Milton High School - Cadet Yearbook (Milton, IA)

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The Funny Brats Cast of Characters Harrlet Gresham LaVon Mlller Aurora Borealxs Plke Grayce Lunsford Mrs Sylv1a Gresham Kathern Houlhan Dlck Gresham Rex Overstreet Tom Gresham John Holland Lauralee Lynde Jocelyn Wllson Loren Gresham Rlchard Thomas Gwynette Gadwood Nancy Erzmger Aunt Hettle Gzgglnbotham Evelyn Pr1ce Whaley McWhorter Alfred Elder Boogerface Boggs Ronald McCullough Tlme A Saturday afternoon 1n May Place The Gresham home 1n a small midwestern town Dlck and I-Iarrlet h1gh school youngsters are 1nfur1ated because thelr wldowed mother Mrs Sylvxa Gresham has allowed thelr older brother Tom to become the dxctator of the fam1ly They secretly send Tom s plcture to a wealthy wmdow Mrs Gwynette Gadwood whose advertlsement for a husband has appeared ln a matrlmomal paper Dlck and Harr1et hope Mrs Gadwood wlll marry Tom and take h1m away SYIVIB decldes her chzldren need a father Smce Loren Gresham her bachelor brother 1n law 15 too bashful to propose she becomes engaged to the crabbed old wldower Whaley McWhorter who bel1eves ln tralnlng chxldren as he tralns mules Dxck and Harrlet play all manner of uproarlously funny trrcks upon h1m They lead h1m to belleve thelr mother has lntentlonally poxsoned h1m Harrlet annoys hmm wlth her s1ng1ng until he stuffs cotton 1n h1s ears and then later thmks he has become deaf Meantlrne Mrs Gadwood arrlves from the matnmonxal agency 1n search of Tom Dlck and Harrzet try to get r1d of her by telhng her Tom IS engaged to the dumb ma1d Aurora Her boy frlend threatens to murder Tom Dlck and I-larr1et flnally get thelr bashful uncle to pro pose to Sylvia thmkmg he w1ll allow them to do exactly as they please But how Uncle Loren turns the tables on them 15 the surprlse of th1s sxde sphttmg play F E Meloy Dlrector Mary Allce Hulen Stage Manager Donald Grim Marzetta Moffett LeRoy Nelson Tom Channel Ralph Glasgow Bxlly Barnes Ass1stant Stage Managers Ned Cook and Clark Peterson Prompters 25 . . . I I 7 ' 9 I I E . 9 . . . , . ! . , - - 2 7 , - . , . . , . , . . . , D - 1

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Aunt banzantlzy Rules The Roovt JUNIOR CLASS PLAY Characters Aunt Samanthy S1mpkms An old mald Joan Vance Serena Sxmpkms Her older mece Patsy I-larl Soph1e Sxmpkxns Her younger mece Phyllxs Norton Polly Pame Mald at the Sxmpklns Roberta Dorson Annxe Ambrose The vlllage dressmaker Pat Younker Blanche Bowers woman of very few words Charlotte Burchett Lumen Llttlefleld A Farmer ,hmrny W1150n Frank Fan-held Who hkes Sophxe Jxmmy Dorson Lawrence Lovewell A stranger Ellis Emery Andrews Buddy Baskms The grocery boy Jerold Gaffney Tlme The Present Place Home of Samanthy Sxmpkms 1 Szmpkmsvllle Tame of Playmg Two and One quarter hour Story of Play Aunt Samanthy Sxmpkms a man hatmg eccentrxc old mald who owns a chxcken farm frxghtens all the young men away from her charmlng nleces Serena and Sophle who llve w1th her Serena IS gradually becomxng Just lxke her aunt but Sophle rebels and starts somethmg She wr1tes love messages on some of the eggs belng shlpped and sxgns them Mlss Slmpklns Meanwhlle Polly the hxred glrl buys some love powders from a fortune teller to whom she has conhded that Buddy Baskxns the gro cery boy does not return her affectlons She puts the powders m lemonade whxch she intends to offer Buddy but Samanthy and Lucmen Lxttlefxeld partake of the lemonade flrst Then the hllarlty starts for the powders really work You would never know Samanthy Serena too 1mb1bes and IS a changed person The cllmas of the fun IS reached when Samanthy s two man hatmg spmster frxends drmk some of the lemonade They try to take Luclen away from Samanthy In the mldst of thzs hllarxty Lawrence Lovewell who has recewed one of the message bearmg eggs arrwes to claim Samanthy as his soul mate D1rected by Roy M Senor 26 . . . ...... A . . . . .. . Blair Boswell ,.,,, ...,, , ,Who likes Serena .... . ........ Donald White . . I - . , . , . , . D 1 I . ,, . . B . g, . . . ' ! i I I , , . . , . . . , . . . . I . - . , . .