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Show She's No Lady - She's A Him' s 1 l. t l Aunt Silly Sivic Groups, Lcoal Cast Combine For 'Aunt Siliy' j Roosevelt is in linQ for some.-thing some.-thing new in the realm of the drama, if advance reports are true about this "Aunt Silly." Endeavoring to do1 justice to the play will be a cast composed com-posed of Carma Winterton, as Ruth Harney; Ermay EldredgeJ I ene Stacey; George W. High-tower, High-tower, Moses Bullrushes; Cal Wilkins, A 1 Brady; George Stewart, Mayor Harney; Randall Ran-dall Stewart, Sam Salem (Aunt Srlly); Bob Andrews, Senator Pendennis Pompous; Mrs. M. J. Edwards, Lottie Loftus; Fred Gagon, Perciyal Loftus; Mrs. Fred Ferron, Cecelia Dill; and Janet Stevens, Janice Ander-ton, Ander-ton, Maxine Hurley1, Glenda Walker, Mary Murphy, Elaine McKenna, and Melba Benson, girls dance chorus, with Betty Jo Sprouse, accompanist. Pat Markey, Esther Wogec, Bennie Schmiett, Johnnie Cook, and the Reynolds orchestra will handle special numbers. A Tiny Tots review will be staged at the beginning of the play, and also a Business Mens review, when Jaycee and Lions club members, dressed as women, wom-en, impersonate famous personalities. person-alities. The show will end with a patriotic pa-triotic grand finale by about 50 children of the community, assisted by Ken Aycock, who will give the tribute to the flag. In between there's a madhouse mad-house of humor, with a plot that goes like this: 111 "Aunt Silly" is the story of a typical and pleasant small town in America Dillsford. Aunt Silly (as will shortly be widely suspected) is no lady at all, but rather the long-absent uncle of the hero, in disquise. Sam Sell-em, Sell-em, played by, Mr. Stewart, reluctantly re-luctantly takes the place of Aunt Silly when she is unable to come to town for th big community show to be staged in her honor. Aunt Silly, who formerly lived in Dillsford as a girl, has been away for many years, so no one recognizes recog-nizes her place is actually taken by a man. The ridiculous and humorous situations in which he (or rather rath-er she) finds herself have been called unparalleled in any stage performance. Oh, yes, "Aunt Silly" will be staged Aug. 3-4 in the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Stake House, and is being sponsored by the Roosevelt Lions Li-ons club and Jaycees in the interest in-terest of the Roosevelt children's chil-dren's Christmas fund. The play will be directed by Miss Dorothy Jackson, play producer, of Nevada, Mo. |