George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Androcles and the Lion Cast Lion . Eugene Greven Androcles. Douglas Guy Megaera . Janet Snider Centurian. John Jacewicz Captian. James Shields Lavinia . Marilee Ogren Lentalus . Eric Tangalos Mentalus . Thomas O’Drobinak Spintho . Mark Janas Ferrovius . Kenneth Greenberg Keeper . Jeff Pavlovich Begger and Editor. Don Uhrin Caller. Thomas Miklusak Caesar. Dean Flaris Director. Miss Carol Kramsky Lentalus, cowering from the rage of the hot- tempered Ferrovius, falls to the ground. Striped uniforms and army helmets give Roman persecutors a link to the present. 17

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Caesar ' s Rome lives again in 1968 on Clark’s stage With exuberant voices, two Roman sol¬ diers praise their beloved country. “Can a determined group of non¬ conformists rebel against the estab¬ lishment?” This question was exam¬ ined in the production of Clark High’s annual all-school play, An¬ drades and the Lion, under the di¬ rection of Miss Carol Kramsky. By decree of the pagan Caesar, all the Christians in Rome were to be thrown to the lion for their re¬ ligious beliefs. Androcles, a Chris¬ tian, had already met the lion in the woods where he removed a thorn from its paw. Upon seeing Androcles, the lion remembered the favor and spared the lives of the Christians. They gain¬ ed the sympathy of the hardened Caesar and realized a new religious freedom all because of Androcles’ love for animals. With a combination of psychedelic costumes and protest songs, the fa¬ miliar play by George Bernard Shaw was transformed into a modern hippy happening. Lavinia prays that the lives of her im¬ prisoned companions be spared. Disregarding the threats of the Centurian, Christian women gossip among themselves.

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Plans are made for discreet burial of a body in the cellar by Abby and Martha Brewster and their brother, Teddy. Juniors portray proficient poisoners Arsenic and Old Lace, the first play effort of Mr. Richard Capio, brought comedy to the Clark stage in this year’s Junior Class play. Act one introduced Abigail and Martha Brewster, two sweet, old spin¬ sters, and their benignly insane neph¬ ew Teddy, who believed he was Theodore Roosevelt. Quite by acci¬ dent, another nephew, Mortimer, dis¬ covered a body which Abby and Mar¬ tha, out of the charity of their hearts, had poisoned. The arrival of the black sheep of the family, Jonathan, and his partner in crime, Dr. Herman Ein¬ stein, complicated affairs. Act two saw the Brewster home as a hideout and graveyard, while Elaine Harper, Mortimers fiancee, suffered through the comical confusion. In the last scene, Jonathan and Dr. Einstein were finally apprehended and Abby, Martha, and Teddy all made a new home at Happy Dale Sanitarium. Old family differences result in a rather tight situation for Mortimer as his brother Jonathan and Dr. Einstein prepare him for further abuse.