Colo High School - Memories Yearbook (Colo, IA)

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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

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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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'Tom Sawyer' 4 Tom Sawyer is a hale American lad of the 1850--40's. He is very full of pranks, but has many redeeming qualities His Aunt Polly, who has adopted him, tries to be stern, but ls always won over to leniency by his lovablsness. Tom has many humorous and exciting encounters with friends and enemies. Huck Finn, his bosom friend, suggests that they ge to the cemetary at midnight to get rid of warts, and they run into true excitement in discovering Injun Joe, who is there to commit a dark deed. The position of a hidden treasure is revealed, and through their eavesdropping, the boys are enabled later to save the lives of Huff Potter and Widow Douglas. I The three pals, Tom, Huck, and Joe become pirates, and'hey establish their hiding place on a deserted island, going there on an improvised raft. M Becky Thatcher, whom Tom admires, gives a picnic, and the young friends, who are invited, visit a great cave. Beclgy and Tom get lost and after all the others have gone they come across Injun doe in hiding there, and Tom learns the exact spot where the treasure is hidden, just before he and Becky accidentally find their way out of the cave. A big party is given in celebration of the heroism of Tom and Huck. The Widow Douglas wishes to adopt Huck and educate him, and he consents to this only when Tom explains that it is imporsible to Join the band of robbers he is going to form unless Huck associates with refined folks. The boys then exhibit the treasure they have found, and all ends happily. This operetta is based on Mark Twainh book, fTom Sawyer '