Scioto Township High School - Sciotonian Yearbook (Commercial Point, OH)

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY OF l9A6 NMa Simpkins of Simpkinsvillen CAST Ma Simpkins of Simpkinsville ----- Norma Graham a lovable character Harlan Woodbridge ----w- -- ---------- Ned Wilson the town's leading jeweler Babbie Woodbridge ----------------- Nancy Green his young and rattlebrained daughter Cynthia Woodbridgeu --------------- Pearl Roese another daughter Sunny Winton- ---------- 4 ------ Etta Jo Maynard Harland's timid young niece Elmer Northcote ------------------ Bill Dechert who gets into a peck of trouble Oren Brennan ------ -1 ---------- Donald Thrasher who wants to marry Cynthia Mrs. Thyra Blessing ----------------- Dale Boyd a society matron Cissie Brent --------- - ----------- Violet Elson who seems to Know everything Donna Arnold -------------------- '--Mary Hoover of the movies Spider Mulligan ---------- + ------- Bill Nichols a desperate character Aggie Mulligan -------------- +---Jane Reynolds his wife Chet Darnell --------------------- Alva Carfrey who is on Ma Simpkin'S trail

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY OF 1946 'Ma Simpkins of Simpkinsvillen The setting of the playis around the Wood- bridge famllyg said family consisting of Har- lan Woodbridge and his two daughters, Babble and Cynthia. They have been without a house- keeper for a few weeks and are hoping to get a satisfactory one soon. The two girls are greatly concerned about Father Woodbridge be- cause he has been acting so peculiarly. He is brusoue and cranky and entirely unlike his usual self. One evening when Harlan is unus- ually irrltable, Elmer Northcoteand Oren Bren- nan come to the Woodbridge home to take the girls out. Elmer is very much in love with Babble and Oren is equally anxious to marry Cythia. When Elmer tells his young companions that he is going to ask Harlan Woodbridge for Bab- b1e's hand in marriage on that very evening, they all try to discourage him, bu Elmer s determined. He goes into Mr. Woodbr1dge's study, but is only there for a few minutes. Elmer comes flying out with Mr. Woodbridge close on his heels and Harlan makes it plain that he refuses to give his consent and tells him to leave forever. I t b . B bbi n a rn 1 ant1?-e?r91Sf1eOE1r?1e?-er?1gke':3,1 prgpargtif-mg tithe? Woodbridge announces he has engaged a house- keeperfrom a distant city. When Elmer appears, Mr. Woodbridge mistakes him for'the housekeep- er, one Ma Simpkins of Simpkinsville, further astonishes them by announcing his proposal to her by mail. The girls have hardly recoversd from the shock when Ma Slmpkins arrives. n the last act Ma Slmpklns is forced.u:don male attlre and Elmer is seen skipping in onedodr and out the other, hiding amd making himself and everybody else miserable. After several complications everything ends well.

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ar-Hr l, T -.M-.-,.......--..........v, W. l,.-..-,.. ,,,. , JUNIOR CLASS PLAY OF 1945 UL1fe Begins at Sixteenu The central characters of the play are Paul and Frannie Hollis, sixteen-year old twins. Paul is an imaginative sensitive boy who has Just discovered the meaning of the word ldeals,n Frannie is more direct, charming and wholesome and ready for life. As the play opens, Mrs. Hollis has just won a radio contest for naming a new beauty soap and has been rewarded with a trip to Havana for herself and her husband. Paul utilizes their abenoe in exercise his tanporary rights as ahead of the familyn. First he decides the Hollis Shoe Store will undergo a modernization campaigngrn will put on a sale wlthem orchestra, live models, handbills and all the trimmings. Thenkm turnskus peculiar talents to the private life of his sister, nineteen-year old Marjorie Hollis. He has a hunch that her suitor, Crandal Smythe, a young man of visible means, is really a rack- GVCSP, and Sets out to Drove lt. To aid him in these nefarious schemes, he enlists the nSecret Seven,n a society of sixteen-year olds, of whichluais president, and hilarious complications ensue. The Third Act is a nBallu, given by the nSecret Sevenn to celebrate the success of their plans. Alas! They have counted their chickens to soon. Instead of success,lthe r .efforts haves brought apparent d1saster,'i disaster enhanced by the unespected return of Mr. and Mrs, Hollis. But fate has an ace in the hole several aces-and the playing of them enables Paul and Frannle to turnthl tables in a wholly satisfying manner.