Viroqua High School - Pipe of Peace Yearbook (Viroqua, WI)

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1 IJ Vb! '1 V l j 'n ' 3M9; A 5 J0 UNITIIG Operetta i x quJ , Top Row-Pearl Engler, Rudolph Elton, Jackson Endicott, Harlan Helgeson. Second RoweEmma Williams, Anna Rose Gross, Clarence Peterson, Helen Baldwin, Sarah Minshall. On January 28, ari operetta was presented by the Glee Club of our high school in order to raise money that part of its members might enter in the State Music Contest. The Operetta was The Toreadorsf a clever Spanish comedy in two acts. The setting was a large Spanish home the occupants of which were Senor Dectoria and his two daughters and their attendants. In the plot were also the two beggars masquerading as toreadors and the two lovers. The choruses were all dressed in Spanish costumes as were the main characters. Also the dancers gave some very good Spanish dances, Stanley Sidie officiating at the piano. Senor Dictoria was played by Clarence Peterson, the two daughters by Helen Baldwin and Anna Rose Gross. The attendants were: Emma Williams and Sarah Minshall. Rudolph Elton and Jackson Endicott played the beggers and Pearl Engler and Harlan Helgeson were the lovers of the two girls.

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S. Wheelock, L. Tryggestad, J. Endicott, T. Sherry, S. Gardner, L. Peterson H. Helgeson, Miss Eckman, F. Slyack. The Boys Octette is a new musical organization in our high school and has done a great deal to stimulate interest in and enthusiasm for high school music. Although the organization is still in an amateur stage, it has accomplished a great deal and is an established organization in Viroqua High School. The arrangement of the octette is as follows: Thorwald Sherry and Sydney Wheelock first tenors, Harlan Helgeson and Kenneth Peterson second tenors, Beuford Wintz and Jackson Endicott first basses, and Lloyd Tryggestad and Sheldon Gardner second basses. Frederick Slack is their pianist. Although some of the more bashful members of the octette have suffered untold agonies and attempted various escapes when their appear- ance has been in demand, the boys have enjoyed the Wednesday night practices and their harmonious notes from Winter Song, itFishingf ttSwing Along, and others, coming from the Music Room, have cheered many a student plodding his homeward way from the building at four- thirty. Better and more enthusiastic music in the High School 1s what we want and this 1s brought about through our student musical organizations and our general chorus work. Letis all sing along At work or while at play If skies are grey Or dull the day J ust sing along the way. h47-

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I . The dancers were Katherine Groves, Ruth Pierce, Sadie Adams, Mar- lon Smith, Iva Farr, Beatrice Weller, Aldoris Nelson and Phyllis Slade. The rest of the Glee Club composed the chorus, and a boys, chorus was also plcked, composed of Albert Solverson, Sheldon Gardner, Elwin Anderson, Harold Buchanan, Kenneth Peterson, Cyrus Tollefson. ' The plot of the comedy was as follows: Senor Dictoria desired very much that his two daughters marry toreadors, so he invited two to his house. The daughters of course tell their lovers of this, and they plan to get two beggars and pay them to act as the real toreadors. The beggars are so very vulgar that the Senor de- cides that a marriage would be quite impossible. About this time he re- ceives word that the real toreadors are already married and as a result the beggars are quite impolitely shown out and the lovers come to their own. A very amazing bull fight took place on the stageeone that sur- prised us all. The Operetta was in every way a success and netted a great financial gain. We think that no one went away dissatisfied. Top RowaB. Pepper, M. Jacobson, P. Fortney, S. Weber, E. Anderson, S. Gardner, A. Solverson, V. Noggle, M. Endicott, B. Powell, P. Olson. Second Rowal. Wold, A. Quick, M. Hetland, M. Poste, C. Tollefson, K. Peterson, H. Buchanan, D. Helgeson, E. Rothermel, H. Gorsline, P. Everson. Third RoweS. Adams, G. Tenney, L. Nickerson, E. Clancy, A. Braddock, R. Wilson, J. Perkins. E. Barclay, R. Tobias, 1. Farr. Fourth ROWwS. Minshall, A. R. Gross, R. Slade, R. Elton, C. Peterson, J. Endicott, B. Weller, H. Baldwin E. Williams. Bottom RoweP. Engler, E. Nelson, K. Groves, R. Pierce, M. Smith, H. Helgeson. .49..