Laurel High School - Laurels Yearbook (Laurel, MT)

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Senior Glass Play This year the senior class play was Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, a movie and best-selling novel by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough. The play was put on the evenings of May 3 and 4. Try-outs were held March 15 and 16. Miss Paugh and Miss Avery were the directors. The play was a success with plenty of hearty laughs. Cornelia and Emily tried desperately hard to appear bored and very sophisticated, proved their independecne by sailing to Europe—on their own. There wasn't a dull moment on the ship. The two girls mistook the leader of the ship's band for an admiral, experimented with seasick remedies, and met two handsome young medical students. At the sound of a fog horn, Emily prepared for a ride in a lifeboat, and tried to remember how to swim. When Cornelia and Emily learned the ship was already nearing port, Cornelia felt sick. Cornelia's measles only complicated matters and brought the problem of how to get past the medical examiner. In Paris they were involved with a gas meter that exploded, and met a great French actor. Those were only a few incidents in the play. The members of the cast were as follows: Ted Ronan as the steward; Phyllis Toombs played the part of Mrs. Skinner; Pat Rathbun as Cornelia; Jerry Early portrayed Otis Skinner; Margery Lou Hartley as Emily; Mary Ann de Carlo played the stewardess; Paul Wold, the part of Dick Winters; Jim Kiedrowski as the admiral; Pat Anderson took the part of Harriet St. John; Laura Mae Batt as Winifred Blaugh; John Smith in the role of Leo McEvoy; Jackie Renner as the inspector; Myma Batt as Therese, a French maid; Betty Strand as Madame Elise, and Wayne Willis played the part of the window cleaner. PAGE THIRTY

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Dramatics Best Foot Forward By John Cecil Holm Presented December 17 and 18, 1946. The junior class play, ''Best Foot Forward,” by John Cecil Holm, was presented December 17 and 18, 1946, in the Laurel High School Auditorium and was greeted enthusiastically by the student body. In the cast were Jerry Early, Wayne Willis, Paul Wold, Harold Gratwohl and John Smith as roommates at Winsocki Prep School. Janet Ness, Pat Busby, Bonnie Barr, Jean Frank and Betty Lackman, their girl friends, came to Winsocki to attend the Senior Prom. Difficulties arose when Phyllis Toombs, as Gale Joy, the noted actress, and her manager, Eugene Bice, as Jack Haggerty, appeared on the scene. Gale came to Winsocki to be Jerry Early's date fpr the prom, which he never dreamed would happen when he wrote to her. Harvey Bishop as Dr. Reeber, the principal, and Jim Wilcox as Professor Lloyd, kept things moving by entering at untimely moments. Vernon Allwin played the part of an old grad and Frank Wheeler as the newspaper photographer. Frances Marsh as Miss Smith, the straight-laced chaperon, accompanied the girls to Winsocki. The play was directed by Miss Mildred Poznanovic and Miss Ilene Avery was technical director. PAGE TWENTY-NINE

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junior Glass Play Home Sweet Homicide Home Sweet Homicide, written by Ann Reynolds, was performed by members of the junior class, under the direction of Miss Avery. The cast was supported in its fine work by the aid of various committees—make-up, properties, tickets, programs and ushers. The three acts took place in the patio of the Carstairs home during May. There was a murder and Marion Carstairs (Rosemary Sparlin), mother and mystery story writer, refuses to solve it to gain fame and money so her children, Archie, April, and Dinah (Don Herriott, Janie Lockwood and Blilie Lou Bartley) decide to lead the police lieutenant. Bill Smith (John-y Goodenbour) astray and solve the murder themselves and get the reward for their mother. Dinah decides it would also be a good idea if Bill were to marry her mother. Others in the cast were Polly Walker (Laurel Stenerson), Sergeant O'Hara (Jimmy Wilson), Wallie Sanford (Dick Sparlin), Mr. and Mrs. Cherrington (Donald Bro-haugh and Harriet Decker), Rubert Van Deuson (Don Bradford), Frankie Riley (Nsilon Prill), Paul Gabel, Joyce Bradford, Tom Kilpatrick, Bill Smith, Hul-da Weber, Nancy Purchase, Bill Paranto and Margaret Scheeler played the parts of Pete, Joella, Flashlight, Slukie, Wendy, May, Joe and Betsey. It was given Wednesday afternoon, January 21, and Thursday night, the 22nd. PAGE THIRTY-ONE