Judge — July 11, 1931 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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~ ge : i ‘ PLAYED “HE” RHAPSODY IAI BLUE” ON A PICKET FENCE AT GEORGE GERSHWINS! WATE Arthur MeKeogh’s, Shippan Point. of Good Housekeeping Mag, in chi Hints department, I think. a hammoc Arthur is an editor » of the Tce Box Arthur was sound asleep in , covered with manuscripts to be passed en send. Mae pulled a pin from his lapel and stuck it up through the saggingest part of the hammock and you should have seen the blizzard effect those manu seripts gave. It was beautiful! Arthur was pretty poo pa-dooped about the manuscripts, and Mac, repentant, helped gather the pages, mixing them very carefully. So if, ina few months, you read Good Housekeeping and wonder about the cock-cyed continuity of a story now an’ then, just recall } nd his pin under Arthur. Kazwello then drove us to the Port Washington-bound ferry at New Rochelle, and we drifted across the Sound and played riveter with the knocker of John La Gatta’s door, out Sands Point way. Even after John had opened the door we kept right on banging the knocker—l bang—for ten minutes and then got in our and drove away without a word. So—on up the road to Libby Hol n’s, where we hid in “Bodda an’ So-o-o-wull” nd th buzzed rge Gershwin’s place, hard by the We got a few wrenches from Kaz- wello and pls Rhapsody in Blue” on the picket fence while George tried to get into hrobe quick enough. By then it was ime and we buzzed off to Clarence Bud- ‘on Kelland’s, on Beacon Hill, Bud and Betty were just sitting down to table as we walked in. Without a word, into the pantry we went, got dishes and silver and set pl for ourselves at table. We scooped generous ‘Ipings and in silence. We finished, started the player piano, the Victrola, and radio all a nd left with a napkin full of food for Kazwello. We spoke no word through- out the visit. Neither could the Kellands! We pointed Kazwello East Hamptonward, with Grantland Ric Arthur William Brown's and Russell Patterson's on our snubbing list. We arrived time for dinner at the Ri Nobody home. We went into the kitchen, eooked our dinner, ate, turned on all faucets over the we bang— a rose bush and sang twenty consecutive times a ba res one ws oe Sas” ie Took PICWRES OFF THEIR WALLS AND HUNG — 21 in the house and left for the Brown’s, The Browns weren't home either. We took the pictures off their walls and hung them on trees outside and went over to the Patterson's, where we found the Rices and the Browns. We walked in, said nothing but od night,” found a bedroom, locked the door, went to bed and sang all night long. We or dered an enormous breakfasc in’ the Patterson kitchen next morning and left without cating it. We continued our manoeuvers all through Sunday, leaving our mark as from country friend to country friend. y night in the cab in a parade of Sunday from edges of Long Island, ill ‘Tour yourself—it’s What-Ho! we passed along We spent drivers com Eye-Queues N what day of the weck was the following statement de: “When the day after tomorrow is ‘yesterday.’ today’ will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was ‘today’ when the day before yesterday row’ was ‘tomor- Who is more closely related to you, your brother's wife’s mother-in-law or your aunt? Last wee and all the making it | ». 1: The window was diamond-shaped rpenter had to do to double it in size without er or wider was (Continued on page 27) “HEM ON 1 “Rees!