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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WELCOME TO THE OLD TOWN Sol Pepper, a boarder .........,..............,...........,. .............. R ichard Hinton Tetsy Tibbs, clerk at Lovel House .......... ,............ E velyn Vannatter Todie, barber at Lovel House .........................,..................................... Ralph Case .Mr. Nodgett, miser-mayor of Nodgett Corners ......... Joseph Sollars Wayne Nodgett, his son ..... - ......................... - ............,..,................... Joseph Foster Mrs. Jones, water specialist ........... ............. D orothy Sells Con Connover, a traveller ................................ ,. ............ Herman Wright Laura Lovel, own-er of Lovel House .....,,.............. Margaret Millspaugh SYNOPSIS The play is a Denison Royalty Play written by Edwin Scribner. Con Connover, who hastily left Nodgett's Corner because of his implication in a bank theft, returns after several years absence. He finds a wel- come at the old Lovel House, but finds business very dull. Mr. Nodgett is about to foreclose the mortgage on the old hotel and Con recklessly buys it so that Lara Lovel, his childhood sweetheart, who has managed to make a living there, will not be put out in the street. Suggestions for making the Lovel House a paying proposition are offered. Old Sol Pepper suggests the idea of charging people for a drink of their water. If these people would drink some of that water, they would not have so durn many ailments or need so durn many doctors, se says: I expect to live to be a hundred on it. The others laugh at Sol's idea, but one day Providence knocked at their door. Mrs. Jones, a wealthy lady who travels to foreign countries for her health, has an accident and is brought into the Lovel House. Old Sol gives her a drink of the mineral water and she is highly pleased with its taste. She thinks she has discovered their secret of gaining wealth, and offers five thousand dollars to finance the exploitation of the mineral water. This is the beginning of the era of prosperity for the Lovel House. Old Nodgett, Mayor of the Town, learns that Con is to be his rival as a candidate for mayor at the next election. Old Nodgett then threatens to disclose the secret of Con's disappearance which he has kept these many years, unless Con leaves town so that Nodgett can be mayor. Con prepares to leave, but Wayne, the good-for-nothing son of Nodgett finds some papers which discloses the secret of the bank theft. He takes them to Laura who finds out that Jim, her brother, who died over there was the real thief, and Con had taken the blame because of his love for Lara. Tod Whipple, the best barber in Nodgett's Corner, because he is the only one, and Tetsy Tlobs, the gum chewing hotel clerk will furnish the audience plenty of uproarish laughter. Qw iiiifggi