Glens Falls High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Glens Falls, NY)

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J 'W I The next act is announced by Harrison Merritt, the celebrated showman. He introduces Walter Monroe, the worthy successor to Flo -Zeigfeld. Walter in turn introduces his retinue of pulchritudinous femininity. As he names them, they step to the stage. There are Esther Goodspeed, Grace Johnson, Lillian Pierce, Arlene Rice, Lucille Roberts, Virginia Wetherel, Mary Valley, Agnes Holmquist, Fawn Macy and Dorothy Pulver. After a brilliant display of grace and rhythm, the Walt Monroe Scandals give way to an exhibition. Bill Smith displays his act of juggling by skillfully balancing Rose Goldman on one hand and Elizabeth Yank- lowitz on the other. The climatic performance is in the form of a comic sketch, featuring John Williams, Frank Peck, and Marjorie Bronne. 1 As the applause dies down, the curtain again lifts, and we hear the unforgetable voice of Nathan Zimmerman broadcasting-still in his element! He introduces the dedication of the Lake George hospital by telling of his past basketball vic- tories. Soon we see on the screen a group of crippled children crowding around their benefactor whom we recognize as our old friend and classmate,iWilliam Henderson. Attending the children we see Julia Niles, Helen Lockwood, Emma McKinney, Edith Chapman, and Rhoda Bentley, all dressed in white nurses' uniforms. The funeral of George Bernard Shaw flashes before our eyes as the hearse comes down a crowded street. At the sight of Roger Hilton, the undertaker, and Harry Kopelowitz, his assistant, we forget about the sad fate of G.B.S. The an- nouncer tells us that Morrison Haviland delivered a splendid eulogy before the funeral. As the scene fades out, the familiar voice begins to ramble on about scotch plaids and macaroni, but we don't know what it is all about until there is shown on the screen the conference between the Scotch consul, Alexander Gilchrist, and the Italian ambassador, Garmello Basta. Next, Nate - still talking - tells about the latest and marvelous diving apparatus invented by Professor Richard Garrett, of scientific fame, and, when the picture comes on, there is Dick Wearing a goatee, and beside him looking very serious is Harry Thompson. Nate's voice stops. Something must be wrong with the machine! But, nol ,The sports reel, Champions of the Week , comes on, announced by Horace Barber, the popular sport writer and speaker. He tells of Robert Adamson's winning the Albany-New York outboard motor races, classes A-Z, of Johnny Wescott's attaining first place in the hundred yard breast stroke, of Bill Holmquist's winning the Davis Tennis Cup for the United States, of Bub Southard's success captaining the victorious N. Y. Giants, and last, but not least, of Daniel Torchetti's winning of the National wrestling matches. Page Twenty-six

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'-' i mp: -r :g'fl:f- . - V fx Af' w-gg., night. That severe looking lady so icily staring at Wilhelmina Warner, the Presi- dent of the W.C.T.U., is Alice Belmer, successor to Mrs. Willebrandt, counsel of the California Fruit Growers' Association. There is Marie Canale, recently re- turned frorn abroad with the latest ideas in coiffures. Yes, it's Sender Borlowsky sitting with her. They were married in '41, Whom is Gladys Wood clinging to so fondly? Why, it's Ernest Riversl! To think . . . There's Harry O'Connell, the prominent teacher of English at Vassar. He gets along with the students very well, I hear. Step aside there! Here comes the famous doctor, Professor Louis Witham, who not only has discovered cures for infantile paralysis, cancer, tuberculosis, headache, athlete's foot, as Well as fifteen others, but has invented several marvellous com- binations of magnets, aqua, terra, and aera gadgets, which have put him in a permanent place in Who's Who and Believe It or Not. After him, come Elizabeth Strong and Helen Winchip, vying with each other for the mostintimate story of this well known physician-inventor. Again we survey the audience. There is Steve Goodell, still broken-hearted over the dirty trick Segerson pulled on him. Oh, well, I suppose Dorothy loved him. Anyway, Steve turned sailor and now has a girl in every port - on every wharf, instead of every street as of old. Malcolm Ashton's girl threw him over, too, so he is collaborating with Bob Johnson and Lawrence Doyle, who are in the same straits. They spend all their leisure' time now in reading True Stories. Over there in the box we see Gertrude Bakst and Lillian Shapiro all ready to make scathing and constructive criticisms of this revival of elderdays for the New York Times, which is now owned by our old friend Clendon Crannell. Suddenly the orchestra-George Rothmeyer's Five Little Peppers--strikes up Annette Chesler's latest composition, Highlaria. It's a peppy orchestra, and so we take a look at the players. There are Carl Beck with the clarinet, Dave Marlow with the saxaphone, Charlie Hall with his drums, Dorothy Lansing with the trom- bone QI wonder where she learned to playlj and Elsie Lavine at the piano on which Jeanne Bruno coyly sits and croons, while Phil De Sanctis does contortions which he calls the Back Blottem dance. ' A sign comes into view announcing the first act of vaudeville-the Swirsky Sisters in a song and dance. They strut their stuff and then are followed by Russell Watt and his company in an interpretative spring dance. As the company comes gracefully out, imagine our surprise to see Bob Medlar, Bernard Fuller, and Charles O'Connor, with the robust, healthy Lena at the head. Page Twenty-five

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V J N ,r ,,,.gy7Mjf7gvfqLvrg:yf:f': W f ff-'N ig -h ig,-yn-L-? fy-.5 .vm-st. t.,,?.?5':,?m,n,,?.Q,m,?.H,uPg ' T 1 .4- Now amid a bedlam of acclaiming shouts, the feature picture is started. What T J an ovation the people giye the revival of that popular drama of yesteryear- Grand Hotel. The general preliminaries are given. Producer .......... Maynard Ryther Photography ........ Spencer Bellinger Settings .... Anne Breen and Marion Thomson Costumes . . . Margaret Foley and Violet Lanfear , ' Technical Adviser ........ Esther Shaw , Director .......... Robert Segerson Then comes the list of characters. Everyone gapes at the number of stars now famous in Hollywood that are cast in the production. cnamcrmns 1933 1948 Kringelin ...... Lionel Barrymore Joe Burp Baron Von Gaigern . John Barrymore William McCune Grusinsksia ..... Greta Garbo Annis DeLong Flaemmchen . . . . J oan Crawford Joy Rahr n Preysing ....... Wallace Berry Richard Theobald ll Dr. Otternsklag . . . Lewis Stone William Morse I. Chauffeur ...... Mr. X Martin Oudekerk The picture is a ig.-eat success. For many it awakens old memories, and, as we sit there thinking of the old days, we notice several prominent people. There are Myra Duliie and her tenth husband. QShe is running a hubby race with the aforementioned Esther Goodspeed.J Behind her comes the Secretary of the Inter- ior, Eafl Bentley. We also see Isabel Eaton, who is now President of Skidmore College, and beside her walks Dorothy Newberry, her private secretary. l s Gradually the crowd thins, and the theatre empties. We step outside into the cool night air. Simultaneously two ragged creatures step up to us and say, AM' Brother, can you spare a dime? The voices are slightly familiar. We look again Upon my word! Louis Spector and Etson Hitchcock! The finishing tou h is given The day is over, . g ,, . n '. . , T and so to bed. l it 1 I Page Twenty-seven