Sharon Hill High School - Owl Yearbook (Sharon Hill, PA)

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t 1 UHAMATIC EL B PLAY - POOR LITTLE ME 'Poor Little Me, the Dramatic Club Play, was a gay, rollicking play based on the all-round family. The play was directed lay Mr. Fredericlc P. Fernsler and given on Saturday evening, Decemher 5, 1942. The cast was as follows: Eric Shaw ............. ..... D onald Porter Lennie Traslc .... .... R enay Heclcman Begonia ...... .... M arion Ford Elsie Shaw .... ....... J oan Charles Hilary Shaw .... ....... VV illiam Duicho Charlotte Shaw .... .... M ary Anna Roherts Philip Churchill ..... ....... L any Starer Angela Drayton. . . ............ Inga Rest XV. Duicho, M. A. Rolzerls, R. Heclzman, l. Rest, L. Slarer, Charles, D. Porter. Not appearing-lvl. Ford. The play was a gay warning to all of those who have captured happiness and are taking it for granted. It had to do with the Shaws, Charlotte and Hilary, charming, well-lured people, and their children, Elsie, 19, and Eric, 21. Well-to-do suhurhanites with an attractive home and many friends, they were a happy and devoted family unit. lnto this serene setting came the Little Stranger, Angela Drayton, only child of the late John Drayton, Chicago money lcing, from whom she had inherited a lust for power which her haloy-face helied. On his cleathlbed Drayton had aslced Hilary to talce in his little daughter and watch over her, and the warm-hearted Shaws opened their home and hearts to the orphan. For four days Angela visited the happy Shaws and hy the end of that time they realized that they had undergone a hlitzlcrieg. 52

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THE SE IUH PL Y On Saturday night, April 17, the Class of '45 again performed behind the footiigiits in presenting time Senior class play, Out of the Frying Pan. Capatmiy ciirected by Mr. Fernsier, the play was a decided iiit. The cast: George Bodeii ........... Wm. Duicilo Norman Reese .... ..... R . Hecicman Mrs. Garnet .... ..... M . A, Roberts Tony Dennison ....... E. Wylie Muriel Foster . .... E. Henry Kate Bocleli ...... ...... M . Ford Niarge Dennison .......... I. Rest Dottie Coburn .... .... D . Hofiineister Wir. Coburn . . . . ..... J. Maicomson Mr. Kenny .... ..... VV m. Warren Nlac ........ . . .R. Kennedy Joe ........................ G. Smith Left lo right-W. Duicllo, E. Yvylie, E. Henry, WI. A. Roberts, W. Warrerw, MGICDHISOIIV, R. Hackman, D. Hoffmeisler, WI. Ford, R. Kennedy. N-of appearing'-41. Rest, G. Smith. Norman Reese, Dottie Coburn, George and Kate Bodeii, Tony and Marge Dennison band together for financial reasons in New York. They have discovered that to be an unknown on Broadway is no success key to a producer. So they go about getting a producer, Mr. Kenny, who lives in tire apartment below them. With the aici of Mr. Kenny's Gumbo z'i1ertms, they get trim to see them act in 'KMostiy iViurcier.U The police, Mac anci Joe, and iVIurieI Foster, a biunciering frienci of Dottie's, made time matter of getting ,jobs difficult and Mrs. Garnet, the uncompiaining and ciumia landlady, certainly makes time future iooic clark for time actors. After numerous complications the actors go on IVIr. Kenny's roaci show, 'fiViostiy iVIurcier. 55