Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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TH A S N L ,Eb E R E A CANNON egg and Helen Noel. Genevieve Quinn, the wicked vamping villainess, was he clever accomplice of Art. The picture had been well produced by Leonard lkiletsker, cameraman, August Merkt, cast- ing director, and Kenneth Crouse, scenario writer. Among the appreciative audience, largely made up of Tech graduates who had flocked to see this Tech production, were Charles Traylor and Tom Conway, who had recently patented a hair tonic guaranteed to furnish that permanent gloss, Zona Bell, chief switchboard operator at Tech, Hildreth Siefert, manufacturer of Siefert's Collapsible Sausages, Wilbur Smith of Smith Bros. fcough dropsj, and Norman Brinsley, successor to Clarence Darrow. Well, we're getting our money's worth, we re- marked as we gazed at Mary Seal and her trained seals, one of the special features of the evening, and at Anna Louise McNutt, Esther Webb, Frede- rick Shugert, and Charles Soltau performing. We so admired their dancing that we wondered who could have been their teacher. Upon referring to our program we found the name of Madame Rosalind Taylor, Instructor of Ballet and Ballroom Dancing. Then, after much applause, the screen descended. In rapid succession the Topics of the Day were flashed upon it. Louise Waldorf, noted violinist, had played before the King of Spain. Walter Ely had sold the present Pharaoh of Egypt on the idea of installing steam heaters throughout his kingdom for the purpose of maintaining civilization. Walter represented the Hughes-Hortsman Hot Air Co. of which Charles Hughes and Howard Hortsman are managers. Helen Hanks was the inventor of the famous Notless yarn. The National Society of Old Ladies had presented Helen with a medal for distinguished service to womankind. Marjorie Holl was shown purchasing a large tract of land in Iceland from Mayburn Landgraf, local real estate agent. Marjorie's purchase was for the establishment of a Home for Homeless Hounds. Hazel jackson and Marie Fuchs are prominent workers of the Society fostering the project. Last, but not least, the famous beauties, Helen Griffith and Dortha Bruns, had won first and second places respectively in the National Beauty Contest, the judges for which were Byron Donough, Clyde Ford, Dan MacLaren, john Mur- phy, Ruth Patterson, Eva Sawyer, and Inez Rickard. That night we stopped at the Palmer House, the proprietoress, Jeannette Palmer, gave us rooms on the twenty-seventh floor. From the windows an ex- cellent view of the booming metropolis could be obtained. Here, the flashing sign of Martha McLaughlin's Matrimonial Correspondence School could be seen, here, electric lights insisted that we Say it with Blume's. The latter appeared page fzevnly-eight over the fashionable florist shop of Charles Blume. Our fascinated gaze was cut short by a persistent knocking on the door. The intruder turned out to be Floyd Ross, general repair man and janitor, who had come up to pay his respects. The next morning after consuming breakfast at the Coffey Cafeteria which, by the way, is owned by Maynard Coffey who has employed as head waiters, George Reilly and Samuel Sapirie, we fared forth, jogging along at a steady rate on our way to New York where we knew we would be sure to unearth numerous alumni of '26. Late that afternoon, we ran across the quaintest little barbecue in a sparsely pop- ulated section of New jersey. It was an inviting- looking log cabin with the queerest name, 'fThe Burnt Pig Barbecue. As we walked in, Aileen Hiatt and Agnes Kirkpatrick came forward to greet us. An enjoyable hour was spent here, during which we made known the purpose of our trip and our destination. Aileen and Agnes volunteered the in- formation that we were not far from Read Center, a beautiful little village named for its philanthrop- ical benefactor, Charles Read. Here, they told us, Ollen Bumpas had established the successful Bumpas Bus Line with Carl Rohr as chief bus caller, Albert Marshall, the new justice of Peace, had issued a license to Duane Hicks for the seventh time, Wil- liam Franklin, the postmaster, had appointed Howard Fessler mail carrier on Rural Route 1,5233 Rolland Geyer and Jeanne Chess had been unanimously elected as checker king and queen for the year 1946. In this little town jean jeanes is the owner of an overall factory which recently went to the walli' because of its rival, the Lett Coverall Co., motto is Let Lett's Coveralls Cover All. jean's competitor is Virginia Lett, but let it be said for jean that he has not been outclassed by a woman's ingenuity. The success of the Coverall Company has been due entirely to the excellent business methods of Harry von Burg, Virginia's general whose manager. Anxious to get to New York, we departed with best wishes for luck in our search. As we neared our destination, we drove slowly, for the road was lined with signboards. From these we learned, to our great amazement, that jack Garrison owned a music shop which specialized in training canaries. These canar- ies, ably instructed by Durward DeVries, are able to whistle all popular, as well as unpopular, songs of the present day. Fred Ranney and Raymond Prigger have complet- ed a revised translation of Virgil which, backward students claim, is the best of its kind. The authors modestly suggest that the publication of the book is

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W-fb THE ARSENAL CANNON .HM The fame '26 tprophccy Q45 Is All joking aside, speaking of wisdom, we possess no mean quantity of it ourselves. We want to remind you that in the last twenty years those certain parties mentioned in that former prophecy of ours have turned out, for better or worse, as we said they would. Of course we don't want to take any of the credit for ourselves, being naturally shy and bash- ful, but you'll have to admit that we knew what we were talking about. Only last week while motoring about in our trusty Ford near Altoona, Kansas, we stopped at a garage, it not being the custom of Fords to run without gas. After honking for half an hour we spied, around the corner, a big black cigar ambling along with the august Walter johnson slouching behind it. Strange and beautiful sounds came forth from the inner recesses of the garage. Upon investigation we discovered Paul Balay sitting on a barrel and playing a jews harp. He informed us that he had a job for life as chief bronco-buster of the Ball- King Mule ranch, owned by Thelma Ball and Merlin King, with john Anderson as cook. We rattled on with fenders flapping. As we viewed the scenery, our attention was distracted by a signboard upon which Myron Miller was posting bills. One was an advertisement of Hennafoam, illustrated by the pictures of julia Flynn and Fielder Andrews, another announced the coming of the marvelous Lyon-Hunter Circus, Calvin Lyon and Lester Hunter, managers. A beautiful picture of Kathleen Biegler, the famous equestrienne, orna- mented the upper right hand portion of the bill- board, while a striking likeness of Arthur Reeder, crystal-gazer and medium, adorned the space below Kathleen's picture. We were glad to note that Theodore Wells was the elephant rubber, he was always desirous of doing things on a large scale. After one last glance we chugged on, presently overtaking Billy Adams. Billy looked frightfully hurried and only shouted to us, as we passed, that he was hot on the trail of Warren Glunt, faithful employee of the Standard Grocery, who had recently robbed the company of 525,000 and had killed Waldo Clark, night watchman, in his get-away. We remembered that Billy was chief sleuth of the Goetz Detective Agency of which Byron Goetz is president and Grant Goodwin, vice-president. The next day, as we rode slowly through a little town in Illinois, William james hailed us. We were proudly informed that the name of the burg through which we were passing was Smuckville. William, the chief constable, remarked that Barbara Bridges had been re-elected for the third time as mayor. Finally we arrived in our old home town and purchased an edition of the Neem, then we headed for Forest Bowman's Quick Lunch Establishment, where we settled ourselves for an enjoyable meal prepared by Raymond Bennett, chief cook and bottle- washer. In the News were many interesting items: Shelley Anderson was pitching in the World Serious, Frances Borcherding, society matron of Moscow and wife of the minister to Russia, had returned to the States for a visit. A most stirring speech had been given in the new stadium at Tech the evening be- fore by William Brandt, Grand Master of the Society for the Extermination of the Kangaroo Hop. The new stadium, the money for which had been liberally donated by Rush Stewart, Indianapolis' richest citizen, had been designed by Richard Taylor, the architect. Oh yes, we forgot to mention that john W. Hodge, jr. is editor of the Neem. While we were eating and discussing further plans for our trip, who should breeze in but Dorothy Moore, the new swimming instructor at Boys' Prep. Although we were anxious to proceed on our journey, she insisted that we could not possibly miss the wonderful motion picture, Lover's Re- venge, which was the hit of the town. Also, she argued, it would be of special interest to us since the play from which the picture had been taken was writ- ten by john Maxwell and Edna Smith. Later we were glad we had decided to remain, for our old friend, Lawrence Lahr, was selling tickets, Tommy Robinson was doorkeeper, and the orchestra was composed of Harold Cohee, waz- utti artist, David Carlton, Glen Dearinger, and john Valdoi. The cast was as follows: Robert Ullery, leading man, Mary Jo Lizius, leading lady, Arthur Stevenson, the bloodthirsty villain, Genevieve Quinn, the vamping villainessg Roy Miller, tottering grandfather, Helen Noel, grey-haired grandmother. Bob was the ideal hero, compelling great applause, while dainty little Mary jo, so sweet and innocent, moved the audience to tears. It was during this portion of the picture that Marguerite and Elizabeth johnson quietly and solicitously made their way through the theatre, selling men's and ladies' hand- kerchiefs. It is rumored that Marguerite and Eliz- abeth have made many a pretty penny by this ingenious scheme. Art Stevenson was every inch the bold man who attempted to kidnap unsuspecting Mary jo from her dear old grandfather and grandmother, Roy Miller page Ircerzty- 'even

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'W-it, THEARSENAL CANNON 5 really due to the wonderful course which Tech offered them. A handsome and imposing picture of Ernest Rea stared us in the face as we rounded a sharp turn in the road. Well, no one ever thought that Ernie would make a famous musician of himself, we said triumphantly, for had we not prophesied that he would be one of the bright lights of the Metropolitan Opera Co.? Our triumph that instant was changed to chagrin, a loud report from the rear end of the Fliv brought us to a halt. However, beneath the seat was a box of Hill's Folding Auto Tires. After some three minutes' effort the car was ready to start on its way again, thanks to Paul Hill's invention. Late that evening, we arrived in New York. ln the morning our exploration was begun. The first familiar faces we saw were those of Helen Hamilton and Mildred Hendrixson. Both looked like very prosperous American business women. When asked as to how the world had treated them since they had left behind the fair portals of Tech, Helen replied complacently, Oh, we're doing business now with a millionaire. VVe remarked, half en- viously, that it was not everyone who could make such a success of her life. Upon inquiring further, we learned that both girls were selling chewing gum at Woolworth's. Helen always did have such a wonderful sense of humor, didn't she. Later on in the day when we dropped in to trade with her for some much-needed accessories for the Fliv, she asked if we had seen Dick Fox and c'Bob Mauk. We were much surprised to hear that both were in New York. Helen told us that we'd hnd their shop if we rode up Fifth Avenue. Sure enough, we found it, a magnificent Modistes' Shoppe. Upon entering, we spied Dorothy Screes and Jeannette Harris chatting like magpies. Dorothy had just stopped in New York on her way to Cleve- land where she is dean of girls at Western Reserve. Jeannette had finally accepted a position as the private secretary of Dick, who is the business head of the firm. We wish to state, however, that in spite of all of his burdensome duties, Dick has by no means lost his elegant and fastidious manners which are considered, by the fairer sex, so charmingf, 'LBob Mauk, who has earned for himself the name, The Ladies Man, designs all the exclusive gowns for which the Shoppe is noted. Modeling for Bob are Mary Lois Givens, Catherine Bray, Grace Avels, and Evelyn Garrett. Dick was all enthused over a wonderful island in the South Seas which Lee Newland, the famous explorer, had recently run across. It seemed that Lee was not the first to discover the merits of the island. glohn Nickerson, a professional pearl diver, carries on a thriving business there. Gladys Mullin is actively engaged in social service work among the natives, while Howard McMillan was lately ap- pointed official dog catcher. There being no dogs in the vicinity, Tech has willingly agreed to export all her renowned Campus Canines so that Howard may have suliicient work. Bidding the Shoppe and its owners farewell, we rolled up the Avenue, but were soon halted by an immense crowd which blocked the thoroughfare from one side to the other. No, fond readers, it was not an accident, merely Vaughn Gayman, a Baptist minister, making his daily plea on the corner. It took the combined efforts of joe Stone, Elmer Paul, Ivan Pogue, Ray Russell, Martin Barnett, Kermit Suhre, Hugh Thatcher, Herman Hagemeir, and James Yeagley, police captains of New York's force, to break up the crowd. While riding through Greenwich Village we saw, in blazing letters of gold, Srlzmiflt tml! Sfhrei15ar'. Ah, here were more Techitesl Paul regretted that Clara was out, but declared that business was line and that he'd bought a new sign for their shop. When leaving we viewed with interest the three gold balls, evident signs of prosperity. From a late edition of the New York Time: entertainment was secured for the evening, a prize light between Guy lnman and Norman Thompson. Guy's manager and sparring partner are Robert Kuemmich and Donald -lohnston, popularly known in ringside circles as Kid Johnston. Numbered among Guy's enthusiastic supporters were Virginia Boyer, the founder of a model kin- dergarten, Cecil Hayworth and Hugh Dorsey of the firm of Hayworth and Dorsey, Commercial Printers, and Anna Doll, owner of a marionet show playing with great success in New York at the present time. From this same edition of the Timer the follow- ing facts were gleaned. Genevieve Fisher, our illustrious song-writer, is branching out into the professional world where her remarkable talent is recognized. Her most touching composition, Where, Oh Where Has My Monkey Gone? has won much favor among members of the Organ Grinders' Union. Louise Fletcher is writing for Coflcge Hmlzor. William Gillespie, a broker in Wall Street, went to the wall, causing many of the 400 to be- come panic-stricken. Harold Eviston has a wonderful position as chief barber to the House of David. Mary Bastian is in India making a collection of antique Persian rugs. Julia Clemens and Ruth Ebner have rnaile a page lwenly-nine