Arlington High School - Rambler Yearbook (Arlington, IN)

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THE BOARDI G HOUSE REAC For many years now, thirteen-year-old Wilbur Maxwell has wanted a bicyle. He's dreamed of peddling through town, getting fond gazes from the girls, and boastfully shouting, Look, no hands! But he still can't persuade Mama and Papa to jar down -- to get him one. So, when Pop is called away for a week-long business trip, Mom is persuaded to go with him for sort of a second honymoon, and the house is left in charge of sister Connie and sisterBettyLou, Wil- bur gets his idea. He'll make his own money and buy his own bicycle. He'll open up a boarding house right here. Wilbur knows there's a frightful housing shortage, he knows people need places to sleep, and he knows for a whole week he can really clean up and just be rolling in bicycles. So into the paper goes the ad, and that night the whole Maxwell house is crawling with people. First comes Lucy Burns, asortofwalking encyclopedia, then Mrs. Mott, who never says a word all through the play, just comes in, sits down, gets up, and walks out. Then come Ninety- Volt Jones, a beat-up pug, and his wrestling wife, Ruby, they're followed by Mr. Potter, an in- surance salesmang and next come Limpy McGuire and his wife, Nora. Now every room in the house is full, Wilbur's doing a bang-up business, and then it happens.Mama and Papa Maxwell, at two o'clock of the next morning, come dragging home--Papa forgot his brief case. From there on out, it's one mess after another. Papa has an important business conference the next morning, but he has to sleep on the floor, he can't get in to shave, and he can't even read his own paper. Things are going 'round and 'round. Finally, it's discovered somebody in the house is a bank robber, and poor Papa is mistakenly carted off to the clink. What a mess now! And before it's all finally straightened out and Wilbur has his bicycle. Wilbur Maxwell Hercules Nelson . . . . Mrs. Maxwell Mr. Maxwell . . Mrs. Mott . . Aunt Mary .... Betty Lou Maxell Limpy McGuire . Nora McGuire . . . . Bill Smith Keith F ansler . Phyllis Logan . . . Philip Hester . . Joyce Mann . . . Donna .Toyner . . . .Toy Irvine Florence Parks Bonnie Rucker Herman Ninety-Volt .Tones . . . Lawrence Parks Roughhouse Ruby . . . . . Ethel Vantyle Mr. Potter and Connolly . . . Steve Wool- ridge Lucy Burns. . . . . Rosmary Henby Bernadine Smith . , , Janet Heath Connie Maxwell . . . . Joann Binder X I I :rm :.1 sf

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JU IOR C ASS PLAY The Junior Class presented their play Beans for Breadfast, October 17 and 18, with Mrs. White as their director. Mimi Kent, a flighty widow who dreams of wealth, has just moved into her new ranch-type home with her son, Jarel, and her daughter, Peggy. Poor Mimi has spent practically all ber late husband's life insurance, building her new home. Unfortunately, her money ran out before she could furnish it properly. Mimi gets on her chi1dren's nerves because she is forever quoting Opal Bean, a girlhood chum with whom she has kept up a correspondence but hasn't seen in twenty years. Now Mimi is frightfully jealous of Opal because she married a wealthy Chicago banker and is forever bragging about her wonderful financial success. What Mimi doesn't know is that the Beans are just as poor as she. When Mimi learns that Opal and her family are coming for avisit she becomes frantic, and with the help of her neighbor's possessions, she tries to impress the Bean family. Everything seems to be sailing along fairly smooth when to Mimi's horrified surprise, in pops a poor relative, old Uncle Podger from the Ozarks. ln his bluff, hearty way he spills some family truths to the Beans about the Kent's background. From this point on, through lovers' quarrels, fainting, and tears of humilation, they manage to get into many hilarious complications that keep the audience laughing. Bob Cooley . . . . . Jerel Becky Patterson . . . Peggy Joan Kramer . . . Opal Jane Kemple . . . . Bessie .Tim Emmons . . Botsford lvanna Farlow . . . Maudie Pat Wolf . . Cadwalder Carol Buchanan . . . . . Mammie .Tackie Webb . . .. . Ethelbert Diane Stout . . . . Ruth Steve Kennedy . . . J ack Linda Winkler . . . Gertie David Mann . . . . . Mike Lynn Catt . . . . Sam George VanScyoc . . . . . Uncle Podger Fay VanOsdol. . . . . . Lettsie Kay VanOsdol. . . . . Bettsie A Q Q i ,. x U 4. J 5 0 A l v l . 1 1, s 1 + 1 2 5 f 4. l 7 f I e 6 ll U - im 4 , n 1 Jn wi ,,. fi' .':f.. -V ---,... ...U 1 , ex wi A I

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