Life — June 14, 1928 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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LIFE SS Ch —-——_- books there were, same were Bibles, and the Gideon Society put same on display during their recent convention there. ***Orville Wright, our popular airplane merchant, is visiting in Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. If you run into Charlie Lind- bergh tell him he owes several folk here a letter, Orv. ***A visitor in town the other day was the stork, he dropping in on Jack and Maude Compton and Bob and Ruth Hop- ple. Congratulations, folk and_ stork. & Most of our zens are about recon- ciled to their straw hats now. red Patterson, our popular cash reg- ister merchant, was lauded recently by our esteemed contemporary, the New York (N. Y.) Times, for the film he made in Africa showing the only living giraffe with a broken neck, twenty-six lions play- ing together, and how Fred scared a poe: We know a traffic officer we'd ike you to meet, Fred. T. P. G. Milwaukee Joun Pueticuer, genial president of Marshall and IIsley Bank, went to Wash- ington to invite President Coolidge to the twenty-cighth Sacngerfest of the Mil- waukee Saengerbund, now in progress. But we guess Cal had a date to stay home and listen to the Republican Con- vention over the radio. &* Dave Schooler, the Wisconsin theater maestro, is now throwing away the numerous mash notes he receives. ***Arthur Brisbane, who runs a column, was here the other day and said that Milwaukee was a great industrial center. Auta boy, Art! ***Connie Corcoran, president of the common council and the town’s best bet on a welcome committee, is having more keys to the city made. ***The public museum’s African trek will leave here on June 9. Christoph Schultz will lead the expedition, which is secking a dik-dik, a Colobus monkey. an impalla and a klippspringer. All. of those things were running across the bar up to Charlie's place the other night. Jan Hartnett. Portland, Ore. O. B. Covpwett, president of the Rose Festival, has had the boys out decorating the main streets of our city for some time, with flags for our annual Rose Festival, which is open to the public, come one, come all. ***Captain A. I. Eagel has arrived to be commander of the Pearson flying field at Vancouver. When_ his picdscat? Lt. Oakley G. Kelly, introduced him at the Chamber of Commerce, John Dougall, the mouthpiece of that organization, said he sensed a certain appropriateness in the gentleman’s name. This remark was re- ceived without evidence of surprise by Captain Eagel. u% Elise Bristol, daughter of W. C. | Bristol, eminent Portland attorney, and one of the leading spirits of the Art Theater group here, will be Queen of the Portland Rose Festival this year. ***Jacques Gershkovitch, who recently guest conducted the Philharmonic orches- tra in the Town Hall in New York, has | returned to Portland, and his hair is rapidly graying under the strain of re- hearsing the ballets and orchestra for the Rose Festival pageant. Dean Collins. New York Patronize our advertisers tf ***Samuel Hopkins Adams of Auburn is | touring the State looking for antiques. Sam is no spring chicken himself. ***Mayor Walker says he is going to oust all the grafters, but the house he lives in on St. Luke's Place is not situ- ated, like ye scribe’s, between two “restaurants.” ***Art Samuels and Dean Mathey spent a few days of last wk. on ‘the Princeton campus. ***Charley Howard was clected Pres. of the International Typographical Union. Charley is a Chicago boy, as who is not, if it comes to that? ***This department will make no effort to be a passenger on the first: Transcon- tinental air trip. We were a passenger on the 20th Century Ltd. when it made its first fast trip in 1905 and nobody ever asks us about it. That was 23 years ago, when the Ltd, made it in 18 hrs, instead of 20. «% In response to many queries, the 4th of July comes on a Wednesday this year. Don't be afraid to write to Netcneor- Hoop News when you are perplexed about anything. advt it ***John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is doing a lot of entertaining at his summer place near Tarrytown, J. D. says “The great- est possession a man can have is a good wife and a good family."* Maybe so, John, but we have a good wife and a pretty good family, and we don’t even get in- vited up to your place. Franklin P. Adams. jnate, has cancelled his subscription | Booth Jameson, Seattle Ir nas been definitely announced that Nancy Ann Miller will not return to Seattle for the Strawberry Festival at the First Methodist Church this summer, Frank Edwards, nickelodeon mag. , to Variety, preparatory to assuming his mayoralty duties next month. Mrs, Bertha K. Landes, retiring, has taken ow a subscription to Good Housekeeping, the door-to-door agents say. ***Wmm. J. (Wee) Coyle, manager of the new ic Auditorium, is counting up an estimated 275,000 inches of nation-wide publicity incident to his proposal to put a pair of the reputedly long-lived horned toads from Texas in the cornerstone of the municipal building, now being buil. & Three stalwart crews from Washing. ton, under Coach Al Ulbrickson, are bending backs every afternoon in_ pre aration to furnishing the thrill of race at Poughkeepsie - on - the - Hud some afternoon soon, Indianapolis Mayor Err Stack attended a motion pic ture show last week. Oh you Greta Garbo —eh Ert? As far as we can sce from reading the society pages, the June brides in thi town scem to far outnumber the brid grooms. The Indianapolis Times won the $50 Pulitzer gold medal, and the statf has had a hard time preventing Boyd Gurley, the efficient’ editor, from around on his coat. Wearing It Our popular penman, N. B. Tarking- ton, is summering in Maine as is his cus tom and hoping the Republicans will nominate a candidate he can vote for in all conscience. a Mr. Tarkington's handsome nephew, been selling stories to the Sat. Eve. Post. How does it feel to have an author in the family, Tark? Henry Aifreds. Louisville Laying in next winter's coal is the order of the day here. ***Grace Ruthenburg, who used to be Sunday editor and sob sister for the Courier-Journal, has got a job to write and produce ether plays for the National Broadcasting Company. Grace is a grad- uate of Doc Baker’s class at Yale U. Good for you, Grace, say we. 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