Polk High School - Cub Yearbook (Polk, NE)

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Senior Class Play—'42 Cast Uncle - .■ i . i .The wb'Sint Ailindfed Professor.Freddie Smith Aunt Jessica....Professors Sister-in-law..........Mable Grimes Josephine.......Aunt Jessicas Daughter............Garrah Newton Sharon..........Profc corG. Niece..............1......TRose Shn Joan............Sharon's Sister..............Donna Lee Sundberg Joe Watson......Sharon's Suiter...........................Wayne Llndholm Dave Carter.....Joe's roomate.....................Kenneth Davis Miss Malvina....The family housekeeper..........Loneta Anderson Esmeralda.......Four Times a Widow...........Melba Ann Wllshusen Mr. Butler......Reader of the Will.........................Noel Kealiher Music High School Band Synopsis The action takes place in the Dawkins home, an old Southern Mansion -iCt 1—The present Act 2—Thirty Days later Act 3—Following afternoon—one o'clock Production Staff Miss Lucile Sandfort Rose Marie Nyborg Junior Glasser, Gerald Stevens, Stanley Peterson Doris Wllshusen, Darlene Johnson---- Maxine LaVelle, Julia Ann Smith Norma Newton, Lureta Sterner Goldie Van Ostrand, Rex Hancock Randall Runquist, Bonnie Flick, Gene Glasser Director Ass't Director Stage Managers Properties Tickets Ushers Tickets on Sale Now. Reserve Seats-30 Including Tax Bleachers 10 -20 -30 Including Tax

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Last but not least we arrived at the capitol footsore and weary . Here we were furnished with a guide who showed us all parts of the building. Of course we visited the tower, and took more pictures. Girls, why ,d you scream so in the elevator? There wasn't any mouse? Again we went shopping after which we ate supper. 3y now it was time for a show. Host of us went to see Iceland and others went to see Flying Tigers. You should have seen all the Polk Seniors that chose seats in the balcony. Wonder why? It was too early to go home yet so we headed for York to see the midnight show Voodoo. Wow! was it terrifying. Isaccson's car wa6 late to the show because Gerald and Junior chose what must have been triple feature in Lincoln and one car almost got lost leaving Lincoln but we all got there, eventually. Finally it was tirm . to-drive the res of the way hone, but where were the girls in Lindholm’s car? Did Voodoo get them? How about it, girls? Thursday after a happy but hectic day the Seniors arrived home at—well we aren't telling the time, but land o' goshen, you should have seen them the same morning at about 9 o'clock. Oh well, it only happens once in a lifetime. P.S. The 3enior class now has §1.00 left in the treasury, but it was worth it. When the tardy bell rang there were No-Seniors . At exactly 'one minute after, in a tremendous hurry, in marched a group of 23 students. Seniors?? We hope so, but from the looks you would never have guessed it. Tatter and torns, dirt and grim, sad and smiling—a sight to behold. Why they would even have made the King of Trampville heave a sigh of regret and disappointment at losing his well earned title. Stick candy, gum, crac- ker Jacks served as Interesting and amusing extras against the school rules. Fdt the entire day they refused to study, and.only attended their regular class schedules as matter of routine. At exactly 4 o' clock, they marched out of the halls of learning, paraded the down town section, and then hid in the shelter of their secluded Isle of Tramp- ville, awaiting some future date to return to the halls and classmates of old Polk Hi,

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Senior Class Play— 42. Hie night v;as cold, dreary, stormy. The people anxious, expectant, merry. For the hour- of 8:c-clock was near. Time for the Senior Play, The Absent Minded Professor, Hie lights, are dinned; go out. Silence. Silence. Silence. Soon voices are heard. The curtain is drawn. And the play is on. Yes, the play is onl '.Vealth-riches-home-family, greet us on the opening scene. Soon the professor comes in. In his droll way, he imm- ediately holds the audience spellbound. The sister-in-law and daughter create many laughs as they haughtily defy the other members of the family, who in thier opinion, are considered quite homey. The professor's father has left a will which is soon to be read. The sister in-lav; believes she is the rightful owner of the estate, and tells the other members of the family they will have to move when the time limit on the will is up. In reading the will, the professor must v ed if he is to be elgible for the estate. The manner of getting him a wife has many ups and downs, laughs, and thrills. His neice's decide to pick a wife for him, who is four tines a widow, and wants a fifth husband-- but whose beauty must be Hnade to order before she can successfully qualify. The day the will became legal, the sister-in-law tells the family to move, only to learn the professor has married, the night be- fore, the family housekeeper. Thus she must leave the home, while the otilers remain. The professor was played by Freddie Smith who won the hearts of the audience by his apparent drollness, absence of everyday affairs, and his insistant, but peculiar love for astronomy. To him the world lived and operated on the stars, and all else was secondary. His calculation being always, exact, created many laughs. Hie sister-in-lav and daughter were playes by Mabel Grimes and Garrah ITewton. Hie old saying. Their noses were so high in the air, you couldn't reach then with a ton-foot pole—surely held true in this case. Sc haughty were they, even the audience wondered the height of their aristocracy, and their final day of reckoning. The neices, played by Hose Elm, and Donna Lee Sundburg, were exact oppositces of their haught cousin. Miss Josephine. Sweet, kind, pass- ionate, they wanted riches only for Uncle Barney—tho professor to help him carry or his experiments--whom they believed some dya would be given worldly honors or his astroraicul calculations.