Minot High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Minot, ND)

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Back row-Hoover, Pike, McDonell. Orbom, Aaby, Bliss, W. Olson, Richards, Aamoth. Fourth row-Alander, C. Johnson. D. Maupin, Heath, Bond, Cooley, Molsberry, Feury, Colton. Third row-B. Cross, Bruce, Peters, Unwin. Hofto, Tronson, B. Hahn, Haas, Mackley, Smallwood. Second row-J. Blaisdell, Trapp, Siders, Kimball, Shirley Diamond, V. Olson, Vardsveen, S, Blais- dell, Ramstatl, P. Jones. First row-Hunt, Walstad, Emerson, R. Anderson, Miss Ac-kermann, Kittell. Bakken, Gersting, Abbott. Playmalcers The Play's the Thing is an apt quotation if you are thinking of the Minot High School Playmakers. This dramatic unit has forty interested and active members who wish practical experience and enjoyment from their stagework. Banded together under their adviser, Miss Ackermann, they present the class, contest, and one-act plays for the school each year. The acting body of the organization is only part of the whole. Helping them in every effort are the silent men or those who work behind the scenes before and after the play. Without the stage setting committee consisting of Lyle Aamoth, Bob Alander, and Damian Gergen with Mr. Kittleson as chairman and the lighting committee headed by Mr. Goehring and assisted by Billy McDonell, Blair Smallwood, George Feury, and Kenny Haugen the major productions now so well staged would suffer seriously. Each play given is usually sponsored by some other group. This organization receives 10c i'rom each ticket in the advance ticket sales. This plan has worked well for both Playmakers and the sponsors. From proceeds gained this year 18 new flats, stairway units. and six large spotlights were purchased, These long awaited improvements make for a more Snished stage appearance and will be used extensively next year. Page Twenty eight

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Uncle Donald explains his point to younger land bigger! ears. Right in public, too. Richie registers disgust. Now boys-there are ladies L?J present. Junior Class Play Almost Elghteen was the annual class play presented by the Junior Playrnalaers given on Friday, December 3. The Playmakers, under the direction of Miss Ackermann, were greeted by a full house. The net proceeds were S158.90, the Junior Class receiving 515.00 and the Playmakers 37434. The hero of the play Almost Eighteen is Eddie falmost eighteen? whose one desire is to go to New York to take a summer course in crooning. Eddie's one big problem is to get 5250.00 to pay his tuition so he can go to this school and be able to impress his ideal girl, Ann tDoris Emersonl. Trouble begins when Eddie copies an essay from a book in order to win a reward. His uncle, George tDon Kittelll secretly sends it in but is unaware it is not original. Of course, the women of the club sponsoring the contest discover the plagiarism and real trouble sets in, for this essay was judged the best. In the meantime, Eddie has written another essay of his own, which he sends in using another name. The third act shows Eddie in a very embarassing position, when the women of the club call on him, announcing that the second best essay would be given the reward money. The climax, however, comes in the discovery that this turns out to be Eddie's original essay. CAST William Barry Grace Barry - Beatrice - - - Mabel Warren Mrs. Granville Eddie ---- George - Ann - Tommy- Sally - - - Mr. Merritt -- Miss Dalrymple - Richard Anderson - - Valoyce Olson Bonnie Jean Kimball - - Edith Hofto - Madeline Cooley - Curtis Johnson - - Don Kittell - Doris Emerson - - Vernon Lee - Barbara Haas Q Leslie Hoover - Virgene Hunt Page Twenty-seven

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OFFICERS President ......................... Donald Kittell Vice President .... .... G Ioria Bakken Secretary ....... ..... J erry Corbett Treasurer .... .... P hyllis Gersting One-Act Plays Unusually popular with Playmaker audiences this year have been the one-act plays. The tirst of these, Orville's Big Date, was presented as the Searchlight assembly program feature and starred Joe Blaisdell with an all-froshmore cast. Elmer and Billy's First Date combined into a Playmaker beneflt assembly. In Elmer Basil Cross took the lead as the only boy in a family of unreasonable women. Senior Robert Dahlstrom was the center of interest in Billy's First Date, another comedy full of teen-age mixups. Every Playmaker was given opportunity to appear in at least one performance this year. Contest Play Deserving special mention again this year is the contest play, Peggy, which captured the only 'highly superior' rating given at the state contest in Grand Forks. This year's victory was the fourth successive state win for the local Playmakersg for their esteemed director, Miss Ackermann, it was the sixth. Each of these triumphs represents hours of hard work and painstaking attention to detail. Peggy portrays the wretched conditions of the poor whites in the South. The un- limited possibilities in interpretation make this production a 'natural' given good cast and direction. Doris Emerson won the 'highly superior' rating in the role of Peggy. Cast as Mag, Peggy's nagging mother, Madeline Cooley merited a 'superior' as did Don Kittell in the role of Peg's mountain suitor. Other members of the cast included Leslie Hoover, Robert Dahlstrom, Joe Blaisdell, and Richard Anderson, each of whom turned in stellar performances. The Senior play cast rests. Prop men, Gergen, Alander and Aamoth, provide color for Garden of the Moon. Page Twenty-nine W