Stonington High School - Pawmystonian Yearbook (Pawcatuck, CT)

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Mr. Perkins, the New England poet, is circling thc globe for material for his new poem, The Song of the Mary Lee. Mr. Perkins was inspired when he viewed William Victoria's painting of old Stonington fishing smacks which are on display at the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art . . . Also touring the world with their troupe are the Tanajewski girls. These famous puppeteers, who have played before the crowned heads of Europe, will be in their summer theatre in Australia before the spring season closes. - Maurice Orlando, the brilliant young architect who has given us so many fantastic movie sets, has at last seen one of his mad dreams come true. His idea of parking cars on top of skyscrapers and transporting them from street to storage on a huge, circular ramp 'has at last been realized in his new project atop the Italian Building at Radio City . . . Amy Savin, the versatile wit of the night clubs, will be seen on this same station tomorrow night at 8:30. She has just finished her four year contract in the Orchid Room of the Little Old New Yorker Hotel. It is expected that she will go to Hollywood next month to play with the king of the cinema, William Emerson, in the Broadway Melody of 1961. The musicale will be musical because of Elizabeth Mc- Carthy's scintillating tunes. She has written such hits as Shadows on the Snow and The Church on the Hill. Costumes, of course, are by the demon of damasks, Jane Turner . . . are reviving the Mayo Brothers Institute . . . this is a great cause. They are working on a cure for cancer, assisted by Dr. Francis Connors, the famous bacteriolo- gist who discovered the sleeping-sickness germ . . . A bit of irony in the day's news . . . Dr. Albert Bes- sette, who saved Dr. Connors from a brain tumor in a brilliant operation, is rumored to have been a butcher's helper when he was a boy. He has gone a long way 1 . -'U Q- F..l-5,-.... W- -,Kilim -from cutting up pork chops to slicing off brain tumors . . . ' RCA employees recently conducted a nation-wide poll to elect Miss Television of 1960 . . . The winner! Miss Helen Kelliher . . . Miss Kelliher, between tele- vision appearances, conducts an all male orchestra. The New York Times is staging a comeback with a nery little small town reporter as editor-in-chief. Her name is Lillian Edgar. Great things are destined for her. The internationally known sports commentator, Pop Dion, will enlist himself in her services as a sports writer . . . Emily Dennehey, Hollywood tattler, will correspond from the West Coast . . . Miss Smith will gather bits from the ins and outs of Broadway for the sheet, and Anna Shugrue will be the Art Editor . . . It looks like a ripsnorter . . . Here's hoping that The Times gets back into the lead again. The Waldorf-Astoria has a new chef . . . Michael Mazzerella . . . His professional name: Mikail . . . His splendid supervision of the dining salon makes the Astoria the best eaterie in town . . . Flash! Charles Hoelck, famous stratosphere aviator, was injured slightly as his plane crashed into a wheatfield near Podunk, Minnesota. He will, however, be able to enter into the Circum World Races in August . . . which he may win . . . George Hallett, the Navy representative to the race, will give him his only stiff competition . . . Your reporter guarantees a photo-finish. Flash! . . . Washington . . . The returns from New York have swayed the presidential election . . . Freder- ick Hermes, Postmaster-General, is now leading with Senator Farnell close behind . . . Dr. Elizabeth Hermes, doctor of psychology, has moved her mind clinic, The Green Light, to Philadelphia. Her dpsychopathic re- search makes her capable to handle e most difhcult of mental cases. She will retain her New York branch of The Green Light. james Donahue, president of john Hopkins Uni- versity and Grace Martell, Ambassador to Germany, are flying tonight on the Atlantic Clipper to London New York's Mayor Limanni today welcomed to the city the most famous woman driver in the world. Yes, Anna Sylvia has again smashed her own record in a race on the Utah salt flats. Andy Piver and his young wife, Anna Marie, last week were presented a special Academy Award for their brilliant work in the latest technicolor, full-length cartoon, Alice in Wonder- land. They and their company of workers will start a series of Six Little Sows shorts . . . Italy . . . Daniel Souza, recently of the United States, was made a Count by Balbo, president of Italy. Souza is the military genius who helped Balbo realize his Twenty-Six

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I owe most of my success in pictures to your pioductf' Miss Cusack is now working in what will her greatest triumph, Kathryn McGuire's saga of the North during the Civil War, Come With The Breeze. Now, we present to you our televised news reporter. Greetings, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea. I.et's go to press. New York City . . . Professor Irene Walsh, archeologist deluxe, will re- turn to Mongolia to resume her explorations in her newly discovered Chang dynasty caves. She is taking her self-designed six room trailer . . . Mr. Walter Clarke, business wizard and tycoon of Wall Street, was discovered today to be the backer of the annual Forbes Follies. lf one plans to make a profit, this certainly is a novel way but a good way to invest one's money , said Mr. Clarke. Yours truly has just seen the latest edition of the Follies and Forbes has really outdone himself this time. The elaborate sets were designed by the stage wizard, joseph Michael. George Barden, the dynamic director, will bring the Follies to Hollywood in the fall. just at the present time, George is working on a revival of Green Pastures with Harry jones playing de Lawd . . . This week was Fashion Week at the World's Golden Century of Progress Exposition in New London. Mlle. Godomsky, of Godomsky and Gould Fashions, Inc., spoke on the Fashion Pavilion under the mural by Ann Robinson. Some of the most beautiful costumes and models ever seen were displayed. Such designers as Stannard and McNeil of New York, and Valliere and Camacho of Paris were represented. Anna Alf iero, social column- ist, covered the affair . . . Displaying his many talents at the Fish Bowl, Ed Lathrop swims for packed arenas every night. His swimming partner, Stacia Lesniewski, will leave the show in july to make a trip to Poland for the Olympics . . . Chicago . . . Since the tragic death of Paul White- man, no one seemed capable of filling his shoes ade- quately. Last night the raves of the critics hinted that George Boucher, an unknown, has at last reached the pinnacle of music which was set by the great White- man. Features of his orchestra are the blues singer, Dotty Willet, and that slapper of the bull fiddle, Corinne Noyes. The music that Miss Noyes squeezes out of the overgrown violin is amazing. They will come to New York next week to open at Kitchen's Kitchen , prominent New York night spot. Miss Willet will also sing a feature part in Kiss the Girls Hello. Her song, Your Heart Belongs to Mammy . is destined to become a hit. Flash . . . Montreal, Canada . . . Alden Greene, the tall, tall man has accepted Katherine Mayne's offer to play in her production of Gulliver's Travels . . . She, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayne, will spare no expense in this epic . . . Stanley Clay will photograph in electro- color. james Leahy will have a feature role as Gabby, the town crier. Dot Richards, who has been playing those heavy dramatic roles, will break into song as :Princess Gloria . . . This picture is worth waiting or . . . Professional football strikes a new high as Georgie Cassell and Benny Helme clash this fall . . . The two rivals played on the same field as team-mates once. What a turn-about for them . . . Violet Williams was awarded the International Placque for being the woman of the week. Miss Williams is the very eflicient head of the New York City Library. That job is difficult enough for a full size man, so petite Miss Williams deserves the merited bronze. Broadway . . . Tobacco Lane is celebrating its twenty-sixth year of continuous running . . . Leeter Jester is being played by james Culley, the greatest character actor o our time. Opening at the Lyceum this week is a farce by the satirist, Genevieve Denison, You Can Take It With You . . . Wilfred McShane will play the romantic salesman opposite jane Mor- rison's stage-struck high school girl . . . It looks like a Nobel Prize winner . . . Mae Clarke, in her piano con- cert, 'stood musiclovers in the aisles last evening . . . For her second concert, she will present a guest star, the wit of the orgatron keyboard, Miss Ann Dunham. Kathryn Dennehey is the first American to be dec- orated in the present Alaskan-Canadian War for out- standing bravery. Miss Dennehey, a French inter- preter, was caught in the thickest part of battle and pitched in to help save the lives of twenty-threeepeople with some dangerous night flying. Yesterday morn- ing she was awarded the Cross D'I-Ionneur by the Alaskan president. Los Angeles, Califomia . . . The Sherry Brothers to confer with the Ambassador to England, William Pendleton . . . Pat Kupidlowski, internationally famous illustrators' model, married her boss, Eugene Amaral, notable Art Director for the Monday Morn- ing Post. 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From Stream to Stomach, a cook book on fish by that culinary artist, Esther Sarrasin . . . David Noble and Aldora johnson, the world's great- est dancers since Astaire and Rogers, will be seen cur- rently in their own Broadway hit, All Arouiid the Town . . . Flash!! Germany . . . Professor Italiano has suc- ceeded in smashing the minutetron, the smallest radi- activity in existenceg this, the greatest feat in this line of work since the atom was smashed. The occurrence, however, was a terrihc explosion which threw Italiano and his capable assistant, Mary Hoadley, to the floor amidst a great concussion of noise and air in the build- ing. Latest reports say that they are out of danger. Hollywood . . . When Fannie Brice died last month, the world lost one of its most adept comediansl Fill- ing her shoes rapidly is Althea Reid. Her impersona- tions of Baby Snooks on the Chase and Maxwell Coffee Program is hilarious and brings back memories of when the almost inimitable Fannie was in her stride . . . Manuel Martin and His Melody Strings will be heard on the same coffee program. Phyllis Wheeler, television expert, has invented a coloring material to bring out the true value of tele- vision. She has been working since 1950 on this ex- periment. This morning, NBC paid her thirty-five hundred thousand dollars for patents to the process . . . Harold Sullivan, writer for the London Times, re- ceives The Best Writer of the Year Award at the newspapermen's convention in Paris . . . Genevieve Welsh was awarded a placque for her clever cartoons and comic strips. Mary Swokla will make her American debut on the opera stage in Madame Butterfly, Thursday of next week . . . She is the Austrian singing wizard who was brought to the American public by the theatrical man- ager and stage producer, Theodore joseph . . . Irene Atherton, a small town interior decorator with some novel ideas, will be stage mistress . . . Teddy says that Miss Atherton's sets are worth double the admission ' mv price . . . Warden joseph Kendzia of Sing Sing was honored today by the president for his remarkable psycholog- ical treamtent of his prisoners . . . Today was National Tulip Day and -the editor of the Home and Garden Magazine, Eleanor Hauschild, presided over the Tulip Festival at the Exposition . . . Majorie Lynch, floral genius of Holland's beautiful dis- play, spoke of the flowers in the little country . . . Edward Hazlin, business tycoon of the Hazlin and Pacific Tea Company is planning a new radio show with comedy by Rita Cranshaw and announcing by the little man with the big voice, Bob Birchell . . . Secretary of Agriculture Margaret Barnes will vaca- tion on her estate in upper New York . . . She will have as her guest justice Lyon of the Supreme Court . . . The romance between these two is blossoming beauti- fully . . . We predict a marriage before Congress re- opens . . . james McGuire, Lavender Sox batter, suffered a broken finger today and will be unable to play in the big league game tomorrow-a big disappointment for his many fans . . . Buddy Brophy will 611 in with some brilliant catching . . . Dot Vincent will bring her Ice Follies to New York from Boston after a popular tour of the country . . . She has borrowed Johnny Morey, Olympic figure skating champion, from Paramount . . . The Hudson River Dam, just north of Albany, has been completed and the contractor and personal super- visor, Hazel Milby, dedicated it this morning during a very impressive ceremony. Miss Milby's next job will be on the extension bridge between Raleigh, North Carolina and Bermuda. Walt Reid, another alert architect, finished the larg- est apartment house ever to exist. He will name it the Crushing Arms Apartment. The eighty story affair is also in Bermuda . . . Flash!! Philadelphia . . . William Perry, conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, startled and shocked his audience when he broke into an old time song, The Little Red Fox. It may not have pleased his audiences who are used to his serene intermezzi, but it showed them that the maestro can also swing out . . . Aleck Switz, who wrote so many of the Willy Hop- per mysteries, also surprised his fans last week when his Mystery of Medicine was marketed . . . Clarence Davis, Presidentpf Yale University, today accepted editorship of the Time Digest. john Kupidlowski, internationally famous in the scientific world for his study of the waters of Labrador and Greenland, has completed his newest diving bell. Weighing four ton and holding several men, it goes I Twenty-Seven n. Small!