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HONEY IN THE HIVE

Produced by special arrangement with the Art Craft Play Co.

The Maxwell family has always been an average, down to earth family, except fifteen year old Betty Lou. She’s always loved big affairs and important people. So, she makes friends with Suzanne Coday, daughter of Hamilton Coday, one of the cities really important men. Suzanne asks Betty Lou to go to the mountains with her for the summer and after much pleading and wailing, the parents finally give in. When Betty returns home she is a much changed young lady. Mr. Coday tells Mr. Maxwell that he can put him in office as a state representative. The campaign starts and the whole Maxwell family hobnobs with the town elite. Wilbur is very much irked by baths, manner, combs and by Arthur, the Coday’s young son. Mr. Maxwell loses the election, is disowned by the Coday’s and decides to leave town. The neighbors start returning borrowed goods, and it is over this stack of boxes, umbrellas, fishing tackle and everything else that the Maxwells realize that the real honey in everyone’s hive is friends just like these—and they move back in.

The Cast

Between act numbers furnished by Dorothy Backer and Joanne Weyen.

(from a yearbook held by the Reardan Schools.)