Fort Laramie High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Fort Laramie, WY)

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JUNIORS

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 GOOD GRACIOUS, GRANDMA! The Cast HENRY BRECKENRIDGE...........who hates to work any time..... .Wilton Haynes GEORGE BRECKENRIDGE • • . .his cousin, who hates the same.... Lee Brittenham MRS. LENNOX ................... who wants her rent...........Alberta Heller HELEN ALLEN................a daughter of a family friend.... Barbara Bay CECILE ALLEN ..................Helen's younger sister........ Sadie Martinez CLANCY.........................a police investigator ....... George Nietfeld WIGGINS........................... his assistant.............Norman Michel P-SAM..........................a negro house-boy ............Jim Stevenson DELICIA............................. a negro maid.......... Norma Brittenham Director............................Mr. George Kezele Prompting...................Mrs. George Kezele The action takes place in the living room of Apartment No. 5, Lennox Apartments, in a southern city. Act One--Thursday evening Act Two--Saturday evening Act Three--Later the same evening Henry and George Breckenridge, cousins, with more ideas about how to spend money than how to earn it, find themselves temporarily-but definitely-in a state of financial embarrassment when their landlady, Mrs. Lennox, demands a deposit on long overdue rent. Available money arrives by a wire when an old family friend telegraphs expense money for Henry's father to entertain the friend's two daughters over a weekend. But father is on a trip to Mexico, and the girls are arriving-and they need the money. The solution seems to be to pay a deposit on the rent and en- tertain the girls themselves. To keep them at the apartment, they must have a chaperon. This obstacle is overcome when P-Sam, the colored house-boy----who has no more brains than a mortal can have and still live-finds on the ground outside the apartment house a grey wig and a black dress. P-Sam's mother had always told him that what he found on the ground he could keep. These antics cause the birth of Grandma , otherwise George, the perfect chaperon. The girls arrive with their colored maid, Delicia, who makes an instant hit with P-Sam. Both Helen and Cecile are drawn to Grandma , especially Cecile, who makes her life bearable by kissing her every other moment. Henry and Helen soon find much in common and are progressing nicely when Mrs. Lennox, her suspicions around and her false hair missing, appears and demands explanations. Henry begins introductions and explanations----each one becoming more involved and farther from the truth. Grandma has a number of narrow escapes from discovery and is almost cornered with Mrs. Lennox calls in two exceedingly dumb police investigators, who are able to find out little except that funny things are going on. Grandma finally has to disappear permanently----in order that Mrs. Lennox can have her clothes back---and George re-appears in her place. Mrs. Lennox calls off the police. Helen forgives Henry for deceiving them, and Cecile learns that George's kisses are suspiciously like Grandma's . Then Delicia, who has decided to make a matrimonial excursion with P-Sam, demands to be made an honest woman if there has been no real chaperon during the week-end. The idea is approved by the other girls and as the curtain falls, there are prospects of three sets of wedding bells ringing out---or three sets of necks wrung!

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tycaUai @C6U BACK ROW: Jim Stevenson, Jim Rutter, Norman Michel, Wilton Haynes, Robert Kapus. MIDDLE ROW: Mr. Kezelc, sponsor, George Nietfeld, Barbara Stabio, LaQuita Hubbard, Blye Cobb, Sam Field. FRONT ROW: Anna Belle Latta, Judy Keating, Hazel Walker, Norma Brittcnham, Sylvia Sherrill. Class Officers President .... Vice -President Secretary .... Treasurer .... Student Council News Reporter Norma Brittenham . . George Nietfeld . LaQuita Hubbard , . . . Jim Stevenson ...... Blye Cobb . . 3arbara Stabio 16