Brady High School - Bulldog / Spotlight Yearbook (Brady, MT)

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Two plays were given this school year, Mail Order Brides by the Juniors and Aunt Susie Shoots the Works by the Senior Class. Both plays were di- rected by Miss Helen Demarest. Mail Order Brides was presented November 10. The plot was a mail order sent by the owner of the Ruby Heart ranch, Maurice Thorson, for three wives for the three young men on the ranch, Johnnie MacLean, Roy Garner and Howard Schlepp. Irene Stinson, Anita Mowbray and Cecille Gullickson played the parts of the brides. Others having parts in the play were Nancy Henshaw, played by Anna MacLean; the Indian Princess, Rachel Jermunson; Jane Hamilton, Helen Blake; Deering Hamilton, Henry Rouns, and William Hamilton, Clarence Mustoe. Aunt Susie Shoots the Works was given March 29. Aunt Susie Stowe (Lucile Burdick), an eccentric and man-hating spinster lived entirely alone. When she learned that her late lamented schoolmate, Cora King, had willed her her property, she wired her favorite niece, Joy Herbert (Viola Zimbelman), to meet her at the King residence. Joy arrived accompanied by her colored maid, Scarlet (Gladys Kauk), and while waiting in the supposedly deserted house for Aunt Susie they are confronted by a series of hair-raising events. Just as they are about to depart Aunt Susie arrives. The property consists of the house and a large sausage works and Aunt Susie plans to begin manufacturing sausages when Cora King's lawyer, Portia Lark (Cecille Gullickson), descends on them and tells Aunt Susie that she will inherit the property only if she marries Omar Graves (Russell Wikstrom), Cora's cousin, within thirty days. Aunt Susie hits the ceiling and prepares for battle. To make matters worse, Joy is secretly engaged to young Johnny Rogers (Bud Hill), who turns up unexpectedly, bent on a mysterious mission and disguised as an old man. Aunt Susie mistakes the hapless Johnny for Omar Graves and poor Johnny is on the verge of nervous prostration when the real Omar Graves arrives accompanied by his colored man-servant, LaSalle (Hal Gollehon). Lights flashed off and on, characters disappeared into nowhere, strange visitors ran in and out at midnight, and weird sounds were heard coming from the factory next door. Aunt Susie then determined to investigate. Her experiences left the audience in a spasm of laughter. Others taking parts were Laura Dawson, Mildred Thompson; Madame Zola, Martha Keller; Mrs. Edward Dunning, Ruth Rouns; and Slick Conway, Robert Kincaid. 27