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“THE HOODOOED COON7’Vpi Be Presented by Children of School in Osceola Twp.“The Hoodooed Coon will be presented by the pupils of the Osceola No. 3 School, Thursday evening, May 21, starting at 8:15, This is a 3-acteomedy .play.An entire evening of laughter is promised when Bernard O’Brien as Misery Moon, the hoodoed coon, makes his round of melancholy requests for food for his 21 “orphan chillens. Pat, the ticket-^Uer fm-the railroad station in Slabtown,Mizzoury, played _ by Howard Hof-meiBter, sics the dog oph1™, while the lunch counter girl, Elizabeth Bo-decker, chases him out to the kitchen where a rampageous cook attacKs him in the rear and sends him flying back into the railroad station amidst rolling pins, dishes, etc.Misery:lands just in time to meet Gideon Blair, a millionaire and owner of the railroad,, Gideon, played by Earl: Boyenga, is a palsied old man of 98 who has the gout and a bad temper. He promises a million.dollars to his granddaughter. RoseEllen O'Brien if she marries Marvin■ Bdyenga, the son of his old friend,: Marvin, mistaking Ruth Hofrneister,the silly; old maid housekeeper for -Base Ellon, tries to make a get-away• : aii4 still claim the willjon 8p he hiresHiram Tuft, an awful nut, who is fgoward Boyenga, to masquerade ashlrfn^the meantime, EaVonne Boyenga, a mysterious dark woman from Russia Is on his trail with a bombvM dynamite, • '^Thrilling moments of suspense arec- jh itore for you as the plot begins tothiok©n, the bomb explodes. Misery ; leans nine dollars to Gideon which kr can’t collect, a lunatic with a dag-: gerl is loose and a jazztime weddingv ..^^lupslleetion has • been made in the choice of costumes and make-upthis;-will be^an^entertainment . yQU,ll long remember for its intenseC humorous situations and dra-and readings will ^be -funiiph.ed by other pupils, The en-V ^ • Sveryone »l,WUly invtfd. ^nHvrtfllev is teachev of
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Ackley World Journal
Ackley, Iowa, US
Thu, May 14, 1936
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