Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Mrs. Dot Crews, play director, explains how she wants a certain scene played. Onions in the Stew, Soldadera, and The People Versus Maxine Lowe —these were the three plays presented this year. Mrs. Dorothy Crews was director for all these plays. Miss Judy Cheatham assisted her with the first two. The Fall Production, Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald, centered around a family-situation plot. It involved the adven¬ tures of a city family who had moved to a rural, island community, and the hilarious adjustments in their way of living that they had to make. One of these adjustmets in¬ cluded the problem of being snowbound. This play was presented the night of Novem¬ ber 19. Soldadera was selected as the play to be presented in the District One-Act Play Fes¬ tival at George Washington High School in Danville on March 5. It received an excel¬ lent rating. A suspense-filled drama, it dealt with the effects of a revolution on a band of homeless women. The Spring Production was The People Versus Maxine Lowe by Luella E. MacMahon, on the night of April 29. It was a drama involving a murder trial with a surprise ending. Plays add dramatic Members of the Soldadera cast were Betsy Branum, Lynn Maxwell, Teresa DeBruhl, Linda Smith, Carol Benner, Jim Fralin, Pam Gentry, and Ginger Harrison. The play won an excellent” rating in the Western District One-Act Play Festival.

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Linda Walker, sophomore attendant HCHS Homecoming Cheryl Swaim, junior attendant Janet Lawter, freshman attendant Scottie Epps, eighth grade attendant 9 V A

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Betsy Branum rehearses her part for Soldadera. touch to overall cultural development of school In the spring production Lynn Maxwell is questioned by Andy McDowell as the district attorney.