Seward Park High School - Almanac Yearbook (New York, NY)

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CLASS OF JANUARY l935 BOOK REVIEW How To Succeed by Lawrence Dick HIS book is parTicuIarIy inTeresTing because iT Touches on a viTal problem, one ThaT is buried deep in The breasT of every human being. Everyone wanTs To be a success.A There are, however, differenT sTandards and ideas of whaT success really is. Some consider social and financial presfige uITimaTe success. Some feel ThaT confenfedness and happiness should be classified as success. Mr. Dick develops This Theme as he goes along. One poinT is made clear by 'Mr. Dick. I'Ie claims iT is aImosT impossible To be- come a financial success by working one's way up. The suresT way, he sTaTes, To become a success, is To marry The boss' daughTer. However, since boss' daughTers are so scarce, he proposes ThaT no boss be allowed To employ more men Than The number of daughTers ThaT he has. In This way, he hopes To make This parTicuIar Type of human more plenTiful. MOVIES I-IOSE screen lovers, I-larry Marcus and Frieda Zimmerman are aT iT again in Roses in Bloom , The! IaTesT screen aTTracTion aT The Main STreeT Theafre and seem To have anofher of Their freguenf surefire hiTs. Under The exceIIen+ direcTion of Frank Zupnick, who also auThored The sTory, They amuse and Thrill Their audience by Turns, so ThaT an enioyable Two hours slip by wiThouT any dull momenTs. Done in all color, The firsT picTure of iTs kind, aIThough There have been oThers wiTh parT coloring, boTh Mr. Marcus' and Miss Zimmerman's looks are shown off To good advanTage. Indeed, neiTher ever looked guiTe so well as They do in This picTure. The sTory of The picTure is very IighT and enjoyable. The hero, Tommy, played by I-larry Marcus, is a riveTer, while The heroine, Mame, is played by Frieda Zimmer- man. Tommy is a hardboiled, ouTspoken young man who enioys noThing so much as slapping down a fellow worker or anybody else. I-Ie meeTs Mame aT The beach and decides To call her aTTenTion To his presence by convenienTIy swimming afTer her and pulling her under waTer unTiI she promises him a daTe. Mame is indignanT buT will noT go back on her word. I-Ie Takes her To all The amusemenfs and in spiTe of herself, Mame can'T help laughing aT his rough wiT and admiring him. AfTer The evening is over They boTh go home. I This is all forgoTTen unTiI The STeeI Workers' Union gives a ball. AT This funcTion, Tommy's foreman inTroduces him To his daughTer who is Mame. The sTory moves along humorously wiTh Tommy vainly Trying To gain Mame's favor buT failing miserably. Then, Tommy dramaTicaIIy saves The flife of Mame's faTher. The resuI+ is ThaT Mame discloses ThaT she loved Tommy all along and They wed. An enioyable Time is promised To anyone who sees This -flicker. Page TwenTy-Three

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THE ALMANAC FILIBUSTER ENTERS SEVENTH DAY THE TilibusTer launched by SenaTor Jennie Kramer six days ago conTinued unabaTed Today as The senaTor, aT a loss Tor whaT To speak abouT Took To The Telephone book in order ThaT she would noT have To sTop Talking. The Tiery senaTor has sTarTed a virTual Talking maraThon and iT seems To be a quesTion oT how long she can con- Tinue To Talk. SenaTor Kramer is Trying To prevenT The passage oT The DepopulaTion Bill, which provides Tor The lowering oT The populaTion oT ciTies To a maximum oT 500,000. SenaTor Kramer, who hails Trom New York, is againsT This move, claiming ThaT she was broughT up in a crowded area and will never TorgeT The delighTs. iT broughT her. WiTh buT Three monThs remaining oT The presenT session oT Congress, odds were IO-I ThaT SenaTor Kramer would lasT unTil Congress adiourns. POP ROSENBERGS C. C. N. Y. TEAM INVITED TO ROSE BOWL FOR The TirsT Time in The hisTory oT The Rose Bowl TournamenT, CiTy College oT New York was selecTed as The school upon which The honor oT playing The WesT CoasT Champion, was besTowed. Everyone expecTed This move since C. C. N. Y. was generally picked as The ouTsTanding Team in The easT. A large measure oT The remarkable success CiTy College Teams have obTained in The lasT Tew years is due To The excellenT coaching oT l-lerberT Rosenberg, Tamil- iarly known To his Triends as Pop, Ten years ago, he Took charge oT a Team ThaT was mediocre, iusT as all C. C. N. Y. Teams had been up To ThaT Time. Since Then, The Teams experienced remarkable success, beaTing wiTh ease Teams ThaT were raTed highly by The experTs. In Three years The schools wiTh big repuTaTions Took noTice oT This, and since C. C. N. Y. has been on equal Terms, aThleTically speaking, wiTh The TinesT colleges in America. li Pop Rosenberg's Team is sTarTing pracTice immediaTely. All Pop had To say was, l'JusT youse waiT. HELEN YOSKOWTIZ RET-IEARSES NEW PLAY l-TE mosT soughT aTTer leading lady on The American sTage, Miss l-lelen Yosko- wiTz, Today began rehearsal on a vehicle which bears The TiTle, l'm STill Laugh- ing. The play, which is a musical comedy, will be presenTed To The public wiThin Three weeks. A Miss YoskowiTz recenTly reTurned Trom a Trip abroad, where she scored smashing successes in The capiTals oT Europe. London, Paris, Berlin, and Rome reporTed record box oTTice receipTs when she played aT Their TheaTres. This is no news because Miss YoskowiTz, possessed oT a charming voice and always a brillianT acTress, has long been a TavoriTe on This side oT The ATlanTic. Page TwenTy-Two

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THE ALMANAC TELEVISION F all The Television perTormers on The air, none has as large a Tollowing as Charlie SalTz, The comedian who sTruTs his sTuTT every Sunday evening. Besides having an excellenT scripT wriTer and gang oT sTooges, SalTz has an excellenT delivery himself, Turning Tair jokes inTo biTs oT humor +ha+ has everyone howling Tor weeks. l-le works hard, in TacT. has been working hard Tor years, and deserves every biT of success he has achieved. Charlie owes his radio populariTy To his nose. NoT ThaT iT has very large proporTions buT during his youTh, iT was knocked ouT oT shape in a TooTball game. The peculiar TwisT To his nose immediaTely esTablished his populariTy. Everyone laughed aT his Tace buT soon They laughed'sTill more aT his jokes. AT The raTe Charlie SalTz is going now, he will soon,' bef so popular ThaT his mere presence will be enough To insure The success oT a ioke. Well, he deserves every biT oT iT and here is plenTy oT luck To him. Television Programs Tonigh+ 3:00 How To Be A PhoTographer -Bernard Laufbaum 3:I5 ETiqueTTe-Claire Dicker 3:30 Seymour GreensTein's OrchesTra 4:00 Children's STories-Shirley WiTz 4:T5 Old Cronies-Eisenberg 81 SimkowiTz 4:45 News oT The Day-MarTin RosenblaTT 5:00 FuTure oT Television-Saul Seewald 5:I5 Religious News-Sidney Liskofsky 5:30 WriTing For Pleasure-Lillian Vogel 5:45 Dancing Lessons-Pearl Cooper 6:00 PoliTical Trends in Europe-RuTh TevioviTz 6:l5 ElenowiTz-Spindel-Singer Show 7:00 Care oT PeTs-Bernard SklaroTsky 7:l5 SporTs-Samuel Levine, GuesT STar-l-Iyman Mancher 7:45 I-low To Think-Joseph RoThenberg 8:15 Keeping Happy-Frances Kaufman 8:30 All STar Program-Louis Flaumenbaum, MasTer oT Ceremonies 9:30 Triple Diamond Murder MysTery Play wiTh Max STrauss and Madeline Kohn l0:l5 Social ChaT-Harold Simon l0:30 AdvenTures ln ATrica-Seymour Block II:00 l-low To Reduce By Exercise-Blanche Miller ' Il:l5 Being ComTorTably Dressed-Samuel l-laberman, and Sylvia l-lellman, World's besT-dressed couple I Page TwenTy-Tour