Marceline High School - Marcello Yearbook (Marceline, MO)

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Deborah De Royster . Tommy Tucker ....,..,...., Esther ............,,..,,.....,.......... Mahjah the Mystic .... Dick O'Donnell .,..,,..A. Great Caesar's Ghost Junior Play The junior class play, Great Caesar's Ghost, was successfully presented Decem- ber 2, 1949, by this year's junior class in ac- cordance with the tradition of the junior class annually presenting a play, The story of the play was strange but amusingly dif- ferent. When Phineas Farthingale comes to visit his niece, Helen Maxwell, he brings with him the fun-loving, temperamental pro- tective ghost of an Inca chief whom Phineas once befriended on a trip to South America. The ghost was never seen, but what he did in his humorous ways made him one of the most real characters of the play. Helen was hav- ing trouble convincing her mother that Tom- my Tucker was the one for her. So when Phineas, Aunt Polly tHelen's go-getter aunt? Ugg gumloz 675114 'flfwffiam Qiigaz Mrs. Penelope Maxwell .........,... Mrs. Phoebe De Royster ..,.,,,,., ..... Phineas Farthingale ........... ,,... Helen Maxwell ..........,... Aunt Polly Maxwell ........... Johnson .......i.....,.................... Hattie ...............,.,...........,..........,.,. -presented- A z ' Z, 2 1 QU CIQSCIT' S C. OS n Q Bonnie Blew Paddy King Sharon Boudreaux Don Still Bonnie Staats Ronnie Wiggins Helen Lewis Joe Sportsman Carol Shroyer Gerald Stanley Vernon Bowman Ruby Green Jerry Fox Byron Boudreaux and the Ghost all start to help her, it's hard to imagine just how much fun developed. Mrs. Maxwell and her scatter-brained friend, Phoebe De Royster, were the victims of this hilarious merry-making. Before the final curtain there is trouble also for Dick, a neighbor boy, Hattie, the cook, and Deborah DeRoyster, who has until this time been under her mother's domination. To add to the comedy, Esther, the cute little maid, was hypnotized by Mahjah, the mysterious mystic. The play Great Caesar's Ghost was one of the funniest, most unnusual farces ever presented at Marceline High School, due to the able direction of Mrs. Coral Payden and Mr. W. F. Hayden.

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Tzger Tales Staff Editor Sondra Cavanah Ass1gnment Edxtor Carol Shroyer Busmess Managers Vernon Bowman Ruby Green Feature Edxtors Mary Lou Axcell Wllma Klein Sports Edxtors James Metzger Roland Lohmar ACt1Vlty Edltors Marilyn Evans Patty Lew1s C1rculat1on Managers Neva Hems Nancy Walsworth Estella McAfee Ava Stanley Humor Edxtors Lols Wolfe Paddy Klng Art Edltors Wxlla Jo Hopper Hazel Zurcher Mlmeographers Robert Stephenson Jerry Burgener Norr1s Preston Typlsts Mary Lou Axcell Nlna Snowden Beverly Brxggs LOIS Wolfe Sondra Cavanah Marllyn Evans Elleen Wh1te Neva Hems Reporters Nlna Snowden John Bowman Carolyn Smxth Olxve Fnsher Jane Axcell Sondra Walsworth Bonnle Blew Janey Stanley Ruth Yocom Roger Parkev Marg'1retBurgener Patsv Henrv Bonme Fox Dolores Gomez Beverly Brlggs Jo Ann Stanley Reta Asher Mary Slaughter Hazel Fox Lnerary Adv1sor Carol Pawden Productlon Adusor W F Hayden 94 c s ., ,, , .. .,.. .,,,...., . .. ., , , v 3 ,. . ...,,,.,........., , , , v r ,, v 9 , ..., , , , ., , , , y v v y x 1 , v 1 . . . I u v V v v v ' v' v

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and Mitzi jobs as actresses. They even do a gifs Alsnioz Claus -presented- foie QEZA R, -by- Gafssn Judy Foster Melvin Foster Dora Foster .,ss.s Randolph Foster ......., Hannah .,... s,ss . Barbara Winsocket Oogie Pringle .. ..s.. .. Mitzi Hoffman Mr. Martindale .. . Mrs. Hotchkiss .,,.., . Eloise Hotchkiss .,.,..., Mrs. Shlutzhammer CAST Rexford Meredith O'Conner ,t.,....... Susie ............, ,...........,,........... i.4.....,..,.... ,......... Announcer ,.,,,i,,i, Mary Lou Axcell James Metzger Wilma Klein Richard Jones .. ..............ii Lois Wolfe Sondra Cavanah Dwight Richardson Eileen White Charles Fisher . ,,.... Beverly Briggs Lois Kincaid .. ...... Peggy Helton Jerry Gooch Ruth Edgar Lee Downey Senior Play Judy is determined to beat the slacks off Tootsie Whiteman by soliciting contributions to the Community Relief Fund-the winner to be Queen and lead the grand march at the school dance. Soliciting is too slow, however, and she enters a whole raft of contests, as a means of raising some quick money-using her parents' names. The results are disas- trous. Judy's father wins honorable mention in a nation-wide contest for the most kiss- able lips. But Judy is not one to give up eas- ily. She tries her hand at writing and con- cocts a true confession story entitled I Am a Bigamistf' Unfortunately, the true con- fession script gets mixed up with Mrs. Fos- ter's speech to the P. T. A., and when she is unable to give the speech herself, it is read for her. Judy, meanwhile, has been trying to interest a theatrical producer in giving her Q?f'Sl.lfKiT:7 7. 00 -'Vs 'ix I' N scene from the high school spring play for the astonished producer. In the midst of their act, Mrs. Schlutzhammer sweeps in, waving the confession manuscript and de- manding that Mrs. Foster resign from the P. T. A. They'll have no bigamist in their or- ganization! On top of this, Oogie barges in and tells Judy he is tired waiting for her to make up her mind. Oogie accepted Tootsie Whiteman's invitation to the dance. Judy practically dissolves in tears. Life has reached tragic proportions for Judy-but before the evening is over she almost makes a new conquest, is mixed up in a near-elope- ment-and, finally, in a last-minute mad rush, goes to the dance with Oogie--and, believe it or not, she is crowned Queen, too, in the place of Tootsie! L