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

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“The Charm School’ By Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton Directed by Lois Donaldson and Carlisle Bigger The Cast St DEVENS i ek eae. 2. ee Lene Dewid MleKenzie vio oe 3 ee ees pene? Ow a ee ea eae PIT eS os ccs Gh koe pho se ete Tie am ein Ss OS a ee arenes Steris POMC OWNS! oo ccs 4-05! ool alee Re EE emery MSS Fla V6 es foie os 3a ae eee ee Oe eee DES CMS oo Se ss Sen es a ee Hise: Benedotth 22.5.5. .of..3 4. Depnine. Varney pally, Boyd... hens ees oot een abies Muriel Doughty... 0. cise 2s Alice Brewer Biel pein oa ee oe tao oie oe ee ee Vise Wieteier oo. es pa ca een oP ECLER, Dees Fallen tater os 5S a te eevee Madge Kent si. o. Sate avy eran Marjorie Meadows .....:......Lucile Hankinson CMOUR 6 eoge dhot a oy eee ee eben. Bee LOIS ie a pa tie une oes ae. eee The Business Staff Stage | Manager... 5. 4 fea oy -Craenen Property Manager ............ Reynolds Congdon Electricians ......Charles Gault, Demas Manseau dicket (Manager oo. 32 sno sb os ee eee Plead Usher: 2... So. oe aces he oe bs ee PF altes Publicity: oo... ..2:....Donald Palmer’ Helen Beal D4 if

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WARREN BAILEY—Senior Play; Opera 4; Interscholastic Basket Ball 4: Track 3, 4; Interclass Track 3, 4; Baseball 4; Dramatics Club 3, 4; Normal High School 1, 2. DARREL “GUNN Interscholastic: Football.3,.4;-- Basket .Ball 2, 4; Baseball 3; Interclass Baseball 2, 3; Basket Ball 1, 2, 3, 4; Swimming 42. Sister ele or. Sea Ss MARTHA RICHTER—Interclass Track 1, 2; Home Economics Club 2; Pe ee. -CHARLES GAULT—Senior Play Electrician; Science Club Vice-presi- dent 4. DONALD GRIDLEY —Agassiz Club 2; Science 3, 4. VERA CARTER Died October 1, 1922

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Senior Class Play 667 PSHE Charm School” was the play chosen by the class of ’24 for the annual senior dramatic production. Many were already familiar with the pleasing plot of this story, which has been published in book form, as well as having been successful on both. the stage and the screen. Several weeks before the play was to be presented tryouts were held to choose students of real dramatic ability to play the various roles. Miss Donaldson, Miss Hardy and Mr. Grimes acted as judges, and the wisdom of their decisions was manifest to all who attended the final p erformance. Miss Lois Donaldson was chosen by a vote of the entire senior class to act as coach for the play. Her efforts were clearly shown in the smoothness of detail with which the play was finally presented. The plot of “The Charm School,” a three-act comedy written by Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton, is based on the in- heritance of a girls’ school by a young automobile salesman and his subsequent attempt to run it his own way, teaching the girls charm with the aid of four other attractive young men. Although having promised to the contrary, Austin Bevans, the heir, was unable to keep the most charming of the young ladies, Elise Benedotti, from falling in love with him, and as a consequence, was obliged to withdraw from his educational venture. The parts of Austin and Elise were very capably played by Robert Leland and ‘Delphine Varney,. the latter» splendidly - interpreting the character of a young and very’ susceptible boarding-school pupil. Helen Squiers, as Sally Boyd, .Elise’s friend and schoolmate, was particularly successful in her role of an impulsive, matter-of- fact girl, the real leader of the others in all undertakings. No one could have resisted the twins, Jim and Tim, played by Harry. Sullivan: and. Clarence Stem. Eheir roles. as: danemey masters to the girls was the first real job they had ever been desirous of obtaining. Robert Hatch, as George Boyd, the young accountant who had spent his recent years being in love with Elise, succeeded in intro- ducing lots of spirit into his part. He starred in his sarcastic denunciation of Austin when he felt that Elise was becoming too attentive. The play was given in Pease Auditorium on the fifteenth of May. An advance ticket sales campaign put on by the entire class had secured a splendid audience of students and townspeople. No one present regretted having come, for the production held the interest and attention of everyone until its close. The expenses of the production were small, for no charge was made for the auditorium, and there was practically no expense entailed for costumes. A net profit of some two hundred and twenty-five dollars was turned into the class treasury. OD ar