Medill High School - Medillite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE MEDILLITE 63 As we were leaving Paris we noticed a large pile of American-looking luggage in the day coach. We were wondering what such a pile of lug- gage should be doing on the train, and going over to find out, we found sitting complacently behind it all both Sylvia Deitch and Rom- ona Dama. When we inquired as to the where and wherefore of all this luggage, we found out that these classmates were hurrying back to Washington as Sylvia had a seat in Congress and had to be there in time to make her opening address: Romona was her campaign manager. Now I ask you, what is this world coming to when women are elected to Congress! What are the men going to do? Because take it from a married man, when a woman has the upper hand she usually has it. We were just realizing this because we were talking to Lena Klimboff, who is in Paris outfitting herself, and at the same time getting some ideas and plans for her current stage production in the United Artists, and some- how or other Lena got the idea into our heads that the girls needed new clothes: and when girls make up their minds, it is usually unanimous whether you like it or not. Well, after a very little arguing and much buying we departed for Switzerland. I might add here that there was little arguing about buying a nw outfit, not because I did not want to argue, but because I couldn't. We Went to Switzerland and the beautiful lake, St. Moritz. Whom did we meet here but Concetta Procopio, who had left her designing establish- ment in Paris in the care of the modistes, to take a little time off for skiing and skating. Concetta, besides having a rather fancy figure herself, cuts a still fancier figure on the ice, as anyone who was in our party will testify. After spending many pleasant days with Concetta we departed for Venice, the land of beautiful canals and gondolas. Gliding down the' main canal, one night, we noticed another gondola that was acting very queerly: in fact, so queerly that we decided to see, as we slangily put it, what was being pulled off here. The gondola in question was rocking, and rocking so hard that I was expecting its occupants to be precipitated into the briny deep. As we drew along side, whom should we see in this 'gondola of many motions but the two Ordman sisters, Bertha and Anna, and Sadie Goldberg, who, were celebrating their meeting here in this far-off place. The Ordman sisters were introducing to the continent anew shorthand system, and Sadie was there on pleasure bent, spending her legacy. On our way to Austria, we noted many posters in the trains, but be- cause we did not know how to read them, we were not much interested until a native read them to us. He said that these posters were announc- ing the appearance of the famous American artist, Miss Mildred Smith. When we heard this, we could hardly wait until the train delivered us to our destination. At last we saw Mildred. We overheard the remark that if any artist could paint a picture of her the way she really is, it would make him famous: but in this day and age, we are sorry to say, they do not produce artists good enough. To one of the strange tricks of fate can be attributed the presence in Venice at this time of Ida Goldberg. Ida was by far the most well-dressed woman in Venice and was up to her old tricks again, such as going to parties, and dances: and at the time of writing she had her eye on a rather handsome and well-dressed young chap. On our way to Trieste, whom should we come upon but Sylvia Robbins and Anna Kaplan, who, coming into a large estate, had also decided on a trip around the world. Roslyn Gorin was traveling with them, but her

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THE MEDILLITE when we arrived at our destination, we were amazed to Hnd that these young men were so good in the printing game that they had erected a large building and were doing a rushing business in it. When our school-day friendship was renewed with these two pros- perous business men, we expressed our desire to go over their plant. Upon hearing this, Mr. Zabren said that we should be treated to many surprises. As we emerged from his inner oiiice, Mr. Cygan showed us pretty little Iean Greenblatt sternly presiding over a group of lightning-fingered typists, -of whom the fastest and probably the prettiest was Tillie Krotish. Not content with treating us to this pleasant surprise, he took us up to the accounting department and showed us-can you imagine whom? Vsfell, none other than our own President, Hyman Nusinoff. Here he was en- throned amid his books and papers, as a Certified Public Accountant, and was at the same time acting as king pin over many of his classmates, including his chief assistant, Bessie Krnoul. After showing us the work- ings of the presses, and the rest of the system used in their establishment, Raymond advised us to see a very famous draftsman who made a sideline of planning such announcements as we wanted. This man turned out to be none other than Ioseph Proskowitz, the former star draftsman at Medill. After we had seen to the announcements, it was too late to do anything else. We decided, then, to go to the Coliseum. We were much surprised to see that Bennie Zelig was a contender for the heavyweight championship. Needless to say, we could hardly wait to see this bout commence, and when it did there was no doubt as to who was to be the pexthtitle holder: there couldn't be with such loyal rooters as we pulling or im. ' That night, it was decided that for our honeymoon we should go on an extended tour of Europe. Accordingly, the next day' we took the Twentieth Century Limited and a few days later found ourselves in New York. .We made our way to the general offices of the White Sar Line and inquired when it would be possible to secure accommodations for three couples to sail to Europe. . - In inquiring for this information, we came upon Miriam Silver, who was general passenger agent for this line. Miriam told us that we could sail almost immediately, as three great business women had cancelled their trip to Europe because of the urgent needs of their firms. These wome' it chanced, were Florence Steinman, Anna Stramiello, and Rose Gale, who were buyers of imported laces, silk, and tapestries. We boarded our ship and were soon off for Europe. In sailing we had thought that we were severing, for the time being, all of our connec tions with the United States: but no, there was one slender thread that still bound us, and that slender thread turned out to be Fannie Harris, who was just then enjoying a vacation from the Opera in which she was acting as leading lady. Her voice was compared to Rosa Raisa's and her acting to Mary Garden's. When we arrived in Paris, we immediately hired a guide to show us about the city. The first place to which he took us was one of the largest universities of 'France where one of the American students of ,French es- pecially attracted our attention because we were sure that in her we recog- nized one of our old classmates: and sure enough, it turned out to be none other than Margaret Engelking. Margaret told us that she was about to fill the position of interpreter to the American Consul in France and that The vifianted to know the French language from A to Z, figuratively and itera y.'

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64 THE MEDILLITE purpose was a very different one from that of her two traveling compan- ions. She was traveling for a manufacturing concern way back in Chicago, and it was up to her to copy some of the European systems of manufactur- ing, and bring them back to Chicago where they are to be used to better manufacturing conditions there. We arrived at Trieste and went to a very popular tea room called Golden Garden. This little tea room seemed so Americanized that we inquired as to the proprietors and found out that they were Cema Mahlin and Anna Mappa. When asked where they had gotten the idea for this tea room and what made it look so familiar, they told us that they had done their best to model it after our own Medill Lunch Room. Also from Cema and Anna we learned that Yetta Koralchick was the principal of a large school in Russia, where she made a specialty of teaching the language of the ancient Hebrews. Now it was decided that we should start on the homeward trail. There were two reasons for doing this: One was that we were getting lonesome for our own United States of America and the other was, oh well, to tell the truth it was because our bank roll had seriously depreciated in thickness. It was decided that we should go back by way of Yokahama. Well, we got to Yokahama all right but there we were, stranded, penniless in a foreign country. Disconsolately we went to the American settlement in the hopes that we should find the American Consul there. When we reachd the settlement, whom should we see but Bessie Wagner and Pearl Sibulsky, partners in a candy kitchen. Bessie told us that Car- men De Vito was the American Counsul and that she was sure he would help us out. On our way to the American legation,--you will remember that we didn't have a cent and that we had to walk,-whom should we meet but Margaret Curtin! Margaret was an actress and was now in Yokahama on location in one of the most important pictures of the century, and was engaged to the director, who had a beautiful home back in Los Angeles. From Margaret, we learned that Sarah Sandler and Anna Klinsky were rapidly climbing the ladder of success in the theatrical world, and were then engaged at the Oriental as prominent dancers. We received some money through the American Consul, and as soon as we got it, we decided to retrace our steps and go home by way of France. We boarded the train and when the conductor came along to col- lect our tickets, who 'should he be but Peter Saviano! Saviano made his home in Yokahama, where he was happily married and where he hoped to become the President of the Aviation Line of the Pacific. With us on the same train was Elsie Getlin, who was trying at the time to contract some business between a Chinese firm and her own New York firm. Ida Pentansky was Elsie's able assistant in her commission. Enroute to Paris we got off at a way-station on the outskirts of the ecity. We were rather excited over the idea of going home, and as a result did not watch where we were walking and tripped over a pair of field glasses, cracking one of the lenses. Looking around for the owner to make reparation, we found to our amazement that they belonged to Esther Bernstein, who had just returned from the races. Esther, of course, refused to take anything for her ruined field glasses. When we arrived back in Paris, we noticed that there was a strong undercurrent of excitement wherever we went. The cause we learned later: Pauline Levine had just made an important discovery of world-wide im- portance in the field of surgery. - fContinued on page 1231