Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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‘He Ain’t Done Right By Nell” —or— Be Kind to Dumb Animals With blaring bowery songs of the gay 90’s, the curtain rose on “He Ain’t Done Right By Nell,” the meller-drayma presented by the senior class on Tuesday, April 6. Hilton Hayes, a deep-dyed villain, schemed to marry sweet, innocent, bare-footed Nell Perkins just to “get his hands on that invention’ which Granny Perkins planned to give Little Nell when she was married. In the meantime the manly hero. Jack Logan, visited Little Nell and very humbly proposed to her. When Nell spurned Hilton’s intentions, he threatened “to broadcast the fact before all Nemaha County” that she was just a foundling left outside the Perkins barn nigh onto twenty years ago. Too honest to marry Jack or stay in the mountains and have the finger of shame pointed at her. Little Nell said good-bye to all the dear, familiar objects and prepared to roam the cold, cruel world, seeking a refuge for her broken heart. As she was about to leave, Burkett Carlton, the wealthy mill-owner, came to arrest the villain for swindling funds from the mill. He also discovered by a locket around Nell’s neck that she was his granddaughter, kidnapped when a baby. So Nell had a name after all; she wasn’t “just a piece of flotsam an’ jetsam’-! She also had Jack Logan, who is poor but honest. - The cast of characters in this two-act meller-draymer were as follows: Nell Perkins Barbara Gillispie Granny Perkins JoAnn Schneider Laura (Lolly) Perkins Gail Gilliland Vera Carleton Mary Gibson Burkett Carleton Jim Casey Hilton Hays Tom Humphrey Jack Logan Glen Pumel Between acts the audience was entertained by some gay 90’s musical numbers. The first number was “The Bicycle Built for Two” with John Alden singing the proposal to Deborah Dunn. The next was a solo, “I Can’t Do A Thing With My Hair Since It's Washed!” by our sultry song-bird, Bernice Hummel. A flora-dora sextette — Bernice Hummel, Catherine Cowell, Deborah Dunn, Beverly Mark-land, Vernell Grube, and Evelyn Zorn — waltzed onto the stage with a tra-la-la-boom-de-ay. and sang two numbers, “Waltz Me Around Again, Willie,” and “When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues.” A boys’ quartette composed of Harvey Bergmann, Bob Atkins, Wayne Bath, and John Alden, complete with “flashy-’ bow ties and derby hats, sang “You Tell Me Your Dream, I’ll Tell You Mine.” and “Clementine.” ‘