Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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THE SENIOR PLAY

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as their strong man. John Kohut is the author of “Jutt and Meff” pictures you see in the leading newspapers every A. M. Ruth Larson and Mabel McAlister are contractors. George McDonald is ambassador to Armenia. Hilda Magnuson has been making firey speeches against the movement for giving men the right to vote. Ellen Metcalf married Harry Peek. Wallace Metcalf is a milkman. He has been selling milk that’s 86% water. Elmer Miller is a local guardian of the peace. So’s Victoria Nelson. Mary Newberry is teaching dancing by mail. Agnes Paine is principal of the Plymouth High School. Hercule Paolino is the city editor of the Neapolitaliano Telegraf. He’s something of a girl masher, too. Harry Peck is the head reporter on the Saybrook Sentinel. Eric Peterson fell down on his job and hasn’t had a chance to make up. He was an aviator. Mary Rainnie is Ashtabula High’s football coach. Ethelinda Rice is a public speaker. Joseph Rosenbluth is sinking lower and lower. He was first an aviator, next a steeplejack, and then a miner, and now motorman on a submarine. Francis Rogers is with the Tommy T. Tones’ Carnival as the bearded lady. Margaret Schaeffer is a chauffeur. Raymond Seymour is playing left field for the Pumpkin (’enter Bulldogs. James Shea is Thelma Swedenborg’s leading man. Grace Shipman and Leona Zaugg are the engineers who built the Aust inburg-Say brook Railroad. Both are married. (Not to each other.) George Sholtis is a writer of detective stories. He is the author of “Who Stabbed Susie With an Icicle?’’ He married Agnes Sullivan. Katherine Sill got rich on a lottery ticket. She’s living at a summer resort in Patagonia. Ethel Smith is principal of Raven High. She says it is the best High School in the world. Martha Sodergren did the same thing as Lura Holbrook. They say she’s awful stuck up now. Ruby Spring is a graduate of Yassar and West Point. She has been teaching Latin and Bavarian in one of the Harbor High Schools. Lulu Stearns is an artist’s model. Garner Stephenson is the owner of a grocery store on Hiawatha street. He also sells such luxuries as meat and vegetables. Thelma Swedenborg is now a Ziegfeldian graduate. She was recently in New York with the “Broadway Belles. Thelma Sweet runs a livery in Carson. Wendell Sweet is a magician. Olaf Swanson— I am now a multi-billionaire living on the interest of my money. Lucile Tilton owns a shoe store. Margaret Tinney is teaching Spanish in the Junior High of Ashtabula. Ruth Ward is an engineer on the Pennsy. Howard Warren is a Sunday School professor. Alice Weldon works in a welding shop on Park place. Hubby stays at home and takes care of the house. Parker Wilkerson is a manufacturer of strawberries and tomatoes. Winnifred Wood is an inventor. She invented the electric lawn-mower, the electric towels and the electric clothes-line. Theodore Zikovsky is now so fat that he hasn't seen his feet for three years. He’s a merchant.

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“Officer 666” THE DART 27 The “best yet” was the opinion of all when I Ik Senior Play was presented on Friday evening, April 12, 19IS, in tin High School Auditorium. It was a comedy in three acts and contained all the fun which “Jim” Shea and Wade Jenkins and the rest could put into it. The acting was fine and showed what can be done even by amateurs. But “there’s a reason”— Mrs. Manford Warren directed it. Nuf said. CAST OF CHARACTERS Bataeto, Japanese valet to Travers Gladwin ............Hcrcule Paolino Michael Phelan, Officer GOO..James Shea Whitney Barnes, friend of Gladwin .....................George Dewey Travers Gladwin, a millionaire.. .......................Wade Jenkins Helen Burton, a debutante....Merle Dawson Sadie Small, her cousin....Genevra Duero Mrs. Burton, her aunt.....Mary Rainnie Alfred Wilson, a picture thief.. ....................Francis Rogers Watkins, chauffeur...........Wirt August Police Captain Stone.................Mac Crosby Kearney, plainclothes-man ..Olaf Swanson Ryan, police officer ........Harry Peek Policeman..........................Elmer Miller Policeman ..................John Kohut SPECIALTIES Between acts the following specialties were given: “United States Drill,” by Mary Newberry, Katherine Sill. Martha Soder-gren, IxM na Zaugg, Alice Weldon, Ellen Metcalf, Thelma Swedenborg, Ethelin- da Rice, Elizabeth Godley, Grace Ship-man, Hazel Farr, Mary Brake. “Military Specialty,” by Merle Dawson and Chorus. “I’ve Got Everything I Want But You,” by Merle Dawson and Wade Jenkins, and Chorus. Another Play Tuesday evening. May 28, will be Class Night for tin Seniors. On that night another play will be given, entitled, “The Claim Allowed.” The cast has been working hard and the play promises to be a novel affair as the plot has to do with the present war times. Mrs.Warren is directing this also. Don’t miss it! CAST OF CHARACTERS Mr. LaFohl, manufacturer of munitions ........................Mac Crosby Mrs. LaFohl, his wife.Mary Newberry Dabney LaFohl, his patriotic son .......................Wade Jenkins Ethel LaFohl, his daughter..Etheliiida Rice Lillian Carmen, Dabney’s fiancee .........................Ruby Spring Tom Bradley, Ethel’s patriot ...James Shea Mr. Metz, an American-German ......................... Elmer Miller Mrs. Metz, his son’s wife...Katherine Sill Sherman Metz, his grandson ...................Rupert Kimball Mary Metz, his granddaughter .........................Ellen Metcalf Mrs. Hohenzollern, a propagandist ...................Josephine Dibbs Heine Hohenzollern, her brother ...................Nathaniel Wallin Mrs. Thompson, of the Red Cross .........................Marleah Cox Little Scout, doing his bit.Albert Guerini Neb, a blackbird......George Guarnieri