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 WebbHamlet to the Players, Shakespeare
Arbie Edna KentOld Fashioned Days, King
Sarah Louise WebbInmate of the Dungeon, Burdette
Arbie Edna KentSolo-My Hour, Penn
F. P. HeatwoleSeven Stages of Man, Shakespeare
Sarah Louise WebbOn Being Clinnicked, Rice
Arbie Edna KentThe Cabin is Empty Again, Powers
Sarah Louise WebbMemory Maiden, Hoden
Arbie Edna KentDuet-Glow Worm, Lack
Misses Louise Keith and Georgia McCallPresentation of Pins and Diplomas,
Mrs. DoddTuesday 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
- Buana Notte, Nevin
Katherine Denison, Kathleen Austin - Mirandy on Divorce, Dix
Estelle Bailey - In the Arena, Englemann
Mary Virginia Watson, Mary Jane Yarbro, Hazel Wallace, Nelle Rhodes - 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 - The Peanut Vender, Nash
Robbie Hart, Louise Keith - Fiddle Told, Krane
Nelle Rhodes - Comrades In Arms, Hayes
Katherine Denison, Mary Jane Yarbro, Kathleen Austin, Jean Bell - Counting Daisy Petals, Lytton-Cox
Margret Taylor - Love Dream, Liszt
Louise Essary Scates - The White Blackbird, Snowden
Virginia Holcomb - Humoreske, Dvorak
Ruth Bobbitt, Jean Bell - Pas-de-la-cour
Nelle Rhodes, Opal Wright, Virginia Holcomb, Margaret Taylor, Martha Frances Hinson - Poet and Peasant Overture, F. Von Suppe
Robbie Hart, Ruth Bobbitt, Nelle Maxwell, Arbie Edna Kent - Ann Marie Simons, Lessen
Opal Wright - 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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