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1927 Neillsville, WI High School Annual |
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1927 Drama Presentation ==============
(click to enlarge) A Pair of Sixes
“A PAIR OF SIXES”
Directed by Mr. Imislund
Miss Sally Parker (Stenographer) --- Alice Alden Krome (Bookkeeper) – Arthur Gall Jimmy (Office Boy) – Wilbur Hannah Shipping Clerk – Warren Medick Mrs. George B. Nettleton – Esther Braatz Mr. George B. Nettleton and T. Boggs Johns, (Business partners) – Walter Keller and Julius Berlin
Tony Toler (Salesman) – Joseph Welsh Florence Cole --- Bernice Eide Mr. Applegate – Clifford Nelson Thomas J. Vanderholt – William Terman Coddles (English maid of all work) – Ethel Loberg
One of the most successful, entertaining and well directed plays was “A Pair of Sixes” given at the Neillsville Opera House December 15, and at Granton January 14.
Two business partners just couldn’t get along. To settle matters, their lawyer dealt them a hand of poker, the one who lost would have to be the other’s servant for a year. Neither was permitted to make the terms public. Boggs, being the loser, was put in his position as butler at the home of Mr. Nettleton. Florence, his fiancé, finding him here soon ended the affair by digging up the contract and finding it illegal.
‘Yoo Hoo! Mr. Feitlebaum! So it vas by de boy Louie coming home so oily last night. Hmm, only twelf by de clock it vas.
“O dunt esk. He vent by de Opery House to see it “A Pair of Sixes”. Oi! Dct dope, he snickered b de whole night lonk. He rolled it himself out o’ de bed and catched it an awful cold py de head. Isidore! Keep it away from de new pies! Yas! Louie took it a goil to de Sweet Shop. Oi! Oi! Such extrevigance. When Maurice asked it de dope for de rest ob de dollar dis morning it vas all no more left. Oi, dot smell vot is it? Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! It is de oder pie by de oven burn’t”.
(The Feitlebaum household 4 weeks later)
Louie: “Baba, lent it to me fife dollars while it goes me to Granton to see de “Pair Off Sixes” again.
Mrs. Feitlebaum: “Maurice! Not on de head! ! !”
Louie: “Dot settles it. I gets me a room py de hotel mit baths”.
J. B. ’27.
“THE ARRIVAL OF KITTY”
Junior Class Play
A designing uncle, Wm. Winkler, arrives at a summer hotel to have his niece married to a certain Benjamin Moore, so as to get $10,000 which will go to him according to the terms of Jane’s late father’s will if the marriage takes place.
Jane’s real lover, Bobbie Baxter, arrives in time to expose Winkler as a “sport” by posing as Winkler’s gold-digger actress friends, Kitty Benders. The real Kitty arrives, and after a series of funny complications, Bobbie wins Jane. The real Kitty off with Kitty; and Moore, the near-groom, acquires Jane’s old-maid aunt.
THE CAST
Directed by Clarence Imislund
Wm. Winkler – Everett Skroch Bobbie Baxter – Wilbur Hannah Benjamin Moore – Glen White Ting – Louis Schmoll Aunt Jane --- Roslyn Warlum Suzette --- Pearl Chapman Sam – Arthur Gall Kitty – Marie Short
“ADAM AND EVA”
Senior Class Play
James King, a rubber magnate, has on his hands a parasite family of relatives and in-laws. He tires of paying their bills, so they contrive to worry him into leaving for vacation in Amazon jungles—to cure his “family-ites”. In his absence, he has a young man in his employ who longs for a home to take charge of the place. The young father protem by a feat of clever strategy forces all the family to earn their own living by the time King returns; and of course, the young man also wins King’s young daughter.
The Cast
Directed by Clarence Imislund
James King, a rich man – Walter Keller Cornithia, his parlor maid – Ethel Loberg Clinton De Witt, his son-in-law – Walter Hemp Julie De Witt, his eldest daughter – Alice Alden Eva Kin, his younger daughter --- Bernice Eide Aunt Abby Rocker, his sister-in-law --- Florence Bradford D. Jack Delameter, his neighbor --- Merlin Steuerwald Horace Pilgrim, his uncle – Richard Hemp Adam Smith, his business manager – Julius Berlin Lord Andrew Gorden, his would-be-son-in-law --- William Terman
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