Weatherford High School - Melon Vine Yearbook (Weatherford, TX)

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, I lra gb jii i-Llii,Xg . gl - N A 'i ' iEf'..E wAs PWFPAFI PLAYE: WY O THE HEQO NA BR:A:NAY. NG TC VEEY THE CHARMING GUITDR OF HIS DAUGHTER- PAL HEREIN-NHC HAD WANTED TO ELOPE HITH THE GIRL. S Of COURSE JACK GARDNER, THE IDOL OF SOPHISTICATED THE EITJATIDN WAS DDMPLIGATED BY THE PRESENCE OF JACK'S RIJAL, A CJARMING BOY UF DOUBTFUL REFUTATION, PLAYED BY PLEssIE PAT SES GH cHARAcTERs, ARIED DA sTA STAR VE TO MA R H A D ENC EATER AN GNE H ME, LIFE AMD G AccDfPANIED TURNER, D LDIG JONES, ILLO. As THE PLAY PROGRESBE8, THE DRAMATIC BUBPENSE AND HIGHS LUDING ITB RUSH aEvERAL MIN ESPECIALLY TIMBER AND HEIFREN THE FAMOUS AND HIGH NCE TEAM, LL AS THE CIRCUB, VAUDEVILLE, LGRENE E AM. Two MORE IMPDRTANT SMALL PAHTB WERE RzELLE VAN HoosIER AND JANE MILLIDEN, PORTRAYING A TH MAX CAME, AND L E sHAxEN WITH THE GENIUS or THE AUTHOR. I LEFT WA ED UTsIDE UNTIL E FIRST NIGHTEH H s E SH IIDE OF BROADW NIG WHICH BTOOD DUT SCOTT SINGLETDN, THE POLITICIAN, BY Hrs BODYOUARD, CDMPOBED OF 0RvILLE WARD, JOE DON VANDAORIFF, WITH THEIR GIRL FRIENDS NKITTY 'FLEA' MARIE JDRDAN, AN HHEFTY' ZGLA ROSE FAM- BRUUGH THEY WALKED ALONG BILENTLY, EXCEPT FDR A SLIGH LY ALCOHOLIC LAUGH FRDN THE HDMEN. BEHIND T EM WALKED THE EvER PRESENT PEANUT vENDER, GEORGE THOVA, WITH HIs TRAINED DOG IAHED AFTER JOE FREEMAN, THE FANoUs wREsTLER, SELLING NEws BAPERS VP A HARD DAY, WAS DORA LYNN N T , wHo WAS A NE ULETT PATRO G DTH DAYS, UNTIL ALL HER MDN NAS LosT, A D HER FRIEND, JOE KINCAID, BETRAYED HER INTERESTS I . T A NIGHT CLUB, JOSEPH BUNDI AND MAXINE BENTLEY, A NOVELTY TEAM, PAslED HASTILY, FDR FIR BL IS DEMANDING THEM. CLOSE BEHIND THEM CAME T FAMOUS GGMEDIENNE, ELLEN MAOKENZIE, WITH THE MEMBERS OF HER ACT, CLIFTON CROWLEY, HER sTooGE, THELMA WRIGHT, THE BLACKFACE LA GH OF THE CITY, AND PAULINE, KNOWN A8 'WHITEH TO HER FRIENDS, w G IS THE ONLY sENsIaLE MEMBER or THE TEAM. THE OWNERS OF HE BIGGEST CJAIN or IALOONS IN THE GITY, GEORGE SIMMDNS PAS ED CHAUFFEUR 'As Boa LASATER. I sAw MARGARET CARTER, ALONE, AND DREssED IN MARvELDUs FURs, PASS BY THE PAwNsHor AcRDss THE STREET, AND STOP T0 TALK WITH EDNA BARRETT, WHO WAS ENTERINGQ SHE SEEMED FLUIHED AND EMERGED FROM THE PLACE, RUN BY MARTHA JANE MGCUTGHEN AND FRANCES HITT, CARRYING A FUR NEcxPIEcE WITH OF TRIUMPH DECIDED THAT NOTHING MORE COULD BE SEEN, IO ACGOMPANIED BY THE PERSISTENT COLUMNIBT, MARY FRANCES HITCH, wHo DID NOT REcDGNIzE ME, I WENT DOWN TO HARLEM, SEEING ON THE HAY MARGARET saELL, NNING A HOT DDT sTAND, CCUPIED WITH G VING ONE WALTER PARRIDH, HHD wAs OBVIOUSLY INFATUATED THE KELLEY COUSINS, VARNELL AND VALERA, wERE RUNNING A PEEP SHOW ON THE AVENUE, AND I NATURALLY STUFFED wAs P H w. ENTEQED A FASHIDNADLE PLACE OF ALCOHOL, RUN BY MAURIDE GUILEG, wHo WAS NG A GOOD BUSINE . I CONTINUED DOWN TO THE CENTER OF RLFM NIGHT L RE CDLETA MooRE, IN BLACKFACE, F H AD R N0 AUDIEND wHER I NOTED A T GZELLE Wooo, RUBY MDRRIG, AND .J W ox. 1, .3 Q W I9 k 5 M Y 5' .575-E-on sk ar 1 'IQ pls RI RI ER R, ING IN OR , - SAL AS WE AND GE , L GI N PAI OF DIsILLUsIoNED OLD MAIDBQ E CLI EFT TIE U I THE TH , D IT D TH LAST - AD G o I AW MDR or THE ADY AY's HT , N AN - , H R . I T 7 , AFT- S I H LL5 KHSWN R' E NEas F ER EY N ,E IN TIE STOCK MARKET ON THEIR HAY G - ' INE THE PU IC HE U H H T H a WITH HIS WIFE OF THE MOMENT, LARUE RATTD, IN A LIMOUSINEQ THE AN AIR . I I RU - o I TO . IT A GOOD PEE s o I f , DDI , ss f- HA - IFE, wHE I SAW P SILGING AsT AN: OT TO AN MI I E, E THE uk . CHICAGO socl LI IES, H . . F xy I 4. if w Q I ji I A A A X k, t nfl ' 5 Q W H t D X :lil I E ,Q . ' -Q Y llh. E - J In . l . -4 , 4 l' J, ' ' . -- 'Q F W: 36 v H,- 7, -an. WEA' 4 ,

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-- I 32 4- 9'5 -H' -..IR - --'B '1 b- . if 14 I. 'R R: ? qvili:5 H'!-P' WAS EARLY H H , ELF AND HIT THE HE D WHAT WAS HAFPENTNG THEN, BJT AFTER MY EYES CLEARED, D W SE IN ERE I W THE FO' LESSEN W STREET OF SOME ROE CITY, NIT s BY BACK AND I LOCKED THE PLAY TAR, AND AND JAMES HOODENPYLEG JAMES WAS TANDINO PUTTING UP ADS AT A RAPID RA ME HE WAI N T LOOK N0 AT ALL H ROBERT CARTER, DDINO HIS VERY REST SIDE THEM N ow D - , K ' ' - K jg up CLASS PROPHECY . E E - D ND D E MIST BEFO ALIZING w D T T w s A BUSY ME AWARE T AT w IC A CROWD PUSH D AKE M P SIGNS ADvERTIs THEY LOOKED FAMIL WERE RAYMOND HOLNAN ON RAYMOND'8 SHDULDERI, BOSSING THEM DURING T s Rrs THAT PASSED, w s TO IMPRESS THEM LURKINO AY, P R A SCRAP A WHI E WITHOUT LARGE AND AUDIBLE THEATER FORTH KE ANG WOR NG AROUND AND SAW TWO M U NG AT BEEMED TO BE ON MOVING LOIER, S HAT THEY AROUND TIM . OIRGLES, CAUSED BY LATE HOURS, UNDER HER DARK EY SHE SEEMED DDRED. D I LOOKED, THERE ENTERED A HUGE CROWD OF GIGGL GIRLS, HEADED BY THE KIND THOUGH aEvERE FACE OF MAY BELLE LOTT, THE HEADMISTREID ALONG WITH THEM WAS ANOTHER TEADHER, VIOLET Nlx, THE DOMEITID scIENcE AND BEAUTY CONSULTANT KNOWN FOR H DELEDRATED PREPARATION, NNIX AFTER LISTENING TO THE BALLYHOO OUTED BY THE BARKER OF THE sHow, HENRY BYRDM, I BOUGHT A T E FROM JUANITA KIDWELL, GAVE IT TO LEONARD BLODM INSIDE, AND ENTERED, BEING SHOWN TO SEAT Y BEGAN T0 LOOK AROUND, N0 A Goo FIRST THING DON HARRELL D s SAID BY BE A BOOT LEGGER, AND HIS FAITHFUL GIRL FRTE , I NTwDRTH, wHD wAs DRESSED FIT T0 K LL Ew, so w TO HAVE COME FROM AMERICA, HAROLD POTTER. CLOSE BY THEM T THE HAPPY DIVORCED PAIR, NOW REUN AND Mns MILDURN EMMDNS, MRS. EMMDND D LEAST, THE EX-MRS. THOMAS, AND FREEMAN EHED QUITE HAPPY, THOJGH THE DIV WITH MENTAL CRUELTY, STRIKING, AND TDD WOMEN, CHIEFLY EVELYN MILLER, WHO WAS D WAS ON THE HER D THE AI C YDE YOUNG, THE DARDINE MAGNATE. T WHEELER, PDEITIO THOSE w AND SAT DOWN. AND SAW THE SHOULD KNOW SALETA DRESS wHI DESIGNER IN THE BEST SEATS, MARRIAGED, MR ING FDR THE MOMENT, NEE MARY GARDNER. THEY CE SUIT ENMDNs WAS CHARGED MUDH ATTENTION TO OTHER AMED AS co REsPDNDENT, CONSOLING HERSELF WITH E BO NEX TO ME, ENJOY HEARING A E GREATEST N ONE ED BETWEEN THE CROWD GEORGE LONG, THE FAMOUS PHYsIcIsT w Ass TANT, J' T MALLORY THE LIGHTS WERE DIMMED, AND THE MANAGER OF THE HDUSE, LIOE PARROTT, LKED ONTO THE STAGE. E HELD UP HIS HAND FOR SILEN E, WHICH ONLY THOSE OF WEATHERFURD REALIZED AS BEING coPIED FROM MR. GRANSTAFF, AND DEOAN TO THANK THE AUDIENCE FDR THEIR ATTENDANCE ON THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE PLAY HND RDMEDH, PRODUCED BY LEONARD SMITH AND EUGENE WOOLSEY, THE GENIUSES OF BROADWAY, WRITTEN GARTH BIELS8, WHO HAS WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FDR HIS PoETIc WRITING THE CURTAIN ROSE SLOWLY, AND THE BUTLER, PLAYED BY THE TALENTED CHARACTER ACTOR, EDWARD WATT, CAME ON, AND BEGAN A RTATIDN w M PLAYED BY MILDRED JACKSON, WHICH w A IITERRUPTED FY THE ENTRANCE OF THE EMPLOYER, H' V JUSTICE, WHO 1- If 47 6 ' W JL k Q 'W t F. JP Ap H g, '5 ' 4 v -sf 1 4 v 4 bf 5 45 Q za lr W' f 1 Q- 4 'N Tv A 4'-1 IT IN T E MOR ING WHEN THE PO F LL OFF THE SH ME VIOLENTLY ON AD I HA I EA OF ' L TH RE AN I AS E -0, , RE H OR WH AS. As .. ' ED, I SA THA I A LA AT IT. I BECA H I WA A , H H E Ll AN LE- M TRYI TO M UP ITS IND. , EN P TTI' U ING TH AT THE E - ON O I AW T ' s AND TE. . , , HE TI O I T E KI , A BE I THE sHAD DF THE OORI HO ING F0 OF PRINTABLE NEWS OR SENTIMENT, wAs MARY ANN KELLY, SHOWING FAINT ES. A ING , ER , O SH , IOK 1 . MY B S. A. I DEI IN D N, , WH I HO TO - ND 'VEJ , ' I CH I KN IN ME AY, TH , I OF SA IT . . . E AT 7 SE . ' . IN OR N - AN OT SIDE F SLE, L IN H x T ING , wAs , ITH HIS Ia- . . . WA H O J' , I .f ,. - BY T, ' A ' T FLI ITH THE AID, A I , ' 0 o R Il G ri F fix X

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.S -1 . an A--K d55 i -W' QQ -ri - 1 an-, . 4- . h Aw .a J I b - .Eg R-N 7559 W '35 V L ' 1 -MI i?' A l' -i L K Q H ji sg THEY WERE ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION OF THE CITY THEY HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE, AND SEENED TO BE A LITTLE ASTONISHED, ESPECIALLY WHEN CHARLSTA MAE REYNOLDS BEGAN TC DT A MOST INTERESTING DANCE, INSPIRED BY THE JUNGLE, AS WELL AS OTHER THINGS. THE ENTHUSIASM WAS TREMENDOUS, DURING WHICH THE CHIOACOITES SLIPPED OUT AND THE NEW YORK ELEMENT SLIPPED IN. THERE WERE JEWELL TRAMMELL, A BIT NOISY AS USUAL, DOROTHY WARD, FLIHTING WITH ANY RACE, AND ANNA MARIE TACKETT, THE SOCIAL NOVELIBT. EDITH MAE SCARBROUGH JOINED THEM, A BIT TIRED FROM A PARTICU- LARLY WILD NIGHT. FRANCES FHYE WAS SINGING THEN, AOCOMPANIED BY ODESSA BRADSHAW AND HER BAND, IN WHICH WERE MARVELINE BROWN, THE VIOLINIST, AND LAVERNE NICHOLS, THE TRUMPET PLAYER. THE HOSTESS, I NOTICED, WAS FRANCES BATEMAN. LEAVING THE NIGHT CLUB, I WALKEO AROUND THE MAIN STREETS, HOPING T3 SEE MORE ACOUAINTANCES, AND I WAS REWARDED. PAULINE Fox NAS THERE SLUMMING. WEARINO A NEW BRACELET WHICH MUST HAVE COST THE OLD QENTLEMAN WITH HER A BIT OF MONEY. A FIGHTER'l COMPANY PASSED, WITH JACK ZELLERB, THE ASPIRANT TO THE CHAMPION- SHIP, ACCOMPANYING SEVERAL GIRLS: CARRIE WINSTEAD, ANITA WALLACE, ANC GENEVA YEARY, WHO WERE DN THE POINT Or FIGHTING OVER THE HANDSOME FIGHTER. HIS MANAGER, T NOTED, WAS ELZIE COCBURN, WHO WAS ESCORTING THE SPARRING PARTNERS, JOHNNIE BAKER, T. J. BATY, AND CLIFTON WUODY THEY WERE GOING T0 THE NIGHT PERFORMANCE Or THE CIRCUS, IN WHICH NAOMI PURY AR S ARRED, A8 THE T OF SHOW IN THE ELEPHANT TRAINER. THE AOROBATIC TEAM OF THE WILLIAMS SISTERS, LELA RHEA AND BEULAH FAY WILLIAMS, SHARED HONORS WITH HER, BRINGING ENCORE AFTER ENCORE. RAMA BARBER, THE TIGHT ROPE WALKER, WALKEO A HIGH WIRE TO MUSIC FROM CHARLINE DORE AND MARJORIE LANIER, WHOSE CHEWINO GUM HAD INCREASED HER JAWS' STRENGTH T0 THE POINT WHERE SHE HELD UP HER PARTNER AND HERSELF BY HER TEETH PINK LEMONADE WAS BEING SOLD BY WILMA LEE GRAY AND ILONA HAMILTON IN THE SMALLER TENTQ LULA BELL ARMSTRONG WAS SELLING POPCORN AND JEWELL CUMMINGI WAS SELLING TICKETS T0 THE SIDESHOW I ENTERED, T0 FIND MY OLD FRIEND, 'ILLA LOIS PARK A5 THE FAT LADY, AND EMMA LOU MOODY AS THE JUNGLE PRINCESS. CATHERINE MILLNER WAS TELLING ABOUT THE TWO HEADED CALF, WHILE THE DOUBLE HEADED WOMAN RESEMBLED PHESY SKIDMORE AND ESTELLE SNYDER. HILA JEAN MERCER WAS SKATING WITH THE GRACE OF THE CHAMPION OF OTHER DAYS. I LEFT THE CIRCUS AND BEGAN ROAMING ABOUT THE STREETS, w TCIING THE LIFE OF HARLEM. A MOVIE WAS ADVERTISED, WITH ALLIE MAY HO DLE AND ELIZABETH HOLCOMB. THEY WERE BOTH MINOR STARS, T SURE TO SE ACCOR N TO THE CRIT AT THE TIME THEY SEEMED T0 BE QUITE POPULAR IN HARLEM. I NOTICED JEBSIE GREEN SELLING TICKETS, AND AT THE NEXT THEATER MARIE STULTS WAS D NG THE SAME THING. THEY SEEMED T0 BE THE REASON OF THE POPULARITY OF THE TICKET BOOTH, AB SEVERAL MEN HUNO FERBISTENTLY ABOUT I LOOKED AGAIN AT THE ADS ANC SAW T0 MY AMAZEMENT THAT THE YEAR WAS MARKED ON ONE AB 19L7, JUST TEN YEARS AFTER THE T MAN BEHIND ME. I I A Y, N N L , SAW TRUMAN KSHBROOK AND PRESTON WILLIAMS COME OUT 0F THE SHADOW' AND BEGIN T0 SHOOT DICE HEHIUHEL PIERSON JOINED IN, AND I WAS WAS LYING ON THE FLOOR WITH THE HOE-HANDLE ACROSS HY CHEST, EARLY EVENING. ,f .1 5 W J' , r H:::::: .F 3 5 Jr H IH If qi xr E? me 5 g y 49S 49 I-' E T HI THE . ER, A I BU RI , DI G ICS. H 01 ,ff . S , I LAS IT IA O Ao B ILE A D A8 E EFT I f ' S T- ABOUT T0 DO THE IAME 'HEI MY HEAD BEGAN T0 fEEL QUEER, AND I 3 Il H H B A C3 Q P '-'S 1? I' 'Y QQ . Y d54 3 A I -, ,4 I 'i k -I 17 I IS 4 .i' 4 v f ' ' f ' Q- 'F , I