University High School - The Cub Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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DRAMATIC KIGHT The Admirable Crichton, a four act play by Sir James Barrie. was presented by the dramatic classes with the help of the art and stage-craft classes as the offering- for Dramatic Night. November 7. The use of a four act play was a pleasant innovation, being the first one to be presented for a number of years. The plav deals with life among the English nobility, and the soundness of the class system is the theme. The scenes are laid in a formal English drawing room, and on a desert island. Lord Loam, played h ' Lawrence Cherry, invites his servants into the drawing room on stated occasions, where the}- are treated as equals, thus demonstrating his beliefs. His famih-. Lady Mary. Virginia Steinbach : Lady Catherine and Lady Agatha, Charlotte Stewart and Claire Bradhoff, are forced to submit to his ideas. When the party is shipwrecked on a desert island. Crichton, the butler, in the person of Horace Case, becomes master of the situation. The supporting cast was made up of Charles Bowdish as the Honorable Ernest W ' oolley. Woodrow Johnson as Lord Brocklehurst. Jean Hunt as Lady Brocklehurst: Donald McLeod as Reverend John Treherne. and Peggy McGuire as Tweeney. The members of the household were played by Nell Aiken, Eric Eaton. Roy Inglebrightsen, Elden Clark, Daisy Marchant, Frances Merrill. Evelyn Land, ' irginia Cull, and Jean Scott. DRAMATIC MATIHEES Aside from the production of The Admirable Crichton. the dramatics classes have presented several one-act plays to selected audiences. Among these were Sham . The Eorfeit . and The New Word . The cast of Sham did such an excellent piece of work that the characters were re- qusted to repeat it before another audience. The characters were the thief, Sam Holmes: Clara, Madeline Bond: Charles. Wadsworth White: and the reporter. Antone Valim. The Forfeit was presented before an invited audience of about fifty people. Howard Sheldon, the leading character of the play, was portrayed by Raymond Peabbles. The other roles were : John Pembry, Joaquin Grill: Marjorie Hyde, Phyllis Barnett : Mrs. MuUins, a charwoman, June Beckman : and Thrupp, an office boy, W ' eido I ancione. Seventy

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FUN AND FROLIC . I;in orgfanizatiiins and iiiili idiial li(l llicir l (.-st tliis U ' rm to make llie Follifs siK ' ci ' sstul. 1 lu ' i ii ijuralion was plciKlid and ln ' causc dI tlic coiiipfli- liiiii tliat existed, tlie skits w eie of a line standard. Tile llifjh Seniors produced as their farewell performance an ori 4;inal skit entitled ' i ' lic Little Red School House , which took lis hack to our jjrammai school tlays in a very realistic way. The characters were: ttie school-master, Charles Dondero ; Percy, . rchie Mcl ' herst)ii ; Mrs. Van Smytlie, IClizaheth Smith: I ' atchs, Herbert Bolton: Rastus, Charles Howdish : Hecky. I ' lvelyn Land; Superintendent of Schools, Jack I ' -dg-emoiuI ; and Susie, La on Her- sey. The Music Box also carried out the general theme of the Follies in their production of a Kiddies Revue. This con.sisted of a rhythm hand by members of the club, a hoop dance by Dais ' Marchant, a doll sons., ' - by Helen .Murray, a piano solo by incent Duckies, and a romper chorus by the dancing classes. Trouble at Satterlees was the one-act play presejited by the Girls ' Rally Committee. The chai ' acters were Dorothy, portrayed by Kay Mitze; Alice, by Virginia Steinliach ; Marion, by Evelyn Schlichting: Mildred, by Elizabeth Peart; Miss Saterlee, by Elizabeth Armstrong, and Kathleen, by Peggy Mc- Guire. The play depicted life in a boarding school. The Low Twelve class contributed to the program b}- presenting a play written in poetry entitled Jane Clay . John . ffolter was the Judge; Phyllis Barnett, Jane: W ' oodrow Johnson, Mason: Paul Barrett. Steve; Evelyn Schlichting, the Mother: Edward Schneider, the Policeman: Don Nelson, the Clerk; and Roy Inglebrightsen, the Detective. The Boys ' Glee Stunt, . way Out West , was introduced by a whip dance given by Dais} ' Marchant. The Girls ' Glee also contributed to the musical side of the program by singing a group of Favorites. Before the curtain acts added a great deal to the gaiety of the evening and kept the audience entertained while the stage crew did their business. These acts included a humorous war-time skit by the High Eleven class, a skillful hand-balancing act by Russell Howland, and Cartographs by Jack Edgemond. Another individual stunt was a toe dance by Leona Dahock. Joatjuin (irill and his Hot Spot Syncopators entertained the audience before the program and during the intermission by rendering several peppy ' numbers. The sale of serpentine and candy made the performance complete and so ended another successful Follies . Sixty-iiine

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