Colorado Academy - Telesis Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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The pper School presents 'Arsenic 81 Old lace' A spirited rivalry in murder was the theme of this year's upper school play as the evil Brewster nephew, Jonathan, tries to outdo his kindly old aunts at the intriguing game of homicide. The aunts and Jonathan have each run up a score of 12 victims. Jonathan hopes to break the deadlock by doing away with the other nephew Mortimer, a successful young drama critic who is living with the aunts and their brother Teddy, who thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt. A , MA c ,V

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or 'The Razor of Destiny' One of the major objectives of the melodrama as an artistic form is the creation of a confusing set of circumstances which are clarified by the resolution of the play. Jamie Ross, CA's dramatic prodigy and author of the Barber Pole, has definitely demonstrated his ability to create a Confusing set of circumstances. As a matter of fact, the circumstances are so confusing that Jamie can't re- member how they operate. It seems that Clarence Faulkenberger is a wealthy pencil manufacturer who has lost his memory, and Thackery Steinguzzle is a former presidential advisor who has been fired because of inability to tread water and is now the town drunk. Clarence has a daughter, Rosebreath, Qreal beautifull whom he has promised to Leslie Quagmire fthe villainj in marriage. Thackery has a daughter, Caliban, qreal uglyj whom he has promised to,.Siegfried Goodfellow fthe heroj in marriage. But actually the daughters have been switched at the hospital so that Rosebreath is really Thackery's daughter and engaged to Seigfried and Caliban is really Clarence's daughter and engaged to Quagmire. Or is it Caliban who is the daughter of Leslie who is engaged to Thackery? I give up. If you want to figure out this mess, get a script. It

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. MIKE LUBC HE NC O EMMY STONINGTON ELLEN BREWSTER . . MIKE NICHOLS . . OZZIE NUTTAL ELAINE MARTHA WHEELOCK