Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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A LINCOLN Affer The cusfomary procedure of reading The Bible. salufing The flag and singing of The Alma Mafer song, The program was ready To begin. AND NOW: A good Time was had by alll!!! MorTon Beer, senior class presidenf, infroduced Joan Geller as chairlady of The Class Day Commiffee. Our liTTle misfress of ceremonials came Through wiTh a rever- berafing ll mean if! program. Wifh The lighfs of 37 as afmosphere, a poem, wriTTen and delivered by Chesfer Kallman, was The inifial acT of The program. Class day lyrics were wriTTen by Sfanley Cohen and Miriam lfkind, To fiT The Tunes of popular songs. AT This Class Day To The Tune of LeT Yourself Go. and f'Parlez-vous were sung by Pearl MaliTz in her inimifable sTyle of Torch-singing. Norman Perman crooned his way Through wiTh FaculTy Parade, Tune of Organ Grinder's Swing. CharloTTe Samef of Mikado fame, sang Lincoln's Big Parade To The Tune of Alexander's Rag Time Band. Praises To Laura Woll aT The piano for accompanying all our vocalisfs. The songs were firsT infroduced by The above menfioned and Then slaughfered by The conglomerafion of aTTenTive seniors la good way To prove- in unify There is sTrengTh. l For The finale, Hazel Shoobs gave her rendifion of Mary of ScoTland, and received a Tremendous ovafion for her efforfs. Mr. Hirschberg, in his brief commenfary aT The end of The program. compli- menfed The Class Day CommiTTee for iTs splendid efforfs, in geTTing Togefher a pro- gram so varied in TalenT. lT'S HERE AGAIN: A good Time was had by all!!!! Thus our day of daze was pracfically ended, leaving us To look forward To Class Nighf, The Prom. and Commencemenf. SO-OOOH: A good Time was had by alll!!! SO-MY PROUD BEAUTY- If you had Two dollars and fifTy cenTs of your senior dues paid up by December I5Th, you needn'T read This, because you know whaT iT's all abouT. If you didn'T, you needn'T read This anyway because you will find ouf whaT you have missed and re- gref iT Till your dying day. Therefore, The only one who should really read This, and who has read iT. is The prinfer, because if The prinfer doesn'T read This There is no one To prinf The sfory Thaf you shouldn'T read. Those who came earliesf goT choice seafs, and immediafely commenced The droning and buzzing which was picked up by The Tardier ones who sfraggled in a few minufes lafer because so and so's boy friend worked laTe on Safurday nighf, efcefera. The lasT few squeaks of The fiddles Tuning up, a few Taps on The sfand wiTh The bafon, and The overfure had sTarTed, which meanf The buzzing in The audience had To sfop. The prologue broughf us Morfon Beer and Nafhan Kravefz as son and faTher respecfively, who infroducedus by way of Tense drama, To The Class Nighf of l893. Here one caughf an eyeful . . . as a maTTer of facT seven eyesful of Lincoln's prize beaufies in The roles of Floradora Girls. lPeggy Schnall, Laura Woll, Miriam LANDMARK

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LINCOLN ITkind, Edifh FensTer. Mildred SchwarTz, Claire Cohen and CharIoTTe SameT.I IT you wanT Their addresses, boys, you know where To look. STanIey Cohen, as MaesTro oT Ceremonials, wiTh Fred Phillips, succeeded in amusing The audience, wiTh Their comedy. AnTics galore were presenTed by The DeaTh-DeTying PaIookas. namely, Ray- mond Roskind, HerberT Zwirn and Irving RoTh. lAn exTraordinary comparison wiTh Two skee balls and a IiTTIe marbIe.I Senior Promenade . . . whaT already? Oh no, merely a class nighT skiT enacTed by Belle Finley, Is Golub and DoTTy Cohen. Following The inTermission and seIecTions by The orchesTra. STanley Cohen, The Chairman oT Class NighT, presenTed Miss Beckman and Mrs. SoiTer, Tokens oT appreciaTion in recogniTion oT Their work. MorTon Beer. The PresidenT oT The Senior Class Tormally presenTed The Class GiTT, a well seIecTed seT oT choice books, To Mr. Hirschberg. Then Took place The evenT aT The evening, The melodrama, WaiTing Tor LeTTy. As The resuIT oT The eTTorTs oT Mrs. SoiTer and The Class NighT commiTTee. iT was a greaT success. The Tollowing is The TaIenTed casT oT The play: Fred Phillips, Ann LeviTT. Norman Goldberg, Morris Greenberg, Roslyn Handler, DoroThy Volcheck, Joan Geller, Irv PuTzer, DanTe Ribis, Irv Slovack. Ray Roskind, STanIey GIadsTone, Norman Per- man, Sylvan Buchman. STanley Cohen and The Floradora SexTeTTe. BreaThes There a senior who To himseIT haTh said, I know noT The sTory oT The mousTached villain lhissl The Tair heroine who musT sacriTice herseIT Tor The morTgage on The old homesTead, and The hero who arrives in The nick oT Time To rescue her Trom The snickering villain. lSnicker, snicker, hiss, hiss.I OuT Toul TraiTor. and never darken my door again! STanIey GIadsTone porTrayed The villain, Champagne Charlie La Rue: DoroThy Volcheck, The heroine, LeTTy HaTch: and Norman Goldberg, The hero, Jack SproTT. The very responsive audience expressed iTs appreciaTion oT The play by loud and vigorous applause. P.S. The one who is righTIy responsible Tor The Tree samples oT TooTsie Rolls, LiTe Savers, and ChickleTs, passed ouT by candy buTchers. is STanIey Cohen. ON WITH THE DANCE The lighTs oT The grand ballroom oT The HoTel ST. George are playing down upon The dancing couples. Seniors are swinging To The music oT Merrill Hughes and his orchesTra. IT is The nighT oT nighTs. IT is January 25, and The seniors, wiTh Their guesTs, are making merry. Each Teels supreme. The hearTs oT The happy seniors are beaTing wildly and proudly, and The air is Tilled wiTh a joyous hubbub oT voices. Suddenly, There is silence and sTricT aTTenTion is given To The enTering young lady wiTh The handsome escorT aT her side. Who is This charming, well-gowned creaTure? Ah! She is The Treckle-Taced girl oT yesTerday. Soon she is submerged by The Throng oT young sTylisTs, who remind one oT The Hollywood sTars in miniaTure. Once inside The ballroom, one TorgeTs The Typical Toul weaTher ThaT goes hand in hand wiTh Lincoln Proms. All Teel gay and seem To have no care in The world. IT is a Time Tor everyone really To enioy himself, Tor, even The TacuITy becomes human and LANDMARK