Cissna High School - Review Yearbook (Cissna Park, IL)

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11-2 R E vmw 1' 1 IH E SAFETY FIRST Jack Montgomery, a young husband ......... .... E arl Reutter Jerry Arnold, an unsuccessful fixer ..... ...... P aul Reutter Mr. McNut, the Irish detective ....... .... L eRoy Morton Elmer Flannel, awfully shrinking ...... .... W ilbur Cluver Abou Ben Mocha, the Terrible Turk .... ....... J esse Hofer Mabel Montgomery, Jack's wife ....... .... O ma Aeschliman Virginia Bridger, her sister ............ ---Rosella MCCray Mrs. Barrington-Bridger, their mamma .... ..... H ulda Knake Zuleika, Abou's leetla daughter ....... .... R uth Leverenz Mary Ann O'Finnerty, the Irish cook .... ---Mary Dryden Synopsis ACT I-Jack's suburban home. A misplaced husband. He kissed me good-bye at eighteen minutes after seven last night, and I haven't laid eyes on him since. Mary Ann imagines a crime has been committed. Jack's cousin Elmer, a college boy, drops in telling of his engagement to Zuleika, the Turkish girl. Sure the boss has eloped wid a Turkey. Abou Ben Mocha appears hunting his leetla daughter. Jack and Jerry return home after a terrible night. Then, explanations. We joined the Shriners. I'm the Exalted Emported Woggle, and Jack's the Bazookf' McNutt ap- pears with warrants. Jack, Jerry and Zuleika go to jail. However, Mabel, Virginia and Mary Ann believe that Jack and Jerry have gone with Mc- Nutt, who was supposed to have married Zuleika, to Florida to the Shriners' Convention. ACT II-A month later., Jack and Jerry reported drowned at sea. The Terrible Turk looks for his Zuleika. The prodigals return. Ghosts! Some tall explanations are in order. I never was drowned in all my life, was I, Jerry ? We were lashed to a mast and we floated, and floated, and floated 1 The Terrible Turk hunting Jack and Jerry. Elmer advises Jack: A Turk never injures an insane man. Jack feigns insanity. Mrs. Bridger learns from Mary Ann that the boss and Mr. Jerry Arnold never went to Florida at all, at all. Mrs. Bridger and her daughters depart: We are leaving this house forever ! ACT III-Mrs., Bridger's garden. Elmer and Zuleika start on their honeymoon. Mabel forgives Jack, but her mamma does not. They decide to elope. Jerry comes out disguised as McNutt and tries to fix things up with mamma McNutt falls into the well. It's his ghost. Jack and Jerry arrange the elopement. A slight mistake and Jack elopes with Mary Ann! The Terrible Turk finds Zuleika already married to her Elmer. Mamma forgives and Jack and Mabel are reunited. But best of all Jerry and Virginia and McNutt and Mary Ann are on the road to matrimony. forty-two .....- ---,-,- 'S

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153 REVIEW ' '- ' ' 3M Q-1'-1-2. v....,.-......-:.-s..-. 4: -: 7: 7: ,O yi ,V 11 :Z :3 - o o .g ' A W alk in Spring ' 1 an nun u fp 1 vu ann 14 pu 1 ,ns o.sv,u pn 1 .pu Msn u ps gnu n sv' 11. an 1 no. nn va na 1 can 1 n u no inirw?-1ulfas5Iu4. WirvuQ91nlfu5.u'.'a9n2rvn51uln-5.u'.'4U-ifwnbuniufnt Un-A-n9hn'3nnn'. Nuin':s 1unl7u5.n'. Tqirvndfanvfssis N At last Spring has really come. Every few days for three weeks I had been thinking the same thing only to be disappointed when chilling winds would once more begin to blow and the sun who had been so bright and pleasant would frown instead of smile. From the windows of the room where I was working I could see birds flying here, there, and everywhere in search of material for building nests. Everywhere little children were running about laughing and playing as children play only when Spring has come and released them from the houses where winter has kept them im- prisoned for so long. Finally, after seeing how happy the children were and how beautiful everything was out of doors, I could stay in the house no longer. Dropping everything, I went out into the warm sweet spring air and started for a walk. Where I was going I did not know and neither did I care, for just being alive on a morning such as this was so pleasant that everything else seemed unimportant. Before long, I found myself in the woods walking beside a stream whose clear water, now perfectly free of ice, was catching the beams of the sun and shining with all the colors of the rainbow. I sat down on the bank and gave myself up to meditation. Surely God was good to send all the beautiful things which are to be found in the forest for the enjoyment of man. How could anyone look at the sweet spring flowers which were blossoming all around or at the creek which had seemingly caught the spirit of happiness of everything about it and was merrily taking its way on its never-ending journey to the sea, and still con- tinue to refuse to believe in a Supreme Being? Surely these people knew nothing of the wonderful works of nature. Surely they were ignorant of the joys of looking for the first spring flower, or of watching a bird help his mate to build a nest or they would realize what a real person God is. If these people would drop their work as I had done a short time before, and come to the woods Where everything is calm and peaceful, where the only sounds are the birds singing, the wind softly rustling the branches of the trees which Nature has newly clothed in soft green leaves, and the creek murmuring to itself as it hastens on its way and where the only things to be seen are the great and beautiful creations of God, they could not help feeling that He was near, as He could never be near, to me at least, In the hurrying, bustling crowds of the city. Perhaps these people do not see in Nature the things that I can see, but it seems that I can always find Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything, when I am wandering in the forests. -Frances Whitaker. forty-one

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155 REVIEW GO SLOW MARY The Junior play, Go Slow Mary, was a roaring success for it certainly brought down the house with laughter as well as drawing the largest audi- ence of any function this school year. The Juniors are glad to report that the gate receipts were one hundred and twelve dollars. The cast of char- acters and a brief synopsis follow: Billy Abbey, a young husband .......................... Ralph Schmidt Mary Abbey, his discontented wife ..... .... V elma Freidinger Mrs. Berdon, Mary's mother ........ ........ R uby King Sally Carter, Mary's bosom friend .... ---Roma Dryden Harry Stevens, Sally's sweetheart ---------- -.-. E arl Brenner Bert Childes, Billy's English friend -------.--. .---- W llbur Cluver Bobby Berdon, Mary's nephew, a holy terror ----- ---- W alter Barth Dolly Berdon, Mary's niece, another little angel ---- -----. L ucy King Katy, the Abbey's Berman maid -------------.- ---Ruth Zbinden Danny Grubbs, Iceman suitor to Katy ------.-- ----- C arl Berg Patrick Murphy, Danny's rival, a policeman ..-- ---Joe Beebe Synopsis Billy is out of a job and Mary is decidedly tired of housekeeping. They agree to change places. Billy is to keep house while Mary supports the family by resuming her old position as a stenographer. If, after a week, B111 finds domestic duties are not as easy as he anticipates his system will make it, he is to consent to Mrs. Bordon's living with them and doing the house work. Just at this critical time Sally Carter blows in, and a little later Bert Childes arrives. Dolly and Bobby, the little angels, nearly drive poor Uncle Bill frantic. On top of that Katy is persuaded to leave Danny Grubbs, who attempted to beat up on Billy because he reported him for slowness. Such a commotion occurs that Patrick Murphy rushes in, terminates the affair, flirt with Katy, and as he departs warns the family to beware of a gentle- man burglar. Billy's efforts at housekeeping are amusing but ineffectual. Mary fails to obtain her position, but keeps up the pretense by going out every day. Both are desperately unhappy, believing the other has ceased to love them. Sally advises the creation of a little jealousy. Accordingly Mary becomes very friendly with Bert. Billy is simply furious. Katy decides she doesn't want to be hitched and returns. Then Mary finds Billy talking to Sally. Meanwhile Mrs. Berdon's diamond ring disappears. Policeman Murphy catches the gentleman burglar in the house and he turns out to be Sally's husband, Harry Stevens. In their attempt to stand by Sally in this dis- grace Mary and Billy become reconciled. Harry's innocence is established when Katy finds the ring in a goose and Dolly confesses that she took it, accidentally dropped it, and the goose swallowed it. Katy at last accepts Danny's proposition. Harry finds Bill a responsible position and all is well! forty-three