West Reading High School - Vaquero Yearbook (West Reading, PA)

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY UN November l9, l942, the Senior Class pre- sented the three act farce Double Trouble. The plot of the play is centered about a typical middle class family which Was hit by the de- pression. ln an effort to get back on their feet financially, they seek the aid of their Aunt Deborah, a noted actress, who has come to visit them. However, it turns out that Aunt Deborah is really not Aunt Deborah but a bank robber who is using the Berry family as a front While he is cool- ing off. Through a sequence of hilarious attempts to beg, borrow, steal, or inherit some of Aunt Deborah's fortune, they find that he is in reality a fake. Art Samson, an enthusiastic cub reporter and the suitor of Alice Berry, and Iimmy Berry, uncovered the plot of the gangsters. After the real Aunt Deborah appears and the crooks make an unsuccessful at- tempt to escape, they are brought to justice. The money received from the reward pays off the debts and the Berrys are once more out of the red and on easy street. Art Samson gets his girl and everybody's happy about the whole thing. The antics of Dave Moyer, in the dual role of the phoney Aunt and the hardened criminal, kept the audience in constant merriment throughout the performance. 28

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CLASS NIGHT HE play that was presented by the class of 1943 of the West Reading High School on Tuesday evening, lune 1, 1943 was the three-act comedy, Victory Home by Dana Thomas. The lead was taken by Fae L. Harris, who had the role of Gale Hargrove. Richard C. Marks played opposite her as Tony Cravetti, a young Ameri- can ot Italian heritage in Uncle Sam's army. I. Harry Wade enacted the important role ot Mr. Hargrove. He saw his family as one hundred per cent patriots, only to discover at last that they had actually sowed the seeds of defeat and gave aid to the enemy. Playing opposite him as his wife was Doris Wetzel. As Dad explained, Edith is wonderful-but a little giddy. Richard Smith had the role of Benford Hargrove, the young son who nearly missed the bus. Roberta Sweeney and Robert Lebo, as the young married couple who couldn't decide whether to be or not to be part of the lighting service, created many hilarious moments. Ann Linton, Benford's sweetheart, and Carl Fredericks, Bentords triend,were played by Claire Weeber and Theodore Heist, respectively. Mrs. Kelso and Mrs. Harrigan, two irate neighbors, played by Mary Louise Mays and Elaine E. Schwartz, kept you chuckling throughout the course of the play. 30