Woodrow Wilson High School - President Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

Page 28 text:

f -ien. THE PRESIDENT . I94 Elsie Shaw, I am told by the fates, An usherette will be right here at the Gates. Libby Silverman, I see, for a big fat retainer, Takes on the job of M. G. M.'s lion trainer. The trumpets blare, the big top is still, Geraldine Smith bare back riding a horse is the thrill. Away sponges! Away water stones!-This method is quicker. , Take your stamps to Eleanor Smith the professional licker. William Pierce is a pilot, there's none who is Finer. He pilots the newest stratosphere liner. Columbia, Universal, M. G. M.. too All clamor for script from,Marjorie Soux. Lawrence Pharo is dressed in the latest of fashion I-Ie's every girl's dream, and he lives in a mansion. Hazel Spiers makes use of all her old rags She weaves pretty rugs and even hand bags. He kicks and he passes, he runs through the line As a pro grid-iron hero Joe Pitchford does fine. Who took over Disney? Made Babes in the Rain? This clever person is Clara Belle Swain. John Puryear, the cards foretell, A preacher will be or go to-Congress. An east side apartment and a kennel of poodles Joan Tallman maintains by selling copyright doodles. Leon Rodman digs a ditch in Nicaragua I hear A second Pan Canal by a great engineer. Who put Winchell in the breadline and Louella Parsons on relief P Gracie Anne Taylor's column passes belief! Jack Savage lives playing with girls' pretty tresses He makes beautiful women out of some kind of messes. As an airplane hostess Iris Thompson lives up in the air Feeding big business men-and smoothing their hair. Dogpatch's Adam Lazonga was good in his day But Portsmouth's Lamar Toomer beats him today. Frances Tonkin, you know, was the class's best sewer Aren't you surprised, now, to see her a brawny glass-blower? Tom Seebo is healthy-has a fine coat of tan He loves the outdoors-he's a Fuller Brush Man. She has only one fear-that her strength will forsake her She's Antoinette Tretola-our coy boilermaker. Sad is the fate of Casanova Spivey His charms are erased by chronic poison ivy. How to utilize rhythm Madame Lazonga's style Lois Warren now teaches-at ten bucks a mile. Madame Carey Whitfield expertly mounts a berry He's famous far and wide for tres chic millinery. Who's the heroine of rodeos, the cowboys' best pal? It's that hard ridin', gun totin', Mary Wilkinson gal. When you land in the gutter not knowing where you were hit The bouncer you may be sure was our brawny Pete Whitt. She tumbles, she Hips, her act stops the show Audrey Williams, an acrobat, rakes in the dough. You'll find him in a jungle, on the roads, at a spring For Wallace Wilson holds oHice as the hobos' sole king. She's neat, silent, saving, a veritable prize And proud is the man who got Jane Wise. Joe Wright is a truly remarkable fella He'll swallow anything from a sword to an umbrella. By Piusclttn HAGUE

Page 27 text:

Y' igagf',s.-f THE PRESIDENT I94 After years in grand opera, a star in the Spot, Margaret Harrelson wows them with swing torchy hot. The oracle speaks from the depths of its trance Esther Hillman will excel in interpretative dance. When we knew Joe Kaplan he kneaded the dough Now he's a banker-a dough boy, you know. How to hold on to your husband and other such dodges In the paper is explained by Dear Miss Rose Hodges. Mary Elizabeth Johnson, I see, Will decorate chicken coops for you and for me. Taro Kawakami is set on giving people their faces He's a great photographer now-stop at one of his places. Winifred Jones in perfume must deal She's selling it, too, with much zeal. Mae Kenley I see working her poor lingers numb Teaching the sign talk to the deaf and the dumb. Frances Theiss, star of the stars Pilots her rocket ship from Venus to Mars. Ruby Pauline Lee is set on survival Each Tuesday at eight she leads a revival. Frank Kluge makes his millions by emptying a can From house after house-he's the garbage man. Peggy McAvoy puts snakes in a trance When they shimmy and shake-she calls it a dance. Dorothy Mobley is seldom now seen She's deep in the sea in her big submarine. Jacob Kopelove has something new, I see, He makes dripless candles for a very small fee. From the beach at Miami to the Great White Way Charlotte Munson as a glamour girl will hold sway. Bernice Murphy in far off Timbuctoo Is showing the heathens just what to do. He gets them all at last, be they Gentile, jew, or Quaker It's cheerful Johnny Lane our leading undertaker. Poor Pearl Parker lives up in the trees She married the man on the Hying t ' ze. She scares all the kiddies with dark tales o orror Marjorie Phillips, the arctic explorer. Edward Lawrence is correct from boutonniere to striped pants It's part of his business--girls pay him to dance. A Salvation Army lass with zeal burning fierce Many a bum has been saved by little Irene Pearce. When in doubt, you know not what to do Consult with the gypsy madame, Thelma Pugh. He deals in poison gas, he's a dusty agitator But we'll not jail Walt McDonald, he's our trusty fumigator. The newspaper cubs all try to pump her, Dorothy Reynolds, our parachute jumper. Frances Roberts, our ultra smooth talker, Becomes Smith and Welton's lady floor walker. Who is the brave fair hero at all the city fires? Why it's none other than Everett Newsome, whom every girl admires. Geraldine Sanderlin in the White House holds sway First feminine president of the U. S. A. She whirls like a topg she kicks like a lawyer A number one chorus girl is Margaret Sawyer. Wives signal Jimmy O'Conner when their husbands aren't in To welcome the ice man is never a sin.

Page 29 text:

Bark Row-ROBERT LANING, Vice-Presidentg MARY CROUCH, Girls' Treasurer' BETTY DRISCOI,l., President. 9 Fran! R0ZU1MARGARET LONG, Secretzlryg LONNIE ROPER, Boys' Treasurer. Standing-BIL1.x' MORTON, Representative to Student Council. JU E CLASS Officers