LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL - GRADUATION WEEK PROGRAMS 1932

The following miscellaneous newspaper clippings and other items were found in a scrapbook compiled by the Imogene Oakley. Sources for the newspaper clippings are not given identifiable sources are The Lexington Republican, the Lexington Progress, and the Jackson Sun. Handwritten dates in the scrapbook for the most part seem to be the date of the event being mentioned and not the date of publication. The scrapbook is now owned by Brenda Kirk Fiddler.

Senior Dramatic Art Recital in which MRS. EDYTH W. DODD PRESENTS

MISS ARBIE EDNA KENT and MISS SARAH LOUISE WEBB

Monday, April 18, 1932, EIGHT O'CLOCK, HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

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PROGRAM:

Cutting from Seventeen, Tarkington
Sarah Louise Webb

Hamlet to the Players, Shakespeare
Arbie Edna Kent

Old Fashioned Days, King
Sarah Louise Webb

Inmate of the Dungeon, Burdette
Arbie Edna Kent

Solo-My Hour, Penn
F. P. Heatwole

Seven Stages of Man, Shakespeare
Sarah Louise Webb

On Being Clinnicked, Rice
Arbie Edna Kent

The Cabin is Empty Again, Powers
Sarah Louise Webb

Memory Maiden, Hoden
Arbie Edna Kent

Duet-Glow Worm, Lack
Misses Louise Keith and Georgia McCall

Presentation of Pins and Diplomas,
Mrs. Dodd

Tuesday Evening, Literary Program
Wednesday Evening, Music and Dramatic Art Recital
Thursday Evening, Senior Play, "Fickle Fortune"
Friday Evening, Graduating Exercises
Saturday Evening, Alumni Banquet

LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS LITERARY PROGRAM

TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1932
EIGHT O'CLOCK
LITTLE CHAUTAUQUA NIGHT
SIX BIG NIGHTS IN ONE

MONDAY

DEBATE-"Resolved, That a Vocational Education Prepares for Life Better than a Cultured Education."
Affirmative, Wilbur Webb, Sidney Johnson; Negative Mark Vaught, Walter Teer

TUESDAY

"The Glowworm," Emma Jean Bell

WEDNESDAY

"The Highwayman,"-A Gripping Drama in Four Acts, Girl Reserve Club

THURSDAY

"'Dark Town Strutter's Ball," Hi-Y Harmony Boys, Emma J. Bell, Mary V. Watson

FRIDAY

"Grand Opera Singer," Mlle Gotta Hanky

SATURDAY

Senior Grande Finale, Senior Class

AWARDING OF MEDALS

Wednesday Evening, Music and Dramatic Art Recital
Thursday Evening, Senior Play, "Fickle Fortune"
Friday Evening, Graduating Exercises
Saturday Evening, Alumni Banquet

Miss Louise Keith and Mrs. Edyth W. Dodd
PRESENT THEIR PUPILS IN
Music and Dramatic Art Recital

Wednesday Evening, April 20, 1932
EIGHT O'CLOCK
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

  1. Buana Notte, Nevin
    Katherine Denison, Kathleen Austin
  2. Mirandy on Divorce, Dix
    Estelle Bailey
  3. In the Arena, Englemann
    Mary Virginia Watson, Mary Jane Yarbro, Hazel Wallace, Nelle Rhodes
  4. Black and White
    Martha Frances Hinson, Margaret Brooks, Estelle Bailey, Lucille Deere, Mary Louise Deere, Naomi Hopper, Ruth Bobbitt, Imogene Hopper, Sarah Louise Webb, Bernice Stewart
  5. The Peanut Vender, Nash
    Robbie Hart, Louise Keith
  6. Fiddle Told, Krane
    Nelle Rhodes
  7. Comrades In Arms, Hayes
    Katherine Denison, Mary Jane Yarbro, Kathleen Austin, Jean Bell
  8. Counting Daisy Petals, Lytton-Cox
    Margret Taylor
  9. Love Dream, Liszt
    Louise Essary Scates
  10. The White Blackbird, Snowden
    Virginia Holcomb
  11. Humoreske, Dvorak
    Ruth Bobbitt, Jean Bell
  12. Pas-de-la-cour
    Nelle Rhodes, Opal Wright, Virginia Holcomb, Margaret Taylor, Martha Frances Hinson
  13. Poet and Peasant Overture, F. Von Suppe
    Robbie Hart, Ruth Bobbitt, Nelle Maxwell, Arbie Edna Kent
  14. Ann Marie Simons, Lessen
    Opal Wright
  15. Dance (Trained by Mrs. Ruth Odle)
    Mary Virginia Watson, Katherine Denison, Kathleen Austin, Nelle Maxwell, Mary Jane Yarbro, Mary Lee Caywood, Robbie Hart, Arbie Edna Kent, Maxine Porter, Imogene Butler

Presentation of Medals.

Thursday Evening, Senior Play, "Fickle Fortune"
Friday Evening, Graduating Exercises
Saturday Evening, Alumni Banquet

"FICKLE FORTUNE"
PRESENTED BY
SENIOR CLASS OF '32
Directed by Mrs. Edyth W. Dodd.

Thursday Evening, April 21, 1932
EIGHT O'CLOCK
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

CAST

Mrs. Samuel Warren Ambitious Mother of Tony and Gloria
Arbie Edna Kent

Mrs. Gloria Warren, A Pleasure Loving Warren
Sarah Louise Webb

Miss Antoinette Warren, Better known to her friends as Tony
Robbie Hart

Roxanna Blossom, An old family servant and friend
Mildred Jones

Brant Allen, Ambitious Lover of Tony
Robert Douglas

Lily, Personal maid of Gloria
Nelle Maxwell

Maggie, Parlor maid for Warrens
Leila Moore

Cuppers, a butler, Later found to be Mezeppab Culpepper
John Dee Webb

Emerson Hawwley, High Brow suitor for Gloria
Denny Helms

Sadie Tweed, One whose life motto is "others first"
Mary Davis

Mrs. Merry, Later Miss Eliza Warren
Rebecca Evans

Stephens, Butler in the Culpepper mansion
Robert Huntsman

ACT I

Scene I. At the Warrens' about 10:30 in the morning.
Scene II. About 7:30 in the evening.

ACT II

At Aunt Eliza's Riverside Mansion, eight months later; morning.

ACT III

The same as Act II, four months later; evening.

MODELS - Bertie Mae Armstrong, Irene Bateman, Vera Sue Bailey, Nadine Butler, R~ith Bobbitt, Eddie Belew, Mary Louise Deere, Bernice Hays, Velma Hays, Velma Holmes, Ruth Hill, Ruth Jones, Jewel Neisler, Juanita Neisler, Eline Parks, Bernice Stewart, Hazel Wallace, Edith Rhodes.

CHORUSES-Butaw Blankenship, Mary Sue Bell, Ruth Thompson, Lucille Deere, Mary Lou Essary, Loula Mae Cogdell, Mary Lee Caywood, Rebecca Evans, Cora Wilkinson, Robert Put-man, Robert Summers, Paul Wade, Dolphus Johnson, Elton Lee Veteto, Denny Helms, Dalton Rhodes, Harry Mullins, Tom Banks Stanford.

Piano-Kathleen Austin, Nelle Maxwell

Saxophone-Robert Huntsman

Violin-Mary Lee Caywood.

Music of Lexington Band, F. P. Heatwole, Director.

Saturday Evening, Alumni Banquet

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