Greenbank High School - Mountain Breeze Yearbook (Greenbank, WV)

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MARY LOUISE WILFONG Boyer, West Virginia Home Economics Club 1944-48 Rooters Club Hobby---Photograph Album “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance ' STANLEY LEROY ROBERSON “Bogey Durbin, West Virginia Glee Club 1944-45 Football 1946-48 Senior Play “Where there’s a will there’s a way, Write injuries in dust; Kindness in marble.” HELEN PEARL MULLENAX “Rickie Arbovale, West Virginia Rooters Club Senior Play Hobby--Reading “Give to life all you have been or could be.” ELOISE MARIE LAMBERT “Red Green bank. West Virginia Glee Club 1944-48 Band 1944-48 Operetta Rooters Club 4-H Club 1945-48 Hobby—Athletics “There may be defects in my character, but I never could hate anyone.” ROBERTA JEANNE SHEETS Greenbank, West Virginia Home Economics Club 1944-48 Parliamentarian; President; National Song Leader and Vice-President 4-H Club 1944-48, Song Leader: Secretary; Treasurer; Junior Leader Band 1944-48, Representative; Vice-President Glee Club 1944-48 Operetta Senior Play Rooters Club Reporter of Freshman Class Salutatorian Hobby---Music and Sewing “Give to the world the best that you have. And the best will come back to you.”

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Characters DON CUTTER, a young playwright ...................... GENE CRIST WING, his Chinese valet ......................... GEORGE CROMER PRISCILLA, who knits ............................ LORENA SHEARS LADY MACBETH, a victim of Shakespeare ...........HELEN MULLENAX JOHN ALDEN, who hunts Indians ................. JUNIOR MAHAFFEY MR. HYDE, a ferocious villain ................ JULIAN McLAUGHLIN DR. BUNN, who is in charge ........................ REON LAMBERT LUCILLE MARCY, a damsel in distress ............. NELLIE SIMMONS MRS. KLUCK, the housekeeper ................... LOUISE MULLENAX GERTRUDE FINCH, Don’s fiancee .................... FREDA REXRODE MRS. T. ASHINGTON FINCH, her mother ....... MARY DARE HEDRICK DEPRESSION, their colored maid .................. JEANNE SHEETS ARTEMUS BURKE, a lawyer ...................... STANLEY ROBERSON DANNY STILETTO, wanted for murder .................. LEON RYDER Property Committee: Betty Ruth Conrad, Louise Shears Stage Technicians: Virgil B. Harris, Jr., Berlin Galford Story of the Play Here is a play in the best tradition of such famous thrillers as “The Bat,” “The Cat and the Canary ' etc. The action of the entire play takes place in “One Mad Night,” and what a crazy night it is! Don Cut- ter. a playwright, accompanied by Wing, his proverb-quoting Chinese valet, goes to the Cutter mansion, a lonely house in the hills, to complete his latest play in peace and quiet. The house has been deserted for years, a series of mysterious murders having given it the reputation of being haunted. Imagine Don’s as- tonishment when he finds the house tenanted by a number of very strange people, including “John Alden,” “Priscilla,” “Mr. Hyde,” and “Lady Macbeth.” They are lunatics, under the care of Dr. Bunn, whose home nearby has burned down. They are really quite harmless, but Don doesn’t know this — and the audience has a riotous time at his discomfiture. Among the inmates is Lucille, a beautiful girl with an amazing story of persecution and intrigue. Like a true Lochinvar, Don is just about to ride to her rescue when his fiancee ana her mother put in an appearance with their maid, Depression — one of the funniest colored charac- ters in years. From this point, everything happens, including talking ghosts, screaming women, disappear- ing guests and, for a climax, the appearance on the scene of an escaped murderer fleeing for his life. Don succeeds in rescuing the lovely Lucille from a sinister fate only after a series of thrillingly funny esca- pades. By the time the final curtain falls, the audience is weak from laughter and ready to admit that “One Mad Night” is the last word in rapid-fire hilarity.