Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Senior Class Play eigete Senior Play commitee, consisting of Mary Mosher, chair- man: Robert Blakeslee, Helen Springer, Arthur Forche and Dorothy Hall, chose ‘““The White-Headed Boy,’ a comedy play by Lennox Robinson, as the play to be presented by the class of 1925. The class chose Carl W. Gustke to act as coach and Lois E. Donaldson as assistant. Mr. Gustke has taken leading parts in several of the University of Michigan’s plays and his experience in this line placed him as first choice for this year’s senior play coach. Miss Donaldson, while having no previous extensive dramatic experience, proved of valuable assistance to Mr. Gustke. To them, for their long and persistent work with the cast, belongs the credit for the success of the play. “The White-Headed Boy” is an Irish play dealing with a poor family who are sending their youngest son, Denis, to Trinity College. The lad fails in his examinations three times and the family, much against the will of th e mother, decides that he must leave college. They plan to have him go to Canada and strike out for himself; but to save their reputation they decide to give it out that he is going to a big position there. This means that Denis must give up Delia, his fiance, whom he was to marry as soon to be graduated from college. Duffy, Delia’s father, hears of the plans of the family, and, thinking Denis is going to a big position in Canada, says that if Denis does not marry Delia he will sue for one thousand pounds. ‘This startles the family and they tell him the truth, but he refuses to believe it. He gives them ten minutes for their answer. The aunt, Duffy’s old-time lover, agrees to pay Duffy one hundred pounds and marry him if he will drop the case. Not knowing about this transaction, George, older brother of Denis, pays Duffy two hundred pounds to drop the case. Then the mother, unaware of both of these transactions, gives Mr. Duffy a handful of bank notes to drop the case. In the meantime Denis and Delia get married. The family hears of this and at first they are angry because Denis is in work- ing clothes and has accepted a job with a street gang, - After a lot of coaxing the family finally get Denis to accept the position as manager of a shop, which the aunt was going to give to Denis’ brother, Peter. They also give him the money paid by the aunt, George and the mother to Duffy. Delia promptly takes charge ot if This places the family in a pogition so that Denis’ sisters are unable, for lack of money, to do what they were planning—Baby cannot go to Dublin and Jane cannot marry Donough Brosnan. Hazel Miller, in the role of Aunt Ellen, took the part of the ever-scheming aunt with a high degree of perfection. Carl Smith, Twenty-seven

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t if f i( Twenty-eight playing the part of Duffy, won the admiration of the audience for the splendid and forceful manner in which he took his part. Walter Banta, as Denis, and Margaret Meanwell, as the mother, were especially pleasing to the audience Baby, played by Mary Mosher, and Peter, played by Thomas Lawrence, proved their success by the laughter and applause they received at different times throughout the play. The parts of George, Kate and Jane were well taken by Harrison Welsh, Bernona Mohler and Beulah Hankinson. The minor parts—Delia Duffy, Donough Brosnan and Hannah—were taken by Elizabeth MHarwick, Emerson Stanley and Mary McCann. The play was given at the Wuerth Theatre May 1.- Music was furnished by the theatre’s orchestra. The receipts showed that the play was well attended, as over four hundred dollars was taken in. After the expenses were paid the amount the class made was slightly over two hundred and fifty dollars. Memories of 1923 Young Freshies were we in our first year at school; To us mighty Seniors did quote every rule; To them we looked green as the leaves in the spring, But it was not long before we could sing Hurrah! we are Sophs, our kid days have gone, Our wagons and dolls to the ages belong, Our teachers pursuaded us all thru the days To give up our playthings and improve our ways. Great was our joy when we Juniors became ; Hard did we try to teach the Freshies the “game,” Long was our task to show Sophompres the right— ‘Twas not easy for them to acknowledge our might; Till now we are Seniors so brilliant and wise Who’ve found many things that filled us with surprise Old Ypsi High is the best place to be And we'll always keep it in our memory. Chorus: Then here’s to our colors, the orange and black, A symbol to which we shall always look back; May “Y” be our standard as onward we go Pursuing our work started some timte ago. Words by Katherine E. Boss. Music by Marion J. Korbel. fe EB aa 4 SSS Sy SS ; = am ma | Zs : — 3 2 . ; : = 7)