South Kent High School - Yearbook (South Kent, CT)

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1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR Boolc 1935 K as 1 hw DRAMATICS AST year a revival of the drama got under way at South Kent. Four plays were presented in that year, one a courtroom farce by some of the present graduatf ing class entitled, Four Rogues and a Rascal. In that epic Newhall played the role of a judge, while Murchison was a negro chickenfthiefg Turner was cast in the part of a prosperous but unscrupulous manufacturer, and Chamberlain played the part ofa wily criminal lawyer. This year as we go to press, several plays have been presented, two at Christmas, one at the close of the winter term and two early in the spring term. The plays this year were not put on by separate forms, as was the practice last year, but talent was drawn indiscriminately from the whole school. The actors are .ndebted considerably to Messrs. Bartlett, Woodward, Cameron, and Cumming for their services as directors. Two plays were presented at Christmas: The Monkey's Paw and Four of a Kind. In connection with the former play, we shall never forget Whittef more's soulfshaking sobs in the part of Mrs, White , or Newhall's acting as Mr. page fortyffour

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1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR BOOK 1935 ARTHUR W. TURNER . JOHN P. CHAMBERLAIN GORDON K, MCCOUN . STUART D, COWAN, JR. ROSCOE W. STURGES, JR. J. WESLEY PULLMAN . DAVID R. MURCHISON, JR. . FREDERIC F. MILNE . ARCHIE W. LEONARD . WILLIAM S. AGAR . CHAUNCEY D. MATHEWS ROBERT M. PULLMAN . THOMAS ENNIS , THE RECORD , Editor Managing Editor . Sports Editor . Sports Editor Business Manager Assistant Editor Alumni Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Business Manager ge fortyfthr

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1935 SouTH KENT YEAR Booic 1935 White , nor will we soon forget their illffated son, Milne. The other drama was dominated by the Chinese characterization put on by the inimitable Merrell, the comic element being supplied by johnson as L'Crawls. The sup' porting characters of this latter play were Gillispie as the cherubic Father jerolomenn, Cowan as jake, and Baker Cwho seemed particularly well castj as the unkempt Smike. At the close of the winter term crime came to South Kent in The Duke and the Dices, v l in which HOLISCOH, already I'nOtECl for his ' '... HOPHEAD GANGSTERN characterization of the Sergeant in The Monkey's Paw, rose to new heights as jake, the speakeasy proprietor. With some difficulty we recognized a classmate when Waller came on the stage made up as a hophead gangster. Milne took in this play the part of a soft spoken bouncer, while Martin and Lehmann gallantly provided the love interest. Subsidiary gangster fcomplete with derbyj-Echeverria. Early in the spring term two more plays were presented, one in French. The style of acting displayed in these plays was perhaps the best shown by student Thespians. Formerly, there had been good and poor actors, the eight participants in these plays were almost uniformly good. We would never have supposed that Maxwell would have made such a good comedian as he proved to be in Les Assureursf' or that Hoey could have so successfully impersonated a mem' ber of the weaker sex. We admired, too, Lane's suave villainy in Brains, and the Scotch and Cockney roles played by Macpherson and VanSand. All in all, these plays revealed to us unsuspected depths in our classmates and members of lower forms. Some of the plays have been so good that several will probably be revived later in the year. In concluding, we hope that the rise of the Drama, in which this class has played so important a part, will continue after we have left South Kent. PF PF PF Bk This year one of the alumni presented a plaque to the School, on which is to be inscribed the name of the boy who does the best work in dramatics, either in acting or in stage managing. This has added a lot to the lasting interest in drama at South Kem. page fortyffive