Piqua Central High School - Piquonian Yearbook (Piqua, OH)

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,Senior fPlay ONCE IN A PALACE By Marguerite Kreger Phillips Fantastic Comedy in Three Acts Stitch, tailor to the king .................,...,...................... .................... Slash, tailor to the king... Cut, tailor to the king ......... Princess Dear Gne ......... Celly, the scullery ............ Flavia, lady-in-waiting ......... Blanchette, lady-in-waiting .......... Julianne, lady-in waiting.. Zayda, lady-in-waiting ...... King Hazzem ............. The Ragged Tailor ....... Queen Anne .......... Jester ...... ......... First Guard ......... Second Guard ........ Prime Minister ....... First Doctor ........ Second Doctor ....... I .... I ohn Ketchum I james Teegarden I ..Wrn. Patterson 1 George Erhardt I Paul Negley I ..Robert Poe Jean Wilson jane Albright Jane Hamilton .... Marie Hays I Letty Caslani I ...Jessie Hoke Mary Ziegenfelcler ........Betty Yarman I Theresa Bauman I .... Laurine Julian I Mildred Young ........Helen Neal I ..Bill Ratcliff I Ivan Bartrug I .... Dale Carey I Dave Nichols ...Jane Rengel ..Nancy Lane ..........jack Battson ..Fred Houser John Pickering ..Hagel Davis Harold Gates Paul Ringelspaugh ........Victor Shimp Marion Clemons ...Donald Kiefer ....Virgil Klopfer ........Russell Fogt ..Robert Lawhead The Green Page ' 'A' l Melvin Guisinger A Page ,.......................................................... .. .............. Ogden French TIME: The present. PLACE: The great hallway outside the throne room in the castle of King Hazzern. SYNOPSIS ACT l. The great hallway outside the throne room in the castle of King Hazzem, afternoon. ACT H. The same, a morning one week later. ACT Ill. The same, an hour later. Director .................................................................... . ........................... Theodore Gray Costumes .................................................................................. Miss Nixon, Miss Beyerly Property Managers ....,....... Russel Fogt, Leo Wilcox, Jean Statler, Helen Steinhilber Stage Managers..Russel Beaver, Edward Roberts, Elwood Weldy, Thurman McClay THE . . PIQUONIAN

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enior Qperetta BON VOYAGE Music by E. 1. Gatwood Lyrics and Libretto by Helen Stillwell ACT I. On the dock. ACT II. In the modiste shop. ACT III. In the modiste shop. THE CAST Neal Standish-Scion of a Boston Back Bay Family ..,... Larry O'Connel-Neal's Buddy .,.,,,, A..,... . .. Mary Walsh-Neal's Aunt ..,.......,. Priscilla Standish-Neal's Mother ...... Harold Crump ....Bill Roecker ....Robert Purdy William Binford ....I.orene Foster Gladys Thomas I Dixie Gilchrist I ..Rosella Weiss Virginia Roberts Patricia Galloway ................... Marguerite cron . . f..William Burr Andre Maurois-The Artist ......................,.......,................ ..... I Elwood Weldy Madame Pietri -The proprietor of the modiste shop ...... ......... il 1g2iuHXlZ5C2i Vivian-The Girl from England ............,.......................... ...... C harlyne May Margaritta-The Girl from Spain .......... Gretchen-The Girl from Holland ........ Babette-The Girl from France ......,. Dolcia-The Girl from Italy .......... Tony-The Italian Organ-man ........ ........iRuth Luckey ...........Ruth Fisher I Laura Koester I ..Esther Snyder ......Evelyn Pollard David Miller Ed. Huggard The Toreador ............................... ............... F red Meyer The Bull .......,,,... A ........ John Brumbaugh The Bell Boy ...... .7 .......,.. Ernest White The Heralds ......, ..v...,.,.,................................,......... ........ M a dge Harris Martha Newsome Specialty Chorus Number One Mary Boylan, Katherine Buck, Frances Etherington, Elizabeth Guisinger, Elaine Hake, Suzanne Henry, Ruth Meyers, Gretchen Schrnidlapp, Mildred Shoe, Jean Statler, Helen Steinhilber. Specialty Chorus Number Two Esther Browning, Alice Dickson, Lucille Finfrock, Martha Hahn, Florence Kastner, Ethel Longi Ruth Luckey, Lucille Moore, Onda Robinson, Winifred Staley, Vonette Warvel, Evelyn White. Friends of Larry John Attenweiler, Wilfred Beckett, Arnold Bolton, Edgar Burr, Marcellus Caldwell, Paul Cooper, Harvey Craft, Robert DeWeese, Paul Geeting, Eugene Grant, Walter Grosvenor, Fenton Hilde- brand, Herbert Houser, Robert Long, Thurman McClay, Fred Miller, Ralph Morrow, Clarence Reck, Tom Stephenson, Robert Thorna, Ernest White, Herman Wiford, Marjorie Carr, Gertrude Davis, Lorene Foster, Dixie Gilchrist, Florence Guenthner, Elaine Hake, Alice Schmidlapp, Mildred Shoe, Esther Snyder. Mannequins Letizia Caslani, Pauline Gray, Jane Hamilton, Marie Hays, jean Wilson, Mildred Young. General Direction and Music ........................................................,..i,...i.............,..................... Philip Gates ..Theoclore Gray Staging and Costumes .... ..... E -li?i?S31EeI!S3Z ........Emily Miller Dances .,,,.,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, r,............, N elle Fogle ..........Nancy Lane Property Managers ...... ...... .......... I a nc Rengel Mary Ziegenfelder ...Robert Bolton ........Gerald Kiser Stage Managers .... .... N orman McClay ..........Robert Poe ..........Leo Wilcox Seniors in the Orchestra ....... ....... figigcflulggg PIQUQGNIAN

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THE CC75iwenty years of Kljrogress ELL I guess we're ready to shove off, said Dave Nichols as he prepared to climb into his pilot's cockpit of the huge Ford Tri-motor. The plane was in readiness for an around the United States hop and was now being warmed up at the Cincinnati airport. The planeis crew was composed of David Nichols, pilot, Marcellus Caldwell, co-pilot, Bill Binford, radio operator, Harold Gates, navigator, and Ernest White and Ralph Morrow, mechanics. The flight had a double purpose. One was to test the plane's speed as compared with the speed of 1933, this being 1953, and the other purpose was to furnish a heart story for the May Newspaper Syndicate, owned by Charlyne May. Finally everyone was aboard and Binford tested his radio hook-up. George Erhardt, who was to be the second man in the hook-up, reported O. K. from his station in the New York port terminal, and the ship took off, bound for that city. Nice takeoff, Dave, said Bill as the ship boomed into the air and crossed over the hanger, bound for the Great White Way. Marcellus, commonly known as Bump among his air associates, took over the controls while Dave went back to confer with his navigator and get weather reports. The weather reports were all O. K., so the plane was Ugunned' up to 250 without further delay. Having nothing to do at the present but receive weather reports, Bill, Harold, and Ernie began to converse about their flying experiences but soon the talk veered around to their old schoolmates of 1933. I guess that Johnny Ketchum is knocking 'em over as a Hollywood actor, isn't he? remarked Bill. The girls are all ga-ga over him. Yeah, but the world's men go for Fred Houser, champion of the Indianapolis races this year. Boy, he sure burns up the trackf' Say, put in Ernie, speaking of Ketchum as an actor reminds me of jane Hamilton, the second Jean Harlow, and jean Wilson, who is known as Garbois successor. Don't forget Mary Ziegenfelder and Suzanne Henry who aren't doing so poorly in Virginia Robert's new musical review. I hear they are quite a success. Say, whatever happened to Paul Negley? asked Binford. The last I heard of him, he was Ohio State's Hi-Y advisor and getting all the applause. Dave called back to let the breeze shooters know that they were flying over Pennsylvania. Ernie pointed down and said, Somewhere down there is Walter Grosvenor. He's district mine manager, I hear. Yeah, and somewhere down there, we could find Fenton Hildebrand and Bill Roecker who are playing in Dick Hunter's internationally famous dance orchestra with Marguerite Cron as their featured vocalist. It's a wonderful orchestra. I've heard them and they are good, but have you ever danced to America's waltz king, Bob Thoma? He is billed as Wayne King's successor, said Bill. Edgar Burr is stepping out among them with his radio crooning, isn't he? He certainly is, said Binford. Erhardt reports that the weather ahead is fair, he continued. That doesn't make much difference, said Dave, who had come into the cabin proper from- his compartment, as we can see New Yorkls skyline now. This crate is certainly fast. Two hundred and fifty an hour with speed left. Three waves to New York. How's that? Fine. We were just discussing our '33 pals, said Harold. That reminds me, said Dave, I'll have to look up my old pal, Bill Ratcliff, when we get to New York. I guess he and Dale Carey, his partner, have the largest law practice in the cityf' Here we are, remarked Ernie, who had been gazing out of the window on the world's largest city. Soon the big plane floated down to the airport terminal. As the airmen alight- ed, they were greeted by a reception committee headed by Mr. Elwood Weldy, New P1QU'oN1AN