Monterey High School - El Susurro Yearbook (Monterey, CA)

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EL SUSURRO heard. l l.ove the Cows and Chicken. Abraham Brazil was on the screen and behind him were his rolling hills and fields at Nashua. He was experi- menting on chicken food so that one chicken was made to lay eggs with three yolks. He will succeed! N'est-cc pas? And then the orchestra struck up the familiar tune, The XVild, VVild Women Are Making a Vtlild Man of Me, and there stood Lewie', Wells. now a millionaire, who is making oodles of money selling chili pepper neckties. l noticed that Lewis knew just how to make money and how to keep it away from the naughty girls. Everybody Rag with Mel VVhen I heard this piece of music. l could hardly make my feet behave, and then it dawned upon me that it,was Vincent Enea whose picture was on the screen. heralded as Vernon Castle. jr.. in his latest dance success, 6'The Bagby Hall Special. When the orchestra played the next piece. it reminded me of Harold Redbrook running down the street to catch the 8:18 express. It was When That Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'. An attractive office was shown on the screen and a big VVells Fargo sign on the building. Inside I saw llarold Redbrook as manager of the express company, working industriously. Hy the lleautiful Sea was sounded, and instantly l saw a girl with jet hair and blue eyes. llut this time she wasn't in Seaside. but at l'acihc Grove beach, chaperoning a jolly crowd of Stanford Marine Research students on a beach picnic. T noticed she was showing the girls how the Arabians first prac- ticed algebra on the sands. So jenny still kept to algebra. The next picture was of a spick little bungalow. very well kept, and. as the orchestra played There's a Quaker Down in Quaker Town. Agnes McCann stood at the door waiting for-well. ask Tiny. This tune was a live one like the girl it was meant for. lt was Save Your Kisses 'Til the Boys Come Home, and, sure enough, there sat Mary DeWitt at the organ in Trinity Church in New York. The next tune was familiar. for it was ln Monterey. and l saw that Olga Redbrook was still in Monterey, a successful business woman. Olga was pro- prietress of a cozy tea room in Monterey that was very popular with the Del Monte guests. The medley continued, I Don't VVant to Get XVell, and Nelle Scudder appeared at the doorway of a large hospital, of which she was the head. There stood Nelle in her white dress-a credit to Monterey High School. NVhen the next piece was started, l couldn't help thinking of the days in the lirench class. The piece was When Yankee Doodle Learns to l'arlez- Vous Francais. and to my amazement there he was. the one who always argued about a verb or something. But l had never thought that he would go so far as to become a senator in the French Senate so that he could argue some more in lfrench. lt was Monsieur Robert Norton. .Xs l was wondering when l'eter Dolan was to be shown on the screen, 10 I

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EL SUSURRO Senior Prophecy lly YINVIENT Email, l'i-:Tick Doi.AN and Tmiaiasia SCii.wriai.ia lVell, well, I said to myself. Monterey has at last obtained her break- water! The train stopped and 1 beheld a magnificent depot before me. No eyesore greeted the stranger at the depot, but. instead, a large otiice building on I'erry Street. I had received a letter from my friend, Wilton Gunzendorfer, who was in Monterey, after a sojourn in New York's leading musical conservatories. asking me to come and see him. as he had something very interesting to show me. I had supper with him, and about T o'clock we went down town. He took mc to where the Strand Theater used to stand on Alvarado Street. llut before me uow was a magnificent playhouse. This is my theater, Gunzie said. Ilut wait until you see.inside. XVe entered: it was truly wonderful in there. There was a large crowd of musi- cians in the orchestra pit ready to begin. Now, he told me, I bought a patent to a swell machine. Here it is. When the orchestra plays a tune suggestive of some one, this dictaphone carries the sound wave to a crystal mirror, which is so connected with a motion picture machine that the image of the person suggested by the music is then reflected upon the screen. Well, l'll leave you now, but you listen to the music and watch the screen. This I did. and waited with curiosity. The orchestra rendered some real jazz music and I realized that Gunzie was still on the job. The piece was very familiar to me, for I remembered having danced to it. It was Long Hoy. and just as the chorus was sounded. I saw on the screen VVilliam Mcfiachern standing before an establishment of Ifords. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw my old schoolmate on the screeng but I said nothing and looked on. Then the orchestra played Whose Little lleart Are You llreaking Now ? This was certainly familiar to me. And there l saw Dot Harrington in a studio designing clothes for I. Magniu's. So Dot had to do something about clothes! When another piece was played. I knew he was playing a medley of favorite Senior tunes. This time it was Salome, and there was Therese on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in her farewell performance. I think I saw her lips moving as she danced with her chorus of dancers about her. Yes, she was talking right out loud. I'm Iioing to Ifollow the Iloys Over There began, and I wondered who had thought of going across, Then it dawned upon me. that cablegram from France. Sure enough, there was Myrtle Machado all dolled up in her Red Cross uniform. trying to look serious, but not succeeding very well. I coul:ln't help thinking of the Castroville train coming in late when I 9

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EL SUSURRO the orchestra played There's a Long, Long Trail. and I thought of Pete walking up that long Ifranklin Street. and presently I saw Peter Dolan at the manager's desk of a large corporation. The next piece I heard was Gasoline Gus and His .Iitney Rus, and there I saw Iiarl Ifiles--an inventor of a special speedometer. This was invented by him to see how fast he could make a flying trip to the Grove. I was wondering who else was on the Senior list. when I heard If I Knock the 'I.' Out of Kelly. The song certainly put some one in boxing gloves in my mind. I had guessed right, for there was Roland Noack in a prizefighter's outfit. The orchestra. played a strain from You Made Me Love You: I- Didn't VVant to Do lt, and I saw Ilill McGowan in the president's office of the com- pany that has a jitney service between New Monterey and Marina. The next picture was in a sylvan walk. There were many wild flowers and insects about, and when the music played A Little Ilug VVill Get You Yet. I saw Ilernice I'eacocke with a butterfly net chasing a new species of insects which she had named. And Ilernice became a biologist-well, I guess the bugs will get good care. Then the orchestra played Mr, -lazz Iliniselff' and I saw the whole orcehstra on the screen, with Gunzie as their leader. That's a great inven- tion, all right. I told him later. If every one enjoys seeing the absent as I have. you will I'e looked upon as a benefactor to the world, not to mention being the class Rockefeller. Class Song llv Malo' IJl'llVl'l I' Tune: When the Lights Are I.ow. Now school is o'er, and we'll meet no more, lfor the future comes to view. llut as we roam far away from home, Our thoughts will return to you. The voices heard. the faces met, We never can forget. Though old and gray. our Iligh School days Will linger with us yet. hon CIIURVS Ifarewell to our dear Iligh School, lfarewcll once more to you. I-. fa Y- We are ioin f awa ' 'if 1 ' ' g to le ive, tls true. llut when our goal is far, You'll be our guiding star. And lead us straight to the world's happiness Into the land of success, Into the land of success. Into the land of success. 11