Saint Thomas Aquinas High School - Aquinas Yearbook (Florissant, MO)

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Players Prepare For Opening Night Move the stage in here. Move the walls in here. Mave the furniture in here. Move the cafeteria tables in here and turn 'em upside down, long end up. That's right. They'll have to serve as teasers. Yes, bring all that equipment here, right under this gym basketball board. Line it up dead center with the foul shot line. Try not ta get in the way of those basketball players: they need to practice for their first game. Hay, watch out for that balll Bring the sofa here, 'IQ M4 Q. Rex Barbeau helps John Coburn put on his face makeup Malceup's in the locker roam. Watch out you dan't step on the wires, especially the one leading to the mike behind the sofa. Yes, the greasepaint is stacked up in there, an a table next to the lockers, back where number. . .row number eight, l think. Just hang that costume an the shower rods. Mr. Paul is around here someplace ,.... . . Costumes anl Stage readyl Sound readyl Lights readyl Dress rehearsal tonight. First time on the stage. . .Remember you're not in the Student lounge tonight. Vou've gat a stage ta stand an, not flaors and folding chairs. Everybody ready? Begin. Members of the cast assemble back stage. Mr. Paul adiusts ribbon in Mary Sherloclds hair while Dave Laubersheimer supervises. X x r ' 5 ?'Z

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.lim Scheff masters the lights. Lights, Sound, Part of Play That fizz is still in there. Both speakers need working an. Let's get the ladder and try again. The volume's too high. l.et's get the sound board controls set. Where's the phones? Con you make that record intro come in more smoothly? Let's try it again. There's still that lizz. Check the wires again. Volume still too loud? Too soft? l.et's try it again. Again. Again. VVhere's the blue gelatin? These number-ten tin cans need plenty to stretch over the top. Somebody lend me a hand with the ladder. Bill, can you get that spot right in the middle? These house lights don't dim right. Are you sure you got those clamps tightened? Somebody wheel that thing over here. Pye got to go to the top again and check the wires on the house lights. No the big thing. That gym ceiling is a Fur piece up. We'll probably have to rewire them . Q0 ., pw-f r' H fr ' y, L44 L .,,, x or me lg, ' lim K V. ,X ff ' r K. 5' . in foo? Alan Rut and Vernon Buchholz control the sound system at the play

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Gosh, thanksl I Remind me when l get my allowance that I owe it to you. Lonnie ikex Barbeauj thanks Grandaa Uerry lnserral for the dollar. He pushed me, und shoved me, and he 's a big brutal Agnes ilietty Sxtukowskij rages over the treatment she has received. Toorie iMary Sherlackl and Esther iGail Westenhergeri share her anger. . . .so I kicked her down the cellar stairs. And I could hear her spine hit on every step. Tootie's iMery Sherlockj spirit clroops as Katie Uvlury Ann Blethroadj tells the tate of Lady Bobbie, her cat Students Present The time is late spring in the year l904. The place is the home of the Smith family in St. Louis. The story centers around the fact that Mr. Smith decides to move his family to New York. His family is not too happy with the idea. The entire story concerns the methods they use to get him to change his mind. The children of the Smith family pull every prank they can think of, from tricks on Mr. Smith's boss to derailing streetcars. The revolution finally has its effects, and IW. Smith is fired. Affairs really look bod for the Smiths until the truth of the pranks finally comes out and the whole misunderstanding is cleared up. Mr. Smith gets his iob hack, a ralseg and the Smiths stay in St. Louis, see the World's Fair, and have a very happy ending to their story.