Madrid High School - Pirate Yearbook (Madrid, NE)

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Fred Smithie Fannie Smithie Lucy Smithie Barbara Hanson Harld Ainsworth Jack Bird ' Mrs. George Wonder Mr. George Wonder Hank Webster Evans JUNIOR PLAY a husband a husband's boss their off-spring a friend a week-end guest a visitor a social light a social tail-light limb of the law maid Harold Vonderfecht Jean Ann Houtz Audrey Lovenbur g Delores Wiebe Kenneth Kornelson Charles Buchanan Betty Bullock Bob Tjaden Bernard Lee Ardis Carothers Mrs. Fred Smithie, who has social ambitions, invites Harold Ainsworth, a famous interior decorator, for a week-end under the the impression that he is an old admirer of hers from the ole home town. Hoping for a quiet time, he accepts and for a time tries to carry out the deception. Then Fred Smithie, the husband with many ail- ments, decides to liven up the party by having Harold make love to the various members of the household, playing up his passion for checker games as a reweard. All goes well until Harold actually falls for Barbara Hanson, an attractive grass widow, who is one of the guests. Complications begin and further involved by the arrival of Luch Srnithie's boy-friend, who wishes to elope with her. The'evening's activities are helped along by Mrs. George Wonder and her social tail-light of a hus- band, who never gets a chance to say a single word as long as she is there to say it for him. He does crash through with the key-:note comment on the whole proceeding, but not until Mrs. Smithie is driven to fainting hysterics. Lucy is believed kidnapped, her boy-friend nearly thrown into jail as a notorious criminal, Harold has his face slapped, Fred shoots himself with a shot gun, and general confusion reigns. The entire insane jumble made a hilarious evenings entertainment for the audience and a panic of laughs at the expense of the Junior Class. -ll-

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DRAMAT ICS Drarnatics was sponsored by Miss Hawthorne and Mrs. Houtz, Two one-act plays were given at the S. P. V. A. con- test at Oshkosh, December 12, 1947. The members in The Cat's Whiskers were: Myrtle Stubblefield, Wendell Corne- lius, Lynelle Adams, Arlyce Penner, Charles Buchanan, Beverly Stransky, Donald Mickels, Keith Stevens, and Claire Friesen. The members of Drums in the Night were: Donna Shirley, Barbara Allen, Clifton Eastin, Danny Spelts, Jeanne Hoover, Mary Lou Spelts, and Thelrna Erlewine. This play received an excellent rating. The hurnerous reading, Let Brotherly Love Continue, by Patty Carthers received a superior rati'-5 at the S. P, V. A contest. Ma's Monday Morning by Jackie Wiebe received an excellent rating.