Whitman High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Whitman, MA)

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ms - .,.,..V, DRAMATIC CLUB Fourth Row: fleft to righti Edwin Thurston, Edna McClellan, Jean Harrington, Mar- garet Towler, Paulina Phillips, Grace Avery. Third Row: Allen Marshall, Mary Doran, Geraldine Waitt, Robert Case, Hazel Weeden, Stephen Cole. Second Row: Charles Orcutt, Dolores Bowles, Elizabeth Torrey, Dorothea Eidler, Shirley Ippolito, Barbara Cavicchi, David Mann. First Row: Miss Brega, Henry Straffin, Doris Aubert, Dorothea Milonas, Rolf Scher- man, Gloria Lepore, Ann Perry, Harris Penninian, Mrs. Mclnnes. DRAMA TIC CLUB The Senior-Junior Dramatic Club of 1945-46 had a very successful season. At our first meeting the following officers were chosen: Rolf Scherman . ..... President Doris Aubert .. .. Vice-President Gloria LePore .... .... S ecretary Dorothea Milonas .................. Treasurer The first performance, Elmer Cleans Up, was given on January 16 in the assembly hall. The cast included Allen Marshall as John Redfield: Clara, his wife, Edna McClellan: Mary, his daughter, Shirley Ippolito: his son, Elmer, John White: and Nancy VVayne, the visiting celebrity, Faye Smith. The story told of Elmer's trials as a budding author and the amusing consequences it brought to the Redfield family. On May 15th we presented three one-act plays, entitled The House of Greed. by Robert St. Claireg t'The Telegram, by Elizabeth Cullis, and Finders Keepers, by George Kelly. Mrs. Mclnnes and Miss Brega, advisers for the club, are to be commended for their coaching of the plays.

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SENIOR VL.-XSS l'l.AY Second Row: llcft to rigrlitl Elizabeth Torrey, Geraldine Waitt, John Hutchinson, Robert Vase, Mary Sweeney, Anne l'crry. First Row: Barbara Gay, Dolores Bowles, Barbara Benson, Dorothy Voates, Stephen Pole. senioie CLASS PLAY MEET THE DUCHESSH . Mary Sweeney Dolores Bowles . . Stephen Cole . . . Barbara Gay Dorothy Coates Geraldine Waitt . Holi' Scherman Joy January . . Dixie ........ . . Gaylord Grant . . Mrs. Muggles .. . Kewpie ..... . . Mrs. Plop ........... . . Erasmus Q. Dinsmore . . . Sam Strudel ......... . . Ronnie Ward . . . Elsie Blake .... . , Mary Swayne . . . . ' Anne Perry , . . Robert Case John llutchinson Barbara llenson Elizabeth Torrey l rompter ....... ....... ...... . The Senior Class play was presented December 16, 1945. under the direction ot' Mrs. Avery. 6 The play takes place in Mrs. Plop's exclusive boarding house, where we iind Dixie, the maid, who thinks Shakespeare am de grandest thing, Gaylord Grant, a ham actor of the pastg Joy Janu- ary, a vaudevillian: and Mrs. Plop. Ronnie Ward, another boarder, is trying to sell a scenario to Sam Strudel. To do so, he must have a French Duchess to take the lead. Luckily, there arrives naive Elsie Blake, who has also been bitten by the movie bug. Ronnie persuades Elsie to impersonate a duchess who is in Hollywood for a rest. When Sam Strudel comes to meet this duchess, she tells him she can't act in his play because she is on vacation: but for her friend Ronnie she'll con- descend to do this. As luck would have it, Sam Strudcl discovers the plot and refuses to do the play. In the end Erasmus Q. Dinsmore, who is not only a Harvard professor but also a millionaire. produces Ronnie's play and all ends happily.

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