Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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14 THE ENFIELD ECHO comes on stage from R and L. The girls pour and pass the tea.) Edna—Drink your tea, Anna, and I’ll read yours first. (As the cups are drained the dregs are interpreted.) Edna—Anna, your popularity and wonderful dancing must have followed you from your High School days, for I see that you have rejected many brilliant offers in marriage. Evidently you prefer independence. Next, Sylvia Burbank, you have been studying Biology. Here you are teaching in a young man’s college in London but your chief work seems to be cutting up hearts. You always were rather good at that. Reilly—What can this be? It looks like an ivy-colored school building. Who is this dignified young professor? Well, Chestnut, such a change in the last few years. The most mischievous boy in the class now the President of Cum-an-learn University. Anna—Here we are in California. A number of representa- tives of the Paramount Co. have made a great many offers to you, Edna, to take Mary Pickford’s part in “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.” We aren’t surprised at this for you always won everyone with your cute ways. Chestnut—Who is this? Well if it isn’t our old friends Reilly and Rosenberger. Reilly is chief contender for the heavy weight title, and has scored 20 consecutive knockouts. Rosenberger is his manager and he picks some hard fights. Edna—Now, Grace Slattery. Why, you have taken up chem- istry. I believe that it is you who have discovered that new gas around the sun that all chemists have been working on since the total eclipse. Fine, Grace, I always knew that you would do some- thing big in Chem. Reilly—This is a domestic science kitchen at the Capitol in Hartford. Celia Parsons, you have risen high in the political world for here you are in charge, keeping the Congressmen well fed. Yours next, Billings. I see a large river crowded with boats of all kinds. The Commissioner of Navigation on the Scantic River —no other than yourself, James—is shaking hands with the pres- ident who seems greatly pleased at the way you have handled this problem of congestion. Chestnut—Here is a cupful of Victrola Records. Each one is a set of exercises for those people who are interested in reducing. O’Brien is advertising his records and giving demonstrations with each one he sells. Anna—Well, Landry, you’re next. Still living up to the old saying, “Be Prepared.” Here you have developed a splendid train- ing camp for young men and it is rumored that you will be a Gen- eral in the next World War. Where can this be? East Side, New York. Here you are,

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THE ENFIELD ECHO 13 One and there during the latter-part of nineteen twenty-four and till June ’25 made history. Room One is a spacious classroom, seat- ing a large number of pupils. The front of the room is occupied by a teacher, a bookcase, and some Juniors. Adorning the walls are numerous busts of great men to inspire the Juniors to study and to fix their motionless gaze on the ceiling. Nothing more will be said concerning the Juniors. The Senior Prom was a grand af- fair. People of note were heard commenting on the great beauty of the feminine members of the class present at this occasion. The fellows at school know how it’s done, of course. Vanity cases were in evidence about the classroom. They add to the appearance of a bare desk. The girls seemed to think so any how. Eight were taken from Slanetz, at once, one day. One play was staged during the Senior year netting the Dramatic association about four hun- dred dollars. The greater part of this will be spent on athletic equipment. In this play, “Come Out of the Kitchen,” held at the Franklin theater Seniors starred as might be expected. The acting of Freda Kessner and Wilbur Bromage was superb. Mr. Bromage actually stopped the show during the afternoon performance. Some time after the play a prize speaking contest was held and the three highest awards were made to Seniors. The management of the Echo was left almost entirely to the Seniors, and anyone who has read the stories written by Seniors, will concede the superiority of the class of twenty-five over the rest of the classes which have passed through Enfield High. In the future the members of the class of twenty-five will undoubtedly succeed as they have, in the four eventful years just recorded, at Enfield High. CLASS PROPHECY By Anna O’Connor, Edna Woodbury, William Chestnut, and Austin Reilly AN AFTERNOON TEA (Stage set with tea tables and chairs.) Hostesses: Anna O’Connor, Edna Woodbury Hosts: Austin Reilly, William Chestnut Anna—Your special delivery reached us just in time as we were starting on a vacation trip this morning; but we came here instead, taking the first train. Edna—Aren’t you tired from the long ride? Reilly—Oh no! I’ll tell you how we amused ourselves. After watching the scenery for awhile, we began to talk about our class- mates and wonder what would become of us all by 1935. Anna—Let’s read our futures in our tea cups this afternoon. Chestnut—Fine. We will. Here they come now! (Class

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THE ENFIELD ECHO 15 Irene, as a social worker cheering the sick and poor with your cheery smile and witty sayings. Irene always was witty but who would have thought she would make such good use of these gifts? Reilly—In this cup, Stroiney, I see you sitting at a table read- ing what you have written. This seems to be another book you have just finished. We remember how your last novel, “I’ll Live for Love or Die” proved to hold the public spell-bound and wish you all the success possible as leading author in America in 1935. Edna—Lane’s Studio, Springfield, Mass. You have evidently tired of farming, Oliver. Here you are teaching soft-shoe dancing. Is it because of your wonderful personality and sprightliness that Lane’s has become so enlarged? It now occupies the entire block. Who is this stately figure, the center of attraction in the midst of Springfield Elite? Esther Bassinger, our old classmate; still it’s not surprising, sort of force of habit, Esther. Chestnut—This is a large ballroom. But where is the music coming from ? Station K Y W, Chicago, where Gannuscio’s famous singing orchestra is broadcasting. Gannuscio plays the saxophone and is the singer. Earl Bertrand plays the drum. Ruth Harris plays the piano, and Oh! how that girl can play! We’re in a theatre on Broadway. Gladys Buck and her part- ner, Milton Cohen, are dancing a tango. Gladys and Milton are very well known and popular along Broadway. Anna—What is this? A dance floor, music, an exhibition dance in modern dancing at the Venetian Gardens by Jean Lebeschevsky. I can see where you were quite a success at the Hippodrome, last week. Lots of success, Jean. What are these posters that I can see posted on a number of billboards? “Come an see the fancy diver,” they read, and this great person mentioned is Leona White who has condescended to give an exhibition at Riverside Park. Don’t miss it! Reilly—It seems to be a hall and you are addressing the crowd. According to the billboard, Edith Woodward is giving an address on prison reform. Her subject is “Teach Our Prisoners to Take the Bones Out of Fish and Cut Down the Death Rate.” This looks like Shibe Park, Philadelphia. The game between the Athletics and Yankees has drawn the usual crowd. Someone is just crossing the plate after knocking a ball over the fence. Can it be you, Pease? Now that you take off your cap to the crowd I see that it is you. Chestnut—What is the cause of this agitation in the House of Representatives of this state? There is cause enough. Frances Leggett has a seat in the house and is giving such fiery speeches that everyone is sitting up and taking notice. Here we are in Hollywood. Fanalise Lamont under the name of Katy Brady is making herself popular and famous. She is star-