Gaston High School - Aurora Yearbook (Gaston, IN)

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HFIFTY-FIFTY Presented by the Senior Class, April 12, 1928 JC ' THE CAST Henry Brown, an artist ............. .............................,. ......... Paul Green, an author ...........,.... Patrick O'Malley, a janitor .......... Mrs. Podge, a landlady ..,....,....,., ,.,,, Sophie Bland, a dancer ..,.,,.. May Dexter, an enthusiast Mrs. Hawley, a collector ,,,,,,,..,. Smudge, a valet ,.,...,,.,,,..,,r,,,..,,,,, Cap', a wanderer ...,......,....,,.., Josephine, a seeker ..,.,,... SCENES William Cortwright Robert Needler ... ..,........ Waldo Dickey Ruby Roberts .......Arvella Markins Thelma Reeves ..........Evelyn Vannatter Herman Williams Paul Kelly Ruby Roberts ACT I-The pals' studio in a New York lodging house. ACT II-The same, a week later. ACT III-The pals' bungalow in the Adirondack Mountains, one af- ternoon a month later. SYNOPSIS Paul and Henry are struggling to achieve fame and fortune in litera- ture and art. Utter failure is their's until one of Henry's paintings, ac- cidentally displayed upside down, is enthusiastically purchased by an art collector, and the impressionistic painter becomes the talk of the town. Paul, following the hunch, writes his stories backward, and success follows swifty. But some innocent fibs are told for reasons of n-ecessity, and the pals find themselves headed straight for trouble. Their love affairs go awry, and in the predicaments that follow as a result of their propensity for spinning yarns, they find success an empty thing. Of course it all comes out happily. As has been said before, They all lived happily ever after. - an

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