Gorham High School - Gorannum Yearbook (Gorham, IL)

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HERE COMES CHARLIE This was a play given by the Senior Class, December 7, 194-5, directed by Miss Slechticky. It was a three-act play by jay Tobias. The cast consisted of ten characters. These are the characters as we first meet them. Nora Malone Qcook at the Elliott homel---- Officer Tim Mc'Gri11 fNora's sweetheart, ---- Mrs. Fanny Farnham fLarry's Auntj ------ Larry Elliott fa young business manl ---- Ted Hartley this old time college pall- ----- Vivan Smythe-Kersey QLarry's Fianceel ---- Uncle Aleck Twiggs fin charge of Charliej--- Charlie Hopps fLarry's ward, -------------- --- Gladys Arnschler ---john Fisher ----Laura Jarrett ----Donald Schilling ----Paul David Baggett ----Helen Needham ---- ---Ralph Hollman ----- ---Evelyn Gale Mrs. Caroline Smythe-Kersey fVivian's motherl ------- Mary Kunce Mortimer Smythe-Kersey QVivian's brother, ------ ---Charles Asbury Stage Crew: Benny Easterly Charles Pickering Arthur Frazer Alfred Moureau Property Crew: Ruth Kenon Clifford Korando Shirley Stearns Ushers: Margaret Korando Mary Cluster Production Staff Pete Hand Donald jolly Harold Choate Wilbur Clendenin Ted Boucher Bobbie Shimpf Mary Clendenin SYNOPSIS Programs 8: Publicity Crew: Ethel Killian Ruth McLaughlin Arlene Dietrich Colleen Cox Make Up Directors: Marian Korando Maxine Guetersloh Pr ompter: Laverna Arbeiter Larry Elliott, young broker thinking he is becoming guardian of a small boy is jolted to find he has taken a girl to raise, seventeen, and pretty. Charlotte is called Charlie hence theerror. Why the jolt? Well, Larry is engaged to the imperious Vivian Smythe-Kersey and is further henridden by a snobbish aunt. To have another female in the house delights him not. Neither does it delight Vivian nor the aunt. Charlie arrives from Arkansas accompanied by Uncle Aleck Twiggs like herself a true product of the Ozarks. She starts by calling Larry papa and by displaying irtless but warm affection. Larry likes the attitude but it fails to smooth Charlie's way with the women, The latter assume active enmity and plan to oust the Hhillbilliesu, Far- cical situations develop from the social blunders of the new arrivals especially when Aunt Fanny Farnhamdetermined to make Uncle Aleck earn his board and keep, tries to turn him into a society butler. Conspiracies against the Ozarkians recoilg but Larry's position is made so uncomfortable that to save him punishment the pair depart only to return after some months so-oh different! Charlie is barely recognizable in her succ- essor, the glorious Charlotte who flutters all masculine hearts toward the end of the play ----Laverna fleiter