Life — May 17, 1928 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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new suit that is said, in its sartorial glory, to put Solomon in the background. The | colors are vibrating, the scheme being gray squared with blue lines running cast and west. «x Mrs. Mattie Land at Mayo has a Plymouth Rock hen which has laid an egg a day for six months on a stretch, Sundays and holidays included. colony of apes and chimpanzees with all the liquor they can hold and a shot of morphine and veronal now and then is being planned for Florida as a scientific experiment by the joint admin- istrative board of the Medical Center of New York. The monkeys are to be pam- pered and subjected to all known modern vices in an effort to discover the definite psychological effects of poisons in con- nection with crime. ***0. Lado, driving a 1907 Hupmobile, won the auto classics for fifteen-year-olds before a large crowd of spectators at Plant field, Tampa, one day this week. His time for the half mile was 1.1534 minutes. P. HH. Armstrong. NEW YORK Srraw Hats are the order of the day. ***Ye editor was asked for his views last week, and said Smith would be nom- inated and so would Coolidge. ***Miss Edna Ferber is out in Emporia, Kans., the guest of W. A. White of 927 Exchange St. ***Montague Glass has arrived here from | a protracted stay in France and will so- | journ in a costly Westport, Conn., demesne during the heated term. ***Rob Benchley is back from abroad where he has been gathering material for his book “The History of the Political Parties” which he wants to have pub- lished ere the conventions. Bob says the book concession ought to run into money. ***Those who give money for the fund for the City Museum will have their names inscribed on a record that will be placed in the cornerstone of the bldg. This looks dangerous, because some day somebody might tear down the bldg. just to prove to his grandson that he gave a dollar to the fund. retty near everybody you know is in Europe or fixing to go, yet the sub- way is so crowded every night you would think nobody ever went away. ***Miss Zona Gale’s father of Portage, Wis., hasn't fixed his watch for daylight saving yet. He says he gets fooled plenty without doing it on purpose. Franklin P. Adams. LIFE OMAHA Jim Wut, Idaho dude rancher and lion roper, was here recently with his bride. It looks to us like Jim did pretty well for himself. ***Frank Simpson is back from India (Asia) where he took a shipload of mules for the government service. u L. A. Downs of the Illinois Central predicted a great future for our city at a dinner in his honor, This is the sort of talk we'd like to hear more of. ***Clifford Smith has been here from Boston to get work started on his new building west of the First National. Cliff is an Omaha boy who has made good in the East. ***Coach Bearg was gloomy at the end of spring football practice at the Uni- versity of Nebraska. The fall schedule will be played out, however. Victory is not everything, says Coach Bearg. ***Ralph and Dick Kitchen will tear | down the old Paxton where William Jen- nings Bryan, Buffalo Bill and Bob Fitz- simmons often stayed and erect the finest hotel in Nebraska, bar none, #7 “Omaha's Fifth Avenue,” better known (in our opinion) as Douglas Street, looks grand with the new lights but it lacks that foreign car touch. The boys are trying to get C. W. Hull to drive over occasionally with his Isotta-Fra- schini. B. F. Sylvester. PHILADELPHIA Cuarces B. Hatt, our genial president of town council, has become a race-track enthusiast and may be seen at the nearby paddocks puzzling over programs when not on the floor of council puzzling over ordinances, subway plans and city build- ing blueprints. ux Many of our fellow citizens are watching the calendar and trying out their split bamboo rods for the first day of bass season. ***Miss Dorothy Day, New York's popu- lar leading woman, greeted friends briefly at the depot here recently while en route to Chicago where she has accepted a flattering offer on the stage. Miss Day is as versatile as she is attractive—if such be possible—being a talented journalist and magazine writer as well as Thespian. «> Milton Propper, who graduated as copy boy from one of our enterprising newspapers, and now is studying law at the University of Pennsylvania, recently sold a mystery novel to Harper & Bros., and a short time later received the enor- mous sum of five thousand dollars as part of the serial rights. Keep it up, Milt, you lucky stiff, say we. John Forbes, PORTLAND, ORE. Larce cracks appeared in the walls of the city hall a few days ago, following certain repairs, and while every effort is being made to fix the responsibility no success is reported to date. ***The driving public almost caught up with Captain Ervin, head of the trafic bureau, recently. The only way he could keep ahead of them was to reverse the direction of half the one-way streets, which he did. ***City Engineer O, Laurgaard is push- ing forward the work on the new sea wall in Portland's harbor, and hoping that nobody will think of any sinister remarks to make about it till Election Day. uw Charles F. Berg, one of the guaran- tors of the Chicago Grand Opera com- pany’s season here, has composed a song to a current popular melody, which he entitled: “The Song Is Ended But the Deficit Lingers On.” ***Read “Neighborhood News” in Lire for exclusive gossip of the Pacific North- west and other sections.—Adv't. Dean Collins. SAN FRANCISCO Avmurats Hank Wi ey and Louie de Steiguer left recendy with their fleets, after a week in Our Harbor, to train for the next war. They have some right nice boats. ***Joe Parente, the town’s most popular bootlegger, forfeited another $7,500 bail last week. He left recently on a vacation in Canada and forgot to come back. Bet- ter give up, Joe, and take your medicine; Marshal Fred Esola is looking hard for you. « The many friends of Harry I. Staf- ford will be pleased to know he is quite optimistic about a new kind of hair tonic. ***Charlie and Kathleen Norris, who write books that sell for more than $2 apiece, are back from Europe and on their farm down Saratoga way. ***The Elks had a big time the other night when Joe Flatley was put in as exalted ruler. Joe is a live wire. So are the other new officers: Art Mangin, Al Reedy, Laury Lamanet, Art Heinz, John- nie Dumbrel (not Dumbbell—ha! ha!), John Booder and John Lortick. Chet Johnson. comicbooks.com ces