Shaw High School - Shuttle Yearbook (East Cleveland, OH)

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F table, and talking animatedly in French to Ella Bateman who merely nodded, for she only comprehended a word here and there, being so occupied by the antics of the stage comic, Justin Lyons. Another interesting scene shown in this news reel was William Crago and Robert Dvorak manufacturing Open-road plane roadsters. Lucille Curtis and Ruth Haskell were busy in the same room crocheting lace Windshield wipers for the new planes. Edna Flaherty was testing bo-beep horns, discarding all sour ones. The news reel once more shifted the scene of action, and showed bits of the latest musical comedy hit, Tarazan, the Ape, with Wade McKee as the lead. The part of a huge spreading jungle tree was taken by Charles Daubert, while the treacherous cobra curled about it was none other than Ernest Erickson. Three chorus boys, Roy Bogaske, Charles Thomas and Robert Wilson, danced into View doing some very intricate, dainty steps. Back-stage was next shown. and in spite of their dirty faces I recognized two of the stage hands as Robert Tyson and Ralph Zula. They appeared very busy doing nothing in a big hurry. A harassed costumer, Edith Schweg- ler, was following various chorines in a vain attempt to measure them for costumes. Sam Shaft was exerting himself by carrying all her heavy paraphernalia, such as tape measure and papers of pins. Now the reel was showing the arena in Madrid, where an exciting bull fight was taking place. I was surprised to see Harry Backus as chief toreador, and Harold Treadway as his assitant bull-thrower. In the audience, Jeanette Lothrop, a senorita, was attracting much attention, for she had recently inaugurated a new system for learning the Spanish language. After the fight, the scene showed Helen Haggett eat- ing hot tamales by the dozen at the stand operated by Eileen Hosack. The strum of a soft guitar was heard, and the troubador playing it was no other than William Jack- son. As a balcony window was flung open, Katherine Richards appeared, and tossed a rose down to the singing troubador. I was taken, in the next scene, to Scotland Yards, where Helen Paginton was reigning as superintendent of the Yards. Behind a huge microscope, examining vari- ous footsteps around the Yard for clues, was Gladys Nichol, a sleuth of some renown. The baying of bloodhounds could be heard, as Esther Mullen, the keeper of the pack, entered with them, hot on the trail of a suspected brick-thrower, who proved to be Robert Fraser, a radical Bolshevist. The news reel was over. As I was leaving my seat, I stayed just long enough to hear the cast of the main picture. To my surprise, Lynn Somershield was the hero, while Eleanor Marhofer was his leading lady. The author of the story from which the picture was taken, modestly put in his appearance, and added a few Words about the following picture. It was Harris Moyer. The play was about the escapades of a loose lunatic, and Harris had received his inspiration from Robert Williams. At this point, I left. Finding my plane in the parking space on the theater where my chauffeur had left it at my instruction, I spoke to Richard Webster, the attendant, who, after taxiing my plane out for me, declaimed the poorness of business and the possibilities of a robot's replacing him. Just then, Richard Zeiner came to collect back- rent, and Richard Webster, seeing his approach, left hurriedly. Then I took off. I went on my Way moodily, marveling at the fortunes of life, and the effect upon the lives of my former class-mates of the January class of 1931 ........ The preceding train of thought was terminated abruptly by a sudden air-plane crash, in which the originator of the previous thoughts was featured prominently, he being so deeply engrossed in his thoughts that he failed to heed a stop light. Post mortem will be held tomorrow. Alta A. Slaight '31 Jane M. Colby '31 -271

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Esther Reppert in the tail of the plane, taking the part of a stow-away. This little incident delayed the take-off of the airplane since it was too difficult to start with the stow-away on board. q Evan Beacham and Kenneth Fishel were shown in the next scene, taken by the news cameraman in their chemical laboratory. mixing a chemical compound guaranteed to kill or cure. Jack Bookwalter sat patiently in the corner of the room waiting for the experiment to be finished, as he was the only person upon whom these guaranteed compounds could be Worked. Dorothy Allen, a health nurse, Grace Cobb, her assistant, and Joseph Lissauer, a doctor, entered the room to inspect the sanitary conditions, and following them came Eugene Rosenblithe, the city official dog-catcher, looking for stray dogs. George Hutchinson, the singing night-watchman, made Eugene aware of the fact that he was in the wrong building, and tenderly led him out. I gasped, as the next scene showed a boat sinking. The passengers were clam- bering over the sides of the ship, most of them going to their doom, for the auto- matic life-savers, installed by Robert Brown, failed to operate. Those who were fortunate to keep above water were swimming toward a tropical island far in the distance. The cameraman shifted us to the island itself, and I saw George Ross, staggering across the sand, completely exhausted, after having gained land by merely talking. Elva Dfroz and Bessie Logan, two titled marathon swimmers and pearl divers, were seen out in the water, rescuing their last victim, Lawrence Gaudio, with seeming difficulty. The missionary of the island came to give a prayer of thanksgiving for his more fortunate class-mates, and it wasn't until then that I recognized Donald Jones. He then led them to meet the cannibal chief, Allen Dolch. I was surprised indeed to see Mabel and Myrtle Norris come out to entertain the castaways with a hula-hula dance, accompanied by the music of ukelelies played by Norman Patterson and George Mills. An old-fashioned side show was the next view to appear on the screen, and I saw Olivia Shattuck being proclaimed the champion hot-dog eater of the world. The next tent revealed Elsie Huttle giving a demonstrated lecture on How to Tame Wild Men. In her audience were Ruth Dickerman and Evelyn Klaue, listening eagerly so that they might go home to their respective husbands to try it out. The fattest woman in the world, 675 pounds, was the object of considerable attention, and I, being curi- ous to see what she looked like, was fairly speechless to see Victoria Miller the cause of the excitement. Selma Polatsek was doing a bare-back horse riding act, and further down was Jessie Peterson doing a death-defying stunt on a motorcycle with the latest air-improvements, demonstrating the possibilities of taking off without the slightest exertion on the part of the driver. The trapeze act attracted my eye, al- though I could not quite discern the performers, since they were so far down the line. But I think I saw and recognized Joseph Hecht tossing Louise Krug from one trapeze to another with the ease of a professional swinger. Ruth Labus, Burrell Clark, Robert Cadwallader and Dolores Ryan, all dressed in tights, were holding the four corners of a net below. Rosemary Otte then entered the arena, followed by five docile lions, which she, as a lion tamer, had under perfect control. Howard Steiner, Manuel Schenkel, and William Walker were the lion feeders. Two stood outside of the lions' cage and made faces, while the third entered the cage and left the food. A Chinese restaurant was shown in the next scene, where Harriet Dyne was ordering milk, and her waiter, in spite of his disguise as a Chinese waiter, was no other than John Weeks. Ruth Pike was singing a Chinese lullaby, while Virginia Long danced a slow, rhythmic clog. In the rear, the wall was being redecorated by Robert Peck and James Ranells, who were commonly known as the singing and danc- ing' paper-hangers. Louise Langlier, a famous French modiste, was dining at a near-by 126.-

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OFFICERS WILLIAM PORTER ..... ,, ................ .......,.. P resident JAMES SHAFER ....... ....... V ice-President MARJORIE HAMILTON H ..... Secretary-Treasurer WILLIAM PORTER Swimming-3 Dramatic club Hi-Y Pres. Senior Class MARJORIE HAMILTON Observer-Managing Editor Annual Staff- Friendship club Ex. Com.-2 Service Chair-3 Vocational Chair Debate club-Ex. Com. Travel club-Sec.-Treas-3 Honor Society-Service Com. Senior Class-Sec.-Treas. Leaders' club Cheerio club Dramatic club Monitor Committee -23- 4 JAMES SHAFER Vice Pres. Senior Class Swimming-2 Lightweight basketball-1 Heavyweight basketball-1 Tennis-2 Baseball-3 Dramatic club