Warren Western Reserve High School - Aurora Yearbook (Warren, OH)

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TVHHQH High School E C H 0 E S Nindwn Twenfu-Bw Q as:ulnQ3sg.Q1llllIHe January Senior Play The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates, was presented by the January Class of 1925 in a very capable manner. The play is a fairy tale in three acts which tells the story of a little rich girl who has everything she wants but is dissatisfied because she can not be like the children she sees in playgrounds as she drives past. Gwendolyn, the little girl, tries to persuade her nurse, governess, teachers, and parents that she could be so much happier if she might be permitted to go to day school and wear gingham dresses and go barefooted. The three scenes of the second act visualize the things that Gwendolyn imagines in her delirium caused by the sleeping medicine which Jane, the nurse, gave her when she Q-Ianej wanted to go to the movie with Thomas, the footman. Things and people appear as Gwendolyn had always imagined them from conversations she had heard, her father as a man made of money, her mother as a woman with the bee in her bonnet, Jane as a two-faced thing, Thomas as Big Ears, the society people as They, the teachers as ducks and drakes, the doctor as the man who rides hobbies, the governess as an old snake in the grass, and so on with the other of the twenty-four Cast members. The third and last act is the result of Gwendolyn's illness, which brings the mother and father to realize their great mistake in the method in which they were rearing their child. It was necessary to give the title role to Frances Dennis, a very capable little girl in dramatics, of West Junior high school. Ohter of the heavier parts were taken by Virginia Bailey as jane, Thomas Blair as Thomas the footman, Kenneth Lynn as the doctor, Edythe Aueprim, the governess, Irene McKnight, the mother, Howard Vesey, the father, and Alexander Spain, the organ grinder. Minor roles were taken by Meredith Jones, Ethel Geissman, Doris Loveless, Grace McKibbon, Fred Yount, Gilbert Amsden, Charles Crawford, Ernest Fuller, Wilbur Hamilton, Aubrey Billings, ldabelle Baldwin, Edith Difford, Florence Steiger, Doris Bethune, Lewis Fountaine, and Ronald Smith. , Miss Campbell deserves much credit for the success of the play, for it was only by her persistance and capable directing that the play went over. I Page Eighty-:even 1

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' :anllxlw zess k Ill ll lkii gi w.,lI.ffEg,i, SchooTT E C H QE S ElfZJ.lgQQH4wLgr,,.Ave ' 355131331 5 5 Enter the Hero CAST The Hero. ........ ......... P hillip Corbin Anne. . . ..... Elizabeth Franklin Ruth ..... .i... F lorence Abbott Mother ........,.... ............... , ..... M artha Bowditch The comedy Enter the Hero scored a big success and was very cleverly acted by the cast. The storywas about Anne Carey, who, fascinated by a gentleman acquaintance, establishes an engagement between them. When the dashing hero, Phil Corbin, appeared and found himself thus invelled by Anne, it was only with great diHiculty that he freed himself. This unusually true-to-life comedy was heartily enjoyed by its audiences. I Pagr Eighty-:ightl