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

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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.

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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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X JUNIOR CLASS PLAY OF 1945 f nL1fe Begins at Sixteenu CAST Paul Hollis ---------------------- Bill Deohert an imaginative boy of sixteen Hilda ------------------------- Etta Jo Maynard a Swedish hired girl Mrs. Jesse Hollis ---------------- Norma Graham Pau1's mother Harry Hollis --------------------- Bill Nichols his father Frannie Hollis -------------------- Pearl Roese Paul's twin sister Marjorie Hollis ------------------- Nancy Green their older sister Crandal Smythe ---------------- Donald Thrasher a young man of means George Gordon -------------------- Roy Thompson a young man without means Snookle Hollis ------------------- Violet Elson nine year old and going strong Theo Arbuokle ------------------ Harold Lawless Fattle Zimmer ---------------- ------ Ned Wilson Daisie Jenkins --------------- - ---- Mary Hoover Boots Bennett ----------------------- Dale Boyd of the uSeoret Sevenu Elmer Taggart --------------- ------ Darwin Hall who works in the bank