TONIGHT
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XXVI
LEXINGTON, N. C., FEBRUARY 25, 1949
No. 5
Junior Cast For “One Mad Night”
Seated on floor: Ross Ritchie, hero; Peggy Costner heroine Seated left in rio-ht. t
W.C.T.C. Gives
Musical Program
A quartet of singers from Western
Carolina Teachers College presented
a program of music on Monday, Feb
ruary 7, in the auditorium and made
quite a favorable impression on Lex
ington High School students. With
the group, who are now making a
tour of the state, is Herbert R. Foster,
Jr., a former L. H. S. student. Other
members are Virginia Barnwell, so
prano of Greenville, S. C.; Joan Rog
ers, alto, of Robblnsville; and Bran
son Matney, tenor, of Waynesville.
SUPT. ANDREWS SPEAKS IN
DEVOTIONAL ASSEMBLY
A varied assembly program was
presented in the auditorium on
Thursday, February 3. Louise Yountz
was in charge of the devotionals. Sa
rah ^ssey served as mistress of cere
monies and introduced the features
of the program. At the piano were
Jean Lohr, Joan Kearns, and Jo
Deane Swing, all who played several
piano solos. A quintet of girls from
the Junior Euterpe Music Club .cang
several selections. Mr. L. E. Andrews,
city school superintendent, made a
short talk entitled ‘Things Worth Re
membering.’ The title referred to fa
mous quotations: Mr. Andrews makes
a hobby of collecting famous sayings,
and he presented to the student body
many worth remembering.
Junior Class to Present “One Mad Night”
Three Act Mystery Drama, On March 18
Calendar of Events
February 25—Basketball — Thomasville —
Here
^--English Department Assembly
March 7-March 11—Basketball Tourna-
ment at Mooresville
March 10—^lee Club Assembly
Department Assembly
March 18—Junior Closs Play—One Mad
Night
Morch 24—Dramatics Club Assembly
March 25—Lexicon Stunt Night
“One Mad Night” is the popular
new play selected by the Junior Class
to be presented on the evening of
Friday, March 18, in the high school
auditorium at eight o’clock. This is
a m'ystery farce in three acts written
by James Reach and directed by IVIrs.
Fred B. Lewis and Mr. Theodore
Leonard.
The story cannot fail to excite and
amuse, moving as it does at express-
train speed with never a breathing
speU from beginning to end. The ac
tion of the entire play takes place in
One Mad Night” and what a crazy
night it is!
Don Cutter, a playwright, accom
panied by Wing, his proverb-quoting
Chinese valet, goes to the Cutter man
sion, a lonely house in the hills, to
complete his latest play in peace and
quiet. The house has been deserted
for years, a series of mysterious mur
ders having given it the reputation of
being haunted. Imagine Don’s aston
ishment when he finds the house ten
anted by a number of very strange
people who are lunatics under the
care of Dr. Bunn, whose home nearby
has burned down.
By the time the final curtain falls,
the audience will be weak from
laughter ready to admit that “One
Mad Night” is the last word in rapid-
fire hilarity.
The cast selected is as follows: Ross
Ritchie, Peggy Costner, Robert Mims,
Marilyn Saunders. Jo Anne Blackwel-
der, Carroll Leonard, Ang Lindsay,
Bobby/ Lee Parr, Margaret Hinson,
Mary Alice Wilson, Jimmy Dan Red-
wine, Emily Russell, Bobby Leonard,
and Nancy Poster.
Quill and Scroll
Presents “Romancers”;
Inducts New Members
On Thursday, February 10, the
Alice Duer Miller chapter of the Quill
and Scroll had charge of the assem
bly prgoram. The members of the
Club presented a delightful one-act
play, “The Romancers” by Edmund
Rostand, after which Juanita Smith,
ciub president, took charge. Different
members gave the code of ethics of
the club, and the names of the new
members were read by Jane Strelitz,
Lexicon editor, and Joanne Koonts,
Lexhipep editor.
The new members are as follows:
Jimmy Plott, the only initiate at
large, Martha Hooper, Barbara De-
Lapp, Jimmy Dillon, Joanne Ferrell,
Carolyn Koonts, Elizabeth Clodfelter,
Doster Wood, Jimmy Redwine, Har
riet Leonard, Eveiyn Fulbright, Bon
nie Leonard, Joanne Blackwelder,
Jack Evans, Buddy Foster, Sarah
Tussey, Pattie Sue Bates, Jeanie
Cross, Nancy Koonts, Mary Nell Lopp,
Ang Lindsay, and Mary Deane Hedrick.
Mary Jane Shirley Is
March of Dimes Queen
Miss Mary Jane Shirley, only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Shir
ley and a sophomore at L. H. S., is
the March of Dimes Queen for 1949.
Mary Jane was crowned at the Pres
ident’s Ball on January 30, 1949, by
Mr. Joe Leonard, chairman 'of the
drive. Buddy Poster was her cam
paign manager. She received a beau
tiful bouquet of red roses, a rhine
stone necklace, and a ticket to all
the^ Piedmont Club dances for the re
mainder of the year.
Miss Peggy Ann Costner was the
runner-up in the contest and re
ceived rhinestone scatter I)ins. Misses
Barbara Smith. Henrietta Bruton
and Nancy Foster were third, fourth
and fifth, respectively.
This project helped raise $526.98 for
Lexington High School’s March of
Dimes quota.
NEWS BRIEFS
SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO think it’s cute to be able to slip books belonging
to someone else out of a locker without anyone’s seeing them do -it. What
is wrong with L.H.S. that her students tolerate this?
L. H. S.’s BASKETBALL TEAMS HAVE won games and they have lost
a few, but prevalent through all the games has been good sportsmanship on
the part of both girls and boys. Everyone is proud of you, teams. Keep
up the good work! ^
shop teacher, has lost no time in seeing that
the boys who are taking shop turn out some lovely pieces of work. Why not
put some of them on display?
THE BEHAVIOR IN THE auditorium has noticeably improved. It has
certainly done a good deal to add to the interest and enjoyment of the
programs presented.
Mary Jane Shirley