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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MUSIC KIGHT The l)ig- musical event of the fall semester, Music Night, crowded the in ■on the evening of Friday, October 3, 1930, like no other musical performance had ever done in the past. One of the reasons for the huge success of the event was that a minstrel show was included in the program, which literally swept the audience off its feet. To open the performance, the combined glees and choral classes sang The Lost Chord, accompanied by the school orchestra and directed by Mr. Carter There was enthusiastic applause after this selection, but the interested aud- ence soon calmed down when the Revolutionary Etude was played as a piano solo by Daisy JMarchant. Following this number, the stringed trio composed of Beatrice Metcalf, Anne Salinger, and Jane Granger played two classical selections. The combined glees then sang Deep River, a Negro spiritual, and the Viking Song. There was such prolonged applause after this number that time out had to be taken until things quieted down a bit. The clarinet trio consising of Kenneth McDonnell. Bill Holman, and Wal- ter Zinke played two numbers. Then Bett} Bailey sang several classical num- bers for the attentive audience. The Girls ' Glee then sang Indian Sumer by Hopkins, and the classical i)art of the program was brought to a close by the school orchestra, plaj ' ing Andante from the Surprise Symphony by Haydn. Ne.xt on the unique program was the much awaited and planned for Min- strel Show given by the Boys ' Glee Club, The part of the Interlocutor was taken care of by Paul Barrett. The parts of the end men were handled by Hal Sternitsky, Jack Edgemond, Don Jones, Jack Marchant, John Affolter, and Charles Bowdish. The show opened with a hang when all dem black boys sang Cut Dat Melon. This selection was followed by the Levee Song sung by the entire company. Ben Deane next sang Get Awa ' From Dis Co ' nfiel ' . He was ac- companied by the chorus. After this number Phil Gustafson sang a tenor solo entitled The Marriage License. A patter song, Liza Jane, was offered featuring the baritones and Hal Sternitsky ' s banjo accompaniment. This number received three encores and could have continued only there vere other acts to follow. A quartet consisting of Melvin Baumgarten, Ben Deane, Carroll Hedlind, and Don Jones sang Down Mobile, a weird negro numlier. Following the quartet. Hal Sternitsky did a solo song and dance combination of Walky Talky Jenny, a negro trot. The Interlocutor, Paul Barrett then sang Dixiana with the chorus assisting him. A clog dance, by the Hotfooters, and accompanied by Joaquin Grill followed. The perform- ance was brough to a close b} ' the song Good Times Am Comin ' which was rendered by Charles Bowdish and the entire company. Seventy-two