Galileo High School - Telescope Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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THE TELESCOPE DIQODHECV By EVELYN WE1.cH, june '34 ART of the important job of graduate editor is in the assembling of 318 pictures and names and making them fit. This graduate prophecy is an after-thought- something to be done after one has been made dizzy looking at pictures of people whose interest in the Telescope never goes beyond their own good likeness and sometimes not that far. As if the assembling of names and pictures were not enough, I was pulled in on the actual pasting of the things this year-a work of art, if you please. The whole task had me down', as I walked from school at 2 o'clock one afternoon in the final rush to complete the section. Now I must write the prophecy. What should I say? Well, I weak- ened and instead of writing it that day I found myself in the cushion seat of a down-town movie viewing Mickey Mouse running after Minnie. But it was very warm and I found myself growing very drowsy and as far away from an idea as I ever was. I-Im-m-m, that screen seemed to be very blurry. Something wrong somewhere. Ah, now it was becoming clearer. Something is still wrong, it canlt be---yes, it must be-it is I-it's Margit Larson I see. She's on a boat. Wonder what she's doing there? Why, I'm standing beside her! People are cheering, throwing confetti. We seem to be going on some kind of trip. The screen is becoming still clearer. I seem to be talking to Margit. Oh, yes! Now the talking machine is working. 'II say, Margit, donit you think this is exciting?,' You bet. As soon as we settle down let's go on deck and hunt up Captain Corbett Baker. He's an old friend of ours, you know, and he can take us down to the electric room to show us how this stream-line flying boat runsf, You know, Margit, these beds are queer looking contraptions. They,re more like a one-sided sausage than anything else. At least you can't roll out of them for I canlt say Itd enjoy landing on the floor in the middle of my sleep. Well, you won't in those. Theylre the latest stream-line beds, roll-proof, fall- proof, and what-have you. Come on, letls go on deck. Everything's in order now. Theres purser Donald Holser. Let's ask him where the captain is. Oh purser, purser! Where can we find the captain?', Hes busy just at present, ma'am. Helll be at his table at dinner-time, malam. You can see him theref, Thank youf, Let's go find the swimming-pool, Margit, it will fe-ouch-el Mt8c8c8zII! Well, I must say, young man, you could keep your feet to yourself when you're coming around corners. After-I' XWhy, it's Robert Smith! What are you doing here?', Weill How are you? I'm traveling across to Peiping. Being a lawyer I'm sent almost anywhere. Say, itis time for dinner. Shall we go and have a bite? We can talk in the dining room. Sure thing. After you set me on that floor, I could eat out the whole kitchen. Letls go! They certainly serve good food on this boat! By the way, what are you two doing here?'l ' Well, we're working for Madame Lucile Dragonls Dress Shop in New York and we are going over to copy dress designs-even if we have to dive down as far as the Middle Agesf, Quite an interesting job, I must sayf, We enjoy it immensely. Say, I saw Virginia Kesterson yesterday. She came in to see me about some legal I Page 261

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JUNE, 1954 records. I had quite a long talk with her about old times. She had just heard that Evelyn Miller was on her way to Hollywood for a contract with the Robert Glick Studios. It seems that from the same source she also heard that Wallace Mark, Lido Luperini, Elmo De Luca and Robert Kopf are directors down there, and Donald Bergeron, Ernest De- Martini, Montell Higgins and Roy Speier are their assistants. Douglas Watson, Richard Uriarte, William Stabler and Ralph Stoddard are all cameramen. Isabella Henry, june Hillman and Virginia Costa write the stories for the stars for whom Dorothy Fitzgerald and Frances Riedy design costumes. Virginia Lewis, jane Lathrop, Helen Gawry, Robert Thorp and Harry Young are make-up artists. I've heard that Attilio Bava is also down there playing his accordion. Oh yes, she said that Hazel Santos and Charlotte Bambino have a dance team of their own on the stage. Antonette Laiolo, Josephine Lombardi and Marguerite Whitman have main parts in Matthew Lebenbaum's opera production. I heard also that Adelina Ceccarelli, William Muller, Ian Humphries, Louis Menconi, Edward Scheid, Albert Dondero, Alex Alison, Burnell Kahn, Walter Morse, Sam Roberts, Gino Tricoli, Joan Swift, Olympia Rege and Lucile Patania are in the chorus, while Florence Viacava and Leon Gorman are in the orchestraf' Shall we go upstairs now? I think I'd like to go to my cabin and clean up a bit.'l O.K. Goodbye-we'll see you later. Margit, I'm rather tired, aren't you? Letls go to bed. Six o'clock the next morning when I ironically asked Margit if she felt like some breakfast, her reply wasn't very reassuring. No-o-o-o-o-o, for goodness' sakes, don't talk food! I think I have a slight case of sea-sicknessf, F Well, you can call it slight but I've my own ideas about that. My roast duck and cheese soufle are having a terrible battle and the coffee is putting in a word, too. We spent the remainder of the trip in bed. Friday morning found us on deck surrounded by our bags and ready to get off the minute the gangplank was down. We had not been in Hongkong many hours before we had absorbed enough atmo- sphere to know we were in China. Once on solid ground, we became hungry. After getting settled in our hotel room, we went downstairs to eat, and it was amusing to see the natives as they came punctually for their inevitable tea. Sitting in a secluded corner, we sketched to our hearts' content as women wandered in and out dressed in their native costumes. By the way, did you get those tickets for the theatre tonight?l' Yes, I have them. I imagine we're in for an interesting eveningf' g On a shelf of the mountainside we found a large native theatre flourishing with a nightly change of bill. To our surprise, it was managed by joseph Fong and joseph Park Li. They gave us the best seats they had and said they hoped we would enjoy ourselves. There were many American tourists besides ourselves in Hongkong, and some whom we knew. jane Marland, Barbara Nelson, Edna Nilsen and Margaret Nagel made up one party. In another corner, we found Pat Keith, Helene Dallman and Marjorie McCall, who were there because the U.S. was too dead. Richard Cassidy, John Cushing and William Glang were there for the opposite reason-they wanted a rest. julie Mlaker, Evelyn Stanley and Olga Parenti were on their way to Siam. We enjoyed the plays immensely. Horn Gok and Sun Yee Koo had the leads and were ably supported by Sam Wah, Carena Sing and Wing Tong. Next day we traveled to one of the most amazing cities on earth-Canton. There we were astounded at the boat dwellers who form a distinct and numerous class by them- selves. At frequent intervals, funeral boats passed and they were the noisiest of all. Some of them equalled the din of a boiler factory. Look, Margit, there's Raymond Rocca, our ambassador to China. Let's catch up With him? I Page 27 1