Marlinton High School - Marlintonian Yearbook (Marlinton, WV)

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ficMton, PCay - “HOBGOBLIN HOUSE” was presented by the Junior Class on February 17, 1949. Miss Priscilla Carter is peeved because her two nieces have fallen in love with two “silly young nincompoops,” Frank Harlow and Jack Loring. She buys the haunted old Hobgood House in the foot¬ hills of the Ozarks, and here in seclusion she plans to keep the girls for six months on penalty of being disinherited if they see the boys during this time. The house is visited by an escaped lunatic, a murderer, a headless phantom, wailing skulls and a band of desperado crooks. ‘ However, the boys arrive just in time — and Miss Priscilla relents. Here’s a play that will send ice-cold shivers down your spine and make every hair stand on end, but for every thrill there’s a hearty laugh. The cast of characters: r : DARIUS KRUPP—(Caretaker of Hobgoblin House) MISS PRISCILLA CARTER—(Present Owner) . MARIAN CARTER—(Her Niece) . JILL CARTER—(Marian’s Sister) . FRANK HARLOW—(Marian’s Fiance) . JACK LORING—(Jill’s Fiance) . SUSAN PARKINS—(The “Henglish ’ousekeeper) .... HENRY GOOBER—(The Darkey Gardener) . DELILAH MOATS—(The Darkey Cook) . BLUEBEARD BRONSON—(An Escaped Maniac) .... BILL WILKINS—(His Keeper) . THE HEADLESS PHANTOM . HALE ALDERMAN .. ANN YEAGER ... BARBARA BURNS . CAROLYN THOMAS HAROLD GIBSON ....... HERBERT MACE . HELEN SHARP ... EDDIE LIGHTNER BONNIE CARPENTER . DAN MOORE . DALE CURRY . SUE HARPER DIRECTOR: MRS. POLLY REYNOLDS

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Seatar (?C z4A “PCcuf, - “CRACKED NUTTS,” BY JAY TOBIAS Miss Drusilla Nutt, never having had the opportunity of higher education, is determined that her nieces, Peggy and Ginger, shall go to college. They can’t have allowances, go to movies, or have beaux; all they can do is study to make the highest grades in their class. Aunt Drusilla goes away for a rest ■cure, leaving the girls under the care of Gloomy Gussie, a hypochrondriac. The girls must get rid of Gussie in order to turn the mansion into a boarding house. They finally put Gussie to sleep with a hypnotic record, then the record disappears and they can’t awaken her. The girls’ boy friends, Billy and Peter, disguise themselves as a wife and son of their uncle, Prof. Beamish, in order to rescue him from the “peach from Georgia.’’ The girls frighten the fortune-hunting DeWeeses away by queer an¬ tics designed to prove that the whole Nutt family is cracked. These delirious situations are further complicated by a giant octopus which escapes from the nearby aquarium and takes quite a favor to ■Confusion and Delicious, the colored help. Cast of Characters DRUSILLA NUTT—(a self-made woman) -. JUANITA HOWARD MRS. GARFINKLE—(her housekeeper) ..... JOYCE NOTTINGHAM DELICIOUS APPLEBY—(the Negro maid) . EPHIE ADKINS CONFUSION JONES—(the handy man) . JACK VAUGHAN PEGGY NUTT—(Drusilla’s niece) . HATTIE WOODDELL GINGER NUTT—(The other niece) . BETTY CLUTTER PETE BEAMISH—(Peggy’s heart interest) -... DEMPSEY TRAINER BILLY BEAMISH—(Ginger’s ditto) .. JOHN GALFORD MAGNILIS LANGSFORD—(a Georgia peach) . MARGARET IRVINE PROF. BEAMISH—(uncle of Pete and Billy) ... ANDY McLAUGHLIN ADELBERT DeWEESE—(Drusilla’s fiance) ...... JOHNNY ALLEN MRS. DeWAYNE DeWEESE—(Adelbert’s ritzycratic mama) . MARY GRACE MALCOMB

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THanlcKtotUcut - Toil and trouble and patience go into the making of a yearbook, but we shall feel abundantly rewarded, if we can keep fresh in your hearts the mem¬ ories of happy days together. “Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!’’ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF . BUSINESS MANAGER ART EDITOR . . LITERARY EDITOR . PHOTOGRAPH EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR . SPORTS EDITOR . HATTIE WOODDELL . JACK VAUGHAN . MARY ERVIN .. CHRISTINE RIMEL . BOB KELLISON MILDRED WILFONG ..... ROBERT DILLEY — TYPISTS — HALLIE ABDELLA CLARENCE ANDERSON DORIS SPITZER