Burt Community School - Bears / Roundup Yearbook (Burt, IA)

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EASY MONEY By Austin Goetz The class of '4C presented their Senior Class play May 16 17, 1940. Cast Sidney Holbrook--------- Claire Holbrook--------- Stephen Holbrook-------- John Holbrook----------- Mrs. Christine Sheridan- Marilyn Sheridan-------- Happy Wilson---------- Georgia Sanders--------- Edith Blair------------- Barrat------------------ Susanne (A French maid)- -Frank Becker •Luella Weiske -Russell Patterson -Duane Arend •Joyce Graham •Leta Olson •Donald Hammerstrom •Viola Trenary •Mary Jean Rachut •Wallace Hawcott -Thelma' Bristow Synopsis Sunshine plays an important part in the glamour of Southern California, but when two students, Claire and Sidney, of a California University decide to marry and keen it a secret from their parents and relatives, sun- shine merely adds to their difficulty. Easy Money sets them up in luxury but it cannot buy consistent explanations when their dear ones drop in for a weekend and so the complications pile up until they feel as if they were at the bottom of a football scrimmage. Claire Holbrook finds it necessary to Impersonate a boy in order to explain a difficult situation of her own making. Claire no sooner becomes the handsome boy than her mother walks in to spend the weekend. Frantically she switches from boy to girl. Suddenly Sidney's uncle - Stephen Holbrook's brother - appears from Hawaii to see Sidney's new' wife. Uncle John has been the financial mainstay of the young married couple and has come through handsomely when Sid.ney informed him of the marriage. John and Stephen Holbrook have not spoken to one another for fifteen years and now they meet. itn Uncle John waiting to greet Sidney's wife - and Claire frantically trying to keep her identity a secret from Sidney's father - a.nd Clair's mother demanding all sorts of explanations, you can imagine what a dilimma Claire is in. Claire unravels this tangled skein very nioely - and everything ends happily in their favor.

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And now, who comes next? OTiy, it’s the famous toe dancers. They must be Leta Olson, Viola Trenary, and Luella Welake, Of course, they were so fond of dancing, that they could hardly walk decorously out in the line, and look who's their manager! No other than Dean Meier. Well, that Is one person who has become ,)ust what I knew he would be anyway. Again the scene changes. How strange, a man behind a plow drawn by two stalwart Percheron horses. Who can he be? Surely not one of the class of 1940 at this lab- orious business of following a plow? But ah I see broad acres stretohlng away on every side. The eartn ne turns over Is black and fertile. This Is one of those wondrous western ranches we hear so much about, where seeds come up almost over night. His face is vurned «way from me as he follovs the long and straight furrow. His broad'shoulders and graceful carriage, however, are fam- iliar. tfho can he be? But now enters a new element, a woman cones over the hills, carrying a basket and thermos bottle. His wife, of course, for only a ..atient, loving, self-sacrificing wife could come out In the hot sun with a man's dinner. Now she Is coming nearer. I can almost distinguish her features. Is it possible? Yes, it -s Mary Jean Rachut. Now I understand who the plowman Is of course: none other than Donald Dugan, vho Is.that tirea man walking the floor with a baby. I thought they usually milked the cows. Russell Patterson of course. Now the scene changes to a.large eastern city. There Is a typical speciman of floor walker. He is a rathe£ , distinguished looking gentlemen. VThy, of course, no wonder, It is Bruce Graham. Next the scene changes too a large steam laundry in Chicago and I see a washerman, with all the talents, that s too much, and Its none other than Frank Pecker. Next the scene shifts us to a very tall building In Los ngeles. What Is that electric sign 8TbovetJh,e.J°°; flh Hapnens to be a fruit shipping concern. I can t distinguish the names.. Oh, Yeei It's plain to me now James i th and Duane Arend, Inc. That Is really Borne bunch If I remember those boys. And last, but not least on great white way In New York City, re faintly hear the music coming from the Broken Drum can't be Beat, Night Club' where wexln i out uRon our arrival that this swing music Is none other thaft that of kaistro Hawcott. I knew he d make it» By Ruth Olsen and Mrl June Higgins

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SENIOR CLASS SONG New Senior Class v.-e must part, Let one thought remain in our heart, That through our lives we'11 recall, The place we loved best of all. So loudly our praises we sing, Through the ages may they ring, forever, We must all dry our tears now and say, Gcod-bye to all our high-school days, Burt High ferever! ---Sharon Hann (Tune of Stars and Stripes Forever) Class Officers Russell Patterson-----------President Luella V eiske--------------Vice President James Rath- Treasurer