Madison High School - Trojan / Madisonian Yearbook (Madison, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY “CLIMBING ROSES” Peggy Rose, heroine Mary Wathen Maggie Rose, Peggy’s aunt...................Dorothy Rohe Jim Rose, Maggie’s husband Stephen Jurish Hazel Sommers, a friend Ethel McGhee Priscilla Prentice, a friend Pauline Podnar Mrs. Warren, society matron....................Eva Vasileff Joyce Belmont, society girl................Kathryn Phelan Winnie Clarke, neighborhood pest ..Gladys McFarland Jack Archer, novelist...................... David Connole Ferdie Wimbledon, Jack’s secretary Roger Studebaker Dryden Proonis, auto salesman................James Hinde Percy Southworth, in love with Winnie Sidney Schermer r........................John Toncoff The Prince Rudolphs .................... Richard Differs I......................Melvin Hebert SYNOPSIS Peggy Rose was willed a house in Maysville on the most fashionable street in town, by Sidney Warren. She moves in with her Aunt Maggie and Uncle Jim. While living here they meet Mrs. Warren, a haughty and domineering society matron, and Joyce Belmont, whose highest ambition is to be a member of the social crowd, and to marry well. They consider the Roses very much beneath them and consequently do not invite them to the reception they are preparing for Jack Archer. The Roses hire Jack Watson, alias Jack Archer, the famous American novelist, who is getting ideas for his new novel, to work for them. Some years past Watson worked for Prince Rudolph of Berengalia, and there- fore, is quite well advanced in the art of society manners. Maggie, Peggy and Jim wish to show Mrs. Warren and Joyce Belmont that they are capable of climbing higher than they on the social trellis, and thus acquire the name of the “Climbing Roses.” They instruct Watson (Jack Archer) to teach them etiquette, and many amusing sequences on the part of Maggie and Jim result from these lessons. Page forty-nine