Polk High School - Cub Yearbook (Polk, NE)

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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.

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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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Miss l'elvina--played by Loneta Andersen, vms the fanily housekeeper She was always ready to serve all, but was loyal in her service to the family, caring for then as only one who loves another could do. Her nannor and courtesy werc especially that of a matrohly woman, who tries to he mother to all. Her pleading for a kiss for the Eride von for her a place in the hearts of the audience as the one and or.l wife for the professor, Ihc lawyer was played by Noel Kealiher. Mis duty of carrying out the las --much to Aunt Jessicas disgust, was well given. His command- ing her to read the will for her own fortune, and not that of Uncle rarney--was one of the highlights of his brief apparance in the play. Esmeralda, friend of the family--was played by Melba Ann Wilshuacn. A famed cook, a widow, and looking for a filth husband, added much merriment an' lau htcr. Hre part was well played and while wo listen- ed attentively to her obituary concerning the four husbands-- the climax of her appearance was her proposal to Uncle Barney. Beautv operators hekped them remodel Esmeralda into a thing of beauty -- so poor Uncle Barney could acquire the familyaestate. lire action of the play moved continually, and the scenes and acts disappeared quickly. All too soon the lights went on and the curtain was drawn on another best Senior Play in Polk School history.