East Lansing High School - Ceniad Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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flleniah jean said that he was making a small fortune laying cornerstones and that he had cut quite a figure at the Bricklayeris and Grocery clerks Ball, where every one thought his song and dance act were wonderful. Ruth U'Ren gave this information. And Marie Nelson is traveling in Burka and climbing all available mountains. Well, Ruth concluded, I always knew she'd come up in the world but for Al Sachs to go looking for a cigar lighter in Tibet when there are dozens of matches waiting for him here, gets me. That surely is queer, said Mattie, But have you heard the latest scandals? Merrill Marshal and Robert Plant are on trial for selling stock in a gas Plant that has no gas. Funny Merrill couldn't have taken care of that. put in jean, He was one of our best debaters, too. i Mattie ignored this interruption and went on, Girls, it pains me to tell this-- Let me then, said Florence. Mattie gave a look for silence and proceeded, Mary B. was secretary to this Plant and was in the fraud even deeper than Merrill and Bob. You can be sure it was a shock to me when I learned of it. There is some consolation though, Mary has had to hire a secretary to answer all the mail slie's gotten since the trial' be- gan. Merrill and Bob have both had offers from movie men to star in new pictures. - A Yea for our side, said the Sach Mennett girls. I think they'll come out O. K. because Nolan is their attorney, and every- one says he's just wonderful, finished Mattie. Oh let's go see him! the beauties cried. I wouldn't, said Florence. You see he's so busy with that case and with Eddie Reuling's breach of promise suit, that he hasn't time to see anyone. Yes, Eddie the old heart smasher, is being sued by three chorus girls and on the, top of that his wife wants to get ten thousand dollars per month alimony. Poor Eddie hasn't that much money, although he has a lot of stock in Norma Gallup's glue and jello factory. And incidentally I heard that Norma was enormously wealthy. Oh! sighed Jean, She always did love horses. Everyone laughed, Hoof! Hoof! at this wise one. Florence finished by saying, Anyway I guess Eddie's about the worst off of the class. Oh, I don't know, said Ruth Sackett, Look at Elizabeth Potter and Myrta Coons, writing a dictionary of Sociology. That certainly is some job, said Mattie. Oh by the way, can you guess what Irma Whittemore is doing now? asked Ione. U No, what? said all. She runs a fishing boat in Lake Michigan and she goes out in the worst storms, perfectly fearless. She is the pride ofithe Lakes. Well that surely is unique,-our's always was an unusual class, though, Sterra said. page twenty-three

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Qlenizxh Prophecy TIM E- 1 950 PLACE-Hotel Ponce de Leon, Palm Beach, Florida The crowd swarmed on the beach, watching the shooting of a new Sachs comedy. Two matrons sat on the veranda of the Hotel Ponce de Leon viewing the crowd with well bred indifference. The taller says, I simply had to take a rest, running that exchange was too much for me. You see, when jim died his business was such a mess that I just had to straighten it out before I could sell it. The other woman answered with a sigh. Well, I am tired too. I had done so much entertaining and then to have that terrible tragedy, that most horrible accident, completely upset me. I am still nervous. I can hardly think. VVe will now introduce our readers to, the two weary ladies. The first is Mattie Rouse Sheridan, the widow of a wealthy New York stock broker and in- ternationally known polo player. The other is Florence Schmitt MacLeod also a widow. She has but lately figured in a most sensational automobile hold-up and accident in which her husband was killed and she was badly injured and robbed of valuable jewelry, namely an E. L. H. S. ring. The group of chattering bathing girls approached the porch, much noise, many shrieks and more how are you's filled the air. The beauties were none less, than Ruth Sakett, Sterra Towner, Ione Lautner, Ruth and Jean U'Ren. All in the movies and on their way to stardom. The class of ' 25 certainly has wanderedf' said Mattie. I never dreamed that we 'would all meet here. How did you all happen to go into the movies, just drift? I wonder what Virginia Fiske is doing now? It has been ages since I heard from herg she hates to write and I have been so rushed. Why don't you know? asked Sterra, She and Virginia Tennant have won the International Casino Championship. , And I heard they had taken a contract to travel with Warren Pierce's Side Show this next year, to give exhibitions of their playing, added Ione. Side Show? gasped Florence. ' Yes, Ione pursued, Warren Pierce always had a fondness for pink lemonade although he concealed it pretty well. Said Florence, Did you know about our other football star, Rheinhold Penner? Well, he forecasts fashions for the ' Powder Puff' And he's consid- ered very good, too. Oh! wailed all the girls, What are we coming to? Then some one said, But what is this ' Powder Puff? l Don't you know? asked Mattie, It's the most popular magazine here at the Beach. And feature this: It's edited by Bertha Agnes Bessey, Alice Lay- cock and Erma Moore draw for it, Bernice Howard writes the jokes. Finally someone recovered from this shock sufficiently to ask about Kenneth. . page twenty-two

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flleniah t I feel sorry for her, said Florence, It must be so disagreeably cold up there, me for Florida. She won't even go back to East Lansing any more, put in Mattie, and I'm dying to know what the rest of the class are doing. I got a letter awhile ago from home and it said that Mabel Force is Head Matron at The Kalamazoo Asylum for the Hopelessly Insane, said Ruth U'Ren. It also said, she went on, That Rosaline was one of our most distin- guished Representatives at Washington, She ably supports the Bill to provide A Little Goldfish in Every American Home. You see Rosaline and Irma have formed a company. Irma catches the fish, Rosaline gilds them and then goes to Congress to work on this Bill. Cookie is the new chef at the 'Greek's,' he makes the best Campbell's soup, and hash. VVhen I was home last summer they had just finished the new theater, it was and is, managed by hleanetta Schram. She had the Sweet Stuiifed Sisters play- ing there, and here's who's in the company, Mira Kirker who dances and Gene- vieve Sanford plays the piano. They're very popular with the students around town. Their costumes were lovely but then, look,who designed them. VVho? came from all. Marguerite Potter, was the answer. XVell they ought to be good, said Mattie, She was in Paris for five years and walked back. She won't be designing much any more, Ruth U'Ren added, You re- member what Mr. Lane said once, that some day she'd be only too glad to marry a farmer. T hat's what she's done, married a regular hayseed, but she loves farm life, likes to get up early in the morning, it keeps her busy she says, so she is happy. One more bit of news, said lean, 'K Gaylon Ford has just returned from Made-agas-car, think of it girls, he's the U. S. Ambassador to that important island. He's wonderfully popular with the natives there and they want to make him president. That's statesmanship for you. I say. Florence glanced at her watch, Oh, I must run. Mattie are you coming with me? I have a date with the barber, girls, and I'm fearfully late. See you all at Goldhergs dance, to-night, she said over her shoulder. You bet. Ruth Sackett, Ione, Sterra, and the U'Rens answered. That Goldberg place certainly is lovely, said Ruth Sackett. I'm crazy to go to-night. The Grey Brothers did the decorating, said Ione. ' Not Chester and Wheeler? 'I questioned Sterra, Yes they're very popular around here, Ione said. VVell, mused Jean, It's not so far from interior decorafiorzs to interior decorators. They all laughed and then yelled together, Yea '25 . A camera man who had been hovering around, was shocked into taking their picture and a reporter gave them a full column on the front page of the Community Life. Thus the class of '25 of East' Lansing High School became famous ! I ! .' MYRTA CooNs is H xc ts H page twenty- four