Clifton Springs High School - Cliftonian Yearbook (Clifton Springs, NY)

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 '..'he Whole Tov;n’s Talkin' About What? Gather round and you shall hearf It happened on the afternoon and evening of November 7, 1938- that the senior class again started tongues wagging by successfully stageing a comedy in three acts, complete with sound and lighting effects. The name of the play was. Tire Whole Town s Talking which seemed to fit the occasion exceptionally well The play takes place in a small town where everybody knows everyone’s business. Letty Lythe(Florence Roth!),a motion picture star, provides the excitement for the townspeople; Chester Binney(Fred Chase) keeps the audience in stitches by his innocent remarks; Mr. Simmons(Francis Laprcsi) shows the jitterbugs of to-day the art of dancing. The other characters who helped make the play a success are Mrs, Sinmcns (T.Sherman) Ethel Simmons, the Juliet of the ••layiD,Taylor) ; Donald Swift(D.McCuijioer) ; and Roger Shields(ihManson) add excitement by fighting over Letty Lythe; Sally Otis (Ed.Vh.ite), a quiet but romantic girl and Lila Wi1aon(F.G ney) with her silly giggle portray the actions and ideas of the small town girl; Annie(P,Curran) the maid; the taxi driver,(L.Powell; and Sadie Bloom (M.Goodman) all provide the audience with laughs. The play was under the direction of Miss Regina E. Bass, English Teacher and Libraini We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Miss Less for her willingness and hard work for our success. We made more money on the drama than or any other senior project, we alsoomaoe the front pgge of our town’s paper assvnsrll as being mentioned in several out-of-town papers because of the exc -llent portrayals and because of our through training, and we had more fun and excitement out of our practices each night than we can write about. We also want Mr. Ellis Weld to know how very trusting he was by loaning us the new pieces of furniture which made an