St Rose Academy - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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GOLD AND WHITE gf-Q-- 1 1 ' - v -e ESPERANZA RUELAS NEVA LONGATTI MARGARET CAsAssA President Secretary Treasurer Dramatic Club HE delightful whimsicalities of Barrie's Quality Street transformed our stage into a quaint blue and white sitting room and converted - modern high school girls into nineteenth century romancers when on March twenty-seventh the Dramatic Club presented its annual program in St. Rose Auditorium before the girls and their parents. The gallant Captain Brown was ably portrayed by Virginia Vannucci. Ollie Watts was the timid little Phoebe Throssle and the part of her old maid sister was taken by Lorraine Walsh. The other characters were: Dorothy Hartnett as Miss Fanny Willoughby, one of three old maids, Virginia Gallagher as Mary Willoughby, another old maid, Ellen McC1erry as Henrietta Turnbull, the third old maid, Helen Sullivan as Ensign Blades, Cecilia Casey as Lieutenant Spicer, Lydia Watts as Charlotte Parrat, Dorothy Reardon as Harriet, Dorothy Lee Carter as the Sergeant and Old Soldier, Martha Ward as the gallant and the bad school boy, Lorraine Eahs as the faithful servant, Patty, Eleanor Buckley as Isabella Beveridge, a troublesome little girl, Katherine Depangher as lovable little Arthur Wellesby Thomson, and Caroline Jeffress, Catherine O'Connell and Catherine McMartin as the dancing pupils. Everyone knows the delicate Barrie humor, but when ably carried out by well directed actors it doubles in value: and our little group of actors had an able director in Professor Daniel S. Sullivan, teacher of the spoken word at St. Rose. The Seniors were not able to take part on account of the proximity of the Senior Play but they and all other members of the Dramatic Club, as well as the officers, were generous in their efforts to make the play a success. That they achieved their purpose was evidenced by the congratulations the girls received not only on their performance but also on the dignity, eiiiciency and order which characterized their behaviour behind the scenes. Sixty-two -1

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GOLD AND WHITE lki-- -l- The Senior Play HE Senior Class of 1929 might be compared to the French nation at the time of the Revolution. The French conjugated, I am suspect, you are suspect, he is suspect, The Seniors conjugate, Am I going to college? Are you going to college? Is she going to college? Therefore. it seemed quite appropriate that the name of the Senior play should be, Why Were You Sent to College? But lest the people at large presume that it was somewhat like a thesis or a lecture course, we hasten to add that it was an exciting, fast-moving story of a small-town pioneer family, whose children come back from college full of ultra- modern ideas and ultra-modern disregard for all but themselves. When, however, they discover that in a moment of just anger and indigna- tion at being continually goaded and insulted by an unscrupulous band of poli- ticians, their father has impetuously resigned from his office of city assessor and, having spent all his money on their education. has become bankrupt, they rise to the emergency by pretending a sudden antipathy to continuing their studies. The eldest son, who was about to be married, places all his savings in his father's name in the bank. The younger son, whose ambition it was to study under a famous artist, secures a position in a stock company as actor and scene-painter. And his twin-sister accepts a position as advertising manager for a department store. But they do not stop at obtaining positions for themselves. Knowing of a long cherished ambition of their father's to be a market gardener, they persuade their grandmother to enter into partnership with a friend and hire their father to look after her interests. The plot was well knit together and the characters typical of American life. Though the action took place in a small town, it could be set to equal advantage in any city of the United States. The play was coached by Mr. Daniel Sullivan and was produced in the School Auditorium on Friday evening, April 27th. The members of the cast were: Marjorie Crummy as Bernard Ingals, the father: Lillian Arata as Eunice Ingals, the mother: Esperanza Ruelas as Mrs. Bradley, the grandmother: Michaela Driscoll as Bradley lngals, the younger son: Dorothy Mullaney as Lois Ingals, his twin-sister: Margaret Mount as Hugh lngals, the elder brother: Mary Lins as Julia Murdoch, their aunt: Ellen Martin as Dagmar Carroll, Hugh's fiancee: Neva Longatti as Noel Derby, a friend of the family: Georgia Alegretti as Leo Day, a politician: Bernice O'Connell as Elliott Kimberley, a politician: Elizabeth Silva as Ronald Murdoch, the chil- dren's cousin, and Grace O'Connor as Rhoda, the maid. Sixty-four