Gaston High School - Aurora Yearbook (Gaston, IN)

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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

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THE WINDING ROAD Presented by the Junior Class, April 3, 1928 CAST Camilla Rae, orphan who wants a mother ,,.......... .......l.. M argaret Millspaugh Billie Rae, her brother ..........,,......,..............,.,...,..................,.......... .,., ..........i....,.......,..i.,. J o e Sollars Pansy Black, an ebony treasure .,...,................,A..,.............,.,..........o.,..,. Louise Richardson Mrs. Lily Mason CMotherJ a good imitation of the real thing,,,Helen Parker Dick Mason, alias Daddy Johnny Harrison ..........,............,.,..,..o...,....,,........,...... Sam Sells Sheriff Theorosia Fecked, the law in petticoats .....,,.....i.................i.. Dorothy Sells Skidwell Fecker QSkidJ, the sheriff's husband .....,... . .............. Richard Hinton Kay Elliston, with a problem and a secret .....,......,..... ............. E velyn Vannatter Ralph Gladden, in love with Kay .....................,.............,. .,,.,.,,r,,s,.si....,Ysr. R alph Case Jim Smith, an ungrateful UQ son l,.l,.,.l,,. .....,....,, H errnan Wright SYNOPSIS The thread of the play is woven around two people who are considered the most honorable citizens of the little village. In reality, however, they are crooks lying low in the town before the great haul they intend to make in Philadelphia on New Year's Eve. Daddy Johnny, alias Smooth Dick Mason, wanders into town one day, and becomes a friend to everyone. He gets his wife, Ma Mason, to answer an add of Billie and Camilla Rae's rich people who have advertised in the papers for a mother. One day Kay Elliston, in reality a daughter of the Ma.sons, arrives to spend Christmas with Camilla. She has not seen her parents for some time, as she had chosen to lead a straight life. She pleads with them to give up being crooks, but they refuse. Then, a great fire bursts forth, Daddy Johnny is severely burned in his heroic effort to save some child- ren and he is compelled to spend New Year's in a hospital, when he had planned to be in Philadelphia making his haul, ar es