West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Green Stockings Amateur dramatics for high school students possess many possibilities of entertainment, varying with the abilities of performers and the receptive mood of audiences, and one of distinct value. The latter unfortunately is narrowed to the little group of players, who have struggled with more or less success through weary weeks to fit a personality large and cumbersome or small and to their own exuberant young spirits. And whether the success of the achievement be great from the spectator's point of view or small, there is no work where so truly may be said that the whole satisfaction is in the trying. To project oneself even for an hour, into another, to feel, see and do as that other might do under the given circumstances, opens up avenues of understanding of the other fellow which never quite leaves the individualist again. The problem solved, the players find themselves triumphant and different. Julia Putnam learned how to be a graceful widow, sad. and Myrtle Williams, grass, Jeanette Willoughby should always be tendeily solicitous of fussy old ladies, and David Sternberg knows that flutelike voices have certain advantages over cello voices. Chappies are chappies, the world over, but Edmund Taylor, Cecil Taylor and Charles Catlin invested each with a distinct flavor not to be found in any of the other three. Parker Brown may live to be a hundred but he never can quite achieve again his own charming admiral of December fourteenth. One hopes that Elsie Knudtson will not go through life with a lie upon her lips—also that Edwin Krafft will not be so habitually convincing. We do not claim any inherent value in the comedy Green Stockings. Pleasant folks meet and talk, and tell a lie. even as you and I, perhaps they do it in a cleverer fashion. We won't pretend to judge Green Stockings has no atmosphere unless it be that of homeiness. But every boy and girl from the perfectly poised woman of the world. Celia Faraday, to the stuffy old butler has grown an inch in being somebody else, which will make living with other personalities harmonious or dissonant an easier and a more interesting business. And the best of it was they didn’t know it—it was such a painless process. 22 WINIFRED BLANPIED.

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Our Blacklist Most popular boy De Forest Roos E. Taylor Most popular girl Willoughby Williams W arren Best looking boy W oil son Krafft Taylor Best looking girl Eustis Moody Allen Most conceited Hudson Xfarshman Naas Biggest sponger Risk Sternberg Becker Best sport Roos Williams Sternberg Noisiest Roos Becker E. Taylor Nerviest Hudson Risk Sternberg Most bashful Brown Harris Mandeville Most graceful Roos Knudtson Leinhard Most modest Nehelthau Morley Leinhard Best fusser Hudson E. Taylor Sternberg Biggest flirt Warren H udson E. Taylor Longest winded Marshman Hudson Roos Most talented Putnam De Forest Willoughby Cutest Warren Knudtson Roos Best dancer Elmquist Roos Naas Most frivolous Naas Knudtson Warren Laziest Risk Roos Becker Most studious De Forest L Krafft Swenson Nicest girl Willoughby Krafft Williams Nicest boy Krafft Street W olfson Favorite spot Lunchroom Shcbals Favorite occupation Fussing Loafing Favorite ambition Graduate Make Money 21

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Honor Roll DeForest, Elliott Gazett. Lydia Krafft, Edwin Krafft, Irene Lienhard, Vivian Marshman, Howard Prince, Florence Swenson, Agnes Taylor, Edmund 23