Jefferson High School - Nautilus Yearbook (Lafayette, IN)

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One sweet chorus, then barrel il! a typical Dixie Band siqnal. Danny Bible and Ierry Goddard have made a discovery: a new way to play the trombone. Right, old chap! That madriqal singing is quite English. Slaves Charles lenninqs and Bill Richardson watch while Mike Unqersma, the genie, commands the magic trumpet to play.

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SAY IT WITH MUSIC Background music was by the left Dance Band. Chief Ingredient: A Magic Trumpet Start with a trumpet that plays by itself: add the assorted talents available in IeH's Music Department: mix well with two directors, Mr. Richard Bowles and Mr. Richard Iaegerg and serve hot to a delighted audience. The name? Hoof Beats of l956! The story goes like this: Mike Sherry played the part of Benny Big- lips, who had trouble with the magic trumpet and decided to sell it. Lucky Neiburger, in the role of Milford, bought the trumpet without any knowledge of its supernatural powers. The first time he blew a note on it, a genie CMike Ungersma in disguisej appeared offering his services. Milford said he would like some real, old- fashioned banjo playing. Although the genie called Milford a cube, he produced a banjo duet with a screech of the trumpet. From this point on, the trumpet headed the most wanted list, and everyone schemed to get possession of the charmed instrument. The trumpet passed quickly from Mi1ford's wife, Dolly, played by Ianice Davis, to two disreputable thugs, portrayed by Dan Doeppers and Bob Schweitzer, to a pair of glamorous models, Carolyn White and Ianice Rose. They were part of a style show featuring clothing students and narrated by Ioyce Craig. The genie cooperated with their requests for all types of music, from a drum ensemble to night club singing. Everything was fine until the second act, when the trumpet's charm went berserk. Mil- ford asked for Dixieland and got smooth music from the Voices of Ieff: the models ordered opera and got a popular duet: the thugs blew the horn and got chaos-all the acts were on stage at once, each doing his own number. Finally Officer O'Leary, alias Cliff Mitchell, stopped the noise, locked up the thugs, and gave Benny his trumpet. The fantasy ended on the happy note of Say It With Music, sung by the entire cast and the A Cappella Choir, and accompanied by the Ieif Dance Band. Finale: Everyone joins in with, The Best Things In Life Are Free.

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A TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD For a gallon of elderberry wine, take one teaspoonful of arsenic, then add a half tea- spoonful of strychnine and then just a pinch of cyanide. Care to try it? This is the formula used by Abby and Martha for their potent brew in Arsenic and Old Lace, the 1956 Senior Play, which was given with a double cast on March 22 and 23. The aunts are really very sweet old ladies, refined and pious. At least that was what Mortimer, their nephew, thought them to be, until he discovered that they had buried in their cellar the bodies of twelve hapless old men. Abby and Martha felt sorry for the lonely, destitute men, so they simply gave them a drink of wine to put them out of their misery. The system worked beautifully until Morti- mer happened to discover one of their men in the window seat. At first he blamed the out- Dicmne Reeves, Miss Randall, the director, Ruth Skadberg, and Sandy VanDame going over problems in directing Arsenic and Old Lace. Senior Play Cast rageous murder upon the insanity of his brother, Teddy, who thought he was Teddy Roosevelt and dug Panama Canals in the base- ment. But the aunts blandly told him of their merciful plot, and Mortimer began to wonder who was craziest, Teddy, his aunts, or himself! The plot thickens when Ionathan, Mortimer's no-good brother, returns home for a surprise visit to his sweet old aunts, bringing with him another body, one of his own victims. After some close calls, both with the police and with Ionathan, Mortimer get his relatives put away -Ionathan in jail, the others in the sanitarium-and plans to live a peaceful life with Elaine, the girl he has long wanted to marry. Miss Ioyce Randall capably directed the play, with the assistance of student directors Dianne Reeves and Sandy Van Dame. Many Thursday night cast, from left to right: Van Leslie, Harold Schult, Ierry Emerson, Vivian Forster, Marilyn Schwab, Larry Koekenberg. Pat McDowell, Iohn Bramble, lim White, lack Cress, Tom August, David Lahr, Dan Doeppers, Iudi Binz.