West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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DELIGHT ALLEN U. of M. U. C. Club. January Executive Committee, French Club. Aquatic Club. IVinsome in both unite and action. JACK BECKER Football, second team. 1915; Football, first team, 1916-17. Jack had an Aft Club all of his omn. CHARLES BLANCHARD U. of M. Tennis W.. Y Club. Cirls, tennis, and Charles are a happy trio. HIRAM BROWN Y Club. Football ‘ 17. Ram's football ability mas not as great as his patriotism. W. PARKER BROWN U. of M. Y Club, Engineers' Club, Weekly, Orchestra, Class Play. Cirls. you make me blush CHARLES CATLIN Class Play. Chuck'i got a lot of crust for a ktd. 24