Life — May 10, 1928 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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LIFE ooo ooo ES our village a very citified look. The ladies sure do enjoy theirselves shopping in that store. °*°Mr. Marshall Neilan must have come back from his trip to England. At least we surmise as much, having seen him eating his lunch today in Henry's well- known cafe’ ***The motion picture industry, of here, is in terrible shape, if you believe all the gossip that’s going the rounds. **°Of all the calliopes that play up and down Sunset Boulevard—for advertising purposes—we think that the calliope of The Hollywood Auto Laundry has the best tone and plays the sweetest tunes. But that’s a mere matter of opinion. ***Saw Dr. Paul Fejos and party at the icture show last night. They, like we, Rraghed heartily at the comical antics of Harold Lloyd in “Speedy.” «* Which reminds us that Harold is once more in our busy midst, having returned from a sojourn in New York (N. Y.) where he took in all the sights including the Lire office —Adv’t. Robert Lord. IDAHO SPRINGS (COL.) Senator and Mrs. Renshaw drove over a cliff enroute to Denver recently. «* Rumor has it that Courtney R. Coop- er is in the East, gathering material for a new Western novel. ***Mountain lion tracks have been seen up Chicago Creek of late, but at that the ‘lace isn’t as dangerous as it’s named. ***Miss Viola Dougherty is here from Long Beach, California, enjoying the climate. ***Dr. Atcheson is driving a fine new car. Congratulations, Doc! « Ed Burns and Charlie Robins, genial and careful bus drivers from Denver and Gilpin County, respectively, were in town with their respective buses as usual to- day. *°®The Strochle Automotive Cathedral, one of the very finest garages in Colorado, is finished and ready for the tourist trade. Paul S. Powers. JACKSONVILLE Crarence Darrow, who swings his shingle to the breeze in Chicago, the windy and warring city, spoke here in a local church, of all places, Sunday. ©**President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College, famous as the place where Rex Beach says he learned the three R’s— Restling, Rough-house and Riot—has re- turned after explaining his conference plan of study at Town Hall, New York. **°St. Vincent's, Jacksonville, said to be the finest hospital in the South, is now opened—as are some of the patients. *°*Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late William J. Bryan, was a recent stump speaker for her candidacy for Congress, the female contingent giving close attention to what she had to wear, the men what she had to say. ***Standard containers manufacturers met in Jacksonville not long ago. Con- tainers ape themselves great entertain- ers. What the containers contained is their own business. «* Our popular U. S. District Attorney, William M. Gober, always wears a large carnation or rose on the Tapel of his coat, regardless of the occasion. P. H. Armstrong. MONTREAL Coronet Hutcueson of the Tramways Company says the Guy Street car will be back to the corner of St. Catherine Street in plenty of time for the opening of the next hockey season. ***So many swell talkers from the Old Country have spoken at Club lunches lately that every business man in town has quit using his r's any more. «+ With the opening of roads this spring local merchants have been getting ready to take care of a big tourist trade. Johnny Krausmann has got his eating-and-drink- ing house all fixed up and says he hopes the voters down in the States don’t go crazy and elect Al Smith who is said to favor repeal of prohibition. *°*Your corr’sp’nd’nt_ was among those who commuted between Murray Bay and Greenly Island. Read “Neighborhood News” in Lire for latest reports of oceanic flights—Ado’t. Leslie Roberts. NEW YORK “Straw hat’? day comes next week. ***Anybody having news items send same in or better yet telephone. ***Ring Lardner and Grantland Rice are erecting dwelling edifices down at East Hampton, only a stone's roll from Percy Hammond's. * Now is the time to subscribe to Lire, the paper that kept both 1928 conventions out of N. Y.—Adbv’t. *°*Harpo Marx, Beatrice (‘‘Tootsie”’) Kaufman, Alice D. Miller, and A. H. Woollcott will sail’ for Naples, It., and other places next week but a good think it would be cheaper ra then’ play bridge and cribbage right here. **°Scems like everybody was in Eur or about to sail for same but it is just as hard as ever to find parking space ig this town. > Maurice Campbell our vigilant prohi- bition enforcement officer says that there is a place not far from 45th or gh Street_where intoxicating liquor is sold in defiance of the law and as soon as be locates it he will close the place up, so Dame Rumor hath it. *°°W. E. Woodward is still working away at his biography of Gen. U. S. Grant, but we would rather read a pa covered life of Lillian Russell than the life of Gen. Grant in full morocco. ***More anon. Franklin P. Adams, PHILADELPHIA Our four-footed friends are enjoying the town watering trough at Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue these spring days. «& Fifi Widener Holden, one of ow most popular young matrons, is leading the society editors a merry chase with her goings and comings at this writing. ***Our obliging and efficient chief magiy trate, Harry Arista Mackey, has two new drivers. When he was in London, a golf salesman told him one of the drivers would add twenty yards to his drive. Give me two, I need forty yards, said oar chief magistrate, quick as a flash. ***Trout fishing is the order of the day. **°Our young sports are preparing to usher in the straw hat season somewhat in advance of New York. ***Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the eminent magazine and newspaper publisher, is sporting a handsome Florida tan thes spring days. © Our new Broad Street subway has been opened for inspection to civic bodies. Our citizens are loud in their praise of this municipal improvement. Comfort is the predominant note. Even the straps are of an improved design, guaranteed not to hurt the straphanger’s hand. ***Spring brides in these parts include Miss Violet D. Burd Grubb, wedded © James Imbrie, Jr.; Miss Dorothy Clothier, to Roderick G. Kellett; Miss Anne Ship pen Pepper, to William H. Ashton, and —a little later—Emma Biddle Norris, © Horace Disston. Good luck is our wish for these young folk. John Forbes. comicbooks.com