Okmulgee High School - Torchlight Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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.IS BIG SUCESS Filled with laughs all the way through Brother Goose was a success from the start to finish.B0th performances played to pack ed houses, and the night performance sold two more tickets that were sold to Mid- night last year. But, like any play, it could not have been a success with out the aid and cooperation of a tes-lmif-al staff. Harry Baxted, stage manager, David Frakcs and Murray Garner, stage crew. Patricia Ke- bold and Billie Jean Riley, Properties, and Rae Ann Colehensky and Nadine Rose, book holders, all worked together to make the outside production FUII smooth- ly. Then the ticket takers, Ralph Bcene, Dick Bodenhamer, Lee Manley Brown, Ben Harned, Burton Mann, Don McAdams, OF 1943 CLASS. Kenneth Shouse, and Carol Tarvin, and the ushers, Barbara Burns, Eleanor Jean Clement. Ruth Cross, Mary Frances Dooley Burniece Jantzen, Mary Pitts, Geneva Robinson, and Evelyn Shelton also halped to get the audience in and seated as quickly as possible. The play was directed by Miss Sarah Kate VVood, a senior sponsors. The other lensors are Miss Martha. Dillman, Miss Norma Dunlap, Mr. Henry Foth, Mrs. Myrtle Thonison, and Mr. I.. L. Wright. After the play the entire cast, senior sponsors, and anyone that wished to come were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Wlggs who grave a party in the Parkinson Hote Ballrooni. The money that the play earn- ed bought a school flag and the remaind- er was invested in War Bonds. i Mm Although the scenes pictured here of the annual senior play, Brother Goose may seem rather confusing, you must take into consideration that there are two different casts of characters fhown. Also, as anyone who saw the play can tell you, it really was a wee bit 'confoosing' but certainly 'ammosingf

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SENIOR PLAY BROTHER GO0S.E This may look to all the world like an old fashions-d family portrait to you, and perhas that is what it is supposed to be, but it is really a picture of tht- after- noon cast of Brother Goose. The people are, left to right, Alvin VViggs, Shirley Ann Routt, Ruth Ruzza, Mary Virginia Every child that read nursery rhymes and enjoyed them loved Mother Goose very much, for lf-gt-nd has it that sho is the one who wrote them. Tlut all the citizens of' Okniulgee loved William David- son cv:-n more March 19, because that was tho date when his play, Brother Goose, was presented in thc high school audi- torium. Brother Goose, a comedy in thrcc acts was this year's senior play. It concerned tho life of a slightly cockeycd family, the Adams, Jeff, better know in OI-IS as Alvin Wiggs, was Broth'-r Goose. a, young arch- itect, whose profession was slightly hind- ered by the fact that he had to be house- keeper, seamstrcs, and general cook and bottle washer for his flock, composed of Carol, -VVcs, and Hy. Virginia Brooks and Thelma Kitchen were Carol, the teen agc girl who just loved to cntcr contests. John Hutchinson and Delbert Liles were Wes, always wild about some girl, and Rae Ann Colchensky and Carolyn Gannon both completely stole tho heart of the audience away as Hy, a tomboy who loved to play football with the Palace of Sweet's Saber Tooth Tigers. Life in the Adams family was just one continual uproar. Helen, Ruth Buzza and Nadine Rose, was only one of a long 24 Haley, Rae Ann Colchensky, Billy Jean Riley, Murray Garnorf Virginia Brooks, Joan Ros'-berry, Phyllis Kay Robinson, and Delbt-rt Liles. But, as anyone can tell you that saw the play ,thcy certainly tlidn't act a nice, old fashioned family. line of maids that quit, but when Peggy, played by Reba Vassaur and Shirley Anne Routt, appeared on the scene selling hosi- ery, the audience knew that she Was de- stined to become the Adams permanent housekeeper. However when Lenore, Nu Kvnan :mil Phyllis Kay Robinson a snooty millionairvssi-s, saw Peggy, she doubled her cforts to win Jeff for herself, whether by fair inf-ans or foul. Mrs, 'Frimmr-r, Dorothy Anne Wise- ner and Billy Jean Riley, builder of Wee Blue Inns, wanted to have Jeff build her next Inn for her, but Lenore had other plans, Eve Mason Patsy Sue Rebold and Jean Rosebcrry and her colored maid, Sarah, Mary Virginia Haley arrived to help with n football party at the start of the hilarious second act. whose climax was football scene that still makes peole laugh to think about. When an angry truck dirver, Murray Garner, arrived to tell them that Hy has prevented him from starting work on Lenore's house, Hy left, pushing Lenore into a chair of poison ivy! All ended well, with everyone getting what they wanted, except Lenore, who had poison ivy, and Hy, who didn't get to be captain of her football team, but Hy was just discovered Stuffy as her true man when the curtain closed.

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