Fairfield High School - Crucible Yearbook (Fairfield, AL)

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£The ©rvciHe '41 SOJIOR CLASS PLAY POH£ AS THE DRIVEN SNOw or A WORKING GIRL'S SECRET by Paul Loomis A MELODRAMA Never before has any audience seen a more persecuted heroine than Purity Dean; a more fiercely moustached rogue than Mortimer Frothing ham; or a nobler hero than Leander Longfellow, who follows the romantic calling of working in a pickle factory. Jonathan Logan and his good wife, Zamah, run an inn in Vermont with their nephew, Leander Longfellow. On a stormy night Purity Dean, a working girl with a secret, seeks shelter at the inn. She has been forced to give up her work in a canning factory because she cannot endure the attentions of Mortimer Frothingham. Lone and penniless. Purity is seeking employment. When they offer her work as a maid at the inn, she accepts with alacrity. She and the brave Leander meet. Love blooms at first sight. But Purity's new-found happiness is of short duration; for Mortimer is on her trail and he catches up with her, continuing to press Ids unwanted attentions upon her. If he cannot win her by fair means, be will resort to foul I Shortly after Purity's arrival, a little babe is discovered in a basket out in the barn. Purity pleads with the Logans to allow the baby to remain. Then Mortimer institutes a campaign of villainy against her. In order to get Leander out of the way, Mortimer has him looked in a room with a time bomb. Fortunately Leander escapes and prevents Mortimer from carrying out his evil designs. Frothingham disappears and spreads the report that he has left the country. But he comes back in the last act, heavily disguised. Purity is treated to another course of double-crossing and double-dealing. Her secret is discovered and acts as a boomerang, bringing her great wealth; the final curtain sees her resting her fair head on Leander's broad and manly chest. 20