La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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Teddy and Abby Brewster entertain the Reverend Harper for tea. Abby and Martha Brewster watch intently as they poison their latest victim, Mr. Weatherspoon. Ate nic and Old Jlace” Jonathan Brewster ......................Jay B. Hunt Dr. Einstein ..........................Chuck Asmus Officer O’Hara ........................Burl Shubert Lieutenant Rooney ...............................Don Lambert Mr. Witherspoon ................................Mike Sharplcss Director..........................Miss Vera Kellogg Student Directors ....Julieann Nilson, Connie Shick Mortimer Brewster finds himself all tied up because of Jonathan Brewster, the black sheep” of the family, and Doctor Einstein.

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Four of the characters in Arsenic and Old Lace” listen as Theodore Brewster, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, leads a charge on San Juan Hill. Old maidU 'p.n.aoidte aA. they mi This play was the story of two charming and inno- cent old ladies, Abby and Martha Brewster, played by Sherry Sirois and Judy Hurley, respectively, who fill up their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously acceptable” roomers to whom they have been especially nice. Teddy Brewster, Don deMyer, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, keeps the audience in an uproar. One of the funniest scenes in the play shows Teddy, acting as Teddy Roosevelt, charging up San Juan hill, in reality the hall stairs. The sisters’ long-lost brother Jonathan, Jay B. Hunt, and his side-kick Dr. Einstein, Chuck Asmus, unexpectedly turn up at the smoothly-run Brewster household and quickly upset the daily routine. The love interest is provided by Mortimer Brewster and Elaine Harper, played by Tom Curtis and Carol Porter, respectively. THE CAST: Abby Brewster ................................Sherry Sirois The Rev. Dr. Harper ..........................David Palm Teddy Brewster ..................................Don deMyer Officer Brophy ..........................Dave Reeve Officer Klein ............................Ray Gliva Martha Brewster ...............................Judy Hurley Elaine Harper .........................Carol Porter Mortimer Brewster .......................Tom Curtis Mr. Gibbs ..............................Steve Grove Page eighteen

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Ricardo Fernandez Calderon dc Alvarado, a foreign student from Peru, shows Spike Harrison the fine points of bullfighting as they argue. Joan Cameron, the cause of their argument, and the rest of the high school crowd watch. tf-ollcua the b ieam CjioeA. audience. This three-act comedy begins the night before Joan Cameron’s, played by Judy Valentine, wedding day, when she discovers herself upset about her choice of bridegrooms. The story takes place at the beginning of World War II; therefore both of the young men in her life enter the army. The play flashes back to Joan’s school life plus her love story. She encounters the problems of the typical high school girl in addition to those created by her intense interest in Peru and South America. Ricardo Fernandez Calderon dc Alvardo, played by Burl Shubert, has the problem of the average foreign student’s adjustment to life in the United States. Last-minute doubts arc reflected in Joan Cameron’s face just before her wedding as the bridesmaids look on.