Montgomery Clinton High School - Microphone Yearbook (Montgomery, PA)

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ff SENIGR CLASS WILL if Continued I, Kathryn Baker, bequeath my sewing ability to my sister Ruth. I, Roberta Wolf, will the Ordnance boys to Rebecca Giltner. I, June McMillen, give my typing ability to Helen Miller. I, Fae McMillen, will my interest in the navy to Hope Staib. I, John Waltman, bequeath my attraction to the women to Jack Thomas. l, Frances Hartzell, leave my numerous boy friends to Patty Ann Burchfield. I, Jane Hall, will my interest in the name Russell to Maxine Cole. I, Carl Hessel, will my slim figure to Louis D'Antonio. I, Reba Reese, bequeath my eagerness for When the Lights Go On Again to Anna Jane Giltner. I, Helen Louise Herman, give my interest in my customers to Martha Ellen Grittner. I, Eugene Beeber, will my bashfulness to William Banghart. I, William Henderson, leave my basketball ability to Elwyn James. I, Slltirley Mincemoyer, give my shrewdness to get to basketball games to Florene ove. I, Elwood Harer, bequeath my coal business to Fred Huff. I, Harold Foust, will my late hours to Robert Miller. I, Dunning Stamets, leave my athletic form to Blair Hanley. I, Ned Pauling, bequeath my behavior in school to Warren Ulrich. I, Byron Kilmer, give my privilege of being late to Piatt Herdwig. I, Lloyd Miller, give my position in the American Store to Albert Morehart. I, Robert Russell, will my pleasure driving to Roland Decker. I, Maxine Eck, have decided to give up my redheads from Montoursville to anyone who wants them. I, Ruby Eck, wish to retain my interest in the navy, but will give three army ad- dresses to any unattached lady who feels the need of a man. Signed on this twenty-first day of May, nineteen hundred, forty-three. Paul Shrey Twenty-seven

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if f wr TIGER HOUSE f if ff CAST Erma Lowrie, June McMilleng Yami, Joseph Mauckg Aunt Sophia, Jane Hall, Mrs. Murdock, Lois Warner, Macintosh, William Henderson, Arthur Hale, Robert Russellg Oswald Kerins, Elwood Harerg Thompson, Robert Shiremang Peggy Van Ess, June Woodlingg The Mystery Woman , Frances Hartzell, CSubstituted by Maxine Eckjg The Tiger Man, ????? COMMITTEES BUSINESS Margery Pauling, Chairman, Helen Louise Herman, Eleanor Bastian COSTUME AND MAKE UP Fae McMi11en. PUBLICITY Shirley Mincemoyer. STAGE AND PROPERTY Ned Pauling, Paul Shrey, Byron Kilmer, Carl Hessel, Dunning Stamets, Harold Opp. USHERS Ruby Eck, Chairman, Dorothy Opp, Eleanor Bastian, Roberta Wolfe, Reba Reese, Zena Widell, Kathryn Baker, Helen Louise Herman. DIRECTORS Geraldine Bennage, G. Marlin Spaid. SYNOPSIS OF PLAY As the play opens, Erma Lowrie, a former shop girl has inherited a supposedly haunted house from her Aunt Sylvia, a spirit medium. When Sylvia traveled through Africa studying the Heathen Cult that she practiced, she stole a jeweled collar from the neck of their god, a tiger. The plot of the story centers around the visits of this tiger to Mystery Manor to recover the necklace. Peggy Van Ess, the pretty girl friend of Erma, Oswald Kerins, a bug catcherug and Arthur Hale, Erma's cousin, arrive just as things begin to happen. Throughout the play, everyone, especially Aunt Sophia, who makes her home with Erma, is led to suspect Yami, a mysterious houseboy, and Mrs. Murdock, a secretive Scotch housekeeper, who always appear unexpectedly and create an air of suspense, even when they are not speaking. To add to the tension, a tiger is reported to have escaped from a circus near-by. The first act is climaxed by the appearance of the Mystery Woman who soon vanishes when a pair of tiger claws, which appear from behind a book case, tighten about her shoulders just as the lights go out. A masked face appears at the window while Erma, and MacIntosh, the new boatman who is really a detective summoned by Erma, are talking. While he tries to find the identity of the masked face, he is drawn into the fireplace by the tiger claws. Later when Arthur, Erma's cousin, and the heroine are examining Aunt Sylvia's picture, they discover a letter addressed to Erma. It tells the location of instructions concern- ing the whereabouts of the stolen necklace. Meanwhile Mac has discovered a secret room behind the fireplaceg and in it he finds the Mystery Woman, who tells him of the great danger to Erma if she does not leave Mystery Manor. Arthur urges Erma to follow the instructions of the letter. This leads to their ex- ploring the secret room together until they find the hiding place of the jewels. After a swift succession of surprising events, Arthur reveals himself as the Tiger Man and admits that he has played on the superstitious of the household in an attempt to frighten all people away from Mystery Manor. He also tells of murdering Aunt Sylvia and of his attempts on the life of the Mystery Woman, who is his! wife. In the end, Arthur and his accomplice, Thompson, are turned over to the police to receive their just punishment. Yami decides not to return the necklace to the Tiger Cult, of which he is the High Priest, but to present it to Erma and Mac as a wedding present. Twenty-nine