Life — June 7, 1928 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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LIFE ability, is summering with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Whiting, of here. He is driving around in a new auto- mobile, purchased from Miss Beatrice Lillie when she sailed abroad, ‘tis said. ***Philadelphia’s traffic congestion is just as big as New York or Chicago can boast of. © Subscribe for Neighborhood News, and receive Lire free.—Advt. John Forbes. Boston ‘Tue Sratue of Justice on the court house is blindfolded, but she hasn’t been asked to indorse any cigarettes yet. ***Andrew J. Peters, the big gun of the Chamber of Commerce, is going on a business trip to Houston, Tex., late this month to boost Boston and Al Smith. aX The Atlantic Monthly reports a nice gain in subscriptions. This is without giving premiums, running bathing beauty contests or anything of the sort, cither. ***President Ab Lowell of Harvard plans! to wear a crimson necktie at the Class Day exercises in the near future. ***Our popular Packard dealer and Gov- ernor, Alvan T. Fuller, is thinking of buying another oil painting. ***E, W. Preston, the head boss of the Herald and Traveler, hasn't gone a day in five years without a pink or a gardenia or something in his buttonhole. The Colonel is a great favorite with all the local florists. ***Business has been so good for Sher- man Whipple, our local legal light, that he has bought another brief case. Sherm doesn’t carry his lunch in it, either, It’s crammed full of legal papers. ***Raymond Piper, the big investment securities man of Congress Street, is al- ready commuting between Scituate and Boston, Ray is always one of the first to do things, like opening up his summer place or putting on a straw hat, etc. u% If you don’t see your name here, watch for it next week.—Advt. Neal O'Hara. St. Louis Tue Bripce ano Spur Crus, our new (and only) Fox-hunting Club, — has formally opened with a drag hunt in the afternoon which was fun for those who were not in it. At night the Club gave the best dinner and party scen hereabouts for years. ***Not to be altogether outdone by the pink coats of the Bridle and Spur Mem- bers, the Racquet Club boys are sporting new colors on their straw hat bands this summer. ***Sam Fordyce is back in town again, talkative on all subjects but Senator Reed's chances at Houston; Sterling Ed- munds is the other St. Louisan who thinks the Senator has a chance. ***The job of widening Olive Street from Grand to Twelfth Boulevard has been finished on the South side and is open to traffic. Can this be St. Louis? ***Miss Almira Steedman, subdeb daughter of Ted Steedman of West- moreland Place, on a hunting trip with her family in Africa, has killed her first lion with her first shot. She will bring more trophies to her coming-out party next fall than most debs do. ***Ed Lowry has just celebrated his 1oooth performance as master of cere- monies at the Ambassador movie theater. Ed has far surpassed the lately departed Brooke Johns in popularity. Even the men like Ed. Lucas Hunt. New York Patronize our advertisers. codtf ***Walter Winchell spent yesterday at his home in Long Beach between trains. & Looks like a bumper crop of brides this June. ***Herb Jones the well-known financial genius takes the 4:30 every afternoon to Southport. He is a member of the 4:30 Daylight Saving Poker Club. ***Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., is taking violin lessons off of R. Heifetz, Jascha’s father. & Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt, both Govs. of the Empire State, became Presidents of the U. S. “Verb, sap.” is our forecast. ***What we don’t see is why people waste a lot of time writing essays about Hollywood when they might say in a few words that it is the town that Herman J. Mankiewicz is said to be social arbiter of, **°Wm. T. Tilden is on his way to France and our hope is that when he comes back he will bring the Davis Cup, that coveted trophy. This year the matches will be played on hard courts. “Any court you okay against Lacoste on,” said Mr. T., on the eve of sailing, “is a hard court for his opponent.” ***Ye scribe runs into most of the prom- inent citizens of the small towns which have Neighborhood News correspondents, but we don’t like to mention names, partly because it makes it seem like all the big folks came to N. Y. whenever they get a chance and we don't like to take the items and butter out of the Boston, De. troit, Chicago, ete., correspondents? mouths, and also a lot of those visitors don’t want it known that they are here though of course that does not mean E A. Filene of Boston, nor E. C. Adams of Detroit, nor Richard (“Dick”) Frank of Chicago. Franklin P. Adams, Houston Hersert Dottantre, our popular youn; women’s ready-to-wear merchant, is back from a buying trip to the Metropolis (N. Y.) and says women’s clothes this year will show more of their personality, Gosh! «* Ye scribe dropped in at the palatial home of our fellow citizen Frank Sterling in Broadacres the other evening and was shown over the house. Frank showed us one of the biggest ice-cold watermelons in his refrigerator we have ever seen. We are very fond of this luscious fruit. We'll do as much for him some time. ***John Threadgill and his helper Cle- burne Charles are out of the hospital. They happened to quite an accident. They were carrying a large plate glass window across the sidewalk on Main St. when a pedestrian walked through it. ***Met Rev. Will States Jacobs, our talented preacher, real estate and live stock dealer. He gives it out that the ambition of his lite is to some day be asked to toastmast at a banquet. ***A man came into Hermann hospital last week carrying one of the biggest rat- tlers ever seen in this section and showed the interne where it had bit him. He was surprised when they gave him serum in- stead of alcohol and said he'd be damn if he'd ever get bit again. ***Mr. Charles Maes, popular bus. man. of our morning paper, who has been mumping for quite a while, is now about well. ***Dan Moody, our boy Governor, and ex-Congressman Bob Henry and Tom Love are said to have about finished their fight to show the world how harmonious the Dem. party can be. There wasn’t any shooting. Judd Mortimer Lewis. Montreal Youne Harty MacDoveat and his wife, who was Herb Molson’s daughter before her marriage, are still running around Europe but will be back the end of the Eh the fir Englar with C emit fi car onlin Air an Lady-K for the Palmer the run hair w. of year Potice has bee ably an town, day nov “Rus came 4 lately v has rece ging Ic jingling since th comicbooks.com