Stevensville High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Stevensville, MI)

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Band and Orchestra Boys’ and Girls’ Glee Clubs Operetta In Old Vienna” paye serenteen

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Boys and girls constitute the (dee Cluh under the direction of Mrs. Clara Myers. They have accomplished a great deal in chorus work. During the year they furnish music for a wide variety of programs. In conjunction with the Band and Orchestra they sponsored the Christmas Program. The Band and Orchestra is under the leadership of Mr. Null. The main event of the year was the “Cotton Club” minstrel show. The Band contributed a series of concerts which took place during the summer. The Township Board bought the Band colorful uniforms to wear for their concerts. The Orchestra is also at the school's disposal and they play at any time they are called on. Both Band and Orchestra are participating in the County Festival that is to be given in May. Under the direction of Mrs. Myers, the music supervisor, the annual operetta was presented. The operetta was a beautiful gypsy story—the scene was Carnival time in Vienna, the time of the year when Lady Vivian (Kay K.) returns to Vienna in search of her daughter lost since infancy. Chief Kinske (G. Hass) invented a plan to deceive Lady Vivian in finding a daughter for her—a waitress—Louisa (Adeline Friesl). Louisa humorously blundered the plot—and Ilona (Frances W.) supposedly the daughter of the gypsy Jigo (A. Cupp) proved herself Lady Vivian’s long lost daughter by the accidental presence of a locket. Other major parts were played by Joe Bodjack, William Posch, Maxine Bujack, Jordon Jung, Helmut Pioske, Leon Mielke, and a chorus of girls and boys. page sixteen

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The Blue Bag and the Hillbilly Courtship A. hotel, in the center of nowhere, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Macklyn, (Arnold Schulz and Kay Krajacic), is the setting for the mystery of “The Blue Bag.” First to arrive at the hotel in search of a blue bag are Anton (lack Dehring) and his chauffeur (Edgar Lockwitz), who falls in love with the Macklyns’ maid, Chatta- nooga (Caroline Bodjack). They are followed by a young couple of elopers, Allan (Clarence Uher) and Enid (Evelyn Totzke); Letty Long an actress (Maxine Bu- jack). under an assumed name; Jim and Molly Keefer (Frank Cupp and Joe Krejci), a pair of thugs. All of the ladies are carrying blue bags and when Bill Har- rington, detective (Harold Markwald), arrives in search of a blue bag containing jewels, he has a fine time finding them. He finally finds them and the story ends happily with Jim and Molly under arrest and Bill Harrington in love with Letty Long; Allan and Enid, and George and Chattanooga married; and Mr. and Mrs. Macklyn after many “scraps finally reconcile on their silver wedding anniversary. A week later the faculty presented “The Hillybilly Courtship,” a play of the Ozark Mountains, for the raising of funds to purchase new stage scenery. This hilarious comedy was presented to a capacity crowd of four hundred on November the 29th. The story concerned a feud in the Ozarks. The play offered opportunity for character work and this was done very well. The cast ranged in types of personalities as follows: Ma Peppin, a feudin’ hillbilly mother—Mrs. Myers; Emmy Peppin, her daughter and the flower of the hills—Mrs. Smith; Pappy Stilsby, the old-type feudin', up and at ’em hillbilly—Mr. Shearer; the radio hillbillies—Mrs. Shearer and Miss page eighteen