Mendota High School - Atodnem Yearbook (Mendota, IL)

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'ffs fb 'Ziff-2-I 'i'fff':pW 5 sentence him, and wept bitterly over his friend 's plight. The three of us had lunch together, and talked over former days. I had had a tooth knocked loose during the affray of the morning so I headed towards the nearest dentist 's sign. I was surprised to find that Dr. L. H. Sharp was my friend Harold. He fixed me up in fine shape, so that I was able to do justice to a good dinner at a large restaurant down town, where I met Lila Dillon and Marian Fitch in town on a shopping expedition. After dinner I went to a movie. Teddy Boslough The Komik Kountry Kid was the attraction and I aln'ost laughed myself sick at his klever antics. I then went to a vaudeville show, -where I saw Ed Spanier and Gladys Morrill in one of their side-splitting Irish dialogues. I noticed Gladys Bolster in the orchestra pit directing, and was glad to see that she had fol- lowed that line of work. On the way back to my hotel I bought. a paper, and almost the first thing I read was that Ted Nieman had broken the world's record for the half-mile. I also noticed that Grace Brown had captured the National Typing Champion- ship the day before at Jersey City. Hurray for the good old Class of '23! The next morning I started for the coast via the Faber Air Line. All went well until late afternoon as we were crossing the Rockies. A great storm blew up and Ralph was forced to descend. We were in a clearing in which stood a log cabin. We knocked at the door and it was opened by a burly lumber-jack who proved to be Harry Potter. It seems that his wife, formerly Mildred Kohl, although an artist of great talent, has given up her work and followed her hubby to the backwoods. Rorreo and Juliet haven't got any- thing on those two! On the following day we again headed for the Pacific. We landed in Los Angeles about mid-afternoon. Here I had the pleasure of meeting Anne Henry, the wife of a retired dentist, and one of the leaders of the younger set. I took a short trip out to Hollywood where I called on the Bellinghausen twins, who are appearing in a double role in a big feature written and directed by Victoria Fischer. , On the morrow we hopped off for the long trip across the Pacific. We stopped at the Hawaiian Islands for dinner, so I looked up Clarence Bailey, who is making a study of the native dance steps for his Follies of '44 revue next spring. We arrived at Borneo at about 6 o'clock. I noticed that there was great excitement among the natives, and, on asking the cause, was told that two missionaries, Velma Baumgartner and Jeanette Karger, were to be cooked and eaten at sunrise the next day. I learned later, though, that they were spared on promise of good behavior. At Tokio, Ila Harrison, instructor at Vassar and on leave of absence, joined our party. She was so eager to view the landscape that we had to watch her closely to keep her from going overboard. While 'passing' over the suburbs of Pekin, however, she eluded our watchful eyes and fell over the rail. Luckily she landed on a stack of rice straw and only sprained her ankle. After this she was more careful. TWENTY-QNE j. '. - .:. '. - .j.'2 '.. .j. '. - .j. '. - .j. '. .. .j. .. .. .j.'!. - .j. '.. gf . - .:. . - .j. '. - .Z3 .:.j. T: .jfifwtjm

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