Maynard High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Maynard, MA)

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When 1 was a Freshman, my getting out of school every day at one o’clock w ' as a delightful and unexpected happening.’’ Joseph Carew Don’t tell us your opinion has changed! In my Freshman year I never lost any sleep because I was perfectly satisfied to go to bed at nine o’clock every night.” George Fuker What’s the story now? After eleven years of waiting to be a Senior, I have succeeded.” Alfons Krysieniel Three cheers for Alfons! He From Fear To Fame She wasn’t what one w ' ould call beautiful, yet she had that sort of foreign beauty which would attract the eye at a moment’s glance. Her hair was a soft yellow gold, and her skin was the fairest I had ever seen. It was not, how ' ever, her hair or her skin which attracted my attention, but her eyes which had a soft radiant glow about them reminding me of the stars twinkling in the grey twilight. They had in them something which made me stare, for they had a look of fear. She was tall and slender and she carried herself with all the poi.se and dignity of Cle opatra or Queen Elizabeth. 1 knew the moment 1 saw her she was the girl my associates and I had been searching for during the past seven months. If she had been anyone but Marie ' Froskowicz my plans would have gone off perfectly. Any other person would have jumped at the chance to get into the leading role in The Garden of Eden,” my latest produc- tion which was to be filmed as soon as possible. But Miss Troskowicz did not want to a( t before the camera. Less than three years ago the Nazis had entered a little town in the heart of Poland In this town Marie and her family led a very happy life. Her mother was a very great and renowned former stage actress, who had been acting in films ridicul- ing the Nazis. When the Nazis entered this town, they brutally shot Marie’s mother and father. They did not, however, shoot Marie. They knew it would hurt her a great deal more if they let her live with the memory of her parents’ untimely death. Some people said she was one of tho.se fortunate few” who were spared their lives by the Nazis. Marie did not consider herself lucky or fortunate; she was forlorn and frightened. The thought of acting before a camera had taken hold and was getting the best of her. I tried my best to help her overcome this fear, but to no avail. She was afraid of every bright light that ever had shone. The only way I could think of a plan that might possibly help her to overcome this fear of the camera was to remind her of her mother’s wish that she become a star. One day when I was sitting in the living room of her apartment, I noticed something on the book elf which I had not seen bfore. Marie did not mention the matter, so I did not inquire about it. Three weeks later she called me and asked me to come over to her hotel at once. When I ar- rived she was sitting in the chair holding in her hand the mysterious album. She looked different somehow, but I could not quite put my finger on what it was. She handed me the album, opened to a picture of her mother. Then I knew the rea- son for her anxiety. Below’ the picture was writ- ten, To my only daughter, who 1 hope someday will take my place on the stage in America as well as in Poland.” Now 1 knew what was different about her. The fear had gone from her eyes. She was once again happy and contented. In her eyes the stars twinkled brightly because she knew now that she was going to follow her mother along the road (o fame and stardom Ann Hinds, ’49 (28)

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