Warrensburg High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Warrensburg, IL)

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'I'I-IE C RDI AL THE ABSENT-MINDED BRIDEGROOMH On November 2, 1928, the junior Class presented a three-act farce, The Absent-minded Bridegroom , by Larry E. johnson, it was a decided success. CAST OF CHARACTERS Timothy Shea, the bridegroom, a widower ............. ........ N Villiam Gillen Patrick Rooney, his friend .................................... ...... J ames VVh211't0I1 jimmy Rooney, Daphnay's son ........ ................ J oe Major Fred Grady, his friend ...................... ........... E Vefett BFOWI1 Slade, a plain clothes man ........................ ......... H oward Williams Yonnie, a small colored boy ...................... ..,........ E mery Janvrin Daphr1ay Rooney, the bride, a widow ....... ....... M adge Litterell Nora Shea, Tim's daughter ....................... ........ C leona Stephens Kathleen O'Connor, her friend ............... ............. E loise Taylor Tessie Conners, Mrs. Rooney's maid ........ ......... I aola Belle Spitzer Yennie L Small girls --Q.-..'---------'-- ---'.----- .--'..----.-.'-- -I----'. jElvalena Albert Yaney 5 IKathryn Robbins Time-Morning of a fine day in the month of brides. Place-Mrs. Daphnay Rooney's house in a small town near New York City. SYNOPSIS On the eve of his marriage with the widow Rooney, Timothy Shea gets an acute attack of cold feet and begs his crony, Patrick Rooney, the widow's brother- in-law, to rescue him from impending matrimony. Pat hatches the bright idea of having the bridegroom pretending to lose his memory from a blow received in a fictitious accident and assume the identity of one Peter Peterson. Unluckily, the name belongs to a-Swedish dynamiter wanted by the police. Kathleen O'Connor sees that Tim is pretending and persuades her boy friend, Fred Gray, to act as Mrs. Peterson. Three children are found to impersonate the Peterson family and claim Tim as the head of the household. Tim is thus be- leagured by the false Mrs. Peterson and the police and alternately scorned and courted by the outraged widow. Due to Mrs. Rooney's maid, nicknamed Poison Ivy , the Peterson business is soon a mass of entaglements, which even the de- tective cannot clear. In the end, Tim finds pretending too expensive and is again accepted by the widow. By doing this, two other couples are united-the marriage of lJaphnay's son and Tim's daughter, Jimmy and Nora, and Fred and Kathleen. All ends well in the usual happy way. The play was directed by Miss Marjorie J. Carswell. - 42 -

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TI-IE CARDI AL'-'-'- CARDINAL STAFF Back row-Nelson Vaughan, Owen Barclay, blames Wharton, lvctta Kcrwoorl Nath.-in Brown, Lucille Koons, Ulysses Shephard, Yirginia ltickcrson, Helen Paxton lxathryn Robbins. Seated-Josephine Kruzan, Christy Albert, Ruth Young farlrisorb, Luther l ixton L Major. OFFICERS Editor ...r..........,,.............,.,...........,.... ...... l ,uther Paxton .-Lvsistant Editor ........... .,.... L ucille Koons It usinvss tllanagcr .,..................... ....,....Christy Albert .-lssistant Iiztsirzess Manager ........ ..... N elson Vaughan .-ld1'vrtising illanagvr .....,,............. ...,........... J oe Major .Alsristont A-ldvvrtising Mafiagfr ........ Ulysses Shephard Litcrary Editor ..........,,,.,,4,..,..,...........,..,. james VVha1'tOIl fl.r.ri.vtant Literary Editor ....... .iltlttvtic Editor ....................... .'lssi.s'ta11t 1-ltlllvtir Editor ....... . C alvudor Editor ...........,......., ,Snapslzot lzdztor ..........,..,....,.. .-lssistalllt Snopxlzot Editor ...... ll'itoa1d Humor Editor ........ Forult-v .-ldz'isor ............... -41- Virginia Dickerson ..........Owen Barclay ,..,..,Nathan Brown ..,..'losephine Kruzan .,.Kathryn Robbins .,..,....Helen Paxton ,....,lvettz1 Kcrwoocl ......Rutb Young

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1-3-TI-IE CARDI AL-- GO SLOW, MARY The Senior play Go Slow, Mary given by the Senior class and the annual staff went off with a bang. It was well attended and all were well pleased with it. Each played his part well, due to the careful direction of Miss Young and Miss Short. CAST OF CHARACTERS Billy Abbey, a young husband out of a job ....................,.... ......... L uther Paxton Mary Abbey, his discontented wife ............. ....... J osephine Kruzan Mrs. Berdon, Mary's mother ................. ........ S arah Glancy Sally Carter, Marys bosom friend ....... ......,... I ,ucille Koons Harry Stevens, Sally's sweetheart .,...... ....... U lysses Shephard Burt Childs, Billy's friend ....................,................,.......... ................ J oe Major Bobby Herdon, Mary's young nephew, a holy terror ......., ......... N elson Vaughan Dolly Berdon, Mary's niece, another holy terror ...,... .....,...... V elma Baum Katie, the Abbeys' maid .......................................... ........ V elma Schroeder Danny Grubb, an iceman, suitor to Katie ....... ........,.... C Jtis Barclay Murphy, a policeman, Dannie's rival ........... ........ l ames Wharton SYNOPSIS Billy and Mary Abbey, a young married couple, are discovering the truth to that wise saw about married life: The first hundred years are the hardest . Billy is out of a job. Mary is impatient of poverty and disgusted with the monotony of married life. Domestic bickering raises the question as to which is the easier job - keeping house or earning a living in the business world. Each is firmly con- vinced that his own job is the harder. To prove it, they agree to exchange jobs for a week. Mary. who has been in business, gets her old position back, and Billy stays at home and makes a heroic stab at keeping house. Then the fun begins and moves along fast and furiously, complicated by the secret love affair of Mary's friend Sally, by the pranks of a pair of pestiferous children, and by the mysterious dis- appearance of a diamond ring. -43-