Mount Pleasant High School - Derrick Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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,L 'W - - , ' . S Kempy J' C. and Elliott Nugent's comedy, Kempy, was presented by the Class of '26 on ' March 23rd and 24th. The first act took place in the old-fashioned living room in Dad Bence's home in a small New Jersey town about sixty miles from New York City. It was on a spring afternoon. Katherine Bence had just returned from New York where she had been studying for the stage. Katherine had ordered some clothes which amounted to eleven hundred dollars. This made her father very angry. The plumber came to repair the water pipe, as Duke Merrill, whom Kate had re- fused to marry two years previously, made an unexpected visit to the Bence home. Dad Bence went to greet him, and left Ruth to show him the way to the kitchen. Ruth learned that the plumber was Kempy James, an architect. She also learned that he had received an inspiration from Katherine's book for building a church. She showed him the way to the kitchen to repair the pipe, when she saw Duke coming. Duke received a cut on his wrist, from an accident, and was given first aid. Katherine and Duke had a little quarrel and he left, but intended to return at ten. Ruth brought Kempy in and introduced him to Katherine and left. Kempy told her he had always said he was determined to seek the author and marry her. Katherine pro- posed to him, and they ran away at once and were married. The scene of the second act was the same as the first. It took place at nine o'clock that evening. Katherine telephoned back home and told her parents that she was a married woman and wanted her father to treat her as such. Believing that her husband was Duke, they began preparing for his coming. Jane Wade, her married sister, went -over to her home after some pillow cases for the spare bed. Soon Katherine and her husband, Kempy James, arrived. When her father saw that it was not Duke, he became very angry, and started ordering her to her room and Kempy to leave the house. Soon Dad and Ma Bence and Katherine went to their rooms and Ruth persuaded Kempy to stay. She let him go after his things, because he promised to come back. Duke was at the Bence's home when he returned. After a long talk Kempy traded his church plans for the house, which Duke had bought, and he be- came boss of the home. The scene for the third act was the same as the first. It took place at midnight. Duke learned that this unhappy marriage could be annulled, if both parties agreed to it, because Kempy was not of age. This left Duke free to marry Katherine and Kempy to marry Ruth. The play was directed by Miss Marjorie Rank. Marshall Smith was business manager, Leonard Pierson, stage managerg Eileen Waterman, advertising manager. The school and the public appreciate the efforts set forward in making the play a suc- cessful one. -Winifred Thomas. Plme Eikhti-two