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Show SENIOR CLASS PLAY TO BE GIVEN SATURDAY By ALICE COOK It's going to be a hit!! Yes, we mean the annual Senior Class play, "Here Comes Charlie," Char-lie," which will be presented on Saturday, March 10, in the high school auditorium. Curtain time is 7:30, and admission is only 75c. The Seniors this year have undertaken un-dertaken the task of trying a full-length Broadway proriuc-tion. proriuc-tion. The play is a farce-comedy which is tempered by heart interest in-terest and touches of pathis. Larry Elliott, young broker, tlvnking he is becoming guardian guard-ian to a small boy, is jolted to find that he has taken a pretty young girl of 17 to raise. Charlotte Char-lotte is called Charlie, hence the error. Larry is engaged to the imperious Vivian Smythe-Kersey and he is hen-ridden by a snobbish aunt, and so is not at all delighted to have another female in the house, and neither neith-er does it delight Vivian and the aunt. Charlie arrives from Arkansas, accompanied by her Uncle Aleck Twiggs, who like Charlie is a true product of the Ozarks. She starts by calling Larry "Pappa" and by displaying display-ing artless but warm affection. Larry likes the attitude but it fails to impress-the women and they plan to oust the "hillbillies." "hill-billies." Aunt Fanny Farnham is determined to make Uncle Aleck earn his board and keep and tries to turn him into a society so-ciety butler. Conspiracies arise and Larry is practically forced to send'the two Ozarkians away. They return months later, and Charlie is barely recognizable and she flutters all masculine hearts. Uncle Aleck has undergone under-gone an amazing change, too. Members of the cast ar: Larry Lar-ry Elliott, Bill Griffiths,' Charlie' Char-lie' Hopps, Janice Aagard; Uncle Un-cle Aleck Twiggs, Ronnie Banks; Vivian Smythe-Kersey. Nancy Mellor; Mrs. Fanny Farnham, Sharen Kesler; Ted Hartley, Randy Morris; . Mrs. Caroline Smythe-Kersey, Pat Gronning; Mortimer Smvthe-Kersey, Smvthe-Kersey, Wade Meadows; Officer Tim McGrill, Kenneth Orr. The play promises to be very enjoyable and everyone will get some good laughs from it. Jesse Long and Mrs. Mary Jean Waddell are directors, and Shirlean Myers and" Karen Walker Wal-ker are student directors. Fred Wright is stage manager, and Alice Cook and Karen Walker ire in charge of advertising and programs, ... |
