Ann Arbor High School - Omega Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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7:21 eentczda dme ide '56 D Vita Louise, what's wrong, girl? HARVEY I'd like to introduce you to a very good friend of mine. His name is 'Harveyf These familiar words mean trouble as the easy going Elwood P. Dowd, played by John Klein, introduces the six feet one and one-half inches high invisible rabbit to the distinge uished but startled Mrs. Chauvenet, portrayed by Susan Himler. Nancy Carroll, as the aggressive Myrtle Mae Simmons, is convinced that her uncle should be locked up in a sanitarium. Hilarious con- fusion results when Elwood's sister Veta Louise, por- trayed by Denise Miner, tries to commit her brother and finds herself locked up by the sanitarium strong man Wilson, played by Tom Lillard. The young psy- chiatrist Dr. Lyman Sanderson, portrayed by John Courte, and Ruth Kelly, the pretty nurse played by Judy Gilson, realize their mistake in committing the wrong person iust as the family lawyer, Judge Omar Gaffney, portrayed by Allan Schreiber, sues the sanitarium. Dick Bartels, as the authoritative head psychiatrist, Dr. William Chumley, disappears with Elwood and Harvey, to the distress of Mrs. Chum- ley, played by Betsy Underwood. Others who ap- peared were Eleanor Leland as Miss Johnson, the maid, and Charlotte Davis as the crude and philo- sophic cabbie , E. J. Lofgren. Elwood soon leaves the sanitarium to return home with Veta Louise and Myrtle Mae, and finally Harvey becomes an ac- cepted member of the family. Where did he go, Mrs. Chumley?

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Wudcdap. THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER The Man Who Came To Dinner, the last major production done in the old high school, had one of the largest casts in the history of Drama Workshop. The play begins when Sheridan Whiteside lAllan Schreiber? slips on a piece of ice on the porch of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Stanley lDick Bartels and Denise Mineri and broke his hip. Whiteside, a critic and lecturer noted for his sarcasm, is confined to the Stanley home under the care of Dr, Bradley lTom Lillardi and Nurse Preen lNancy Tobiasi. Dur- ing Whiteside's stay at the Stanley's, his secretary, Maggie Cutler Uudy Gilsonl falls in love with a town newspaperman, Bert Jefferson lEric Arnesonl, White- side, not wanting to lose a good secretary, calls in one of his friends from the theater-Lorraine Sheldon lHarriet Haughi, and proceeds to hatch a plot. Throughout the course of the play, many visitors plague the Stanley residence including tour pen- guins, 20 Chinese students, an octopus, a very British Beverly Carlton Uohn Kleini, and o very Hollywood Banjo Uim Copelandi. Sheridan Whiteside not only messes up his secreatry's love life, but also completely confuses the two Stanley children, Richard and Jane lBob Sawyer and Markay Franckel, by encouraging them to run away from home. The resulting action on the part of Mr. Stanley and the whole cast gave the audience one ot the funniest and most professional plays seen around Ann Arbor High in a long time. mental delinquent! Banio, that is my nurse, you . . . and I wont to get to know you too, Mr. Jeffersomf' O V ...,.. ...f W- ww-0 ..- i WH? 'Sherry, Lord Bottomly is iust a very dear friend of fTtlt16. --e....,.....,