Wethersfield High School - Elm Yearbook (Wethersfield, CT)

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llliitrtrag Eeytxrt i ni 99 ea i X I 4 If if .ax J nrz49f, l g g , Q J Q'...-4V 'A .i THE UGLY LITTLE THEATER I am a man. If I were not-that is, if I were a woman-I probably would be sufficiently cunning to conceal the fact that I was quite con- tented with myself. I am not admitting that woman is not vain, she is, but she is also intuitive, she knows that when one wears a mauve frock one can artfully pluck a mauve lilac to arrange carelessly in one's hair as if one never imagined the ensemble was perfect Qespecially if one,s hair held elusive purple shadows in its plaitsj. D I am a man of spirit, or I would not take upon me as an immediate duty the one of patiently explaining why I am pleased with myself. And since the powers of deduction are undoubtedly the simplest means of saving me from the brand of conceit, I shall use them to place step by step, yet with respect for the reader's intelligence, those facts which prove I am without even a shade of personal vanity. I have no physical beauty: my hair, being a pleasant shade of tan or pale brown, does not harmonize with my eyes which are a pleasant shade of grey--sometimes changing to a muddy color, often called hazel. Neither am I tall and masterful, nor do I possess any of those subtle gifts that Heaven or Satan bestows on many comely male-beings. My secret of contentment is love-of Life and my little theater. These two are synonymous to me, for my theater is my life. Please, I am not garrulous. I merely wish to describe to you a bit of Life that God entrusted to me, seeming to say, This I give thee to mould. It is thine to make of it what you will. If only I could have heard the winds whisper His will, or could have seen His beautiful command in the subtlety of the mists! But there was no definite gesture-no material plan given meg I simply sensed my duty. But not alone. No, for never have I been more humble than when the first great realization came to me that God had chosen me as his servant but only because The Little Theater was mine! And when I saw the supernal wonder of the task set before me, I was awed, and afraid of my clumsiness. And so He gave into my hands an atom of the Kingdom, and the power. I shall tell about my reward, which was the Glory.

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EMILY THACIIER .......... . EM A creature of a rnost perfect and divine temper. Emily expects to be a private secretary in a bank some day. Her cheerfulness will win many patrons for the bank. Class Treasurer 1355 Glee Clubg Commer- cial Club and Operetta. Hobby-Going to the dentist. ELINOR ADAMS WELLS ,..,...... WELLSEY A wornan's greatest power lies in serenity. Elinor is another one of our bright classmates. She will help deliver the Class Will. Member of Glee Club 11-255 French Club 125g Latin Club 1355 Operetta. Elinor will go to Connecticut College. Hobby-Helping others. MINER FORBES WELLS ......... , . BIG Bov He was yoost a lettle poy, not bigger than a doll. Miner's marks redect his hard work, He's the 'tbig boy of our class. School Orchestra 11-2-355 Senior Play 145. We know that he will succeed at the Bliss Electrical School. A Hobby-Collecting stamps. ROBERT EDNVARD WERNER .......... Bos He was different, oh, so different. We all thought Bob was girl-shy, but we found that we were wrong in our Senior year. We understand that he is going to study electricity after graduation. How shocking! Bob won his numerals in Soccer during Senior year. Hobby-Punching Woodward. ISABELLE WOLCOTT ........., Iz Whose words are images of thoughts refined. All during her High School course, Isabelle has been a credit and a great help to her class. Prize Speaking 11-25g Glee Club 11-255 Latin and French Clubs 11-255 Elm Board 145. She will help deliver the Class Will. She will enter college, probably jackson. Hobby-Driving. CHARLES EVERETT S. WOODWARD . . .... Cure ' The opposite sex quite unnerves me. You'll never see Chic without his grin. Assistant Athletic Manager 1353 Athletic Manager 1459 Elm Board 145g Athletic Council 145. For further infor- mation concerning Chic, write to 20 Lenion Avenue, Podunk, Maine. Hobby-Fighting with Werner, and steering clear of the girls. RUTH GODFREY WOODWARD ......... RUTIUE Blushes are the rainbow of modesty. Ruth is always giggling and chuckling. She brightens every class. Member of Glee Club 11-2-355 French and Latin Clubs. She won a Scholarship letter. She intends to be a teacher. Hobby-Giggling. DOUGLAS ADDISON WILKINSON ......... SONNY His words do show his wit incomparable. Doug has cheered us all the way through High School with his jokes and wise- cracks. If you keep up your good humor, Doug, the world will roll along like a song. He was a member of Commercial Club 1255 Elm Board 12-3-453 Inter- class Soccer 1455 Secretary Athletic Council 1455 Oscar Kelly Clubg Senior Play. Later he is planning to go to Davey School of Tree Surgery. Hobby-Radio.

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If Il' if ll- Sl- if Perhaps, at a much earlier date, the neighborhood surrounding The Little Theater reflected more of the serenity and characteristic dignity of the building itself. True, one cannot say of it even now that, ma- terially, it is possessed of any more architectural grace than the wholesale business house which props it on one side, or that it ever boasted so much majesty as the newly-painted garage which towers six stories above the loftiest of its miniature pinnacles. Being amazingly small, it is wedged comfortably between the two business houses. Its utter innocence of even one last, reluctant clinging scale of paint renders it inconspicuous almost to the point of invisibility. But for the modest label The Little Theater, printed in broad, squat letters above the entrance, the most heedful of strangers would suppose it to be an abandoned shop. Whereas its patrons of another generation would have been reluctant to leave the quaint beauty which the gnarled cherry trees afforded the avenue, had they not known that greater beauty awaited them inside the theater in the perfect rendition of the masterpieces, the gentle-women of the present day draw their skirts away from the gaping little urchins, and quicken their steps, the sooner to leave the unsightly street. Among those who rarely miss a presentation at The Little Theater are two who attend each carefully selected play, sometimes seeing the, same piece more than once, two who enter always hand in hand, two with their souls in their eyes-adoring each other with every shy glance, the two whom I have learned to love, and for whom I have instinctively assumed guardianship: a tall youth and a lovely maiden with a face like the Madonna, those two whom God delivered in trust to me! When first I saw the youth enter alone, I experienced a slight shock such as I might have felt if I had seen the moon in a clear sky that had been divested of its stars. And when the girl, unescorted, took a seat far removed from her customary one-and sat through the entire play alone-I unconsciously breathed a silent prayer that all should be well, just as I might for the moon, in a clear sky that had been divested of its stars. ,Mfg And when, some time later, the youth failed to come the evening of Thursday, on which night he had faithfully appeared for nearly three consecutive years, and requested that his seat be reserved for Fridays, please, I consoled myself, saying-even as I discovered the sadness in the pale face of the girl- Prayers cannot be answered immediately because God is concerned with all the people of the world. But -many weeks passed, and the unhappiness of the two young people made my heart heavy. Often I was unable to sleep because the restless, brooding eyes of the youth and the patient sadness of the girl's face haunted me-and ravaged my peace of mind. Then, one day in New York, I discovered a curious little drama which impressed me oddly. I read and re-read it, wondering why this work of an author hitherto unknown to me should thus possess my