Life — May 24, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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ull he looks over the new yard on De- lorimier Avenue here. ***Just so’s he won't waste any time fool- ishly, Cap Collyer has hired a retinue of tray-toters to follow him round the Knowlton Golf Course this summer. Cap will take his breakfast on the fourth tee, dinner in the bunker back of the eighth green (3rd round), and supper in the woods off the seventh fairway (8th round). Bunny Foster says they ought to let Cap have a set of desks and stenog- raphers scattered round the course, so’s he can get his mail before November. ***Mons. Duke Schiller of Lake Saint Agnes passed through town after being in New York with Grover Whalen, who just flew the Atlantic Ocean for the eighth time again. New York is a good town, Duke avers, but it has nothing on Greenly Island. Nobody has anything on Greenly Island except the lighthouse keeper, according to Mons. Schiller. @% Doc and Bertha Brown, the well- known medico and wife, have returned their new radio set to George Layton. The reception was pretty good from the set, Doc says, but darn it he could see to read by the bulbs. ***With the recent outbreak of summer all hotels are filled with American Con- ventions and empty bottles. A new song called “Sweet Adeline’? has been adopted as the Canadian National Anthem and is being sung with consid’able gusto and e-clat by all. Leslie Roberts. New York Miss Epona Ferser is in N. Y. trip to Tulsa, Okla. after a **°A. E. Smit is going to Houston, Tex., next month on a combined busi- ness and pleasure trip. ***Herbert Hoover is going to Kansas City next month on a business trip. ***James J. Walker, our genial mayor, has got a new single-breasted summer suit. ***Grover Whalen says he thinks it is more blessed to receive. Pretty good, G. A.! ***Zebulon P. Miller, who says he re- members when 8th Ave. was a thorough- fare, celebrated his rogth birthday last Wednesday. ***"No, sir,” said George Kaufman the other night when it was raining so hard and he was auto-driving with the top down, “I wouldn’t send a Dodge out on a night like this.” ***Don Marquis says he may go up to Skowhegan, Me., again this summer and become an actor again by request. “My own,” adds Don, who is an incorrigible humorist and likes to make fun of him- self. u% Ye editor is spending the summer, among other things, at his Lyons Plains, Conn., farm. Franklin P. Adams. Omaha L. F. Croroot was seen driving a new Packard last week. @& Kirk Griggs dislocated a rib while playing golf. It was replaced without penalty. ***Len Hurtz of the Fairmont Creamery is going to Alaska to rest, that being one of the few places where Len’s house has no branch office. & Scars-Roebuck has bought the Han- nan-Van Brunt building and will open soon with a full line. Watch these col- umns for particulars —Adv’t. ***Ace Hudkins, the leather goods dealer, is coming home for a visit on his way to Chicago where he has a business engagement with a Mr. Mickey Walker. ***The boys who bet that the Moorish castle going up at Farnam and Park Avenues was to be a movie are wrong. It turned out to be a tire and filling station. B. F. Sylvester. Philadelphia Viovets are in bloom. *°*Peggy Thayer Talbott, Main Line so- ciety’s most daring Diana, who brought a live rhinoceros almost home from Africa only to have it die aboard ship within sight of New York, now plans to capture two rhinoceroses, as she believes this first one died of lonesomeness and two would be company. ***Philadelphia is developing rapidly, a handsome new theater edifice having just been opened in Walnut Street, for strictly high ciass attractions. ***Miss Mary Binney Montgomery, beautiful and talented daughter of our good townsfolk, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leaming Montgomery, is on the high seas for Vienna to perfect her musical education, her parents accompanying. ***Our former chief magistrate, ex- Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick, has just returned from abroad and expresses re- gret he is not Mayor now so he could make our city over along Paris lines. How about those sidewalk cafés and what pa with them, ch, Freel? &% The attention of our Chief of Police is respectfully called to a colored gentle. man, with a folding board, who has been Sperung a card game on the north side of Market Street, near Eighth, on Sun. day afternoons. He calls the game “three card monte, or the hand is quicker than the eye.” John Forbes, Portland, Ore. Governor Ike Partrerson has heartily indorsed the idea of building a historical memorial at Champocg, where the pro- visional government of Oregon was estab lished, expenses for same to be defrayed by the United States government, if such arrangements can be made. ***Berton Churchill, New York actor, is in Portland acting as guest star for Henry Duffy's players in Cal Heilig’s theater. He has been well received and will stay here until some time in June, thus having an opportunity to witness the Rose Festival, even though he missed the spring smelt run in the Sandy. ***Doris Smith is very busy these days trying to synchronize 3,000 volunteer per- formers in a historical pageant for the Rose Festival, called “Where Rolls the Oregon,”” which will be held in the com- modious stadium in Multnomah field, the middle of June. Dean Collins. San Francisco Neue Taytoe Ross, Gertie Atherton and Katie Norris are still talking politics, but it don’t seem like they'll ever agree on which candidate should get the most votes, ***Senator Jim Phelan and Judge Charlie Flack have asked the town aldermen either to stop high buildings out on Pa cific Heights or move the bay around so they can get a better view of it. &&% Con Deasy, Jemmett Hayden, Char- lie Powers, Warren Shannon, Bill Stan- ton, Charlie Todd, “Doc” Toner and Mayor Rolph are back from helping dedi- cate the new town hall at Los Angeles. It’s a mighty nice little hall, they said— for Los Angeles. ***Hal Manwaring, genial host at the Palace Hotel, allows that the rext time Art Blanchard puts on a Shrine Luncheon program the hotel is going to be closed. At the last one Art had twelve elephants, three tigers, twenty monkeys and a flock of midgets marched through the lobby as entertainers. Chet Johnson, comicbooks.com