University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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ZW Under the leadership of an active executive, the Players' Club could count the year of 1950-51 as one of its most successful in the thirty-six years that it has existed as one of the maior clubs on the campus. The executive was headed by President Philip Keatley, with Vice-President Elizabeth Grant, Secretary Anna VVooton, Treasurer Norman Young, and Committee Members Doreen Qdling and Shelia Cameron. Fred Lipsett returned to the campus to take the iob of Stage Manager after an absence of four years. Lipsett had previously managed the stage for the Club from 1942 to 1944, after which he became president of L.S.E. Under his silken whip- hand, the stage crew changed sets in two minutes, forty-three seconds by his stop watech, and built an entire new box set for the Spring Play in five days. The social life of the Club was under the direction of Angela Wood as Social Convener, and consisted of the regular two production parties, with a Fall Formal held at Stanley Park Pavillion, a New Members' party at the home of Liz Grant, and the annual Valentine's Marque- rade held at the home of Val Clyne. In the fall, as its annual private performance the Club presented three one-act plays. The plays chosen in 1950 were of three widely diverse styles of theatre fare, and the student actors found each had its own problems and its own re- wards. The first play of the pro- gram was one of Tennessee Wil- liam's eary efforts in drama, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, a study of three neurotic and dream-haunted individuals in the back-alleys of New Orleans life. The production was under the direction of Mrs. F. 66 PRUDUCES FIVE i'The Players' Club execu- tive gathers for an in- formal meeting. Treasurer Norman Young makes a suggestion to the obvious disapproval of president Phil Keatley. The rest of the committee enioying the argument are: Vice- President Elizabeth Grant, secretary Anna Wooton, committee members Doreen Odling and Sheila Cam- eron, and social convenor Angela Wood. Absent from the picture is the stage manager Gerald 0'Connor. 'A'Production time and time for costumes and make-up. President Phil Keatley deftly executes an' experi- enced hand in applying make-up to Maryan lMuchl Machiewiski, while Val Clyne assists him. As pro- duction manager for the fall plays Phil did every- thing from sewing up seams in a costume to hoisting up sets in the intermissions between plays. 'A'Together with the English department, the Players' Club presented in January Ben Jonson's Elizabethan comedy, The Alchemist, under the direction of Miss Dorothy Somerset. The three witty conspirators were played by Phil Keat- ley, Garth Bryans and Elizabeth Grant. Here they are pictured gulling one of their victims, An- thony Davis. The perman- ent unit set built for the play will permit the pre- sentation of many more Elizabethan plays.