St Johnsbury Academy - Lamp Yearbook (St Johnsbury, VT)

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 18 Emily: Verona: Albert: Emily: Eddie: Albert: Eddie: Verona: Emily: Verona: Albert: Emily: I went to that circus too. T saw Barbara Sumner in charge of the monkey act and Myrtle Firestone as the lion tamer. I read in the paper last night that Isabell Renfrew, widow of the late Henry Fuller, the famous steeplejack, has married Donald MacDowell, the president of the American Druggists’ Association. Yes, Henry was killed two months ago; he was walking down Broadway and slipped on a banana peel. I just heard a news flash that the famous aviator, Fred Bean, and his ife, Barbara Dow, are completing their round-the-world flight in their specially built plane designed by Fred and built for them by the Woods Aeronautical Corporation. By the way, the founder of that company is Gordon Woods. He married Marion Beck, didn’t he? Yes and no, didn’t you hear about the famous Woods-Beck-Wilcomb bigamy trial by Judge Brown of the Court of Appeals? Oh! Yes, that was cpiite a scandal. The Judge was our old classmate. Joe Brown. He married Lyn Til-den, and they have a home and three children up at North Danville, Vermont. Norman Atwood is the chief designer of the Zabarsky Follies, founded and managed by Maurice Zabarsky. Paul Wilkie and Ruth Bean, the great dance team, a e co-starring in this year’s Follies, together with Ginny Ball, the great blues singer. Yes, but the Blodgett Sisters. Barbara and Eileen, are really the hit of the show as tap dancers. Leighton Bradley is the master of ceremonies. Leighton’s wife, Ann Brown, has founded the Brown Institution for Better Babies. Ralph Conly and Ralph Chase assist her in training the infants according to the most up-to-date rules. Well, getting back to the subject of guests, who is next on our list?

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12 THE ACADEMY STUDENT CLASS PROPHECY Time: 1960 Setting: Aboard the yacht “Spirit of ’36” in New York Harbor Characters: Emily Healey—an old maid Verona Tripp—a gay divorcee Albert Bahrt—captain of the yacht Eddie Olliver—private orchestra leader (The two ladies have become suddenly rich by holding a joint ticket on the winning horse in the Irish Sweepstakes. They have bought a yacht and are going on a cruising trip.) Verona: Eddie, you know you have charge of the musical en- tertainment. and we want it to be good. Edmund: Yes. I know, and I’ve hired Althea McFarland. You remember her. don’t you? She has become the most Emily: Albert: Emily: Verona: Eddie: Verona: famous torch singer in the United States. Also Martin Granger is going to help on the vocals by crooning. That will be nice. Don’t you think it would be grand to have Fleurette and Woodrow Roy come and do some of their famous dances? Who are the guests? You’ll have so many entertainers that you won’t be able to have much of an audience. You know' Eddie’s orchestra is quite large. For guests we are having old classmates, the famous Dr. Miltimore and his wife, the former Frances Marshall. Also Edward Brough, a professor of psychology at Wellesley. His wife is Lillian Lindsley. They make a nice looking couple. Boy, how' the old class has changed! In one night club where I w'as playing this spring I w'as astonished to see Betty Lou Witters as checkroom girl and Dotty Lee Higgins as a cigarette girl. I attended the Turner and Chase Circus last month. Two of the barkers were Sammy Weiner and Paul Benoit. Sam was inviting everybody to come in to his “magnificent, gigantic, colossal sideshow.” I entered and there sat Donald Bovee chaiming snakes by playing his clarinet.

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14 THE ACADEMY STUDENT Verona: Let’s have the famous violinist. Kevin Cosgrove, and Emily: his accompanist, Eleanor Dahlbergh. Yes, and the columnist. Robert Dresser. I hear he’s Eddie: bought out the Flash Gordon comic script. I received a letter the other day from Muriel Drown. She and Delina Fournier are running a society for the Emily: prevention of cruelty to orphaned cats. She wanted me to persuade Gordon Hopper and his wife, Luella Sanborn, to accept positions as assistant cat trainers. I’ve invited Irene Howland, a well-known authority Albert: on English literature. Did you hear about Margaret Sprague? She got tired of her first husband, Paul Bennett, and married James Cunavelis. Then he left her and she married Homer Eddie: Verona: Stuart, the ladies’ fashion stylist. Margaret wrote several novels, didn’t she? Yes, she wrote “Fogbound” using Marjorie Stevens and Art Hafner as the principal characters. Emily: We had several authors in our class. Maybell Renfrew wrote “The Buttermilk Twins Series” for chil- Verona: dren. Fred Mehlman wrote “Ten Nights in a Jail.” I’ve heard it’s a very illuminating article. Eddie: Eleanor Drown wrote the biography of Randall Mac- Emily: Donald, the great Olympic track star. We had quite a bit of broadcasting talent in our class. I saw Ralph Kipp in Radio City the other day; he’s one of the most highly paid radio announcers there. Eddie: Yes, there were a lot of future radio performers. Doris Roberts, Margaret Ovitt, Mildred Irwin and Ruth Jenne are entertainers on the Showboat pro Emily: gram. Pat Wheelock is now a popular crooner on the Epsom Albert: Salts program. Marion Lumbra is the leader of the famous Melodiers, an orchestra formerly led by Ina Ray Hutton. Dot Kilburn gives talks every Friday night on etiquette, sponsored by Lifebuoy Soap.