Point Place High School - Scarlet and Black Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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K The Scarlet and Black Fleeting Hours Charles Hendee and his lavender shirt, Ray Collins with his merry greeting, NHi, kidg' Ella Andersen, actress, display- ing her celebrated blond hair, Frank Herbert, explorer, who just discovered the last continent, Eldora Arndt, Gladys Aschenbach, May Bannister, and Olive Blakeney, all society matrons of the elite, George Sandusky, a college professor turned press agent. Gilbert Lazette, one of the fair horse- men, then, Jack Faunce, King of Broadway! When the lights go on they turn from the show to watch each other and wave in greeting. The men and women leave their seats and promenade. Francis Simon and Bob-McLeary, movie critics, rush past the loitering couples on their way to report the success of the play. The show, a Hester production,is symbolic of Broadway, glorifying the American Sirl. As the orchestra, directed by Art Hilt, swings into a gay melody, the curtains part and a hush comes over the audience. Ruth Haynes is cast as the leading lady and Donald King plays opposite her. The show runs along until very late and all stay to the finish to be present when Frances Homier, the director, is presented as the curtain falls. As time marches on it is now: 7 o'clock the following morning in New York. There is a delightful clatter and bang as New York arises from sleep. Down in the hallway, Clifford King, the keeper, is opening and slamming doors. As he opens his grocery store, Charles Restid shouts a word of greeting to Tommy Neiss,operator of a hamburg stand across the way.Around the corner Opal Rock- wood and Mary Jane Winzeler are singing on their way to white uniforms and the smell of chloroform. A vender steps out from shelter, smoothes his clothes, and turns away. New York is awake! 8 o'clock, The Cafe de la Pain, the historic corner restaurant where all the world drifts by3 Russell Willman, artist and decorator,sauntering along the streetgJack Bend- er, heavy-weight champion, on his way to training quarters, Elmer Clark, eminent French writer, wearing his London mon- acleg Dorothy Clevenger, missionary and reformer, who just returned from the wilds of Africa5Alice F1eischman,poetess, author of 'Beautiful Roses.n And always in the background Page Twenty-five

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The Scarlet and Black Class Prophecy of 1955 Fleeting Hours Time, the exerting influence that dominates our every action. It is now: 8 o'clock in Paris,dinner hour at all the smart clubs. Strains of 'Just Dreaming,N Dorothea Meinenfs latest dance sensation,may be heard above the tinkle of glass and babble of voices. Streams of celebrities come to and fro: Doro- thy Bennra,the new lead in WGeorge Mansor's Scandals,u with her press agent, Bill Wunschelg Charles Luzius, that sensa- tional stunt flyerg Dick MacLean, the man with the million dollar voice, Keith Pearson, the most promising young play- wright of the year, composer of 'Mad House,u the hit of Broadway this season, Don Wilson, who teamed up with Fred Astaire last yearg even Duke Lehmann is here gathering od- dities for his gossip column. A truly distinguished gather- ing! 9 o'clock,Times Square in Downtown New York,The lamps, bright and gleaming, strung like so many beads along the darkened street.The shrill of the newsboy,crying of murder, divorce, and a world wet with tears. Soon the Square begins to fill---thousands upon thousands. The glare of a street light reveals Dean Dieball, Harvard's basketball star, Bob Dorrell, the All-American halfback,escorting Marjorie Du- rand, one of New York's most beautiful mannequinsg Sam Wel- shans, reporter for the Evening Sung and here comes Jack Thompson, man-about-towng it's rumored that he is engaged to Edna Edmiston, ,the dancer.Bill Coleman, in a blue uni- form with a bright badge, appears around the corner---Time Square's flash of the lawless and the law. 10 o'clock at the premiere of New York's supreme show, the Follies! Forty-Second Street is lined with the curious to watch the arrivals. The curtain rises at ten, but the large theater is empty. Suddenly the rush--then the panic. The lobby fills, and New York's smartest audience sweeps through the darkened house to seats. The high spots: Betty An Replogle, the critic, in the aisle, glancing over the First Nightersg Norman Ga1l,the magazine editor,wearing his famed orchestra letters, May Nortcliffe,in full evening re- galiag Roslyn Smith, the society reporter,her cherubic face abeamg Lois Merryman,who has an undisputed social standingg Page Twenty-four

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The Scarlet and Black Fleeting Hours are theaters, magic shops, pastry parlors, hotels, streets clogged with traffic, debris, and oddly dressed people. 9 o'clock. The stranger in Washington is invariably much impressed by the Metropolitan air of aloofness. fhe capitol building gleams white in the blazing sunlight. The new session of Congress is beginning. Senators, legisla- tors, governors, and lesser officials all appear very dis- tinguished and impressive as they pass through the halls of the massive White House. Davidene Clemens,first woman pres- ident of the United States,is delivering her annual message to Congress. In the Senate chamber, Vice-President Kenneth Phila- baum, is the presiding officer. At the far end of the table is Alta Frick,Senator from Louisiana,who waged a victorious battle with her opponent, Violet Symington, during the last election. Eleanor Meilinh, from Georgia, originator of the famous XYZ bill,is conversing with Evelyn Olson,who started the social reform movement several years back. From the Legislature can be heard shouts and cries of ayes and nays,as the legislators pass a new measure.Speaker of the House, Fred Socie, is unsuccessfully attempting to maintain order. Above the din of voices Joyce Piper, Texas State Legislator, is heard proposing a new bill, but from the roar of disapproval it is immediately rejected. James Donaher rises to suggest a means for lengthening sleeping hours. Alice Welch, prominent anti-relief administrator, is speaking in favor of a reduced budget for the unemployed. Dorothy Peterson,her competitor from Ohio, in answering the honorable Miss Welch of the State of Montana says, Wlt is the duty of the United States to take care of its poor.' A burst of applause greets this statement. And so it continues,new bills,old bills, forever pour- ing into the hopper, rejected or accepted as they see fit. Thus the fleeting hours pass by, brightened by this class, graduated in the year 1955. ----Gretchen Long Page Twenty-six