Latin School of Chicago - Sigillum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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August 27, 1921 N 1 Lantern Bearer: Mrs. Eliason ' Props: joan Ralston l ,X Y l-larriet Dawes LELA BALDWIN ELLIS 'len minutes late, Lela wanders into study-hall, throws down her boolcs, pushes her olive- green lelt hat to the baclc ol her head, and, without removing her minl4-pavv coat, sits down. lvvo hours later, though she has attended three classes, Lela is still in hat and coat. Even the I v-4 . . . g oves have not been removed gloves which serve to conceal maroon-tinted nails from the unilorm committees eagle eyes. Should we have made visitor to dispense with her out-door toggery, when in school? a law to compel this well-dressed O00 During study-periods Lela, giving all things academic the cold shoulder, stares with consuming eyes at an almost lile-sized study ol the lovely Charles Boyer, which is propped up against her boolcs. She has even Forgotten to remove her Finger from the vocabulary in the baclc ol her French Reader. OOO Lelals unguarded moments: Admitting that she has read Shawls Saint loan, Lela again amazes the Seniors with her intellectual reading . . . Lela, arrayed in the customary fur coat and porlq pie hat plus shin guards, leans nonchalantly against a goal post. Down the hoclcey Field races the opposing team in sole possession ol the ba . Kicking furiously, jabbing with her sticlc, and saying things under her breath, Lela Finally hits the ball out ol bounds. When Miss Pri typilying boredom, only this time she is bemoaning a brolcen two-inch lingernail. The morning ol the junior Dance Finds most of the Seniors in beauty parlours, but Lela arrives at the Gym, which loolcs anything but Festive in the cold morning light, loaded down with decorations. Conlidently Lela starts to translorm it into a shipls declc. That evening Lela, very demure in an up-style hair-do, serenely accepts compliments h l4. N d concerned over the moon's permanence. ll. Lela becomes alert ce comes over to congratulate her, Lela is again on er wor or oes she seem the least 14

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i December 15, 1921 Lantern Bearer: Miss Hammett Props: Maxine Cooper Ann Caldwell JANE DUBlSKE lnitial performance of 'first Ladyn. ,lane whispers nervously behind stage as she waits to go on for her famous domestic quarrel with wife, Sidney Meelter, Kilim scared. l lcnow they'll laugh at my wig. Nobody'll talce me for a man. Somebody shoves her on stage just in time for the rising curtain. Then with perfect stage presence Jane begins to create the character of Carter l-libbard. She IS Carter l-libbard with his bowed wallc, his pompous speech,his methods ofrelaxing. The audiencedoesn'tlaughatthisgirltaking a manfs part, it applauds. Later someone says, That girl is a natural actressf' only to be contradicted with, Natural actress nothingl That girl has worlced hours on that partf' Cr to put it again, ,lane is a perfectionist when it comes to her love, the theatre. OOO Two Seniors sit on the table in the baclc of study-hall, gossip, and survey with a faint superiority the bedlam that is recess. ,lane appears in the doorway and wallcs quietly to her deslc, lifting her shoulders slightly in her characteristic way. lt arouses the Seniors to comment. ' '... She had another one of those stunning sports hats on this morning . . . Did you lcnow she's supposed to be a championship diver? . . . Awfully quiet, but a grand sense of humor . . . Well, l saw her lunching with the handsomest blond boy the other day . . . ,lane joins them, addressing them, as she addresses everybody, with a casual, ul-lello, darlings. 13

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.u,,:,:,', ,,,,,.t- 'fw sys' ' -' .:,. .. -s ,,g'a, s,g1f:,,'m 40,33,,.1,,,,-,,'.,,a:.,1: : . ,fl january 27,1921 Lantern Bearer: Mrs. Sands Props: Ada Blanche Wrigley ,lane Sargent l BETTY aiLLEsPiE President of Student Government Betty is in her element. With her gym uniform freshly starched, a trim white bandanna neatly tied around her head, and a hockey stick under one arm, she easily jumps the low iron fence obstructing her path, and in gleeful anticipation half skips, half jumps the last few feet to the hockey tryouts in ,jackson Park. Qnce on the field, our little Betty becomes a human dynamo, up and down she races, playing the positions of any and all of her exhausted team-mates, until the swiftly-falling Qctober night has darkened the field, and even the whitest ball is no longer distinguishable. The girls from the other competing schools look on her with avve, vve, of the Girls Latin, regard her with pride, and even the coach of a thousand such amateurs, admits she is the best schoolgirl hockey player l have ever seen. OOO Poor Betty is suffering, for she is definitely now not in her element. It is a study-period, and there is something in Betty's make-up that simply will not permit her to study in a study-hall. Qnly at home amidst familiar sights and sounds, can she settle down and concentrate. ln spite of this, however, she must somehow, as president of Student Government, keep up appearances and set the younger classes a good example. So Betty very faithfully at the beginning of each study-period, opens her notebook to a nice clean page, takes from her drawer several newly-sharpened pencils with long and impressive erasers, props a book up at a convenient angle-and looks dreamily out ofthe vvindovvs. OOO l.ittle Gill-es-e-pie is having a silly spell. She sits in the back rovv of her class and reso- lutely attempts to smother her gayety. Every now and then a convulsive fit of laughter threatens to overcome her, but sternly she represses it. At last in the freedom of the halls Betty lets off steam. To the obvious bewilderment of the uninitiated graders, she scampers down the hall, laughing uproariously at apparently nothing. At a time like this she is the most wonderful person in the world to be With, for she greets even the feeblest of sallies with gales of appreciative mirth, and anything even approaching the humorous, with positive hysterics. But she doesn't really need any external stimulus. She is perfectly happy just to laugh out of pure good humor. 15