Bennett High School - Beacon Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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14 Ccge gennetf Qgeacon Arr llnterview with Eudlice Shapiro - 5 .iv 'hw By Dorothy Phelps Johnston Eudice Shapiro UDICE told us that she didn't know a thing about herself, but after a crossfexamination, we found out a lot. First of all, she detests being called Ufdyce, or Ufdeece, Shafpirefo. And having that out of her system, she proceeded. She is concert master of our orchestra and the week of March sixteenth she went to Syracuse to attend the Eastern Conference of High School Orchestras. In our musical shows, she has figured prominently, and small wonder. Every Saturday for the past three years, she has gone to Rochester for a lesson, for she has a scholarship at the Eastman School of Music there. Then too, she broadcasts every day over the radio fshe has a passion to announce, we hearj and she had a week's engagement at Shea's Buffalo Theatre. But music isn't all. Oh, no. She loves to read. Not True Stories, nor highbrow works, but good novels. Also, she is a member of the Legion of Honor. But we have inside dope! She buys ten cent C0cofColas, instead of economizing on five cent ones. And she made this confession. Whexi she was a little girl, she used to practice with story books on her music rack, and she all the time watching the clock and playing Lotto with her foot. That, O ye young musician, is the way to succeed! Aside from all this, we all agree that Eudice is not only one of the nicest girls we know, but also the greatcst genius that Bennett High School has harbored.

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ffilfji x 'P ' K T--I lixtgx ,ff Q X N 1 X i -. I ' SZ XR V ., 5 5SXl Ti J 'X X, 5 l S AM e' 7 I X x A 1 I 's f X P I ' X N I Night in the City By Laura E. Salisbury Night falls softly, And wraps the city in a velvet mantle. Down the highways, signs blaze forth- Come here to eat, drink, dancefu Long dark cars glide to a stop, And beautiful ladies step out of them. Lights are twinkling everywhere. They make the stars seem cold, far away. And thus the city sparkles Till the dawn fContinued from page 121 long, slowly waving silver antennae which held a multitude of tiny minute eyes. My two principal eyes were of huge size, absolutely round and a deep orange in color, which contrasted vividly with my red hair. My body----oh horror or horrorsfcould hardly be called a body at all and was covered with a green, slimy, unearthly substance. My legs were each about an inch in circumference and my feet were flat, boardflike appendages. I soon learned that my cumbersome feet enabled me to walk on molten lava which issued from many fissures and volcanos of Mars. To earthly people we were inf visible, but on account of our keen vision we were visible to each other, If necessary we could easily walk off into space and if we wished could visit any of the nearby planets without being seen by their inhabitants. During the Hrst thousand years of this singular, though now ordinary life, I beheld the sun grow larger and larger and when at times it came in contact with the planets, they disappeared like magic. At last came the fatef ful day when with a loud crash the earth collided against the sun. A great hlaze filled the whole atmosphere and the earth like a glittering ball of hre whirled dizzily into the depths of black space to be beheld no more. Now, in my three thousandth year, there are no more living planets except that on which we live, and as it is now a ball of ice we have no fear of burning from contact with the sun. Life is eternal but I do not know how long I shall remain in the form of a Marsian. It is commonly believed that we will wear out and that our forms will turn to dust and furnish scin- tillating sparks, which in turn become shooting comets. I know not, nor is there any way to find out whether this be true, and I wait for f f f I know not what!

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Cege Bennett Beacon ij An llnterview with Reed Herring By Laura E. Salisbury Reed Herring FTER some persuasion, Reed Herring, the actor with the voice, conf sented to being interviewed. First and foremost we found out that he has displayed said voice in The Flattering Word, Erstwhile Susan, and The Full House. The tale of how he was accidentally roped into dramatics much to his disgust, is unique. Ask him! But anyway, we're glad he was roped in, fand so is hej. By subtle questioning, we found out that Reed has a mottim- What you are to be, you are now becoming. He has lived up to this in various ways while he has been at Bennett. To be explicit QU in sports,-last year's champion tennis team, basketball this year, Q21 in plays, of course, in organizationsf-Legion of Honor, Avesta Zend, and Bennett Players of which he is President, Q45 in the Senior class, ye honorable secretary. In the course of the interview, we discovered that Reed is six feet four, the conventional height for the dashing hero. Incidentally, he reaches almost to the top of Mr. Stamps oflice door, which makes a very good measuring post. However, he doesnt believe in drawing himself up to his full height. We wonder why. Before the popular womanfhater dashed away, he told us this,+he will he at the University of Michigan for a few years in case we want to see some more of him, but after that we'll see him on Broadway.