Chillicothe High School - Arrow Yearbook (Chillicothe, OH)

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Y, page lwenty-eight JUNIOR CLASS

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T, ...U r The Royal Family The Royal Family. by George Kaufman and Edna Ferber, is thought to be based on the life of the Barrymore family. The story concerns the life of the Cavendishes and all of the action takes place in their apartment. The only sane people in this mad family are Joe and Della. the butler, and house- keeper. played by Harry Tim Harmount and Helen Thompson. The man- agerial. rather magnificent mother and grandmother. Fanny Cavendish. Jane Phillips. has had bad health: yet she plans to go back on the road. However, she dies before she can realize her plans. Julia Cavendish, Mary Ann Schlegel. is an outstanding actress who. but for the intervention of Fanny. would have gone to South America with Gil Marshall, Wilbur Coppel. Gil has returned. hoping to take Julia back with him. Julia finds. however, that she cannot leave the stage. and Gil goes back alone. Perry. Clarence Hayes. and Given. Charlene Martin are in love with each other. but they realize the wide difference between their intersts. Julie. in a release of pentup emotions. makes them marry each other: Tony Cavendish. Nicholas Holmes, comes from Hollywood with much baggage in care of the hallboy. Ralph Schmieder. Tony has punched his director and is running away from a break-of-promise suit. He finally leaves for Europe and returns with a new play for Oscar Wolfe. Henry Herrnstein, the Cavendish's theatrical manager who helps them out of every difliculty. McDermott, Jack Mutchler. an ex-prizelighter. is hired by Julie to keep herself in condition. Bert and Kitty. Willfam Wisecup and Chrissie Traquair. have troubles of their own. Bert is a prosperous man who fancies himself an actor and playwright. but who is in financial straits because he can no longer play the young hero typeYKitty, past the ingenue stage. thinks that Bert is keeping her out of his play and resents it. The play ends just where it begins. page twenty-scum

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4 Junior Class Play PHILIP GOES FORTH BY GEORGE KELLEY School Auditorium Miffli l5. 1932 CAST Mrs. Randolph - - -S - Anne Tomlinson Edna - - - Margaret Breinig Philip - - Donald Cook Mrs. Oliver Margaret Tripp Mr, Eldridge - William Myers Cynthia - - Dorothy Mace Mr. Haines - Edwin Black Miss Krail - - - Freda Nutt Mr. Shronk Richard McRoberts Hazel - - Mary Pattison Mrs. Ferris ----- Mary Brombacher Bassett - ----- Orren Leadbetter PRODUCTION STAFF DIRECTOR, MR. CHARLES DUNCAN Stage Manager -------- William Myers Mary Pattison Property Managers , - - ' - - Orren Leadbetter SYNOPSIS Philip. believing himself to be a coming playwright. goes to New York to try his ability. His father discourages the idea while his fiancee, Cynthia. urges him to go. Philip finds New York critics much harder to battle than he expected and in the end he sells nothing. Mr. Eldridge goes to New York and is overjoyed at finding his son completely cured of his playwriting am- bitions, for Philip's father himself, when younger, had started to write plays. page twenty-ninl