Vernonia High School - Memolog Yearbook (Vernonia, OR)

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zjjJzzzzzjzz rzzzzzzrzzzrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzL ■MBBB • f The Senior Flay, SMILIN' THROUGH A three-act comedy-drama with a musical theme, Smilin' Through , was presented by the senior class of 1940, on March 15, at the Washington Grade School auditorium. On the wedding day of John Carteret and Moonyeen Clare, a jealous lover, Jeremiah Wayne, intends to 9hoot John but, by accident, the bullet kills Moonyeen. Fifty year? later, John's grudge is so strong that he forbids his niece, Kathleen, and Wayne's son, Kenneth, who are in love, from even seeing each other. However, the two manage several meetings and carry on secret correspondence with the willing help of Carteret's friend and nei ibor, rr. Owen Harding, and the maid, Ellen. Then comes the World War and Kenneth leaves to become a soldier. When Kenneth returns, lame and ill from a wound, he feels that he is not good enough for Kathleen, and she believes he no longer loves her. After Owen finally pursuades John that he is unjust, and Moonyeen's spirit returns to show him the foolishness of his grudge against Kenneth, he forgets his prejudice. Thus the play ends happily, with the young lovers' life before them and John and Moonyeen reunited in heaven. CAST OF CHARACTERS John Carteret...............Claude Veal Dr. Owen Harding . . . .Homer Michener Ellen.........................Erma Kent Kathleen Dungannon . . .Frances Childs Willie Ainley...............Melvin Rose Kenneth Wayne.............Philip mills Jeremiah Wayne .......... Philip mills Moonyeen Clare...........Joanne Nichols Mary Clare.................Elsie Duncan Guests. . .Wilton Rogers Bessie Bell Eunice Larson Jack Baker Director.........Miss Jane Wilkinson