Sybil Bruncheon's "My Merry Memoirs!"... Fiddling Around in Films!

GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933!!!...

Did I ever tell you about my tour through Hollywood's chorus lines when the Stock Market Crash and Depression had screwed up most careers... including mine? Well, I went from fabulous times in the silents and made the transition to the talkies with no problem... but BOOOM!! My investments evaporated, my debts exploded, and it was a choice between waitressing at the Automat or playing a neon violin with a hundred other girls in a darkened sound stage... dressed like a giant lampshade that kept getting caught in my battery pack! Look for me during the "Shadow Waltz" number... you can find m easily! I'm the one with the neon violin shorting out over and over, flickering on and off again as it zaps me in my patooties! By the end of the shoot, my hair looked like a haystack! It took me two days at Mr. Paulette's to put the marcelle back in it! JEEEEESH!!!

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Sybil Bruncheon's 31 Days of Halloween, and Beyond!...

True Story! Did you know that as the Great Depression deepened in 1930 and on into 1931, folks tried anything they could think of to lift their spirits. Finally, as Halloween neared, some inventive people decided to bring Trick-or-Treating TO the children instead of the Treaters coming to the neighbors' front doors... Nice ladies with special trays would walk the streets distributing candies, homemade cupcakes, and other sweets to grateful and pleasantly surprised passers-by. It all worked out beautifully!... and Halloween in 1931 was always remembered as a magical time by people all over the United States.

It worked out so beautifully, that the following Halloween in 1932, Trick-or-Treating was extended past the 31st and on into the first week of November. Again, a season of cheer, simple joys, and even a general optimism and feeling of shared brotherhood with one's fellow citizens. The following year, as the Depression worsened and the economy and stock market plummeted even further, the Trick-or-Treat Tray-Ladies (as they were NOW known!) continued to distribute all sorts of things through the Fall, past Christmas, and into the New Year.

Sadly, they had given up handing out only candies and had moved on to cheaply manufactured cosmetics that caused rashes, bath-tub hootch made out of paint thinner, defective nylons and underpants, old scratched record albums with filthy songs, and stained photos of bad people with no clothes on making funny faces... Needless to say, they made a fortune. But Halloween in the second half of the 20th century never really recovered...   

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Sybil Bruncheon's "A Whole Month Of Thanksgiving!"... Abundance??

Abundance, even in a time of want! Friends, did you know that during the Great Depression of the 1930s so many American families were facing insecurity, and even hunger and homelessness? All across the wide country, fathers tried to hold on to their jobs while mothers struggled to stretch a dollar as far as it would go... even to maintaining a staff of servants who could keep the house clean, the gardens tended, the laundry washed and ironed, and the meals cooked and presented properly! If there was any corner to be cut, it might be in substituting different dietary choices for traditional ones. It wasn't spoken of widely, but, instead of an expensive turkey from the trusty butcher for Thanksgiving, Mother might substitute a family pet. And you know, it wasn't always so stressful or heartbreaking either... especially if it was a neighbor’s dog from down the street.

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Sybil Bruncheon's "THANKSGIVING Headlines From Yesteryear!"...

... Here is an actual photograph of the moment in the Macy's Parade when a gigantic creature broke free from its handlers and began eating the crowd. Despite the privations of the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression, Macy's succumbed to public pressure and replaced living beasts like this one with more reliable balloon facsimiles....although the element of excitement and potential danger was sorely missed by parade-purists... especially children who seemed to like the idea of seeing their fellow classmates torn to pieces by huge monstrous cartoon characters. The use of hydrogen DID create some possibilities for mishaps especially with cigar-smoking pixies and Santa’s elves lurking about in doorways and public restrooms, but within a few years, helium had eliminated that as well, and the parade slumped off to a forlorn ritual of honking brass bands, drunken and vomiting clowns, and prancing muffins... that might try to pinch your bottom…

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