Sabetha High School - Blue Jay Yearbook (Sabetha, KS)

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 The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind are two unforgettable movie class- ics. r Freelance. Zhat {Jazz rock-and-roll. Other early rock- and-rollers were Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. Music played an important part in another entertainment medium- radio. Radio was the main form of entertainment dur- ing the Depression. Millions tuned to Amos and Andy and The Guiding Light. The early programming of tele- vision was a combination of com- edies, soap operas, and game shows. TV of the seventies moved away from this, schedul- ing situation comedies and mini series. Just as technology has become more advanced, people’s tastes and desire to be entertained has grown. Country-western was on the rise in the seventies with stars such as Kenny Rog- ers. The west was never so classy or crooked, but when the prime-time soap opera Dallas hit the air waves with oil wells, shady dealings, and Texas-sized vendettas, the western was reborn. Forward 5

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A local resident Annie Redline. at 7T' around billed herself World's Biggest Woman . One of the most recognizable voices in radio comedies was the talented comedian Ed Wynn. Entertainment Zhrough Zhe Century, And All by Krista Barber Entertainment in the past cen- tury has undergone many changes. High schoolers in the 1880's were captivated by the daring young man on the flying trapeze while this year it was Shogun.” A circus star in the 1880's. An- nie Redline. billed herself as The Biggest Woman on Earth.” When not with the circus she lived in Sabetha. Upon her death a side of her house was removed and a wench used to remove her cas- ket- a grand piano case. In 1894. the Kinetoscope was invented which evolved into movies. Probably two of the most well known films are Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz,” both released in 1939. A family of midgets that resided in Sabetha were cast as munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.’’ Today’s movies rely on special effects, and music for success. Some re- cent box office smashes were Jaws” (1976) and Star Wars” (1977). Today’s music, rock-and-roll and country-western, are heard world wide. The basic structure of this music comes from jazz. Jazz came of age in the twenties, with such greats as Louis Arm- strong and Jelly Roll Morton. The Swing Era brought about the rise of a young singer named Frank Sinatra. Sinatra was to the Swing Era what Elvis Presley was to 4 Eorward

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From bustles and corsets, to the mini. midi, and maxi-skirts of the sixties, to the preppie look, fash- ion has undergone many transfor- mations. Since many students were farm children and the fashion of the day was from head-to-toe and sev- eral layers between, no dress code was established in the 1880's. The well-dressed high school girl wore two camisoles, a corset, a bustle, or set of narrow hoops, at least three petticoats, pantaloons, with a full-length wool dress covering the complete set of undergar- ments. The women never cut their hair, curling it in ringlets with met- al curling irons. These were heated by placing them in kerosene lampsi with no way to test the hotness, many a curl was singed or burned away. This style persisted until the twenties when freedom was found in bobbed hair and shorter skirts. A proper young lady of 1927 did not go without shaping her figure into slim lines of beauty by wear- ing the Sears Pliant-B corset. In the thirties, hemlines hit be- low the knee and the corset be- came a thing of the past. The for- ties brought about slacks for wom- en with the start of the war. Shoul- ders were padded and the perfect K)” was the full figured girl. The biggest change since flap- pers came in the mid-sixties. The entire fashion world strived to be as bizarre as possible. Such fashion idols as Twiggy brought about the flat-chested, thin look. Hair was either worn as long as possible or in a bouffant. This was the time of psychedelics, body-painting, hip- huggers. and the mini-skirt. Even mens wear became more diverse with The Beatles and Johnny Car- son setting the trends. In 1974 skirts began their de- scent. The entire fashion world was pared down to a more conser- vative. establishment style. Wool skirts and blazers for women, and top siders and sweaters for both sexes. In men's fashion John Tra- volta made his contribution via Saturday Night Fever and a white 3-piece suit, sans necktie. Today, Twiggy has been re- placed by Brook Sheilds and her worldly Calvin’s.” No self-re- specting jean-lover was caught without someone's name on the hip pocket. The eighties could cer- tainly be described as one of the hippest” decades. There were other styles, plaid skirts with ar- gyle socks and Bass wee juns-, spiked heels and baggy jeans leather jackets and torn shirts. But the biggest gold mine was the hip pocket, appealing to everyone from the cowboy to the Wall Street executive, from old to young. Millions poured themselves into a pair of designer jeans and hoped the jeans left behind were talking to the right people. The working woman of the fifties became a molded figure with the advent of post-war girdles and hour-glass figure suits. The traditional formal of the fifties was a strapless affair in net and tulle, formats of the seventies became more diverse in material and styles with a more natural form. ill