Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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Senior Class Play THE CAST of “THE KANGAROOS” Presented by THE SENIOR CLASS March 31, 1927 Directed by MISS M. PAETZNICK MISS E. WADE TIIE Senior Class of 1927 presented “The Kangaroo”, a comedy of contrast and also a mystery story, as their annual class play. The story begins where Mrs. Chatt, a spiritualist, (Charlotte Grace) prophesies the the coming of a strange young man, a lover for one of the girls, and as she hoped, for her daughter. % —

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quite a high rate of speed. Practise makes perfect. Allan Brannan will probably be a preacher. He received most of his training as “Yell” leader while in high school. Louis Jones’ wonderful voice has been discovered. He will leave soon to study with the great masters. Alas! Cecil Haverkamp is still going to Brookport. We all know that he is perfectly happy. Paul Shelton will l»e in the milk business. He seems to have no rivals. Roy Hogue’s dream will he realized when he is coach of some famous football squad. Henry Morris has become famous for his new invention. “How to catch people who try to enter the theatre without tickets.” Jack Kinnemar has a darling studio on Broadway. He is kept quite busy giving vocal lessons; two of his most promising pupils are Spence Kidd and Henry Wittman. Clarence Golden is the leader of the boy Scouts. We wonder if he will always live up to his “Woman Hatredism.” Paul Evers has finally become a dentist. We always knew that Paul had a pull with the people. William Summers has broken the world’s record at the races. No wonder! He had his special car—some mechanic. Edward Baggett will be happy as soon as he is touring Europe. Ernest Morgan is making loads of money selling real estate in Florida. He owes most of his success to his Economics teacher, Mr. Ballard. Alfred Sperry is destined to be the greatest lawyer of his time. Just the other day I was reading an article about “B. G.” defended Herschel Dever. Herschel was tried for disturbing peace while kicking a football down Broadway. “Flash” must have been in his second childhood. Frances Evers is now head nurse at the Walbright Hospital, which has become quite famous for all the miracles which have been performed by Doctor Walter Williamson. Violet Lassister is teaching school in Spain, but we all hope that she will be back next year to fill a position as Spanish teacher in M. C. H. S. Charlotte Grace will be recognized as Madame Stuts-berry, she probably got her idea from the “Kangaroo”. Virgil Hardin is kept quite busy selling ozone to people who have T. B. Perhaps Physics helped him succeed. Lloyd Ramer has become a well known dancer. He is always teaching someone the secret. Last, hut just as important, James B. Wilson. He has aged quite a hit. but it is all due to the worry of his many lady friends. So you see Jimmy is still the same old shiek. Limited time and space prevents me from mentioning all of the members, and facts in regard to our class ’27. Considering our stern qualities, our success is quite assured, and each one bids to carve for himself a splendid future. And when our history has become a milestone in the history of M. C. H. S. may the future classes follow our example and leave behind as good a record.

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1 here has been a theft of a pair of jade ean ings and a pearl broach belonging to Mrs. Arlington (Virginia McGinnis). Mrs. Arlington promptly places the blame on Stone, the butler (Henry Morris), while Mr. Arlington (Lewis Jones) insists, that Marguerete the maid. (Aileene Montgomery) is the guilty one. There in an areoplane accident in Mr. Arlington’s field and the owners of the areoplane Winnie Sisson, very tall (Burdette Beane) and Ward Sampson, very short (Spence Kidd) are obliged to remain at Mr. Arlington’s home till their areoplane car. be repaired. Winnie falls in love with Nan (Agnes Lampe) very short, and W ard falls in love with Beatrice, very tall, (Stella Cagle). Mr. Arlington decided the}- are detectives and after he looses two thousand dollars, takes them into his confidence and tells them to go to work while he is on his trip to New York. Mrs. Whitehouse (Aretas Evans) and her maid, Gertrude (Evelyn Neff) are on the trail of the thief and decide that these two young men are the guilty ones. They find out several things leading to this conclusion and art-convinced after ard displays a thousand dollar bill in the village. Colonel Dominy (Virgil Hardin) is very much in need of two thousand dollars which he obtains this time and adds more mystery to the story. Ward and Winnie devise a plan by which they think they can capture the thief. They make a bet as to who is the soundest sleeper and each displays a large roll of bills. They agree to leave it lying on the bureau and everyone goes to bed but W innie and Ward who remain up to watch. Mr. Arlington returns from New York and they take him for the thief but the mistake is discovered and he goes on to his room. Then Mrs. Chatt comes in, a sleep walker, with the stolen goods and the mystery is solved. Mrs. Chatt, while walking in her sleep has unconciously taker the jewelry and money and hidden them away. To save her from embarrassment, the boys put the missing things in the toe of a slipper in Mrs. Arlington’s closet and explained to Gertrud'? that Mrs. Arlington had been so anxious about them that she had hidden them and had forgotten where she put them. Gertrude goes to look for them and Winnie and Ward devise a scheme to account for their knowledge of the supposed theft and for their being out of their room. They alarm the household and then when everyone is assembled, half frightened to death, they explain that they heard each other, each thought the other was a burglar and they jumped on each other. Just then Gertrude comes in with the missing jewels and solves the mystery to everyone’s surprise. Mr. Arlington finds out that Winnie is the son of his old friend and a very wealthy young man. Nan flys to Winnie’s arms much to Mrs. Chatt’s dismay and Mrs. Arlington’s disgust and Ward claims Beatrice as the orly one in the world for him. Other characters were Phoebe (Agnes Thane) and Chubb (Paul Evers) the son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arlington. Chubb is very careless and furnished much amusement. The play was ably directed by Miss Paetznick and Miss Wade. - ------------- -----