Thebes High School - Thebian Yearbook (Thebes, IL)

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SENIOR PLAY What makes teen age glP1S do the things that they do? That is a questlon What should be done about themq That is a problem Betty Lou Maxwell and Bernadine Smlth are a couple of questlons and problems rolled lnto two It seems that they're always up to SOW8thlHg, and, ee whlz, there's Just no stopotng them But after all, glrls will be girls This day started off peacefully enough at the Maxwell nouse ln fact, lt was a whale of a day Papa Maxwell had Just been chosen as the new ead of the clt zen's comnlttee MHY7 Because he fad one of tho flnest and most uo standlng famllies ln the entlre COmmU1ltW But lt seems t1at Betty Lou and Bernadlne had been want lng to wrlte to Vester Blayne who edlts the love lorn col umn ln the local capers and they chose thls day Of course they had no problem Heav ns no! But doesn't every glrl have the desire to ce ded to make one It was really a s as desoerate as oo love w1th a man fo knew where she cou thelr masterplece, and waited in antlclpatlon paper Put was thelr letter publ1shed9 No' elayne called on Hama Maxwell and unfolded to send ln a letter, anyway So they pro up, filled with pathos and deep heart throbs nder. Svnce they wanted to make lt sound slble, the a1d that the wr1te1 was ln rt four years of ave, who had chlldren So they malled for the evenlng Instead, H133 her the com ld et hold of a shot gun. plete story of Petty Loa's ' ad plight From there thlngs reach one of the most feverish Fever pltches ever crowded lnto one play Mhen Mr Moore toe c1t1zen's committee and Del Narshall, a newspaper reporter, drop in for an 1nterv1ew Wlfh Papa Maxwell, the girls mls take Marshall for the county marshal, the state marshal, or at least some kind of marshal, so they once agaln go lnto a huddle They Just know that he's there to arrest Betty Lou So what do they decide Insanlty Betty Lou wlll plead ln sanity, llttle brother Wllbur also 13 coaxed into actlng balmy, and they even so so far as to prove that the entlre fam1ly ms nuts anl that lncluded papa hlmself From then on it's a complete free for all, wlth all the trlmmlngs Do tnlngs flnally end all rightq Oh yes But not before you're so weak and sore from laughter that the play would have o end, anyway A farce comedy that 13 all new, all diflerent, and all characters have many, many funny situations - O o- 1 U . . I . ' 9 ' O Q A Q 0 ,L . , .. . . 1 . g 2 0 h al w , . M , We Q Q V ,- ., A J. . , Y . I , A, - . . Y n- . - n L Q -.- ' X . , Q S . A ? D H 3 .J H L , ' . ' L L S . n Y S . . 1 , F. . Y, Q -1 .. . fourteen, fifteen, and nineteen--and that she was frantic and 1 U .. U A I . . I V .J. , I g .I . 1 . . g I ul H 1' J- he n .- ' J J ,. :S 0 u . . Q, , . 0 T 1 - o N- 6 . Lf - . L . I 4 hi A- . - J D A ' t . 1 H Q c ,, ' ' 0 J ? ' - ' ' ' W I tl-, g L . C 0 o .L - - ' . L J . . ,. . 5 . 0 1 . L. - ' U - O -- I I' I - l