Life — June 28, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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San Francisco Dr. Perry Byervy, our genial earthquake expert, has gone to Europe to tell ex- ets over there about earthquakes in Southern California, He also will discuss the fire in San Francisco in 1906. ***Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bartlett have bought a new green sweater for their bull- dog. They are going to teach him to button it up himself. ***Chief Dan O'Brien, who is the proud father of George O'Brien, the moving pic- ture actor, threw out the dragnet several times last w assisted by Capt. Duncan Matheson, They also combed the city. ***Mr. Don Wiley and Mr. John Palmer were guests of your correspondent at a unique radio party recently. Delicious re- freshments were served and a good time was had by all, the neighbors believe. ***Harrison Holloway, genial KFRC an- nouncer, has been hit by one of coupd's Darts,” we hear. Well, he is one ot the few announcers we would not like to hear had been hit by something worse. Chet Johnson. Naples (Italy) Gummo Marx, the spare carried by the Four Marx Brothers, has just left for Rome to visit the Princess Potenziani, who is the daughter of the Roman James J. Walker. Gummo and the Princess won the mixed doubles in the deck tennis tournament aboard the SS. “Roma,” re- cently touching at this port. The Princess says that Gummo is un grido acuto. Va- nety and Women’s Wear please copy. ***Mr. and Mrs. George Pattullo have left for Switzerland where they will spend the summer. They lingered in Genoa only long enough to drop in at the cathedral and say a few prayers for the continued health of George Horace Lorimer. ***Reatrice (“Tootsie”) Kaufman is lingering in Naples to write another chap- ter on her magnum opus, “Frigidity in Men.” & There will be no dirty cracks at a cer- tain statesman in this dispatch, for we Italian correspondents know which side our bread is buttered on. ***Your correspondent dined recently at the Hotel Cappuccini in Amalfi, a hilltop inn sacred to the memory of a celebrated guest known locally as Enrico Wadsworth Longfellow. The greatest excitement Amalfi has felt since the last eruption of Vesuvius was caused by the spectacle of two (and later four) litter bearers at- tempting to carry your correspondent up the two hundred steps of the terrace. These men have since resigned to take up umbrella mending. Alexander Woollcott, Wilmington pretty good last week Summer opened u bute somebody closed it in these environs again right away. ***John B. Niles is papering his house. *°*What with our own Christopher Ward publishing his “Saga of Cap'n John Smith,” John Biggs, Jr.’s novel running in Scribner's, Scow Fitzgerald's spending most all last summer here and Isabel Paterson, the Herald Tribune's critic’s passing through here on the Pennsylvania railroad a few weeks ago, we are getting to be some considerable literary center pretty fast. Greenwich Village and ndianapolis, look to your laurels, say we. «& P. S, duPont of General Motors says his company is selling quite a few new cars these days. P. S. doesn’t think the new Ford's so hot. ***Set. Lon Williams, the genial (ah there, Lonnie!) duPont dyestuffer, spent four years in China, and after drawing to an inside straight with practically fatal results, the amount of Chink cuss words he can emit is something terrible. ***Col. William Latimer Holter, who lives somewhere up in one of the New- tons, was in our midst O. K. a few weeks ago. We forgot to mention it at the time, what with one thing and another, Par- don us, Bill, is our remark. *°°Ye scribe traveled all the way up to Hoboken, N. J., the other day and when he got there he couldn't remember what for. That's just the sort of a place Hoboken seems like it is. Roscoe O. McGosshe. Detroit Jounnie Smit, a home town boy whom many will remember when he was just a Mayor here, is reported as having a re- sponsible position this summer promoting horse races over in Ontario. ***Al Weeks, our shining literary light, has been sojourning briefly in New York where he directed the staging of his play. Another play is already running bene. but it isn’t considered so good, Al says. ***What might have been a serious mis- hap was narrowly averted at the Ginger Ale plant Tuesday afternoon. This ale is always “aged four years in the wood.” On Tuesday an inexperienced workman was just on the point of drawing off a batch aged three years and 364 days, when the horrified foreman saw him and sprang to stop it. ***Crop report: Bass fishing, camping and getting back to nature are ripe in the land of Michigan. ***Mr. Will Hays of Calif., whose re- marks before the U. S. Senate were so widely quoted, Saturdayed in town, he having addressed a select audience of Board of Commerce members. His mes- sage was quite educational in its nature, say those who heard him. > Come one, come all! The Fourth will be appropriately celebrated here with fire- works, speeches, Barnum’s circus, speeches, etc. Hear a real twenty-piece band, meet your friends and trip the light fantastic. Nuf sed! Elmer C. Adams. Houston Ovr popular fellow citizen Frank Sterling had his house to burn on him fifty thou- sand dollars’ worth the other night. The newspaper didn’t need to write it up. Everyone was there. ***René Joubert (pronounced “You Bear”), Houston representative of the French Line, is going to marry one of comicbooks.com