Player with most money: Valarie, as Coco Chanel, ended the game as the richest woman, but Zach in the role of Cecil DeMille brought the house down as the richest player of the night. Best Actor/Actress: Tiffany, was especially convincing as Amelia Earhart! Best Costume: Dressed to the nines, the widow and waitress Naomi, played by Maria, was voted best dressed. Love the cigarette & stockings! Most Goals Completed: Leave it to science to figure out how to achieve the most goals! Albert Einstein, played by Sam, won the night with most goals.

Submit stories to the Editor of the Eternal Herald. No more Gin! by by Justin D. Fax     Prohibition jump-started the Jazz Age. According to novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, during Prohibition, "The parties were bigger…the pace was faster…and the morals were looser." At the stroke of midnight, on January 16th, 1920, America went dry. There wasn't a place in the country (including your own home) where you could legally have even a glass of wine with your dinner without breaking the law. The 18th Amendment, known as the Volstead Act, prohibited the manufacture, sale and possession of alcohol in America. Prohibition lasted for thirteen years. This so-called "Noble Experiment" was a colossal failure. People drank more than ever during Prohibition, and there were more deaths related to alcohol. No other law in America has been violated so flagrantly—by so many "decent law-abiding" people. Overnight almost everyone in the country became a criminal. In speakeasies, they drank bootleg liquor out of tea cups--just in case there was a police raid. Mob-controlled liquor created a booming black market economy. Gangster-owned speakeasies replaced neighborhood saloons—and by 1925 there were over 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone: Small's Paradise, The Trocadero, Cotton Club, and our own Jumpin' Johnnies.

Flappers and Freedom! by Gossip Columnist Mêlez Bereichern     Just six months after Prohibition became law in 1920, women got the right to vote. Suffragettes were on the front line of this landmark battle, but flappers became the real heroines of the Jazz Age. Flappers were easy to spot. They were the only grown women with short skirts and bobbed hair. They dared to smoke cigarettes and drink cocktails. They turned down their hose, powdered their knees and painted their lips bright red. They hung out in speakeasies and nightclubs where they danced the Tango, the Black Bottom and the biggest dance craze of all--the Charleston—with bare arms and legs flying! Social Barriers Broken by I. B. Wondren     Prohibition broke down a lot of the old social barriers. In many New York speakeasies, rich people and ordinary folks, men and women, all rubbed shoulders. They had two goals in common--getting their hands on the best illegal liquor around, and avoiding a ride to the police station in a paddy wagon. The stock market crash of 1929 signaled the end of the party. Casting Call by I. B. Wondren     Cecil B. DeMille is in town looking for the star of his next big project — the first all-talking picture in history! Interested in stardom? The word on the street is Mr. Demille can be found at Jumpin' Johnnies this Saturday January 1. After the success of Warner Brothers The Jazz Singer, a part-talkie, audiences around the world are eager for more! New Leadership WANTEDby Sy N. Steacher     With organized crime on the rise, the present Governor has announced he will not be running for re-election. “...it is difficult to speculate who will step up to take on the leadership of the state. What is for certain is that the next set of candidates will have to have a history of being tough on organized crime if they hope to win the election.” states political analyst, Bill Bosworth.

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