University of Wisconsin Whitewater - Minneiska Yearbook (Whitewater, WI)

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Sikhart, Hastreiter, Krause, Lewerenz, Gorder, Trovinger, Bowyer, Muller THESPIAN FIRST SEMESTER ALICE GORDER ........................ President LAW'RENCE TROVINUER ............ Vice-Presidem ORRIN MOEN ......................... Secretary MERTON BOVVYICR ..................... Treasurer HELEN WILBER .......... Royal Purple Reporter MISS HOLCOMBE . . . THESPIAN Dramatic Club is one of the oldest organizations on the campus. Organized in 1921 by a group of twelve students, the Club has grown to a 111embership of sixty. Miss Flor- ence Holcombe has sponsored Thespian since its beginning. Thespian is open to all those interested in dram- atics, either for educational purposes or for pleas- ure. The club is entirely a working unit, and it is not the purpose to carry any who are not willing to take an active part. Membership may be earned by active participation in plays, through com- mittee work, typing of manuscripts, and by make- up and stage work. Regular meetings are held twice a month on the first and third Wednesdays at 7 oiclock in the Dramatic Workshop. Meet- ings are devoted to student productions, lessons in stage craft, costuming and make-up. Some of the speakers who helped to make the programs inter- esting were Mrs. OiConner and Mr. Fischer. SECOND SEMESTER CLARICE LEWERENZ ................... President EARL KRAUSE .................... Vice-President NORA BELLE MULLER .................. Secretary BERNARD HASTREITER ................. Treasurer SUSAN SIKHART .......... Royal Purple Reporter ........... Director Members are given opportunities to assist in entertainments for community clubs, radio, civic organizations, and for school affairs. Four major productions are given each year, and from twenty to thirty one act plays. Student directors are given charge of many of these shorter plays. In October Thespinn sponsored a presentation of C. Ray Smith's Olvera Street hl'larionettes from Los Angeles. Since the primary purpose of the club is educa- tional, only one social event is scheduled each year a Thespian dancing party which, this year, was held early in the second semester. However, parties are held at the meetings after initiation, at Christmas, and various other times. The following plays were given in 1936-1937: iiThe Bishop Misbehavesfi which began the series; iiThe Fool? and the discovery of new talent in Thespian; iiKing Leary in modern version; and iiThe Silver Chord.w gme

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iiTI-IE FOOU ON NOVEMBER 17 the Dramatic Club presented Charming Pollockis play, hThe Fool? for its second play of the year. Miss Holcombe, assisted by the large cast, produced one of the greatest dramatic successes of the past six years. The opening scene heralded the oncoming Christmas season with a setting of a church decorated for that occasion. Daniel Gilchrist, assistant rector of the Church, felt the money spent on decorations could be of more benefit if used to help the poor. In his efforts to live like Christ he centered his Christe mas sermon on a strike involving employees of the church members. As a result he was turned out of his church. Losing even his fiancee, he accepted a job as labor conciliator under these same churchmen. Despite 'the efforts of the parish members to call him back, he remained in the small mining town with his helper, Mary Margaret, a cripple, knowing that his work was there. In the dramatic ending Mary Margaret was cured, and those who had sneered saw Gilchrist in his true light. Wyman Calkins headed the strong cast as Gilchrist. Supporting him were Donald Demerath, Frank Cooper, Irene Reasa, Gifford Loonier, Victor Shud- lick, Jean Reid, Alice Gorder, Lorraine Tholo, and Dorothy Goelz. They represented the social caste while the other faction was realistically portrayed by Jerome Koudelik, Earl Krause, Joan Roherty, Arloine Wright, and John Dettmann. The remaining parts were as capably filled, giving the production a finished perfection. It truly deserved the comment made by one critic: iiSuch a performance merits production againe-and yet again? HDown on your knees!