Weymouth High School - Campus / Reflector Yearbook (Weymouth, MA)

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Star of Bethlehem It was December. In two more weeks it would be Christmas. In Bethlehem, a little town in New Hampshire, the townspeople were preparing for a community play to be given Christmas Eve. The heroine, who was Lucy Dennis, fitted into the part very well. The play was pro- gressing rapidly towards perfection. There was only one thing the matter. A hero could not be found. Now in the opinion of everyone except Lucy, David Curtis was just the person for the part. Lucy thought he was simply atro- cious. ' ' There were two reasons for this con- clusion. In the first place, once, when the two of them went to school together, David had caught some mice and had put them in Lucy ' s desk, so that he and his gang might laugh at her. In the second place, when Lucy, in her righteous indignation, had snobbed him, he, instead of being chagrined, didn ' t mind at all and had snobbed her, her, Lucy Priscilla Dennis! Nevertheless, the play must have a hero. For whoever heard of a play without a hero ? Lucy had declared that if David had the part she would not stay in the cast — and who- ever heard of a play without a heroine? Finally the coach, Mrs. Jones, decided to have David learn the part in secret, telling Lucy that her cousin, an accomplished actor from Lisbon, would play the part. As this did not exactly please the people, she dropped a hint here and there as to the truth of the matter. To Lucy, who already was wondering what the fare to Hollywood was, the people reporting these hints (in slightly exaggerated form, it must be remembered) were hateful gossips. However, the stories interested her more than she cared to admit and she listened eagerly to the reports that placed Mrs. Jones ' s cousin next in rank to George Arliss in the profession and equal to Buddy Rogers in looks. Imagine her disappointment, then, when in a rehearsal shortly before the performance, Mrs. Jones announced that her cousin was seriously ill and that another person had con- sented to take the part. Picture her embar- rassment when David Curtis was introduced as the leading man. It was enough to make anyone angry, and Lucy, being a temperamental actress, did not hesitate to tell the coach what she thought of anyone who, after taking the part, had the nerve to get sick; of the coach who had the nerve to appoint him, and of the person who had the nerve to take his place. All her anger might have ended then and there if she had not noticed the grin on David ' s lips. But to see that he wasn ' t down- cast urged her on, until Mrs. Jones told her that if she didn ' t want the part she need

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1930-1931 Literary Editors Maude Beaton ' 31 Leonard Bryant ' 31 Josephine Caruso ' 31 Marie Conroy ' Jl Constance Nash ' 31 Sue Harper ' 32 Alumni Margaret DeBoer ' 30 Athletics Frederick Andrews ' 31 Editor Mrytle Pray ' 31 Associate Editors Business Manager John Anderson ' 31 Advertising Board Filomena Amoroso ' 31 Catherine Leahy ' 31 Alan Bryant ' 33 Mary Reidy ' 33 Faculty Adviser P. B. Brown Secretaries Catherine DeLuct ' 31 Eleanor Dwyer ' 31 Mildred Ellis ' 31 Marion Philbrook ' 31 Mae Wood 31 Exchange Edith Baker ' 32 Art Edward Guindon ' 31 ®abl? of (ttntttettta Literary Section Page Star of Bethlehem 3 Mabel Plays Cupid (With Results! ! ! ) 4 Strange Happenings 5 A Christmas Stocking With a Hole 6 Christmas on Sandy River 7 Bashful Dick 8 Ganga 9 Intoducing Sam 10 Christmas 11 Our First Snowstorm 11 Destiny 12 A Good Time 13 Concerning My Christmai Emotions 13 A Woman ' s Strenth 13 Now Won ' t You Study? 14 The Lone River 14 Christmas Voices 14 The Blizzard 15 Society Bridge 15 The Flapper 16 Christmas In Russia 17 A Back Seat Driver Goes on a Flight 17 Shop Early 17 The Stereotype Plate 18 John ' s Mistake 18 Page How Girls Study 19 Mummies and Window Shades 19 The Salesgirl ' s Night Before Christmas 20 White Magic 20 Some Movies at W.H.S. 20 The Sea of Destiny 20 Mv House 21 Her World ' s Work 21 Life 21 My Dream of Christmas Joy 21 Sandman 25 Crazy ( ?) 25 Student Opinion 22 School News 23 Le Cercle Francais 23 High School Visited 24 111 or Convalescing 24 The Varsity Club 24 Alumni News 25 Exchanges 25 Athletics 26 Jokes, 27 The Perfect Teacher 29 Crystal Ball 30

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4 CCbrtBtmaB JSrflrrtor not take it. This speech was not expected by Lucy, who had not the slightest idea of not being in the play. So the rehearsals went on, Lucy becom- ing more and more disgusted with David, who entered in the second act as a long lost lover. To make matters worse, in the last scene David insisted on kissing her with a loud resounding smack. It is not strange that Lucy ' s interest in the production waned, un- til she was told that it was the test of an actress to put up with just such difficulties. The day before the play was to be put on Lucy, quite reconciled to her fate, was do- ing some last minute shopping. As Lucy stepped to cross the deserted street, a roadster whizzed around the corner, bearing down on her path. At the same instant, a dark figure darted acros the square. There was a squeak- ing of brakes and Lucy found herself sitting on the sidewalk; beside her leading man. Well! she exclaimed, Thanks. Mabel Plays Cupid Busy shop girls darted to and fro in the great Bennington department store. Huge throngs, reflecting the holiday spirit, filled the aisles. Outside, more people were crowded about trying vainly to get into the great store already filled to overflowing. By one of the windows stood a girl dressed in a dark brown dress and brown coat around the collar of which was a magnificent fur now wet from the fast falling snow. Her face was a pretty one, young but hard and cold, looking compared with the merry faces of the young people around her. She glanced up from her window-shopping to the jolly holiday faces surrounding her, and the blue eyes grew icier. An older woman stopped beside the girl and spoke to her. Helen Van Dyne! What are you looking at in that window ? There ' s nothing there that will bite. Don ' t forget that the Christmas party is tomorrow evening. Junior wants you to be sure and come. Hello, Mabel, I ' m awfully sorry, but I can ' t come to the party. You must know by now that a party of any sort can hold no attractions for me. So you just want every one to know that you are pining away over a fellow? Mabel sarcastically demanded. O! Helen, I ' m sorry that I said that, really I am. Any way ' ' Oh, that ' s all right, grinned David. You know, ' ' said Lucy, settling as comfort- ably as she could on the enow, ' ' I wish you would not make such a noise when you kiss people. ' ' 0. K. replied David, helping her up. ' ' May I walk home with you ? ' ' Not only did he walk home with her but they walked home the longest way. The next night all was excitement. David, much to the relief of the cast, behaved nobly during the last scene, and when the curtain was d rawn with Lucy exclaiming, Dear, I love you, the play was acclaimed a success by all. After the final bow David drew Lucy into the wing. Lucy, he said, ' You were great. You said that last speech as if you meant it. Maybe I did, you know, replied the Huh? Oh, golly! What a break! Myrtle Pray ' 31 (with Results ! ! !) Junior just longs to see you. Won ' t you please come? Poor Junior! Yes, I ' ll be there ' with bells on ' as Jack — Oh, dear ! You see, Mabel, ' ' she cried, ' ' I can ' t forget him ! Everything I do or say concerns him ! And to think that we were going to be married on Christmas Eve. There, there, poor child. I know every- thing will turn out all right. Jack told Jim that he was sailing the day after Christmas for a trip around the world. You won ' t have to see him for another year. ' ' Oh ! ' ' gasped Helen turning white, ' ' Our honeymoon trip. Then with a great effort she smiled at Mrs. Benson and said wearily, Have you finished your shopping yet, Mabel? On receiving a negative reply, she took the woman by the arm and led her into the store, murmuring into her ear, I ' ve got so much money to help me forget and others have so little that I ' m going to busy myself with Christmas charity work to take my mind off myself. ' ' When Mrs. Benson reached home, she said to her husband, Jim, I told Helen Van Dyne that we were going to have a Christmas Eve party, and I want you to invite Jack over also. Tell him the same thing.