Eastern High School of Commerce - Eastern Echo Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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J ', ,Z it f xx 'L M H 'fi-1, .lf c it EZiGfei t. T lgr 2 -4-412 . Scene four takes us to sunny Spain. We see a garden filled with dark-eyed senoritas and gay caballeros. From one corner comes the pulsating music of the tango. No sooner is the first note heard than the garden is brightened with dancing couples, for the slow. throbbing tango is not to be resisted. The last stage of our trip takes us to Hun- CDLD ANNIEH tSf'nior E.f.ftI,X', Second .fIL't1l'Ifi She sat patiently on the corner, her lined. toil-worn face relaxed into a peaceful smile. The harsh glare of the street light revealed her deep wrinkles, sunken eyes and worn clothes. A stack of newspapers lay on the ground beside her. and yet her gnarled. mottled hands made no move to pick them up. People glanced curiously at her as they passed, but she did not seem to notice. Old Annie, that grand old lady of the news- stands, the darling of the newsboysfwas dead, For the past ten years Annie had sup- ported herself by selling newspapers. Every night at tive o'clock, punctual as clock-work. she had appeared on that corner, complete with her stack of papers. When the nights work was done, she gathered up the remain- ing newspapers. and swept off into the night, as mysteriously and silently as she had come. She was always dressed in sombre black, Her costume consisted of a voluminous skirt, which swept the dusty sidewalks, a woollen shawl, which covered her almost completely, a pair of high buttoned boots, and an old Salvation Army bonnet, perched rakishly at a defiant yet somehow pitiful angle on her EASTERN ECHO gary. We are in a gypsy camp. The sun is hanging low in the skies and the camp is bathed in a warm, yellow light. Laughing gypsy maidens stand in readiness for the eve- ning dance. The fiddlers raise their bows and draw them back in a slow. plaintive wail. The gypsy girls join hands and dance slowly around the fire in a circle, The music bright- ens: the dancers quicken their pace, their bracelets and ear-rings playing a gay accom- paniment. Gaily-coloured skirts swish around brown legs, Brown arms flung high above black curly heads. lips parted in a smile showing pearly-white teeth. flashing eyes that seem to Without music we would not be gypsiesf' So, out of mysterious Africa, sedate Eng- land. gay Yienna. romantic Spain and light- hearted Hungary come such songs as the St. Louis Blues , the Merry Widow Waltz . La Paloma , and the Hungarian Rhapso- dies. 4. .4 ,Q by lznxx tlhoanii, ASI head. Her face. under the brim of the lion- net, was a network of wrinkles and furrows. but her eyes peered out as bright and snap- ping as a young girls. She always carried an olfl black umbrella. the joints of which creaked rustily whenever it was opened. I often thought. as I hastened over to buy my usual paper and saw her sitting there in the tlickering light of the lamp with ghostly shadows streaming 'round her. that she looked like some old witch. l almost ex- pected to see her weaving her spells on un- suspecting people. and the smell of herbs seemed to linger faintly in the air. But then the spell was broken when l heard, Anil how are you tonight, sir? and looked down to find a pair of roguish, gleaming eyes look- ing up at me from under bushy grey eye- brows. and realized that it was only gentle. kind Old Annie. She was a friend to all, especially the poor and helpless. Her unobtrusive little charities were unsung, but many a poor. wretched creature looked at her with gratitude and wonder in his eyes. Everyone brought his little problems to Annie. and she never failed him. To many people she gave a new lease on life, and her meagre savings were always Twenty-three

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