Electra High School - Bengal Yearbook (Electra, TX)

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l rH'rlfH'EHV- SENICDI2 CLASS PLAY JKOMANCE IN A BOARLDING Housnr' By James C. Parker Mary Anne Smith QBetty Slatonb wins trip to New York and during her visit meets and falls in love with Mortimer Throttlebutton fCl?a.rence Hall.J Mortimer and his family come home with her to meet her parents Goan Hall and Curtis Holcomhl, who run a boarding house. The board- ers, Miss McGillicuddy fBetty Jo Rgpsel, Mrs Benson fViolet Wilsonj, and Bill fDesmond Hat- cherj, help Marry Anne by pretending to be aristocrats. The results are very amusing. Mr. and Mrs. Throttlebutton fJoe Burlgs Dig nd ' nie Earle Williamsl are dumfounfled at the astonishing actions of the family 6nK get out of such a madhouse. In the end surpris- ing facts are disclosed, -and all isvwell. The cast is good, and each has g Q . Pa .smith furnishes much fun by refusing to wear his shoes. .L- The production staff is 530 ' Beth Weatherall, prompterg and Cyrene Bell, director. , hi' .li

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Whether or not there are people who can predict the future is a much disputed question. Neverthe- less, several days ago Betty Jo Rose and I decided to have some fun. The crystal gazer to whom we went fhis name was Senor Figaro Figaroj performed all sorts of mysterious ceremonies, and after some time I asked him if he could see the Senior Class of 1939 in the future. He searched the crystal furtively and finally muttered in a broken dialect, Ah! I see the Senior Class of 1939 receiving their diplomas at the Electra High School. Now they have parted, and I see them separately and in smal- ler groups. Come with me! We shall visit the 1939 seniors who an scattered out over the world. Then Betty Jo and I gazed into the crystal and, as a moving pic- ture, saw ourselves meeting the seniors again. The first person we met was Rachel Douglas, who truly became the outstanding enter- tainer at the 1949 World's Fair. Her vocation had put 3 feather in her cap for rather, handl she was a fan dancer! Yes, she was still a Miss - - still waiting for Bryce to secure that coveted promotion from curb-hopper to soda-skeet. Next we found ourselves on a huge ranch in New Mexico. Ride 'em, Cowboy Joe- Can you guess his last name? Ligon! much to our surprise we learned that Britton Ancell had not become a rancherg it was Stewart Weaver instead, who had had a Dutchm-an's hair- cut, because it was so much trouble to keep the wave in it the other way. Britton was a hairdresser for an elite beauty shop in Dallas, where he was known as Monsieur Afhjncellf' 'Our trip now skipped to New York City, where we found the mighty Cummins leading an orch- estra in the Waldorf-Astoria. His featured blues singer was Myrle Tippie. Lucky New York had rc- ceivcd many of our 1939 seniors. l A l ri-Hs-f ev-fr- SENIQI2 CLASS PRCDPI-IECY There was Jewell Trout, reporter for the New York Times, and her fiance, Dick Flusche, designer of clothes for children. Co-starring in How Much I Love Thee were Beulah Jeffers and Edward Holder, we learned it was to be pre- sented in Electra at the Grand on April 12 and that Electrans were very proud of their home town actor and actress. Famous models were Dorris Sargent and Punkie Bryant who modeled for an artist who loved his work, Eugene Walker. Larry Chaffee, class Pres- ident of 1939, a famous detective, had never been able to discover where his charming wife, the former Juanita Yates, went when he was not at home. The first tsep to success, Larry, begins in the home, we wanted to remind him. We could not resist the circus at Madison Square Garden, and what sights we did see! Eloise Nevill and Beth Weatherall were running a race to see who could weigh the most. An-cl for being fat, they were drawing fat wages. Violet Wilson, after a four year college education Cshe majored in costume designingl secured a job that gave her great possibilities for the fu- ture and one which she liked most, a job in the side shows, singing and dancing - - Hawaiian style! Then we saw Jack Adams and Warren Flippin who have a part- nership: Jack stands outside a cage to shoot, while Warren enters it to feed the lions. Who should we see at the circus but Leroy Baker, out for some fun! He won a race and S100,000 at the same time: so now he was coasting. A special treat at the show was the ice perfor- mance with Milton Henderson, Betty Jane Low, and Bessie Pearl Parks, known to all as fancy fig- ure skaters. The scene changed and we on our way back to first stop was where the little Charles Birkhead of tablished as Secretary of State of the United States - - a very prom- inent person indeed! His quiet and unassuming wife, Kathleen White- side was exceedingly proud of her famous husband. Also in Washing- ton was Betty Slaton, a perfect little homemaker, so her husband said - - though she had to break a home to get him. From Betty We learned that La Roy Durham was selling patent medicine at a med- icine show and that Vivian Leach, his co-worker, took the medicine before the audience to prove that it would not kill them. And we were informed that Earl Childress, whose brain was always too busy to be at the head of anything but a bed, was a well-known political boss. Again we boarded the train and moved forward, and on a huge billboard we saw that Bring 'em back alive Hazel Bickley was famous and was getting ready for the preview of her new picture, Nine Years in the Jungle . Inter- esting, no doubt! One of our fellow passengers was Hollis Cole, who had finally given up trying to charm women and had taken up snake charming instead. He said it wasn1't nearly so dangerous. The news butch was none other than Joe King, who had courted Patsy Jennings for eight gears. Just about the time Joe got up courage to ask her to marry him, Patsy lost her job. Ho-hum, better luck next time, Joe! At one small town, where the train stopped for water, we noticed an organ-grinder, pa- fading UP and down, playing. 0 Sofe Mio with a group of neigh- borhood children folliwing. Imag- ine our surprise when we saw that it was the Peruna fan of 1939 - - Chicken Hall. At Richmond we found Joan Hall waited eight years for Curtis get his degree in medicine, but the meantime he had married his Juanita Davis, and Joan up quiet a reputation for