"Cecilettes". Other friends at this point in her life included Professor Teasley, the head director of the theater; his wealthy and often eccentric mother Nanny Teasley; Tootie, Helen, and Dolores, three secretaries at the theater, J.R. Phillips, the theater's stage manager, who was supposedly also gay; Hubert Jamison, a fellow (and somewhat vain) actor; and a woman named Paris Knights, an artist who is a friend of Mr. Cecil's. At this point, she is engaged and almost married, but was jilted by her fiancé, Ray Layne, when he returns to his former fiancée, named of Ann, and eventually marries her. She eventually graduates school, with the aid of Professor Teasley fixing it so she can graduate without having to deal with Algebra. Seeing her only break to be a professional actress, Daisy Fay, with Mr. Cecil's help, enters the Miss Mississippi pageant in Tupelo, Mississippi, once more meeting up with her perennial antagonist, Kay Bob Benson, who is also a competitor. However, she makes fast friends with four other girls, Darcy Lewis, Mary Cudsworth, Jo Ellen Feely and Penny Raymond (Darcy met Daisy Fay after overhearing her call Kay Bob a witch); and they help her contend with how the Pageant was rigged by the Pageant's head, a Mrs. Lulie Harde McClay, who had promised the title to a Margaret Poole, who was supposedly sweet and kind, but was very much a hypocrite. Margaret drank, smoked, swore, had many, many boyfriends, and had a very bad reputation; but around Mrs. McClay, butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. In fact, during one of her smoke breaks, while the pageant hopefuls were at the Tupelo Country Club, she tried to get Daisy Fay framed for smoking, and in trouble with Mrs. McClay. Mrs. McClay, spitefully, left Daisy Fay out of the Country Club talent show, of course believing Margaret. Kay Bob couldn't resist gloating and laughed at Daisy in scorn. However, Darcy and the others, to avenge Daisy Fay's being left out of the talent show and get even with Mrs. McClay and Margaret Poole for their deceit, not to mention having waited three years to do so, think up and then sing the dirtiest song they could dream up. The extremely objectionable song stuns the well-heeled audience, and this stunt gets Darcy, Mary, Jo Ellen and Penny left backstage at the State Theater, during the final judging of the pageant. After