Ada High School - We Yearbook (Ada, OH)

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SENIOR PLAY On Kay 8 and 9 the class of ’47 presented a hilarious comedy, The Daffy Dills. The Dills are an average American family. The father, Richard Dill, is a widower with four children: Carol and Rod, of high school age, and Doris and Dud, thirteen-year old twins. The grandmother, who lives with the family, spoils the children and refuses to make them lift a finger to help Arnica, the negro housekeeper. Consequently, the house is always in a shocking state of neglect. When the story begins, we learn that Mr. Dill has secretly married Elaine Escott, a secretary from St. Louis. Mr. Dill appeals to his neighbor, Mrs. Woggles, to help Elaine get acquainted with the family. Mrs. Woggles, a widow with her own cap set for Mr. Dill, is rather hostile at first but finally decides that any woman who has to be a stepmother to the four Dill children is more deserving of pity than envy. When the Dills learn of Elaine, they are resentful and plot to make her life with them very unpleasant. Elaine, however, turns out to be a very competent young woman who decides to fight fire with fire and so succeeds in foiling all her step-children's plans. The act put on by the family to discourage Elaine finally comes to a climax. Carol is in the last stages of tuberculosis, Rod throws temper-tantrums, Doris has hallucinations. Dud has St. Vitus' dance, and Gran continually threatens to commit suicide. Pete and Aimee, friends of Dud and Carol, are acting as their keeper and nurse. These and other attempts to drive Elaine away, however, prove futile. Cousin Maude Maddox from Peoria, a sweet and lovable woman, arrives for a visit in the midst of all the commotion. The children and Gran, who have never met Cousin Maude before, take an instant liking to her. Cousin Maude prepares to leave the Dili house when Elaine tells her that the family is bankrupt and cannot afford to keep a guest. But the children and Gran beg Maude to stay, for they have come to love her dearly. At this moment Mr. Dill arrives home. He enters and embraces Cousin Maude, who, it turns out, is not Cousin Maude at all, but their stepmother, Elaine. The real Cousin Maude had been masquerading as Elaine in order to put an end to the pranks of the children. As the play ends she decides to go out West to straighten out the affairs of some of her relatives in California. CAST Richard Dill — Robert Dilts Carol Dill ---- Ruby Baughman Rodney Dill --- Urban Long Doris Dill ---- Bonnie Huffman Dudley Dill --- Clyde High Gran ---------- Doris Abbott Mrs. Woggles ---- Margie Zehner Elaine ------------- Peggy Main Cousin Maude — Loretta Darnell Pete----------------Arthur Amey Aimee----------------Jean Keller Arnica ----------- Esther Dearth Miss Edna Buehler-------Director

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