George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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As the curtain went down on the final act of Curtain GoingUp, the cast took its bow. 17 “Miss Burgess, just look at all the telegrams congratulating you on the play.” With their director Miss Burgess, Elsie Hun¬ ter, Sylvia Moore and Joan White look over congratulatory messages. “Humph! Teachers yet! I ain’t seen ‘sech’ goins-on since I come here.” Mr. Peterson expresses his feelings about the ac¬ tions of Mr. Carter and Miss Burgess.

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Curtain Going Up Junior Class Play Trials and tribulations of a high school dramatics teach¬ er producing her first play are revealed in this comedy by Gregory Johnston. Miss Irene Burgess (Beth Madsen) is faced with the disappearance of the playbooks on the first day of rehearsal, a grouchy janitor Mr. Tony Peterson (Robert Shoemaker), a stage-struck leading lady Loretta Fuller (Crystal Ruskin) and several mixed-up romances. Other characters were Nancy Leveridge (Barbara Dean) who vied for the leading role in Miss Burgess’s play; Jocko Guthrie (Tom Regeski) the male star in Miss Burgess’s play; Andrew Fullbright (Michael Benne) the jealous lover of Lo¬ retta; Mr. Norman Carter (Frank Lenz) the suitor of Miss Burgess who was futilely pursued by Miss Carolyn Moran (JoAnn Stolarz); Milt Sanders (Ron Hooper) the practical joker of Miss Burgess’s cast; and Elsie Hunter (Ruth Ann Rudser) Miss Burgess’s stage director. Janet Young (Judy Pivarnik), Sylvia Moore (Phyllis Burosh) and Joan White (Sue Cox) were cast members; Buck O’Hara (Douglas An¬ derson) was the matinee idol of ‘the play within the play’; Miss Henrietta Rivers (Ruth Klemm) critic of Miss Burgess’s teaching techniques; Kyle Roberts (Pat Sandrick) Broadway actress and aunt of Jocko; Mrs. Young (Lora Lee Throm), Mr. Leveridge (Fred Thurston) and Mrs. Adkins (Marcia Tolchinsky) along with townspeople John Redding, Bill Liehe and Lorraine Mazur congratulated Miss Burgess. “Jocko! Andy! Don’t fight! I’m not worth it!” Loretta and Nancy separate the two boys who are fighting over Loretta’s affection. But Papa, Randolph will be killed!” In Miss Burgess’s play Loretta urges her father Andrew to give up a duel. “Buck, Buck, sign my program!” (Oh, what a man!) Buck O’Hara is chased by his ardent admirers. 16

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You Can t Take It With You All — School Play This merry comedy about the madcap Sycamore family and their goofy diversions was written by Moss Hart and George Kaufman. Uninhibited is the word for this zany clan. Mrs. Sycamore (Marcia Tolchinsky) became an aspiring authoress when a typewriter was delivered to her home by mistake. Her husband Paul (Frank Lenz) and Mr. DePinna (Richard Render), an iceman who made a delivery eight years earlier and never got around to leaving, manufacture fireworks in the basement. Essie (Jean Goginski), the Sycamores’ daughter, makes candy when she’s not taking ballet lessons from the ‘mad Russian’ Kolenkhov (Don Antkowiak). His protege Olga (Judy Grogan), ‘the Duchess’, whips up some cheese blintzes when she visits the Sycamores. Essie’s husband Ed (Dennis Matusko) prints Trotsky’s maxims on his press in the living room and distributes them with her candy. Alice (Shirley Ringgenberg), the Syca¬ mores’ other daughter and the only normal member of the fam¬ ily, falls in love with her employer’s son Tony Kirby (Brian Fry). Their romance is nearly wrecked when Tony’s parents (Ruth Klemm and Fred Thurston) pay an unexpected visit to the Sycamores and find them acting ‘naturally’. Gay Wellington (Jo Ann Dudzik), a has-been actress, camps in the Sycamores’ front room in an inebriated condition and helps to give the Kirbys an undesirable impression. Martin Vanderhoff (Michael Benne), the wise grandfather, is mistakenly accused of with¬ holding income tax from the government. Henderson (Ron Hooper) and the other government agents (Bill Etheridge and Bob Passage) are appalled by this eccentric family. Rheba (Kathy Zvonar), the Sycamores’ maid, and her boy friend Donald (Larry Rollinson) add to the hilarity of the play. “My Pavlova, art is only achieved through perspiration!” Ko¬ lenkhov and Essie work, work, work toward her debut. “Really, Tony, are you sure this is the night?” gasps Mrs. Kirby to her son when they vis ; t the Sycamores on the wrong night and find them en¬ gaged in their ‘normal’ pur- 18