Denison High School - Monarch Yearbook (Denison, IA)

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poll... lst Row - Baer, I-Inst. Spiegel, Calvin, Bray 2nd Row - Peters, Rohwer, 0'Mezira, Lunsford Norelius Luub Hawes Johnson Watson O Double Trouble is the name given to the senior class playg it is also a name given to the senior class. However, that is beside the point. To be perfectly frank, the plot of this play is as nutty as a fruit cake . It is so fast moving at times, that one needs a skooter to keep up with it. It isn't exactly the type of play to win the Pulitzer prize, but to make a hilarious evening, It takes the cake . Gladys Bliss, Sandra Soon and Helen Winter- green have an apartment together. Well-intend- ing Mrs. Stratford-Smith is trying to rehearse the girls for a play. There is some doubt as to the realistic action of the play and the girls finally come to the conclusion that the only way of lind- ing out is to act the play out in real life. The problem is, how would a real hero act if he found a girl screaming for help, after a burglar attempt' ed to strangle her. Out onto the streets they go, calling for help. Two unsuspecting heroes, Brucc McFarlan and Lance Davis, come to the rescue. The girls spin a wild tale about a burglar found in the apartment and his attempt to strangle Sandra. Their libs get so complicated that they get in deeper trying to cover up . There is a frantic search for the imaginary burglar which only re- sults in more confusion. People are disappearing in closets and chests with amazing rapidity. Doors are opened and closed so fast and furiously that the scenery sways dangerously. The scenery survived, however, and so did the cast, while the audience agreed it was a most successful play. And so Double Trouble ends with all the seniors well and happy.

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All the wo1ld's a stage and all the men and women merely players. -Shakespeare N -.swmzplwf . ',,,p1a,,, - fm-aft pm

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' plat, 1stRoxx Broun Hayes Solbach Slechta Kearney Boeck. nd Rovs Bohnker Luetjens Carlson Miller Baird. O Where's Laurie? is a gay romp, all the way through from beginning to end. The well known ily in the ointment is Laurie Williams. Hcr class sisters claim, land not without justidcationl, that Laurie is playing the Held . Instead of concen- trating on one man. Laurie concentrates on them all. Even Socki, the football hero, falls under her spell. A deplorable situation indeed. The night of the prom, the jealous ones ar- range things so that Socki unwittingly keeps Laurie away from the prom. But so as the, best laid plans of mice and men- often go wrong: so did the plan for kidnapping Laurie, for the eve- ning. Laurie is kidnapped not by Socki, but by Eddie Fowler, for reasons of his own. When Laurie's folks find their daughter has vanished, they notify the sheriff, and in a matter of hours, the radio reports a kidnapping. Jinx Taylor, the brain behind the plot, and her accomplices are thrown into a panic. Things don't clear up either, when Eddie appears with a rather confused story. Things really go from had to worse when Laurie is found and her parents decide to press charges against Eddie. Jinx fig- ures the only way to keep this from happening is to lock Laurie up until something can be done to save Eddie. But all kinds of mysterious complica- tions set in. There are strange comings and go- ings. The lights go off and an innocent news- paper women is bound, gagged, and locked in a closet. However, al1's well that ends well , and this does too as all good plays should.