Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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(The 3 Holt met r OH, DOCTOR! AN OPERETTA Cast: Dr. Drinkwater, proprietor of Sanitarium ---------- Dr. Slaughter: Dr. Cuttem: 3 Doctors at Sanitarium---------------- Dr. Coffin: Mrs. Crossly: Mrs. Weakly: Patients at Sanitarium---------------- Cynthia: Rainbow—Colored servant at Sanitarium ------------- Bessie, Maid at Sanitarium------------------------- Honor, pretending to be Glory Drinkwater —--------- Madam Chere, Honor’s Mother------------------------ Glory Drinkwater, Dr. Drinkwater’s Granddaughter Pancho, Mexican cowboy ---------------------------- Philip, Young ranch owner-------------------------- Jim ■'--- Old timer, from Philip’s ranch--------------------- Bob, Glory’s fiance :---- Manuel, Mexican rustler---------------------------- John Collard Arnold DeJarnett Henry Hedden Paul Waters Pauline Teckenbrock Billie F. Yost Dorothy Daly Loyd Lambert Bonnie Jean Anderson Wava Lambert Mattie Still Rose Black Dale Baker Escoe Mathis Henry Doyle John Estes LaVere Wiedemann Eldon Parks Dr. Drinkwater, a pompous and egotistical man owning a sanitarium, is expecting his granddaughter, Glory, whom he has never seen. She is coming to spend her last twenty-four hours before her twenty-first birthday with him in order to inherit her grandmother’s money. Glory conceives the idea of sending her friend Honor in her place so she can go to South America to make a talking picture and still get her inheritance. But Bob, Glory’s fiance, decides to spend his vacation at the Sanitarium. Realizing that he will spoil her plans when he sees Honor, she is forced to go there to explain to him. Meanwhile Honor has met Philip, a young ranch owner, and they have fallen in love. A pretentious kidnapping which turns out to be very real, a misdelivered letter, and mistaken identity confuse things, but a few words of explanation smooth away the troubles and every one is happy. Beautiful singing and dancing helped to make this operetta one of the best ever given. 1‘aye 29

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(The 3Uohmct OFFICERS President Rose Black Vice-President LaVere Wiedemann Secy.-Treasurer, Madge Cummins Librarian John Collard Director Miss Cummins Ass’t. Director, Bonnie Anderson QLEE CLU5 First Row Marbeth Heath, Bonnie Jean Anderson, Hazel Alliston, Katherine Baccus, Pauline Crawford, Mary B. Parmley, Pauline Siebold, Edna Foreman, Violet Oliver, Ruth Walsh, Wava Lambert, Rose Black. Second Row Miss Cummins, Vivian Grace, Mary Kotter, Mattie Still, Viola Evans, Pauline Williams, Mary Anderson, Grace Baker, Anna Green, Eldon Parks. Third Row John William Estes, LaVere Wiedemann, Madge Cummins, Anna Louise Teckenbrock, Roberta Dollar, Elizabeth Walters, Pauline Teckenbrock, John Collard. The Glee Club has been very busy this year. They had a food sale and sponsored a moving picture in order to buy new music. Their operetta, “Oh, Doctor!” was a huge success and a surprise party was given for Miss Cummins, the director, by the thirty members of the Glee Club to show their appreciation. The music for the annual Commencement will be furnished by the Glee Club. Paye 28

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(The 3llohmct ENIOR PLAY “(tl)C Tamil? Upstair ” Joe Heller, the father--------------------------------------------------Clyde Hankins Emma Heller, the mother Fern Niekamp Louise Heller, the elder sister Alice Morrow Willie Heller, the brother Jesse Carter Annabelle, the baby sister----------------------------------------------Golda Wallace Charles Grant ----------------------------------------------------------- Sam Gurley Mrs. Grant, his mother -------------------------------------------- Lillian Lukens Herbert, his brother--------------------------------------------------- Loyd Lambert Miss Calahan Peggy Morgan Comedy of American life in three acts Joe Heller is a street-car inspector, earning $42.50 a week. Louise, his eldest daughter, an office worker, now twenty-one, hasn’t managed to land a husband yet. Her mother is very anxious to get her properly married, and father’s ambition is to get Willie to work. Annabelle, the “kid” sister, has one passion, and that is getting out of doing her piano lessons. It is a typical American home we look into; Annabelle practicing, Willie making a telephone date with a girl, Father coming home from work, worn out, Mother bossing, everyone wanting dinner. Louise announces at dinner that a young man is calling, and she would like to have the parlor. Charles Grant comes, and after embarrassed introductions all around he is left with Louise. They are in love, and before the evening is out they are engaged. Mother tells Grant that $100 a week is too little to live on. She tells her neighbors he is a banker (in reality he is making $40 a week.) The game of bluff goes on. Having heard all of this from Miss Calahan, Grant begins to wonder what sort of family he is getting into. There is an unhappy half-hour when the engagement seems to be off, until Grant’s mother appears on the scene. Mrs. Grant is just the bluffer that Mrs. Heiier is, and both see through all the bluffs and discount them. Everything ends happily. Paye 30