St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits, youTe bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or, trust me, you have1ft a chance. -Sir W. S. Gilbert. PEEP One Hundred Thirty-four

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The Comedy of Errors HIS present year was begun with Shakes- perets uComedy of Errors . It made a strik- ing hit, and was wonderfully successful in every department. Thomas J. Manion t26, and G. Murray Paddack t26, the confused Antipholi, tri- umphed as incomparable lovers. Edward J. McGrath, t28, and Richard T. Deters, 28, were more than Harlequin as the oft, confused, and harrassed Dromios. J. Harry Moore 125, Aegean of Syra- cuse, and James P. Glenn, ,26, Duke of Ephesus, both gave able characterizations of roles much in ad- vance of their years. The Misses Madden, Wendt, and Bloemer, though not members of the Society, kindly graced the stage in the female parts, and exhibited marked ability. The cast was completed by John A. Murray ,25, Joseph A. Higgins t25, Phil J. Kennedy ,25, Herbert Barnhorn '26, Rob- ert Brunsman t26, James Nolan '28, Carl Steine bicker t27, John Gellenbeck t27, Joseph Urbain '27 Victor Staudt 28, Clarence Specht '28, James Quill ,28, and A1. Hess '28. John B. Stenz, '26 read the Prologue. The scenic arrangements de- serve special mention, for they not only followed the latest departure in the present tendency toward Drapes, but also brought forth some very original, and unsuspected talent in the way of lighting, and stage handling in Frank Koester, Scenic Director. In fact the entire production would have been a mis- erable failure but for the business-like manner in which it was handled by Ronald Jeanmougin ,25. It was he who made it a financial success from be- ginning to end. Page One Hundred Thirty-six