Life — June 7, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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4 AAS —— you wouldn’t know the first name of that gir] Whoopee whom everybody seems to be making. The pay-off gag of the season, [ think, was Doc Lief’s. It concerned a Scotchman who was cating a pig's knuckle and ate all the way down to his own elbow before he realized it. Yours until the world becomes a better place to live in—which will be when mammy singers send a five-spot home now and then. Walter Winchell. Paris, May 1. Dear WALTER: 1 saw a mass of glittering objects tonight at Ciro's, and when I crawled around | found that they were the jewels attached to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who is here “doing” Paris. And, as you Amair- icans say, how! There is a report that she is considering trading in one of her diamonds for the Louvre. The transac- tion may be called off because she can’t wear the Louvre around her neck. The popular pastime here is sitting at aafé drinking beer (the French equiva- lent of malted milk) and discussing char- xters in novels. First it was those in Ernest. Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.” Now it is André Gide's “The Counterfeiters."” Everybody from Calvin Coolidge to the Pig Woman is suspected. Incidentally, Hemingway has left Paris for Mexico, where he is to be joined by Covarrubias. It looks like a literary ver- sion of the Siamese Twins act. Ford Madox Ford is still here and man- ages to pour himself over the Café des Deux Magots. He doesn’t look very much lke the scathing caricature of him Alexander King did for the Bookman. I's his wax figure by Hidalgo that he resembles. Ralph Barton, the artist, seems to have made France his home. He has purchased his own chiteau—just like a movie actor —and delights his guests with a private flm version of “Camille.” In this movie itis Anita Loos who has more coughs than you can find in a carload cf con- sumptives. Her husband, John Emerson, handsome, tall and awkward, plays the lover. Charlie Chaplin also appears and there are shots of Julia Hoyt. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford urived yesterday. I had tea with Doug, sho tells me that a well-known motion pxture producer is coming to Paris and that they are translating French into Yid- dish dialect so that he will be able to taster the language. The Fairbankses are ‘ery popular here, as are most American movie players. In many of the churches ass is still being said for Rudolph Val- Frienp (to owner of Flea Circus): Well, hello, old man, how's every little thing? entino. George Gershwin returns to Paris soon after a visit to Berlin and other places. He has been working on his com- position, “An American in Paris,” which is to be given at the Opéra. American jazz is tremendously popular here, al- though there are so many South Amer- icans in town that almost every dance emporium employs an additional or- chestra to play tango music. I saw the Folies-Bergére for the first time last night, Walter. | am going again tonight just to see what the faces of the girls look like. “No, I can't begin to act kittenish yet.” I don’t know whether or not I told you about it, but I have abandoned col- lecting foreign stamps. | am now gather- ing American coins—particularly gold pieces. If you have any five- or ten-dollar gold pieces, please send them on, Also fifty-cent pieces. I was prompted to be- come a coin collector because of a visit I made Sunday to the races at Long- champs. It seems that every horse I bet on was a Macfadden trained steed—you know, the kind that pauses every once in a while to get a breath of fresh air. Phooey! So long, Walter; I am trying so hard not to mention even a word of French in this letter. The strain is too much for mel! Arthur Kober. GETTING ON “Is your son still connected with the Bootleggers’ Corporation?” “Yes, but he has been promoted.” “He has?” “Yes. At first he was just a delivery man, then he got the job of paying off Prohibition officers, and now he is State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League.” Witt H. Hays has managed to remove some of the French restrictions on American motion pictures. The next step will be to remove some of the Amer- ican restrictions on American motion pictures. comicbooks.com