Newton High School - Smoke Signals Yearbook (Pleasant Hill, OH)

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you Gan 'f Cake If With you i 3 r ,B l , 1 ., r Q i A x 5 DQ 'SWB Til-H Newton play casts marked another success in good drama with the presentation of You Can't Take It With You by the Seniors, This entertaining comedy is a picture of a family, happy because they live in an atmos- phere both permissive and creative. The scene is set in the family living room, which lives up to the fullest meaning of the term! ! With a grandfather who collects snakes, attends circuses, and commencementsg a father who manufactures fireworks illegally in the basement, a mother who writes plays because a typewriter was delivered by mistake, a sister who wants to be a ballerina, and a brother-in-law who plays the xylophone and runs a printing press in the living room, our young heroine, Alice, has difficulties. For she is tom between her loveable, carefree family and a boyfriend from a rigidly conventional home. The resolution of conflict comes when Grandpa converts the conventional Kirbys to the Sycamores' philosophy of just being happy in their own sort of way. Gerald Schultz, portraying Grandpa, was supported by an excellent cast which included: Bonnie Fouts, Jong Hawn, Betty Berkebile, Bruce Kessler, Charlotte Gallagher, Don Farno, Janet Edwards, Norman Wolfe, Dean Schauer, Harold Manning, Jack Scurlock, Rita Leonard, Terry Snider, Beverly Shuff, Betty Jay, Marion Magee, Max Current, Jim Newman, and Wesley Hiser. Director: Miss Stauffer,

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Our ffmrfs Were young and Gay A large and enthusiastic audience attended the Junior Class play Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, presented March 28, 1957, in the high school gym. In the starring roles were Betty Berkebile and Bonnie F outs, interpreting the characters Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, two teenage girls who declared their independence from parents during a 1920 summer trip to Europe, Their experiences on board ship included meeting two handsome young men, getting involved with a stowaway, fighting seasickness, and disguising a case of measles. Even after their arrival in Paris, Comelia and Emily continued to encounter excitement with fireworks, bedbugs, a window washer, and a mercenary thespian. Such experiences might not seem unusual, but with Cornelia 's consuming passion to be an actress, every incident was played to the fullest of her dramatic imagination, and a highly interesting play was the result. Supporting roles were played by Charlotte Gallagher, George Cain, Beverly Shuff, Jeanette Sander, Carol Elleman, Bruce Kessler, Dorvin Miller, Ronnie Jackson, Harold Manning, Ted Sollmann, Rita Leonard, Jirn Newman, Wesley Hiser, Betty Jay, and Charlotte Hildebrand,

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Sewers af I 958 ,ang wi' Wx Sen1orC1assOff1cers John Hawn Vrce Presrdent Bonn1e Fouts Secretary Rlta Noll Treasure Larry Long Presrdent Monte Uhrrg Reporter Beauuful Dreamers at last year s Junlor Senior Prom Thanks to The Kmghts for then' muslc at the Proml