Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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Junior Senior Class Play DAMSELS IN DISTRESS” By JAY TOBIAS (Published by T. S. Denison Company, Chicago; Copyright. 1940) CAST OF CHARACTERS Pamela Royle (Pam), an art student Geraldine Ware (Gerry), a dramatic student Mrs. Meeks, who loves a masterful man Mrs. Guppy, a landlady with an eagle eye Natasha Federovna, a temperamental Russian Jimmy Love, a glamour boy Shelby Parsons, a medical student Aunt Eustacia Carstairs, Pam s aunt, who loves cats Lavonne Sperl Braymer Babcock. Gerry’s poultry-minded uncle Chester Severance Ethelbert Meeks, who has an ingrowing disposition Karl Kwallek Deliverymen for the Slocum Music Co.—Mike John Kuzma Bill Vincent Johnston Mr. Burch, Director Barbara Johnstor Nina Johnstor Anna Kawulol Roberta Strap Wanda Melby Jack Hallowell Don Bruce SYNOPSIS OF ACTS ACT I—The studio room of Pamela Royle and Geraldine Ware at 6 o’clock of a clear evening in early September. ACT II—The same as Act I. A few moments later. ACT III—The same as in the previous act. A half hour later. SYNOPSIS OF PLAY Pamela Royle and Geraldine Ware share an apartment in Mrs Guppy’s rooming house, Pam to study art and Gerry to attend dramatic school. Pam has written her Aunt Stacia that she is studying music, and Gerry has led her Uncle Braymer to believe that she is taking a business course, on the strength of which false statements the girls are being liberally financed by their respective relatives. So when Aunt Stacia suddenly decides to visit Pam and Uncle Braymer wires his intention of visiting Gerry, the girls find themselves deep in trouble. Then, to add to their worries, ar old flame of Pam’s, Jimmy Love, who has been held up by thugs in the street and robbed of his dress suit, climbs the fire escape and hops into the girls’ window, clad principally in a battered silk hat. and Mrs. Guppy’s best tablecloth, retrieved from the clothes-line The embarrassing problem of how to dispose of Jimmy is quickly solved Uncle Braymer has previously sent Gerry money to hire a combination housekeeper-and-chaperon, whom Gerry has not hired but has mentioned in her letters as Mrs. Jones; and Jimmy soon finds himself in a woman’s wig and kimono, covered up on the day bed, unwillingly impersonating the fictitious Mrs. Jones, a sup- posed victim of flu. When Aunt Stacia and (continued on page 20) —16—