Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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Junior Play “Loose Ankles, a farce-comedy in three acts, was presented by the Junior Class on May 10, and was a huge success. The very interesting plot was as follows: Two ladies who are not as young as they once were engage a couple of young fellows who can dance well to take them around town. Living in the cheap flat with these fellows is a third who is also poor but has scruples. He is finally secured as escort for the older woman’s neice, and promptly falls head-over-heels in love with her. It develops that if the niece, Ann, marries before a certain time she will inherit a fortune. Her aunts are planning to marry her to Linton Hawkins, who has a rather unsavory reputation. But the hero. Gill Barry, is the girl’s choice, and his friends back him up: so in the end he gets the girl, and she thereby falls heir to the fortune. THE CAST Ann Harper, Alice Morrow. Aunt Sara, Fern Niekamp. Aunt Katherine, Lillian Lukens. Betty Brent, Mary Harper. Frances, Peggy Morgan. Ethel, Elsie Graman. Jessica, Helen Evers. Agnes, her maid, Golda Wallace. Gil Barry, Vernon Steele. Major, Paul Ragsdale. Harvey, John Collard. S. O. S. Stotes, Lavere Wiedeman. Linton Hawkins, Charles Zettler. Terry, Clyde Hankins. Andy, Sam Gurley. Jasper Houghton, Otis Waters. Page Twenty-three

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Senior Class Play BROKEN DISHES Presented by Senior Class Characters Cyrus Bumpstead, Edward Borman. Jenny Bumpstead, Billie Frances Yost. Myra Bumpstead, Geneva Haneline. Mabel Bumpstead, Helen Harper. Elaine, Marion Phyllis Miller. Bill Clark, Hescal Sleeter. Chester Armstrong, Alvin Oakes Rev. Strong, Gail Roberts. Detective, Waymond Jenkins. Sam Green, Harold Waters. A short synopsis follows: The Bumpsteads were having great trouble both in finance and in their home problems, for Jenny, the mother, just ruled the family. Cyrus, the hen-pecked father, always had to give in to her wishes, for she always reminded him that she wished she had married Chester Armstrong, in her girlhood days. Her continuous talking about his nice ways won Myra and Mabel to her side, but Elaine clung to her father. Hence, Jenny did not approve of Elaine’s sweetheart, Bill Clark, a delivery clerk. But they were secretly married while Jenny was not there for Cyrus had given his approval. In the meantime, a stranger showed up and identified himself as none other than Chester Armstrong. Jenny and her two daughters, Myra and Mabel tried to show all the hospitatilty that they possibly could. Cyrus even agrees to step back and let him have Jenny. But about this time it was proven that he was a crook. Jenny then admits that all she had said about him was false. She realizes that she has treated Cyrus cruelly and she even now approves of Elaine’s marriage, and the curtain goes down with Cyrus boss in his own home and the whole family happy. Page Twentg-two

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The Docational Rome Economics Club President Mary Margaret Fick Vice President Naomi Bremer Secretary Marian Phyllis Miller Treasurer Ina Owens Reporter Mary Frances Goodall Sponsor---------------------Miss Steers Louise Aikens Mildred Mitchel Edna Anderson Eleanor Wade Moseley Hilda Bess Alice Morrow Rose Black Mary H. Nave Dorothy Daly Fern Niekamp Wardena Dunn Roberta Park Helen Gillespie Clyde Russel Dorothy Gurley Grace Trampe Geneva Haneline Wilma Washam Mary Harper Willie Lee Walters Helen James Elizabeth Walters Hazel Kreuger Carolyn Wiseman Margianna Yost The Vocational Home Economics Club of M. C. H. S. was organized to form a connecting link with the home, the community and the home economics department. It has been a functioning organization. Eligibility to membership is based on grades and selection. The varied activities of the club have been many. Among the major ones are; sponsorship of a Christmas party for the first grade girls, furnishing the program for the American Home Department of the Woman’s club and for Girl’s Home Makers Department of the Daughter’s American Revolution, Co-operation with the American Legion in making flags for the Red Cross Drive, Clothing Demonstration for Camp Fire Girls, preparation and serving of the banquet for the Twenty-fourth District meeting of the Illinois Federation of Woman’s Club. Page Twentg-four