James Monroe High School - Monrovian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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JAMES MONROE HIGH SCHOOL Nnurln Y the time one has reached the age of discretion, that - - seventeen, one is qualified to discuss and to criticize novels. 7 xi One has read enough of them by that time. . k Roughly, novels can be divided into three classes: .f win The fresh cold air novels. The warm stale air novels. The novels with no air at all in their setting. The fresh, cold air novels are invariably written on one theme, that of the dainty, deserted damsel who has been done out of her dues by a dastardly uncle, and the husky, handsome, happyfgoflucky hero, who helps the heroine in her hour of hardship, and, although the maiden protests against his supporting her, he carries his beloved, against her will UD, off to God's country and the wide open spaces. The second mentioned type has for its setting an ornate apartment or a magnificent mansion fpreferably the latterj. Heroine is, without exception, a pretty, pampered, powdered, painted, and provocative daughter of the rich. The hero, a blunt, brutal Qbut gentle to animals and children, bachelor, loves Annabelle to distraction, but is repulsed by her, because he cannot sway the Charleston way. Finally, in a moment of exasperation, Roger seizes his lady love and carries her perforce to the nearest justice of the peace, who marries them. The climax of these weighty works of art is of course reached when the blushing bride murmurs that she has loved him all the time. In the novels that have no air at all in their setting, or at best cold, dark air, the scene is laid in a filthy factory, or in an intolerable tenement. The sob-sister around whom the story circles, is a sweet, suffering maiden, who slaves ceaselessly at a sewing machine, and who is the sole support of a bedridden relative fthe more distant the betterj. The hero, a tall, tender truckdriver, is enamored of the girl and wishes to marry her. That perfect woman, however, is unwilling to do so, because of her feeling that it is her duty to care for her greatfaunt. Five years later, after many privations of body and of soul, the solitary s'hop girl ffor' the aunt is now deadj, finds herself one fine morning, consenting to marry the wistful wooer. Then comes a surprise indeed! The happy husband turns out to be either a great movie actor in disguise, or if not he, at the very least, the Prince of Wales! RUTH WEINERMAN Senior Cltzss-Tu'en tu-four

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Senior Class-Twenty-five