University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The Green-Room began the activities of the year with rehearsals for a playlet entitled ttAll On Account of an Actor? The playlet remained in an embryonic stage; Why is a mystery. Some urge that the title indicates the clubts insurmount- able obstacle. Others maintain that the real cause lies in the deplorable lack of an angelenot one of the Wings and harp variety; but one Whose claim to the title is based on the possession of a large bank account, coupled to a generous heart. Whatever the dichulties, they seem to have been overcome, for the club confidently announces for the Winter Quarter, the farce, KEngaging J anet? The cast of Characters is as follows: Janet Clarke, lookingfor a Career ....................... MISS MARY CHANEY Miss Briggs, 0f the Amalgamated Charities ............. MISS RUTH RETTICKER Madame Maude, tttoilettesomet, ............ ; ......... MISS HAZEL STILLMAN Miss Bumpus 9 Boston. t . .' ......................... MISS ELLEN MACNEISH Miss Spike, the representative thhe T eaclzef.9 T raining Trust .................. .............................................. MISS CHRISTINE POSSE Miss Higgins, qf the Employment Bureau ................. MISS LOIS KENNEDY Bridget ........................................... NIISS FLORENCE CATLIN List of Members ALICE LEE LOIS KENNEDY JEANETTE THIELENS ELLEN MACL TEISH MARY CHANEY VVILHEMINA PRIDDY HAZEL STILLMAN FLORENCE CATLIN GWENDOLYN JAMES ZILLAH SHEPHERD RUTH RETICKER CHRISTINE IPOSSE 129

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The Mummers The Mummers was founded a year ago With the double purpose of studying the master dramatists, and through them gaining the inspiration for original com- positions. But the ttmaster voice,, has been, for unaccountable reasons, con- sistently inaudibte; and the study Of the modern classics has been retarded through the inability of Dr. Schutze to meet the men regularly. It is, however, the hope of the members that in the near future one or several of them Will produce a play Which may be presented by the Dramatic Club. The members of the Mummers are: DR. MARTIN SCHUTZE FLOYD ALVAH KLEIN HARRY ARTHUR HANSEN RAYMOND DEFOREST PENNY JOHN RALPH BENZIES MELVIN ADAMS HILMAR ROBERT BAUKHAGE 128

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DI ttVth Leads the Promf the problematic drama presented by the Sock and Buskin last June. met with hearty applause from the Campus lovers of the legiti- mate. The play. rearranged from a German sketch by Miss Esther Hall, Bliss Eveline Phillipps and Miss Ethel Kawin. was truly collegiate in type and Went with a swing and a dash characteristic of the Sock and Buskin. The club feels keenly the loss of NIiss Esther Hall who cast aside the allure- ments of the footlights for the less conspicuous existence of married life. Stim- ulated. however, by this loss, the members Worked with redmlhled zeal towards the production of tt The Piper Pays? The cast in ttVVho Leads the Promt' was: Margaret Maroon ....................... NETTIE WILLIAMS Molly Muscle ............................ GERTRUDE FISH Jennie Sais Pas ......................... ELIZABETH BURKE Deborah Fossil ......................... ERNESTINE EVANS Lydia Languid ........................... k LIDA MrDERMm Dorothy Date ............................. MARY AIH'HER 130