Hutchinson Central High School - Calendar Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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THE CALENDAR 13 l Miner:-fAwe-strickenj You don't tell me! Freak Miner Freak '-Certainly I do! This is a wonderful cave! Do you see that rock? '-Yes, I believe I actually do. :-That rock is highly sensitive-in fact it is an absolute television plate. By merely concentrating your mind upon some individual or place, you witness upon this rock a motion picture of your subject. Would you like to try it? Miner :-Do you hear me resenting? Freak :-Very well, then. Sit down here. fThey both sit down facing wall at right which suddenly becomes illuminatedj. Now, concentrate on the subject you wish exposed. Miner:-Let's try Chicago. That's a nice quiet place. fSlight pausej Look, Jack, look! It's coming on! And it's one of those Marathon singing contests. Darvin De Marchi and Anthony Sapienza are in it. They're at it again. I remember the first one they were in. Anthony sang Way Down South in Dixie for two weeks and a half. Darvin won because he sang The Stars and Stripes Forever. Freak:-Here comes the promoter on the screen. It's Elmer Toll! He's a big marathon promoter now. I understand he will stage a gum chewing marathon at Crystal Beach next summer. If Helen Maidy, Tillie Miller and Eddy Willahan take tickets as usual, they'll have to open an annex. Eleanor Peacock and Velma Hurst have entered their names as competitors. Still up to old tricks. If you know what I mean. Blanche Lankler is head nurse for the affair. She'll come out of this a jaw specialist. Miner:-Thereis a box of Ossy Till's Chewing Gum for the winner, and a week's vacation as guest of Irma Hausauer, Buffalo's World-famous aviatrix. Re- cently, she made a successful non-stop flight from the airport in Buffalo all the way to Kenmore. Doris Gehrs is kept busy sending out autographed photos of Irma to her many fans. fSlight pausej Jack, this is absolutely wonderful l Let's have New York. Freak :-Certainly! Weill see what's going on there. Miner Freak '-There it comes. Why it looks just like a radio station. And that's just what it is. Miner:-Here comes the announcer up to the microphone now. Say, that's old Bill Steils. Freak '-Nobody else but! With that little mustache of his you would never recognize him as the Bill Steils we once knew. Two more of our bunch are his assis- tants, Bill Deranek and Bob Dahmer. They were recenttly awarded the Gift of Gab. Miner:-They're always trying to beat each other. Last April Fool's Day, Bill called Bob on the phone. Bob lives out Main Street now. Bill disguised his voice and said, Hello, Mr. Dahmer? And Bob answered, Speaking.', Then Steils spoke as follows: I'm Mr. Greenwater representing the General Outdoor Advertis- ing Company. As I understand it, your residence is on the Main Street Car Line? Dahmer replied in the affirmative. Then,', said Bill in a cool voice full of con- viction. You had better get it off Bob, there's a street car coming. Bob is still Waiting his chance to get even. Freak :-fAfter laughingj Here's a bunch you surely remember! They've stuck together ever since graduation. Reading from left to right they are, Buddy Wolfe, Cotty Emslie, Joe Marvin and George Doran. Besides being one of the country's

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12 THE CALENDAR comes to center stage and stares wonderingly. He carries a small pick with which he begins to test the rock wall at right. The light on the miner's cap flashes about the wall. Finally, he becomes intent on a particular section of the rock. At rear middle stage, there is a small, blinking light which grows steadily. Suddenly in the doorway appears a freak outlandishly grotesque in appearance. He stands in the opening and blinks his eyes. Then he goes to the darkened left side of stage. Miner hears something, whirls about quickly but can see nothing. He resumes his examination. The freak comes to front center stage, stares stupidly at the audience and then goes right stage just behind the Miner. Freak :-What Ho! fMiner starts and turns slowly around and then grows horrified at the sight.j Miner :-Really now, this is no suitable place for practical jokes. Freak :-fLaughsj. Miner :-I don't see anything humorous in this situation. I just broke into this cave while digging in the mine and while investigating, I am confronted- with you. VVill you please explain who you are and where you come from? Freak:-It's a long, long story! You remember a terrible earthquake that wreaked havoc in this particular section of the country back in 1930? Miner:-Quite well. It was a horrible aEair. Not one person was left living who was in the area at the time. But that has nothing to do with you. That was 25 years ago! Freak:-Oh yes it has, because there was one person left living although he never saw the surface of the earth again, and I am that unfortunate person. Miner:-And you've been down here all that time? Freak:--CNodsj. Miner:-4But why do you wear that strange costume? Freak :-A trick of nature! When swallowed by the earth and thrown into this cave, I developed this form but I retained my voice, my mind, and my hearing. My eyes though large in size, are poor in sight. fThere is a sort silence and then the Freak recovers his cheerinessj. We're not going to brood over my troubles. I'm too glad to see a real human after all these twenty-five years. Perhaps, you may recall reading my name among the missing of the disaster. It is ---- Or rather was Jack Hurley. Miner :-QConcentratesj Jack Hurley? Not Jack Hurley of Hutchinson's class of 1929? . Freak :-CSurprisedj Do you know me? Miner:-If that's who you are, I do. I'm Ed Coleman of the same class. Freak :-Well, for goodness sake! Have you seen any of the old bunch since 'way back twenty-five years ago? Miner :-CSadlyj . No. One by one they drifted off and now they're all gone. fSighingj I'd give anything if I knew what some of them were doing right now! But what have you been doing down here all that time? Freak:-For each of the 365 days of the 25 years, I have amused myself by watching the doings of the people on the surface of the earth, New York, Chicago, Paris, Pekin, anywhere. Miner :-CEmphaticallyj No! Freak :-CMore emphaticallyj Yes l

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141 THE CALENDAR most famous quartets, they form a block on the stock market and control all the stock of the Radiovision Corporation of America. Miner:-Allan Dyte wrote their last hit entitled, Don't Hang Up the Wash While lt's Raining. Dot Gaffke and her Band of Bums have made it a huge success. Freak :-There's Ham Jones over in the corner. He will probably give an illus- trated lecture on Beauty Spots of the Tonawandasf' Ruth Long is over there too. She just made a hit in the Whoopees of 1950', and became Broadway's favorite over night. She was entertained the other day in Jerry McMahon's tea room down in Greenwich Village. Did you know that Florence Lazuras and Lily Friedman are pursuing Dramatics there. Miner:-I hope they catch them. Chet Brcnntfuehrer is on Easy Street with Ruth Long's five year contract in his pocket. He's going to clean up! Which reminds me, Bobby Gross was elected Commissioner of Streets up in Hamburg the other day. The two political factions are warring as to whether his secretary shall be Ruth Marcussen or Henrietta Maier. Freak :-While Leone Babcock is telling how fudge might be made if she knew how to make it, l'd like you to tell me whatever became of our two big football men, Jerry Brock and Frank Schiavone. Miner :-Funny thing, Jack, but they both became football coaches. Jerry is head coach at Yale. By the way, Esther Pfohl became Dean there just a few years ago. It's the first time that the University has had a woman executive. And as for Frank, he is filling the place Hurry-up Yost vacated upon his retirement eight years ago. Yale and Michigan are deadly rivals now. At the last game two of our class, Tommy Dileo and Pat Salemi were shelled with pop bottles for predicting that neither side would score. Eva Mayer, that great journalist, in an editorial called Common Sense-As It Is Applied said that if they had used their heads and pre- dicted one side to be the winner, the barrage would have been cut in two and at the same time would have enjoyed the support of the college they had defended. At the hospital, the head nurse, Olive Sketchley, said it was only through a miracle that they escaped misplaced eyebrows. Freak :-Well, that's interesting! Wait a moment now, I've got an idea there's something doing in Hollywood. Miner:-Letis have a glance. Get the Osa Glover Studios. Freak :-Here it is and right in the middle there is one of the bunch writing gags for comedies. I can't make him out yet. Miner :-I can. It's Al Maggioli and that is just what I thought he would end up with. Look, over there to the left. They're filming a talkie. Let's concentrate on that. CPausej There, it's closing up now. Freak :fYes, and the hero is none other than Tommy Kennelly. Miner:-Everybody says he is a second John Gilbert. In his last picture, Sifted Flour he broke all box office records. Freak :-The girl playing opposite him now is one whom you should remember. It's Jennie Jengo. She went to Europe, stayed there ten years, and then came back a finished actress. I understand she is making lots of money. Miner :-Itis a fact and Emerie Spahn is losing his hair taking care of it. They say that when he made out her income tax last year, the government thought the remittance was a payment in full of all our old war debts. Freak :-QLaughsj Say there's Johnny Pitkin directing that play. He still wears those traditional short pants. And there's those world famous juvenile stars, Ethel