Bedford High School - Peaks Yearbook (Bedford, VA)

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Glancing al' Senior Activities . . . SENIOR PLAY Arsenic and Old Lace By joseph Kesselrintg Barbara Bobby Cheek. jimmy Hoplcins, Bill Gibson, Bill Dooley, Lynwood Powers, Andy Hudson, Gail Pollard, Simplcins. Curtis Merritt, Hurley Caudle, Betsy Hopkins, Tee Dooley, -limmy Kennedy. and Eddie Boyer. 1 CAST In order of appearance ABBY BREWSTER ........ . . ............... . . .Barbara Simpkins MARTHA BREWSTER .... REV. HARPER .......... TEDDY BREWSTER. . . OFFICER BROPHY ....... EI AINE HARPER ...,.. MORTIMER BREWSTER .... MR. GIBBS .......,.... IONATHAN BREXVSTER. . . DR. EINSTEIN ........... OFFICER O'HARA ......., LIEUTENANT ROONEY. MR. XWITHERSPOON ..... Lt lRPbE ............... . . . . . .Gail Pollard . . . . .Eddie Boyer . . .jimmy Hopkins . . . .Andrew Hudson . . . .Betsy Hopkins . . . . .Tee Dooley . . .Bill Gibson .. . . .Bill Dooley . . .Hurley Candle . . . . .Curtis Merritt . . . .Lynwood Powers . . . .jimmy Kennedy . . .Bobby Cheek Directed by MISS -IOSEPHINE BIBB and MISS VIRGINIA RUFF SYNOPSIS OF ACTION OF PLAY Arsenic and Old Lace is a comedy filled with both humor and suspense. The main action centers around Abby and Martha Brewster, two delightfully quaint and guileless 'Victorian ladies, who believe it their duty to help lonely old men from the world by means of elder- berry wine llavored with arsenic. Their nephew, Mortimer, a drama critic, who loves his aunts .and tries to shield them, has matters compli- cated by the arrival ol his wandering brother, jonathan, and his partner-in-crime. Dr. Einstein. Nor are things made casier for him by Elaine, the genial Dt. Harpers sophisticated daughter. who is infuriated by Mortimer's advice to run along homef' Brother Teddy, believing: himself to be Teddy Roose- velt, appears from time to time, blowing his hugle and startling the neighbors, and Mr. Gibbs, who comes looking for a room, is frightened almost out of his wits. Ollicer O'l-Iara, an aspirant to be a playwright, Lt. Brophy, the pleasant cop, who comes for the Christmas toys, and Lt. Rooney, who has diriiculty believing the evidence. all play their parts in bringing the storv to its rightful conclusion, as does Mr. Wlitherspoon, the super- intendent of Happy Dale Sanatorium, .ffl I- E -. , ez ,-

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