Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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F . Border Buckaroos On nRodeo Ranchn near the Mexican border, Rose Ed- wards CDolores Skeltonb, owner and manager, has in her employ the cowhand, Sputters iPhilip Johnsonjg her fiery little Mexican girl helper, Pepita CDolores Hayesig a slangy waitress, Toots Carr CShirley Jacobsenig an Irish cook, Maggie Murphy CNorma Fritslg a singing cowboy CBlair ThO?f1bl00m53 a singing cowgirl CBette Schwennekerl. Other cowooys employed on the ranch are: Lyle Warren, Franklin BBCRHBD, Robert Eckelberry, Darrell Griffin, Duane Lund, Roland Nose, Edward Sullivan, Richard Ayers, Gordon Wilson, and Archie Baff. Pepita and Toots are competing for the love of the stuttering Sputters when a young and giddy grass-widow, Mrs. O'Toole Van Graff CVary Stearnsl, arrives at the ranch in search of a new heart interest, thereby complicating the quest of both Pepita and Toots for the love of Sputters. Her daughter, Vazie CJoyce Tylerb, who has run away from Boarding School in search of her mother, picks up a ride with Bess CVildred Pearsallb. Bess hopes to find employment at the Rodeo Ranch where she can work under cover as an F.B.l. agent with her husband, Jim Lynn CLarry Atkinson! who had secured lodging there in order to further his secret task of Nazi spy hunting. -Jim, who tries to keep his identity a secret, is accused by Maggie CNorma Frits, comely cook on the ranch, of being a Nazi spy and his very violent reaction to this accusation Che faintsb further con- firms her suspicions. Yrs. E. Bell CPat Waltherb, a young woman disguised as a feeble old lady and accompanied by two irls - one disguised as her granddaughter, Elsie Bell ?Frances Gilbert? and the other as her nurse, Miss Lay CJao- queline Kerr! - also secure lodging at the Ranch, Secretly, at night, Urs. Bell and Miss Day hide a rocket in an old well to use later to signal German U-Boats operating off the coast that it is safe to store food and medical supplies at the Ranch, Sputters, not knowing of the presence of the rocket, lights a match, when at Jim 's request, he goes down into the well in search of a letter from the F,B.I. which Jim had hidden there. The match accidently sets off the rocket and the explosion blows Sputters out of the well, add ing a good measure of humor to the play. Feeling that Jim suspects her and that the F.B.I. is probably too close for comfort, Nrs, Bell devises a scheme for Miss Day to dress as a Mexican wash-woman - using clothes she has secreted in her auto - and call at the ranch with a bundle, supposedly a washing, but in reality other clothes with which Mrs. Bell can also effect a disguise. Maggie overhears Mrs. Bell and Miss Day making plans for a get-away under this disguise and informs Jim. Jim devises a scheme to trap Hrs. Bell. He in duces Sputters to take on the disguise of the wash-woman who is to bring the bundle to Hrs. Bell. B

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9 When the wash-woman's presence is announced and Mrs. B611 is summoned to meet her, she realizes she has been tricked and tries to make her escape, Jim thwarts her plans, how- ever, having previously informed the F.B.I. Of the Presence of the Nazi spies at Rodeo Ranch. Feigning illness, hrs: Bell asks Rose to bring her some water which she throws into the eyes of Jim, temporarily blinding him, and in the con- fusion tries to make her escape. The F.B.I. however, are by that time on hand and all three are captured. The gen- eral confusion which ensues calls onto the stage all of the twenty-six characters in the cast, bringing to a close an evening of most enjoyable entertainment. .