,-was talking about the weather to a socialite, the daughter of a prominent family. Although Dick DeDonato, the affiable Dutch Allender, head-man of the frat house, showed the ole man of the mountain a good time, the veterans of the hills decided to surprise his son at the palatial joint. He found his son, but not alone. The trouble in paradise, however, was quickly sweetened when the rich father of the girl recognized old Joe as the pal of his college days. The old man hog-calling the boys in the frat house still echoes among the pleasant memories of Capitol Hill. Paul Claudon, John McGeough, Frank McGerr, John White, Bernard Brani-gan, William Bates, and John Massard were others in the cast of Born Lucky. The cast for the second night was Edward Sheehan, Jack Naughton, Frank Boxer, Albert Wood, Robert Irvine, Jack Kearny, Tierney Wilson, Joseph Russell, and John Boehm. A double bill of melodramatic tidbits, The Man in the Shadow and The Fatal Letter, featured the February offerings of the Dramatic Society. Don West was the Man in the Shadow; Robert O'Gorman, the host, his brother; Lawrence Evoy, a well-known chemist; David Cullinane, a successful novelist; Lawrence Hoechen, a criminal lawyer; and Fred Hebert, a butler. A suicide takes on the appearance of a murder. Cullinane confesses, only to face his victim, alive and well, at the end of the play. George Ryan and Wally Carroll, two actors in The Fatal Letter, rehearse a scene in which George blanks Wally. The audience is horrified, so is Charles West, the butler; but the play's the thing, says Hamlet, and once more a happy ending came to the second production of the year. John Harrington, arrayed in an over-sized suit, a three-weeks' growth of beard, and a cockney dialect, stole the show in What a Night, the final presentation of the year. Cockney Jake, as he was called, just dropped in to visit Butler Paul Claudon, who was working for Mr. Burton, a prominent lawyer spending a week-end in the country. The hay stack burns one night, a skeleton wearing Burton's ring is found among the burnt debris, and Butler Paul Claudon is under suspicion; but the lawyer reappears through a secret door to confront the gang of gangsters he had been endeavoring to corral. Splotch Riomini, played by Lawrence Hoeschen, is the guilty lad, and receives his quota of blank buckshot. Gordon Johnson, a farmer, and Dan O'Neill, a gardner, vie for top honors in portraying agrarian parts. Joe Russell, the chief of police, and Eddie Sheehan, a news reporter, furnish comic patter to the sinister production of What a Night. Paul Claudon, Don O'Neill, Edward Sheehan, John Harrington, Raymond Richards, Richard DeDonato, Lawrence Hoeschen, Gordon Johnson, Joseph Russell, John Sullivan, Jack Naughton, and Neil Brislawn constituted the cast of What a Night.

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JUNIOR CLUB Top Nestor. Wilkinson. English. E.. McChesney. Basel. Sweeney, Leahy, Stoele. Becker. Fifth Row O'Brien, McNorney. Macchia. Fouts. Wood. Pettinger. Stich, McKnight. Fourth Row Berlin. McHugh, Strickland. Brons. McKillop. Kenny, Sullivan. Zcyen. Monahan. Hyde. Third Row Morrill. Wall. Perri. Miller. Keohen. Panattoni, Moss. Boyle. Socond Row Gill. Mackay. Evoy. Jordan. Parolik. Anderson. Pape. English. ]., Donohoe. Mr. O'Brion. S.J. First Row Terhar. Hondrick. Blaschka. Sherod. Champion, McNally, Nally. SENIOR CLUB Top Branigan. O'Neill. Boehm. Irvino. McGorr. Richards. Claudon. Johnson. Fourth Row Russell. West, C., Kearny, Ryan. Carroll. Boxer. Spellacy. Wood. Third Row Bloomfiold. Hebert, White. West, D., Evoy, Brislawn. Bates. Second Row Armstrong, Cullinane, Harrington, Hoeschon, Sullivan. Haines. O'Gorman. First Row Naughton. Kelly. Shochan. DeDonato. Mr. Flaiolo. S.J. L DRAMATICS

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LETTERMEN'S CLUB Top McGorr. Ryan, Branigan. B., Bellinger. Boxer, Reynolds, Stewart. Third Row Morrick. Ackerman. Carroll. Kelly. R., Spollacy. Korschbaum. Harrington. Second Row Gagan. Branigan. T.. Naughton. DeDonato. Kelly. J.. Cullinane. Picht. First Row Green. Sheehan. Nestor. Claudon, Colacarro. Carmody. President Nestor Vice-President Claudon Secrotary Sheehan ORCHESTRA Top Bauer. Kennedy, Fouts. Powers, E. Middle Read. Sweeney, Canney, Haven. A. Bottom Havon, L., Mr. D. McDonald. S.J. CLUBS