Medill High School - Medillite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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52 THE MEDILLITE Belmont Hotel. Here were seen' Irving Berg, the new owner, and Isadore Kanter, the prominent politician, who was laying the corner-stone with the help of his brother politician, Louis Batler. The New York Yankees were next shown in practice. George Gar- rett, the player who had driven Babe Ruth to the benches, was seen scam- pering around in right field. Iohn Genovese was playing second base. and Al Berkovitz, who had dropped so many pop flies in his high school days, was playing first base. Leonard Ziff was catching the pitching of several rookie pitchers. As this scene was passing we saw Lennie run back to get the ball which had as usual escaped him. The sports continuing, the Chicago Bruins were shown practicing. David Togoda was taking a shot at the basket, but Leonard Levinsky interrupted the ball and threw the ball to the other side of the floor to Sam Garbow, who relayed it to Max Levin, and Max shot and put it in the basket. it We then had the pleasure of seeing how Gorin's News was made. In the editor's chair, as we expected, we found Paul Gorin. Florence Astrachan was feature editor and Belle Schick, her friend, was society editor. Belle's assistant was Florence Sterling. lack Glassman was the cart- oonist for the newspaper, and Irving Berger was still getting ads, for he was business manager of the Tribune, And a mystery was explained. Sylvia had been trying to find out who wrote the answers to the love queries. As the film unrolled we found out that this brilliant writer was none other than Marvin Wulif. The opening of a new chain of drug stores was then shown. lack Fried- man and Ben, Wernick had formed a partnership and gone into business. They had chosen Abe Goodman for their business manager. The members of the famous cast of the famous play entitled, Bad News, were visiting a hospital, and their visit had been photographed. 'Ilhe cast, consisting of Max Barack, Olga Zeiger, his leading lady, Faye Byer, and-Harold Retsky, were met by Ioseph Groenboom, the superinten- dent of the hospital. After this as they were taken through the wards where they and we saw Tony Episcope, who, as the film explained, had sprained his ankle while playing with the Chicago Cubs and was recovering in this hospital. Minnie Silverman, his nurse, was preparing her report for Tony's doctor, Harry Iacobs. The actors were then introduced to the nurses, who were Leona Campion, Gertrude Bloome, and Iosephine Ferrito. The doctors were introduced, and the honorable Max Barack greeted some of his former schoolmates. They were Raymond Reeves, famous eye spe- cialist, Iacob Blumenau, skin specialist, and Leonard April, a specialist on the heart of women. And then we saw a wrestling match between Iacob Ordman, the world Champ, and Rosario Montalbano, the challenger. Ioe Cecchini was be- ing taxed to the utmost to referee this fast match. Ioseph Gerbosi, Rosario's second, was ellin f R ' A y g or osario to get on the top, but Monty prefered to remain in his .r6Clining position.

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THE MEDILLITE 51 Class Prophecy of Jun. 19 28 YLVIA and I were riding over Chicago in our family plane and I was enjoying the view. Sylvia, who was reading Gorin's News, sudden- ly turned to me and exclaimed, Let us go to a theater! I Which one? l asked. ' The Metropolitan. The bill today is a movie of news events which have been photographed by Iulia Schneider, entitled, The remarkable things I have seen in this world. I agreed, and that afternoon found us within that wonderful theater, the Metropolitan, owned by Ben Solomon and operated by Ioseph Shufeldt. The vaudeville show, featuring Ben Fine and his Iazz Kings, was then in progress. We recognized two of the Kings at once. Louis Zussrnan was identified by his sparkling hair and Meyer Oberman by his portly frame. A young woman came on the stage and sang several selections from Car- men. We soon discovered that she was Thelma Rubin but could not understand why she sang so mournfully. Seeing her after the show,,we found out that Phil had a toothache. , Celia Kushner then danced upon the stage and sang several blue songs, composed by that composer of blue songs, Zigmore Harris. C'elia's singing gave us the blues, and we had almost decided to leave when finally the movie we came to see was presented. After the usual introduction, the first scene was flashed on the screen with the title, Mayor Cohen greets new city treasurer. The City hall of Chicago was seen and at the doors of the magnificent building stood the honorable Mayor Isaac Cohen. Coming with outstretched hands to- ward him was the treasurer. The outstretched hands identified the trea- surer. He was Leon Zimmerman, the man with itching palms. Y This scene faded out and next came the title, University of Chicago confers degrees on great lawyers. We then saw the auditorium of the University, where David Ginsburg, president, was passing out degrees to several famous lawyers. Harry Posey, Sam Rabinovitz, and Louis Neiman we distinguished among these. They accepted their degrees and faded away. The next line flashed upon the screen was, Medill Girls form Bus- iness College. Evelyn Fine and Ida Portnoy were receiving the congra- tulations of Ierome Pauker, who had rapidly risen in the business world, and of Ben Rotstein, who had risen high as a salesman of Shamburg's Coffee, the coffee that grows warm by heating. The teachers in the business college were seen to be all women. They were Rose Michaels, the bookkeeping teacher, Iulia Garrett, the shorthand teacher, Rose Steck, the filing teacher, and Doris Gold, who also was teaching shorthand. This scene faded away and next .came the title, United States champion defeats Roumanian champion, and we saw Milton Kohn play- ing checkers with Carlo Palumbo. - After this thriller we saw the laying of the corner-stone of the New

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THE MEDILLITE 53 Then came the grand recital of -the Kestin Conservatory of Music. Only the members of the faculty were participating. Helen rendered a solo, Marilyn Kesselman played a selection on the piano. She was follow- ed by Felix Bongiorno, who played ten different instruments, all well. Mae Bernstein concluded the recital with another piano solo. The Pesetsky brothers, Bernard and David, had become big butter and egg men. Their tsecretaries were Susie Brodkin and Fannie Myer- ovitz. lack Niedelson was another big butter and egg man. Bernard, David, and Iack were planning to form a concern to get control of all the butter and eggs. And the last and best thing in the movie was the formal opening of the new Medill High School. Fred Begun, principal of Medill, made a brilliant speech in which he said he would expel every student who went td the opening game of the Chicago Cubs. Those that go tothe Sox game-well that is a different matter. Fred is a Sox fan. Ida Funk, assist- ant principal, also made a speech, and immediately after the speech began to pass out ditching slips. Then came the teachers. Bernice Rauch was teaching one of the shorthand classes, Bessie Bala- ban was teaching the other class. Harold Levin taught the geology classes. Miriam Charack had taken the place of Mrs. Iex, and was now at the head of the bookkeeping department. Sol Rosenthal was in charge of the chem- istry department. Louis Stolfa and Nicholas Bruno were the coaches of the Medill teams. Art Schimmel was a professor of Civics. and Sam Sham- ban had become his assistant. Dinah Smoller was the office secretary. Irene Mategano and Milton Kochin were at the head of the history depart- ment. Milton had written a book called, How to be brilliant without try- ing. Milton had plenty of experience. , With this the movie ended. We were surprised and sorry to see it concluded as we had enjoyed the interesting scenes very much. As we walked out we met Celia Kushner. How did you like them? asked Celia. What? we in return asked. My songs? she said. Great, we replied leaving her. SIGMUND DIAMOND and SYLVIA FELDMAN Class Prophets.