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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1936
Page
7
A collection of light verse and schoolroom rhymes rendered with playful misspellings and old time humor. It includes nursery style exchanges about oysters, a chemist mishap, a cow on a train, and teens pondering affection and social clubs.
A mixed chorus formed from Ster ling High Girls and Boys Glee Clubs meets Fridays for practice and will perform publicly soon. Marjorie King is secretary. Members include sopranos Margaret Birch Dorothy Ann Kidd Betty Braitsch Martha Warner Betty Meyer Alta Mae Robinson Eillene Boyes Ruth Mary Northington Carol Batteiger Mary Janet Carolus Gene Cies Dorothy Mae Hostetler Marie Burkett Marian Pettit altos Virginia Grandon Jane Ward Alice Mae Fine Mildred Fritz Frances Rutt Sue Geeting Geraldine Councellor Jeanne Walker Mildred Weyrauch Marilyn Bogott Doris Vanderhoof Shirley Walker Betty Shaw tenors Robert Johnson George Dies Donald Breitweiser Tom Magin Zale Allabaugh Paul Puckett Warren Fredericks John Allabaugh basses Larry Wheeler Louis Long William Sims Bill Hill Eugene Young Frederick Sternberg Ray Mackamnan accompanists Mary Anna Turnroth Jane Andrews Dale Schumaker
Freshman Virginia Miller and seniors Virginia Grandon share standards for boys and girls. Alan Davis wants a small 1937 model girl with wit. Johnny Stabler favors a ravishing brunette who can dance. Grandon seeks a tall neat dresser who is intelligent and chivalrous with a car preferred on winter nights.
Miss Elizabeth Hungate a Chevy Chase graduate has been chosen for a role in the 1936 production Frantics of 1936 She will portray a supreme court judge in Who's Loony Now a review of political events In all forty Chevy Chase debutantes were chosen for the March 4 Washington DC show This is her second year at Chevy Chase.
Lemuel Z Perkins recounts visiting friend Herb Bell in Sterling Hospital after returning to Como from the city. He describes the hospital scene including an ambulance arrival, a nurse interview, and a Scotch patient, with jokes about onions and dreams, ending with Herb wearing glasses to recognize dream figures.
Miss Yeager hosts Leap Year party at the Sterling Club Feb twenty ninth with Major Howe’s amateur program led by Larry Wheeler. A hillbilly band and gifted vocalists DeVoe and band, Peterson, Davis, Scheid, and Eades drew strong crowds. Crooners Puckett and Allabaugh appear, Virginia Grandon shines, girls chorus taps, Lucille Ohnen performs, Bob and Bob dance team impresses, replacements fill in for Rawson.
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