West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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1933 The Scarlet and Gray Mary McQueen, teachers in a girls' school in Connecticut, were spending the week-end with their parents in New York, where they would witness the play. In the advertising section was a full page ad from the large department store owned by Harold Collins and Frank Justin. After reading the paper we recalled that we had not yet ordered our cor- sages for the evening. We telephoned Maxwell and Metzger, Florists, who promised that they would have our corsages ready in time for the play. After dinner we dressed for the theatre and arrived there just as the orchestra, under the direction of Henry Pollock, started to play. Glancing through the program we noticed the leading parts were taken by Charles Reiley and Fritzi Walkey, who played opposite each other. The comedy roles were taken by Woody Spitler and Lily Knight. Janice Harlan had charge of the singing ensembles and Lucia Prentice and Margaret Kennepohl directed dancing chor- uses. The electricians and stage managers were Nelson Jones, Marion Davis, and Richard Kellg Josephine Kashner, Marjorie Whorley, and Esther Hussman had charge of the make-up, while Edith Brose and Mildred Bray were the cos- tume directors. In the audience besides those we have already mentioned were: William Chancellor, the governor of New York, Helen Ramsey, the portrait painter, Mildred Smith, who owns a large chain of confectionery stores, Carl Mann, football coach at S. Californiag Mary Rasmussen, owner of Madame Bon Ton's Night Club, Geraldine Lidester and Thelma Noble, settlement workers in Chi- cago, and Paul Dexter, chief of police in New York City. Needless to say, the production was a great success. Much praise is due Vir- ginia not only for her successful play but also for her efforts in bringing to- gether the members of the 1933 graduating class of the W. L. H. S. for a reunion. GLAm's EVANSON. ELLEN MANN. GRASS How green, how frail your tendrils are, Which break the earth without a mar, And toward the sky extend themselves just like a group of tiny elves. And when the fiery sun beats down You seem to be a tinted gown XVhich God hath at with painful toil To keep our footsteps from the soil. -BRUCE EWING. Page Tu'

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Tbe Scarlet and Gray 1933 SCENES TO COME T Returning from a shopping trip we were greatly surprised to find a cable- gram awaiting us at the desk of the Hotel Marte, where we were staying while visiting in Paris. After rushing to our suite we opened the cablegram which was from Virginia MacBride. She wanted to inform us that the date for the great stage revue, which she had written, had been moved up a week. She also said that we would be able to see many of our former classmates as she had eX- tended invitations to them all. As a result of the change of the date it was necessary for us to return to New York a week before we had planned. Con- sequently, we were greatly rushed trying to pack and, at the same time, make arrangements for returning to New York the following day. Our steamer, the S. S. Greyhound, steamed out of port at nine o'clock the following morning. We left in Paris the Countess T fformerly Dot Testl who was unable to be with us on account of her social engagements. Frances Henderson, who is engaged in missionary work in China, was also unable to leave her post to attend. On becoming familiar with the ship we learned that Capt. Mark Wolf had charge of the liner. That evening we ate dinner at the captain's table. The party included several of his classmates who were making the voyage to New York. Other members of the dinner party were: Marion Love, the scientist of great renown and his wife fformerly Margaret Watsonj g Frank Woodworth and his wife fCharlotte Rawlesl, who were returning from a honeymoon on the Rivierag Thelma Hamlin and Miriam Trueblood, creators of style in Parisg Prof. R. Abbott of Carnegie Tech., who had been in Europe on a leave of ab- sence, Edna Hutson, the famous dietician, Catalino Lazo, Ambassador from the Philippines, and Guy Anderson and Erwin Rhoda, the chief mechanics on the vessel. We had a very pleasant voyage, much of our time being spent in reminiscing with our former classmates. We arrived in New York the following Saturday morning and hurried to our hotel, The New York, managed by John Cassady. After depositing our baggage we spent the rest of the morning shopping. We wandered into an ex- clusive frock shop on Fifth Avenue and found, to our surprise, that it was owned by Pauline Frazier. She had as her designers, Doris and Dortha Goss. After completing our shopping we stopped to refresh ourselves at the De Luxe Tea Room, owned by Susann Jackson and Mildred Mills, and operated by Mar- garet Haley, Helen Dexter, and Muriel Collins. As we returned to the hotel we purchased a copy of the New York Times and spent the afternoon in reading. On the front page of the paper we saw an announcement of the revival meetings which Walter Ainslie, the evangelist, was holding. While reading the Personals we found that Marge Charles and Page Tu i ulv

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