Northwest High School - Silvertip Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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Q 1:1 is E. a 51.5 it 'it v 11, sit . xiii. ' ' . ga , ini s ,www- aat A mm . X . W-M J 4 3 1 Q f E e x tt ' t. P .-MQ . ' Eg 'ay In 4 .. 3 iw T ii ,. . ..ra,.,.. The play was a one set production, the rologue and the epilogue were played in ont of the main curtain. The set was iought to be one of the most difficult to Jnstruet because of the bricks that had to e drawn free hand on the flats and then ainted to make them look real. The bricks ere 100 feet high by 100 feet wide. The only set back by the members ofthe lay was when last minute cast changes were iade and the new members of the cast had 1 learn their parts in three days. The only mmplaints from the production came from re males who had to wear tights to give the Tect of the Medivial time period. 'Kelli Brown CAST MEMBERS Hank Bennett Marion r,.,.. Mrs. Bennett . King Arthur . Guenever . . . Merlin ...... Sir Sagramor . Clarence .... Elaine ..... Sir Lancelot. . . Queen Morgan Sandy ...r... Radio Voice , , . . . . . . .Rick Brewer . . . .Patricia Duff . . .Debbie Shaffer . . . . . .Chris Knitig Susan VanSteinberg . . . . .jeffEngelken . . ,... Tim McGlasson ......,DaleOrth . . .Michelle Gates . . .Kurt Woodward , . . .Dawn Gorges .......LoraHull . . , .Randy Holland TOP LEFT: As one read or viewed the play. A Connec- ticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. one might invi- sion fighting knights back in the medival times. as Mrs. Bennett 6Debbie Shafferj does here. BOTTOM LEFT: Befuddled from the new devices brought to the land by Hank Bennett. Sir Sagramor fTim McGlassonJ awaits patiently for an answer. CENTER: In a last minute costume check, Mrs. Ben- nett QDebbie Shafferj helps Sandy fLora Hullj with her hat. as Sir Sagramor fTim McGlassonJ and King Arthur CChris Knitigj look on. TOP RIGHT: Using a modern day typewriter, Sandy fLora Hullj types a business letter. Connecticut Yankee 0 91

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'Connecticut Yankee, 90 ' Connecticut Yankee Cart changer creates reibaek On Nov. 18, the Northwest theatrical department presented Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurk Court. The play was written by john G. Fuller in 1941 and took place in Hartford, Conn. Hank Bennett, the Connecticut Yankee, is a 25 year old engineer just out of college and eager ot try his hand with any kind of mechanical devise. Hank was knocked out cold by one of his experiments, and woke up later to rind himself in the court of King Arthur. When he awoke, Hank found that the time period was june 21, 582 A.D. From then on there was a striking contrast between the old ways of the land and the new ways of the 20th Century. The newness of the different things in the. land brought about a funny comedy bi-linel with a little element of truth. Television, radio, aviation, football and even the corne drug store found their way into th kingdom of King Arthur. All this was fro the influence of the enterprising young engineer, Hank Bennett. K

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is F I E E 5. 5 92 ' Dinner Theatre Dinner Theatre Ambience elaeerr, boot 1117112112 Cheering the hero and booing the villian were part of the audiences' reactions to the melodrama Lzly, the Felonk Daughter, which was presented in the Commons as a dinner theatre by the Northwest Thespians. The time period of the melodrama was set in the 1890's in Boston, Massachusetts and centered around a family known as the Fairweathers. Lily, a girl taken in by the family a fe years earlier, and Compton, who is also Fairweather, are about to announce the engagement as the melodrama open However, everything is haulted when Lil discovers that Compton has a bad habit c gambling on horse races. Having lost a tot: of 310000, Compton has a big gamblin debt. Later, an ex-convict, Robin Steel, enter the scene looking for his daughter. Stem gave up his daughter a few years earlic because his wife died while he was i prison, and he had no way of taking care c the daughter. The only lead Steel had i locating his daughter was a contract that ws