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The Senior Play The Senior Play, uThe Angell Bratsn, was presented in the Town Hall, Friday, December fifteenth by the class of 1945. The cast of fourteen, under the able direction of Mr. Hatch, had rehearsed incessantly for several weeks and it was with both anxiety and eagerness that they awaited the final night. At long last, the fifteenth arrived. All day the Business and Stage managers tore around checking on business.details and looking up last minute npropsn. , As it had been decided to make some extra profit by selling candy between the acts, several of the girls busied themselves making batches of fudge in the Home Economics Room. As eight o'clock drew near, the Town Hall rapidly filled with people, and the excitement back stage grew just as quickly. Under the skillful fingers of Miss O'Brien, the make-up artist, the cast was transformed into a variety of characters-handsome and homely, amusing and natural. Finally, after a moment of hushed expectancy, the curtain ascended, and the play was on. The story concerned the Angell Family, Cwho were not such angels by nature as by namel and Dr. Angell's matrimonial troubles. The doctor, and absent-minded zoology Professor, who keeps his lizards at his home, has been ordered by his rich, old, bachelor uncle, Azarias Peabody, to Hhitch up with a filly in double harnessn before his fortieth birthday, or lose his inheritance of ninety-thousand dollars plus a rich farm in Iowa. Due to his abysmal absent-mindedness, Dr. Angell finds himself without a wife and only five days to his birthday! His cousin Ruth, who acts as his secretary and house keeper, is in love with him, but he is entirely too pre-occupied with his lizards to know it. As the situation calls for action, the Dr.'s three children, Pat, Billy, and Dodo decide to take matters in their hands and get themselves a step-mother of their own choice. The catch is that each of them has a different woman in mind and they are all determined txat their father shall marry the woman of their choice. Therefore, all three of the woman in question are ' ihvited for the weekend. About this time, Grandma Grimes from Arkansas and the aforementioned Uncle Azarias arrive unexpectedly Afterpa scandalized glimpse of the haughty, and quite nuniqueu Mrs. Van Arlen and her lisping, shorts-wearing son, Orley fPat's choicej Gram and Uncle Az decide that under no conditions should she be allowed to Nmarry upu with Wylie. They cleverly decide to mimic Venetia and Orley, and, in this way, make them so angry that they will leave. While they are ndressingn Cor should I say nundressingub for their parts, the other two women arrive. They are: Miss Winnie Oliphant, a more than plcasingly plump perfume saleswoman, and Miss Twila Twitchell, a spinterish librarian. A ' About the time everybody is getting settled and the women have finished round one of the insults, Gram and Uncle Az make an appearance dressed in their definitely astonishing nsportyn clothes. In imitation of Mrs. Van Arlen, Gram has affected a
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