Colo High School - Memories Yearbook (Colo, IA)

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'HEARTS AND ELOSSOMS' High school operetta T Cast of Characters Mba Horace Manning . . I U I I I e 0 0 0 e 0 5 Mr. Matthew Brandon . Philip Brandon . . Jerrv Higgins . Malindy . . . . . Samson Bonapart . Eileen . . . . . e Q o a a Bruce . Bob . . . Pianist . Reeder of Poem . . Aunt Polly . . . Tom Sawyer . . Joe Harper . . Amy Lawrence . . Becky Thatcher . Huck Finn . . . Injun Joe . . . Muff Potter . . widow Douglas . Jim . . . . . . Dr. Robinson . . Sid! I I O I l Ben Rogers . . . Alfred Temple . Rev, Walters . . Judge Thatcher . Gracie . . . . . Sally . . . . Suzie . Mary e Pard . Billy . Johnny . . l ir O TOM SAWYER' Frances Stokesbary . . Margaret Bell Marybelle Hemping . . Gerald Wengert . . Nyle Hartwig . . .Gene Boster . . . Donna Dawson . . . Martin Riese Doris Jean Branon . . Shirley Andrew . . . .Jack Koch . . Tommy Williams Barbara Stevenson . Grade Operetta in 5 Acts Cast of Characters Small Parts . . Mary Liston . Martha Hopkins . , Dean Yeager . . . .Vern Weir . Marilyn Hartwig . Janet Templeman . Richard Settle . . Jimmy Heintz . . Clyde Gargus . . Helen Hopper Kenneth Stokesbary . . . . Ross Weuve . . . . Jim Marsh . Laverne Shickell . Marian Nehrlng . . . . Tom Manley . Richard Thornton . Ruth Stevenson . . Ardeth Hambly , , , Naomi Farren Mary Lou Untrauer . . . Allan Hambly . . Harold Davis . Harold Brinkman

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MUSIC GROUPS The Music Department under the direction of Miss Mildred Chapman started on a very good year of remembrance The bend consisting of twenty-tour members played at home basketball games, at Grade Operetta, and Memorial Day The big high lights of the year were the Grade and Senior high operettas. These were 'Tom Sawyer' and NHeart end Blossoms. The entries and their ratings in the Preliminary Stat Music Contest in Marshalltown were as follows: Cornet Solo. . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . Jack Koch 'Lake ot Bays'--Clarke Tube Solo. . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . , . . . Gene Boster 'Tempesta Polka'-Harris Solo . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Veda Thornton 'Souvenir'--Drdla A Saxaphone Solo . . ,'2 , . . . . . . .Velda Thornton 'Estilien Caprice'--Paul Flute TIHOI' Plano Solo , . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . Merybelle Hemplng e 'Prelude in g minor'--Raohmaninotf Vocal Solo . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . .Frances Stokesbary 'Trees'-Rasbach ' 'Morning'--Speaks Vocal Solo . . . . , . . . 2 . . , . . 4 . . Margaret Bell 'Hold Thou My Hand'--Briggs Vocal Solo L . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . .... Martin Riese M 'Bong or the Open Road'--Stickles 'Sea Fever'-Andrews Bextet 1 . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . ...... 'Donna Dawson Veda Thornton, Marybelle Hemping, Velda Thornton, Kathryn Fish, and Frances Stokesbary. p 'Sympathy --Friml 'A Brown Bird Singing'-Wood Colo can be proud of the results of the Preliminary State Music Gontest held at Marshalltown. A11 entries rated either e Division I or Division II. Frances Stokes- bary, Jack Koch, and Gene Boster will compete in the State Oontest et Mason City April 27 and 28th. The girls glee club consisted of sixteen members and lads several appearances. The girls sextet sang at the Methodist Church, School Activities and various other programs. ThelBn18LsQg played their contest numbers at the Com- munity Club inner end in between acts of the Grade and Denier High Operettes. They were: Jack Koch, Gene Boeter veea Thornton, end Velda Thornton. S 6 I

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SUMMARIES 'Hearts and.B1ossomsn ' The entire act1on'of the ooeretta requires only one setting, a lawn ouside of Sunset Lodge, an American summer hotel. Time: The summer of almost any year. Act I Afternoon. Act II Late afternoon of the next day. Mrs. Horace Manning, who believes in dreams and super- stltions, is spending the summer with her two daughters, June and Marie at Sunset Lodge, an American summer hotel. Outraged because Marie is in love with Jerry Higgins, a h poor but promising lawyer, she decides to leave the hotel. Jerry evolves the brilliant idea of inventing a dream which will promise good fortune to Mrs. Manning if she will remain at Sunset Lodge. The plan works successfully and Mrs. Manning agrees to stay, having been promised through the dream wealthy husbands for her daughters and the recovery or a long lost document. Hr. Matthew Brandon, an old sweetheart of Mrs.,Mann1ng's, arrives at the hotel with Philip, his nephew, who is in love with June. ,Mrs. Manning and Uncle Matthew meet on the lawn. June, Marie, Jerry, and Philip, hiding behind the hedge, learn that they were once lovers, parted because of the paper which Uncle Matthew promised to get for her-when they were very young. Jerry finds Samson and Malindy, who produce the case. The paper upon which the poem was written proves to be the loet document and June is assured that Philip really did send the message as he promised. with the return of the paper, the feud dies very suddenly. Jerry is received into favor and Mrs. Manning is reunited with Uncle Matthew, her . old sweetheart. p