Marcus High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Marcus, IA)

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X- 49 Senior Class Play X I I I I lllf ll ll I! on X 9 'f V, la no W 9 1 7,- fi'- cg 1 -Trax ny, ? s January Thaw Q1 vii ft- -ak, N O P The Gaze family seek peace in an old farmhouse There, Mother remodels coffee rinders into lamps, while Father tries to write a nbestseller novel in a blitz of interruptions instead of in that country quiet he sought In the blitz, he ignores the arrival of Jonathan and Mathilda, who have the right to live in the Gage home No one had worried about that clause in the deed, since the Rockwoods were supposed to be dead contest for possessfon begins, with neither able to turn the other out Jonathan plans to hold a funeral of an old acquaintance in the house Barbara's boy friend doesn't appear at the right time, and Barbara and the Rockwoods' son go out on an errand of mercy when a blizzard clamps down The Gages and the Rockwoods are isolated The electric lines fail and the oil burner and the range won't work Mother forgot to shop for food anyway' In the freezing house, while the Gages break fast on what s left cornflakes, molasses, and olives! from the rooms of the unmodern their woodburner, and the Gages rally around Father they smell the nockwoods' Father and it even looks Rockwoods' son It looks delightful ending, all is Rockwoods come gusts of warmth from smell of coffee and frying ham The and his cornflakes and olives, until fresh biscuits! Then they desert as if Barbara had eloped with the like complete disaster! But in the hannily and intelligently solved A can lvating comed , with sparkle, flavor, and new ideas CHARA TERS An independent maid Father, who writes for a living, his wife, with a mania for remodeling younger daughters, the oldest dalghter, engaged to George, who has a hard time roposlng Jonathan and Mathilda, a couple of read old settlers, a delightful old geezer, s rural Romeo, a lawyer, and a local policeman The annual went to press before the cast could be selected Presented by permission of the Dramatic Publishing Company, 179 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Ill ,JA iSS R f ' nl 5 L is. Sponsored by Ray Juhl Trucking SPPVICP ii9.El: s Y s I s . 5 .A . i . ' . A .. D - H T KXM 1 k-E 2: 1? E?-.S gm ll-lolflff 'Mx D el Q 1 It . 'N ' 2-4 gg F lg If 0