Life — May 24, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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mo SE ieee es Pe ae F Ln La a]ee o|e8 NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Boston Extonors Sears has had a new set of rubber heels attached to her walking boots. **There will be a free band concert on the Common on Decoration Day next week. ***John F. Malley, who is way up in the Elks, attended six banquets last week and made a half a dozen speeches. & Harvard is trying to make arrange- ments with Tom Heeney to lecture on Chaucer in case he takes away the title from Gene Tunney. ***A former local boy and athlete, Joe Kennedy, had his picture and a big write- up in the American Magazine this month, Joe is now doing well for himself in Gotham (New York, N. Y.). **elt_is rumored our Symphony Or- chestra_ finished ue the season with a ai deficit. This is a shame as the boys put on a good brand of music and deserve encouragement. ***Post cards have been received from the popular editor of the Herald, Robert Lincoln O'Brien, who has been sojourn- ing all around the world. ***Ed Filene, the corner merchant, made a speech out of town last week. Ed can discourse on a variety of sub- jects besides mdse. & If you don’t see your name here, look for it next week.—Ade’t. Neal O'Hara. Cleveland Our sine is giving the other Amer- ican League teams quite an argument this season, Keep that up, boys, and we'll have the pennant cinched, is our guess. ***All the women folks are getting their cloaks ready for the spring opera fes- tival at Public Hall at which “Aida,” “Rigoletto,” “Pagliacci” and three other well-known operas will be given by the Metropolitan Opera Company, which, as the name implies, is from Gotham, where it has made quite a reputation for itself. Among the entertainers will be Amelita Galli-Curci, Lucrezia Bori, Marion Tal- ley, Rosa Ponselle, Lawrence Tibbett and Beniamino Gigli, all of whom are said to be accomplished. ***Senator James Reed of Missouri was a visitor in town the other day. Jim spoke at the City Club, calling the attention of one and all to a scandal known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. Seems there has been considerable corruption in the Gov- ernment. Everybody was glad to hear about it. Drop in again during your next Presidential campaign, Jim. «© Mrs. Laura Eckley and Mrs. W. J. McLaughlin will have the leading roles in the spring entertainment which the Red Gross health education committee of the Council of Parents and Teachers is giv- ing, they being dramatically inclined. Mrs. Eckley will be “America” and Mrs. McLaughlin will be “Parents and Teach- ers Association.” Tupper Greenwald. Detroit Encar A. Guest had a poem accepted by a newspaper last week. & “Unless we overcome the liquor traffic,” said a federal dry agent, after a lively shooting match on the river yes- terday, “the end of civilization is in sight.” Maybe so, brother, but which end? **°Wreckers are tearing down the coast- ers, merry-go-rounds and old mills that clutter up the approach to beautiful Belle Isle, the island. Fine work, boys. That's one hideous eyesore we won't have to be ashamed of when strangers visit our little city to see the secing. ***Our hoary-headed congressman, Bob Clancy, has been telling Congress how the history of Greece, Rome, Egypt and Baby- lon shows that the tax on Detroit auto- mobiles ought to be repealed. It’s mighty good history, Bob. Go on and make some more of it. ***Golf clubs are being worn this spring by an increasing number of our smart young men and women about town. &* Arthur Vandenburg, for many years a newspaper editor in Grand Rapids, pleaded guilty and was sent to the U.S. + Senate. Elmer C. Adams. Houston Dan Moopy our Boy Governor just drove past our sanctum on his way to the ball-park and looked up at us and smiled and waved. That is the man that will always get our vote. *ee). H. Donahey, of Cleveland, Ohio, brother of one of Ohio's best-known sons, engaged parking space under a bed in the Rice Hotel for the Democratic con- vention soon to be held in this city, but since making the reservation he has been invited to bring his better half and be the guests of a friend in our city. So the parking place is for sale. He hopes to make quite a handsome profit out of it. *°*Hon. Frank Andrews gave ye scribe a bid to the Bar Association Banquet at San Jacinto Inn, but when we got there we found it was a lawyers’ doings. We might have known there was some catch about it. But the joke was on him, for we stayed and eat. u% H. K. Waddell, our deservedly pop- ular young furniture merchant, says that if his women-folks are going to work out in the front flower garden this summer they have got to let the front hedge grow higher. ***Our fellow townsman Lynch David- son, who was named after one of our most popular judges of early days, and who has been Lieut. Governor and sort of got in the habit of running for Gov- ernor, has gave it out that his beautiful young daughter Lois, who is in Eng- find. is going to be presented at court. Lynch didn’t say what for. Judd Mortimer Lewis. Montreal Brtan Devin, who does a right smart column in Hughie Graham's paper, is back from New York. 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