Findlay High School - Trojan Yearbook (Findlay, OH)

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li lil CIE ANU GO LD SENIOR CLASS PLAY The Senior Class of 1923 with the assistance of ther advisors, Mr. Kinley, Miss Littleton, and Miss Bright, the instructor in rlraniatics, chose as their class play The Copperhead. This carried on the custom started some years ago of giving an annual Senior Class play to close the happy High School activities. The Copperhead is a well known drania hy Augustus Thomas who gained his idea from Hon. Frederick Landis' hook, The Glory of His Country. The drama is in two epoehs. The tirst epoch is dnrng the Civil XYar, It takes place in a sniall Illinois village. It deals with the southern synipathizers who have formed the Copperheads, a society to aid the South. Milt Shanks is the leader. His wife and son are very humiliated over this. lt goes on to show the works of this society. The second epoch is forty years later. Milt Shanks is now living with his grand- daughter. His wife and son have died. It is discovered here that Shanks was a northern spy and not a real Copperhead, The caste worked hard and with the instructors endeavored to produce a play of high standard. The caste was as follows: Joey .............................. Grandma Perle-y..,.... Ma Shanks ....,,... Captain Hardy ...... Milt Shanks ....... Mrs. Bates ........ Sue Perley ........ Lem Tollard ...,... Newt Gillespie., Andrews ............,... Sam Carter ....... Madeline King.. Philip Manning M rs. Manning ....,.. Dr. Randall ....... Page Ninety lst Epoch 2nd Epoch Damon Margaret McKay .......Margaret Renninger Malloy ......,.,.Marlowe Line ......Mary Stevenson ........Helen Sehusler ...........Max Hosler ........XVacle Knight ......Richard Oswald ........Frank Gillespie ........,.....Leta Price .................Carle Bacon Alexander Pfieffer MARGARET MQKAY, 25.