Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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ADAM AND EVA Miss Houck had Senior play tryouts the week before spring vacation. The following were chosen for the cast: Mr. King, the father, Harold Dunn; Julie, his oldest daughter, Bertha Erbacker; Clinton DeWitt, the son-in-law, Philip Greene; Eva King, the young daughter, Caroline Henninge, Aunt Abby, Margaret Ward; Uncle Horace, Wayne Herrick; Dr. Delamater, James Fidel; Lord Andrew Gordon, Allan Brotzman,- Adam Smith, Dallas Candy; and Corinthia, the maid, Marie Bagguley. The first scene is in the home of the Kings in New York. Mr. King is seated at the desk and telling part of the family what he thinks of them when Eva comes in and wants to know why her father wrote a note and refused her hand to a man who has never proposed. He tells her that he has been hanging around a month, but Eva says that he shall continue to hang around until he ceases to amuse her even if that means for life. Mr. King breaks the news that he is going to take the whole family to the old King farm in Newark. This makes them all rebel and when he goes out they plan to have the doctor send him away. The doctor tells King he is a very sick man and he falls for it. After he has called the office Uncle Horace comes in and tells him he has fallen for a put up job. Mr. King gets mad and when he is talking with Adam Smith he finally decides to go up the Amazon and leave Mr. Smith in his place as father. The family protests but to no avail. Ten days after Mr. King leaves, his company had a little market flurry and Adam makes out that this flurry has ruined Mr. King. Eva in the meantime has become engaged to Lord Andrew. Just after the news of the ruin has been broken to the family Julie runs in and tells them the jewels are stolen; she does not know about her father's ruin yet. They wake up to the fact that the robbery is pretty serious, because they might have lived on the money that the jewels would have brought. Clinton suggests that they look in the newspapers for want ads. The men found ads that they would be able to qualify for. Adam suggests that the girls go down to the old King farm and raise chickens and bees. They all agree to that. Aunt Abby, decides to take care of a gouty widower with money. The third act takes place in the back yard of the farm. Julie and Corinthia are talking when Clinton arrives dressed in one of the flashy suits which he sells. Uncle Horace has become an insurance agent and tries to sell insurance to everybody, Adam has been busy building chicken coops. Mr. King arrives home and as no one has told him about their moving to the old farm he wonders why, and when he asks for an explanation they tell him about his ruin. After a while he comprehends why Adam made up the story about the ruin. Corinthia has told Andy that Adam and Eva are in love, and Andrew drops back and lets Adam have his place in Eva's affection. Margaret Ward, '35 The (!a ii Id rmi Twenty-five

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THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS Th e (!a ti 1 1 ron The Senior Class of M. M. H. S. presented this play at the High School building on Saturday; January 19. The story centers around the Hellers, a typical middle-class family. There are three children, Louise, Willie, and Annabelle. Mrs. Heller is the type of mother who loves her children dearly, and in trying to do things for them, gets them into trouble. She is determined to get Louise, the older daughter, married. When Louise meets Charles Grant, Mama does her best to throw them together, or as Papa expresses it, push them together ' In trying to make a good impression upon Charles when he calls, Mrs. Heller gets the family into many complications. Willie and Annabelle, with their continual brotherly and sisterly spats, add to the interest of the play. In the conclusion Charles and Louise straighten out matters in their own way without any assistance from the family. Charles' mother arrives and is delighted to accept Louise as a daughter. As the curtain falls, we see a tearful, but happy Mrs. Heller. CAST OF CHARACTERS Joe Heller, the father Edward Gola Emma Heller, the mother -------- Loraine Nash Louise Heller, the daughter - ......-........... Amelia Newby Willie Heller, the brother - - . - Edwin Waterman Annabelle, the baby sister . -.. .... Rachel Krause Charles Grant . - - - — Robert Adams Mrs. Grant, his mother ------- - - Adabelle Smith Herbert, his brother--------- --- ----- Willard Dodge Miss Calahan --------------------------------- Betty Mitchell PRODUCTION STAFF Stage Manager -. Assistant--------- Properties ------ Business Manager Advertising ----- Makeup------------ Director---------- Assistant Ushers ---------- - Walter Bates - Virginia Dawson Marie Bagguley Allan Brotzman --------- Joe Grgat Bertha Erbacher Gladys Seifert - - Shirley Houck - - Jean Bollard Dorothy Schauer Caroline Henninge Mildred Strickler Wayne Herrick Russell Ford Ralph Martin Adabelle Smith, '35 Twenty-four

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DRAMATIC CLUB The Ca ii I (I ron The present Dramatic Club grew out of the Dramatic Group or the Girl Reserves. It was thought there would be people outside the Girl Reserves organization who would be interested in this kind of work, so the present Club was started. At the first meeting cn October 16, work began among the thirty members. With the aid of our advisor, Miss Johnson, we worked for several weeks on exercises of voice control, modulation, memorization, etc. We devoted two weeks to the art of stage make-up. This was enjoyed by everyone although most of them had to suffer from the ordeal of being a clown at least so far as facial appearances were concerned. By the time we began work on plays, several of the members had had to drop out, due to so many other school activities. The first play Latchkeys was given for a Friday morning program and was announced by Dorothy Waterman. The cast, Gordon Martin, Alzora Water- man, Robert Morlan, John Hutchinson, Helen Pitschman, Betty Feenstra, Doris Rhodes and Lillian Chester, repeated this play for the Little Theater Group of Madison. The story of the play was cut considerably for the presentation given at school. The play took place in the living room of the mansion of the Pendle- tons. Mr. Pendleton was a very wealthy business man who was handicapped with a nagging wife. Mrs. Pendleton was a very portly society woman who was desirous of maintaining the social position of her family. The daughters of the household were all mixed up in their love affairs, and finally Mrs. Pendleton had to go to Europe to get away from it all. Harold, the scion of the Pendleton family, is the comic character of the play, and although all the members of the cast are supposed to be very serious in their manner, they offered much enjoyment for the audience. n wfhe.r play Bills with a cast of Marel Walding, John Hutchinson and Robert Morlan, was also given for assembly. This one-act play concerned a newly wedded couple who are trying to keep off the bill collectors, and who mistake a lawyer who has come to give them some money for one of the too familiar bill collectors. The antics the couple go through to realize that the awyer isn t a collector and doesn't want any money, and the time the lawyer has trying to explain (he is afflicted with the stuttering habit) that he doesn t want any money, keep the spectators in an uproar. The Girl Reserves in the Club prepared the play Not a Man in the House with Dorothy Waterman, Doris Rhodes, Lillian Chester, Lois-Jean Mitchell and Hazel Seidel, for the Mother-Daughter Banquet in March. Ihis was the story of a woman who was prejudiced against men. She vowed she would never have any man in her house and went to great lengths to furnish her house so conveniently that there would never be any necessity. The Irish maid sees to it that there are plenty of opportunities but her plans are always thwarted by the man hater. m€ 9Unnt0°ik CfW9e °tf the County Riding and Oratorical Contest held here March 22 In the preliminary local contest our members, Loraine Nash, Rachel Krause, Helen Keener, Robert Morlan and and John Hutchinson took part. The officer of the Club are Rachel Krause, president, Loraine Nash, vice president, and Gordon Martin, secretary-treasurer. The Club intends to present another play sometime in May. Rachel Krause, '35 Twenty-six