The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-30
SCHOOL ACTORS,
AUTHORS READY
FOR SPOTLIGHT
Shortridge High Schools
Junior Vaudeville Casts
to Star.

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High school script writer's and
actors today polished the acts which
are to be presented at the Short
ridge Junior Vaudeville in Caleb
Mills Hall Friday and Saturday.
Dancers practiced their routines
in scores of Indianapolis homes, and
the comedians tried their gags" on
friends TO see if they worked out
all right. This production, in which
227 junior class members are to
take part, has been in rehearsal for
the last two months.
Miss Sally Williams is show
chairman, and Mrs. Nell Merrick
Thomas and Enoch D. Burton are
faculty sponsors. There are nine
acts.
The Magazine Rack" is spon-
sored by Mrs. Kate Steichman, and
Misses Betty Mellett and Betty
Henry are co-chairmen. Members
of the cast are Rose Mary Coshow,
Pat Coyle, Mary Louise Lee, Jane
Crosby, Betty Truller, Marty Bart
lett, Martha Mellett, Gene Dynes,
Ruth Burton. Jayne Foote, Betty
Henry, Betty Mellett, Jim Partlowe
and Russell Blithe.
april Shower" Cast
Cast members for April Shower"
sponsored by Miss Thelma Armfleld,
are Peggy Trusler, Hyla Jane Had
ley, Virginia Rose Perry, Audrey
Watson, Katy Lou Matlock, Cornelia
Conner, Jean Knight, 10 Ann Keller,
Martha Magoffin and Betty Jane
Jackson.
Also Edna Hudson, Mary Jean
Seton, Doris Ferguson, Mary Jane
Hodge, Lila Jane Harms, Betty
Cooking, Mary Swan, Marilyn Nc
Elwee. Mary White, Virginia.
Nichoalds, Ruth Harry, Johann Nc
Lain, Peggie Sturgess, Maxine VIII
liams and Louise Troemel.
Named in the cast of Flying
High" are Pat Healy, Fred Good
man, 10 Ann Bottorf, Shirley Blasen-
gym, Jeanette Levinson, Ruth Well
Mary Lou Causey, Sylvia Epstein,
. Marjorie Moines, Betty 10 Traggas-
ser, Helen Olsen, Jeanne Graham
and 10 Ann Rossebo.
Mary Jane Newhouse, Shirley
Sarsfield, Mary Francis Schumacher
Jane Day Pierce, Evans Rugenstein,
Anna Louise Clancy, Susan Edwards
Anne Combs, Marcia Stump, Hugh
Williams, Gerald Wasleigh, Charles
caves, Bob Bash, Gilmore Johnson
and Veradine Williams also are in
this act
Soloists for Fantasy"
Dorothy VanHorn and Jean Perk
are co-chairmen of BLACK and
White Fantasy which is sponsored
by Miss Kathryn Thompson.
SolciSts in this act are Rosemary
White, Billy Jolly, Joyce Rouesch,
Arnold MesSersmith, Allan Guthrie,
Sam Runyan, Margie Spencer, Doris
Jones, Maxine Heroninmus, Ethel
Captain, Gene Lacy, Bill Peterson
and Miss Perk.
Other members of the group are
Patty Rouesch, Dorothy Ann Pierce,
Miss VanHorn, Lucy King, Barbara
HoppuS, Mary Beth Campbell, Elda-
merle Warrenburg, Roy Klezmer,
Martha Terhune. Bob Shank, Bill
Cain, Bob Calland, Lynn Jarvis and
George Marott.
In addition to hauling scenery,
stage hands, under direction of Bob
Cosler Bill Fernandes and Mr. Bur-
ton, are to present ar act entitled
THE Great Strike-Out."
Men Only, This Cast
Cast members are Morrison
Denning, Bud Meyer, Jack Wild,
Bob Bash, Bob Wooling, Elmer
Jose, Bob Schwab, Bill Boyd, John
VanHorn, George Reid, John
Hamer, Tom Harrison, John Clancy
and Cosler and Fernandes.
Ross Christina and Clyde Sand
berg are co-chairmen of another |
all-boys act, sponsored by Walter
G. Geisler. Members of the act are
Jack Graham, Bill Thompson, Dick
Rhodehamel, Arthur Kraeger, Ran
som Griffin. Jack Helm. William
Cowley, Lewis Morrison, c. P. Van
Meter, Tom Mexican. Jack Hamer
Harry Distler, Joe Marwuette, Sand
berg and Christina.
In Broadway Rhythm" are Mar
jorie McAbee, Joan Ferguson,
Marion Blasengym, Doris Jones,
Virginia Mennel, Pat Milholland, !
Jean Alberta, Jean Albeit, Betty
Lanery, Esther Kennedy, Betty AL
bertsheart, Betty Starr, Tom Wig
gins, Bill Peterson and Howdy Will
cox.
The largest act in the show THE
Follies of 1886" is under the chair
manship of Mary Lou Roster, and
is sponsored by Mrs. Gertrude
Weathers.
Many in Roles
In the cast are Max Siptrop, Joan
Colgan, Jean Seward, Barbara Tuck,
Martha Underwood, Marcia Lentz,
Virginia Ward, June Duffy, Betty
Lou Piez, Darts Talbot. Patti Wal
lace, Margaret McCracken, Harriet
McCord, Patty Roesch and Dorothy
Ann Pierce.
Also Mary Lou Roster, Marjorie
Moines, Ruth Hair, Marguerite
Harper, Emily MacNab, Lorene
Clayton, Madeline Judd, Dorothy
Spahr, Henrietta Miller, Helen Mac
gregor, Beverly Carlisle, Rachael
Diddle, Margaret, Margaret Har-
baugh, Mary Jane Werner, Noel
Pattenaude, Marian Carlisle, Carolyn
Dixon, Esther Patten. Louise Bich-
mol, Malcolm King, Newlin Nichols,
Wendell Walker. Tom Ferguson,
DIN FoutS, Erwin Mccullough, Allan
Guthrie and Arnold Messersmith.
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