Mars Area Junior Senior High School - Planet Yearbook (Mars, PA)

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DEE PLANET Story of the Senior Play Rodney Evans, a young American who has spent most of his life abroad, finds at his mother’s death, that his large inheritance passes to him only on condition of his engagement, by December thirty-first of that year, to Elizabeth Stone, daughter of an old friend of his mother. Puzzled by the terms of the will, naturally averse to society, he hears that the daughter in question is a society girl. He goes directly to America, seeks the father, Chester Stone, frankly states the case and declares that in accordance with his mother’s desire, he will meet the daughter, enter the lists and should there be mutual disapproval as a result of the meeting, forfeit the money. In the meantime, Elizabeth Stone disapproving of the method of her socially ambitious aunt and wholly out of sympathy with a social career, has gained her father‘s reluctant consent to a scheme of her own, namely, that she be allowed to spend a month at the Stone mountain home, under an assumed name. When young Evans, in the interview with Chester Stone, declares his intentions of spending a time in the mountains—incognito—before making his trial with the daughter, Mr. Stone in a flash conceived the plan of suggesting the mountain spot where his own daughter will be, hoping that propinquity and unknown identity will bring about a mutual attachment—for he likes the young man and for reasons of his own desires the marriage. This suggestion 1s accepted and under the name of John Smith, Rodney Evans makes his way to Estill which is the summer home of the Stone family. There, under the name of Barnes, Elizabeth, her sister, Theodora, her father’s younger brother, Lawrence Stone and Rex Raymond, a life-long friend are domiciled. Mr. Stone has already revealed the terms of the will to Elizabeth, has told her of his love for Rodney’s mother and although Elizabeth realizes that her marriage to the son would bring her father happiness, she seeks to forget it all in the free, wholesome life of the mountains. The inevitable happens; Elizabeth and Rodney, the identity of each unknown to the other, meet and love; and their happiness is broken only by the arrival of Alison Barrington, a handsome and intriguing divorcee who has met Rodney in Paris and who has desired to possess her self of his income. Through Mrs. Channing, the worldly aunt, she hears of the will, immediately recognizes Rodney, learns that he has an 25

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® THB ePiAN Bet Senior Class Play The Senior Class presented “When The Clock Strikes Twelve” in . the High School Auditorium, May 17th and 18th. CHARACTERS Attendants at Punch Bowl and Dining Table One of “Those Assisting” Mire Siiffer—A- Guest it Gn. eee: Saree eae eee Bertha Dean i Her Companion—A “Guests... tan a eee eee Laura Kidd if Mrs Pry=—A. Guest 7) -aeea ee ate Annabel Houston — . i Mrs Spite—A“ Guest... 2 ee ee Helen Humes | { Mrs. lackle—A -Guestiee7oe hee eee Elwina Bennett i Hawkins—T he. Butletsi:...cc 22 4 dae} tee deen Earl List i Miss T rump—A. Guestsy.ui ae ca ee Gertrude Black ( Mrs. Channing—With Social Ambition................Myring Proffit Elizabeth Stone--Mrs. Channing’s Debutante Niece. . Esther Marburger Mrs. Alison Warren-Barrington—A Divorcee........ Hazel Dunhaver Mrs. Finis—At the End of The Receiving Line...... Katherine Jones Lila—A Guest, 26) 50.256 0128 ae a a ele 2 ee ee eee | stella—A. Guest i.t.06 F725 Sec, SREee ee Irene Hooks Mrs. iattler-A Guest. c...25-.0 0.9 dee a Lucille Alison Mrs. Rattler--A GueStss 5s sis sis se eee ei ee Jeanette Averill ih Uheodora ‘stone— “Not sOut x34 ek oe eee Helen Roberts a Louise Anthony—A’ Matinee Girly) [iia ee Evelyn Archer Lawrence Stone—Chester Stone’s Younger Brother....Dale Conley Kitty thwihamey—A sMaitds 9... 245 244 2 ac hate eee ene Alice Harbison Chester Stone—A Capitalist:...., .40 5..7 Wilbur Buxton Rex Raymond—A Young Society Man................ Russell Stitzer Rodney Evans—The Victim of the Will.......... Randall Williams tom Courtnéy—aA College Soph)... 5 tee eee Douglas de Coux Pes— A Neeatain Girl. a) .. SAa i ea eee Valley Darling Joyce Covriney—With A Career o ). 2a eee Phyllis Connell David Eliot—A Philosopher.....................Merrell Hutchman pide Outain ‘Iwad «st... 208k. us 1 ee Loyal Kennedy Scene—The City. | 7ime—The Present. : i | Note—On April 2nd. the astounding news reached us that our if coach, Miss Janet Waldorf had met with an accident, breaking a linb, iat | i | which confined her to the hospital. Mr. C. A. Maffeo was chosen as coach in her place. 24

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¢ THE PLANET ¢ assumed name and devines the situation. Subsequently finding that she has no power over him, she resolves to destroy Elizabeth’s happiness; accordingly, she reveals his identity and represents him as a former lover of her own. Elizabeth is persuaded that Rodney, knowing her true name has won her love, only to secure his inheritance and in her erief she seeks some way of saving her pride. Rex Raymond, her friend for years, who has often urged Elizabeth to marry him, insisting that good fellowship is more potent than sentimentality where matrimony is concerned, has made her promise that 1f at any time she changes her mind and sees fit to accept him, she has only to declare herself. Elizabeth feeling that an engagement to Rex is the only solution of the affair makes such an announcement just as Rodney comes back to receive his answer. Complications ensue. Rodney naturally does not under- stand nor will Elizabeth listen to him. Rex, in the meantime has fallen in love wi th Peg, a little mountain girl and owing to nis previous promise to Elizabeth can not release himself, now that she has taken him at his word; and Elizabeth, even after she realizes her mistake, fears to hurt Rex's love for Peg and begs her to make Peg happy. Elizabeth joyfully straightens the tangled threads and summons Rodney to her on the last day of December just as the clock strikes twelve. The attachment of Lawrence for Joyce, brought about by the schemes and mischief of Tom and Theodora, the two who have been assigned to indefinite childhood, forms an amusing by-plot. LUCILLE ALLISON, Alpha Literary. 26