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“Look Out Lizzie”to

be Repeated

Joan Fry

From the Catoctin Clarion, Friday April 26, 1935

“Look Out Lizzie,” a play sponsored by the Ladies’ Aid Society of
Graceham, will be given in the Town Hall at New Midway on May 1, 1935.

This play has been given before a large audience in Thurmont, Lewistown,
Sabillasville, Keysville, Graceham, and the CCC Camp at Mountaindale.
The same play was performed in 1954.

Before I read this article recently in a 1935 Clarion, it didn’t occur to me that our group in Sabillasville hadn’t produced something brand new. I remember
vividly the many hours of practice and the fun we all had getting ready for our rendition of Look Out Lizzie. I was fifteen at the time.
The director, my former principal from Sabillasville Elementary School, E. Maurice Clarke, was quite a stickler for perfection, and we had some rough
times when lines were missed or a laughing jag began.
On May 1, 1954, the play was given at the Blue Ridge Summit Fire Hall by the Sabillasville PTA. The players were Harold Bittner, an old farmer; Mary
Benchoff, his wife; Joan Bittner, their daughter; Helen Beard, the hired girl; Lewis McClain, the hired man; Geneva Shindledecker, the neighborhood gossip;
Robert Fox, a stranger; and Raymond Kipe, an old miser.
Others who helped with the production were Maurice Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jarett, Ada McKissick, Catherine Clayton, Jim and LaRue Black,
Gene and Joe Fox, Edna Mae and Sheridan Gladhill, Bob Miller, and Millie Sanders.
The play was presented for the benefit of the Blue Ridge Mountain Vol. Fire Co. No. 1, and was the first time the new stage, built by members of the fire
company, had been used.

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