Life — June 28, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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our city’s charming daughters, maybe the Fourth of July, and take her to tour Europe, visiting every country over there. He told ye scribe it wouldn't take long, for the countries over there are so close together they touch. ***A good many strangers, mostly Demo- crats, are on our streets. There are said to be quite a sprinkling of Republicans, but Chief of Police Tom Goodson has gave it out that he has imported quite a lot of special officers for the convention and any ribaldry or disturbances will be promptly dealt with. They will not be permitted to hooraw the candidates. *°*Kenesaw Mountain Landis in our midsted the other day to dedicate our new baseball stadium. He was inter- viewed by ye scribe, and told him that that is his real name. ***Our esteemed fellow citizen, J. W. Neal, one of the founders of the Cheek & Neal Coffee Company which sold out recently to the Postum Cereal Company for $45,000,000, told ye scribe that he might have got one or two hundred dol- lars more out of them but he didn’t want them to regret their bargain. ***Electrically refrigerated ice water fountains have been installed in the coliseum where the Democratic Conven- tion is being held, on the chance that there might a few want to use them, **°Ye scribe was told that W. G. Mc- Adoo from way out in California is in town but our informant didn’t say what for; though he suspected that Bill proba- bly came just for the trip. Judd Mortimer Lewis. Cleveland Newr Baker is visiting friends in Hous- ton (Tex.). ***Tom Copeland of here gave a good account of himself in the English litera- ture tournament between his Alma Mater and Harvard College. Whether he will take up pugilism professionally, deponent saith not. ***Safety Director Earey; who has been striving lustily against the gambling and booze interests here, leaves on his vacation soon, Ed is going to Canada. *°*Ted Robinson wrote a poem about June the other day, he praising it. &% Send some books and magazines to the Public Library for our Bluejackets on the Lake. They will be appreciated, as will also some good telephone numbers. *e*Things are slack in local hot coffee and waffle palaces, which is mi ny strange considering that July is at hand, ah we, but some wafflers hint that a whole lot of folks feel waffles are not healthy in months having no “w. ***A visitor in town the other day was Ad Menjou, whose father was prop. of the old Berghof here. Ad is now in busi- ness in Hollywood (Cal.) and doing well. ***Doc Crile is looking forward to a big goiter crop. Old Subscriber. Kansas City Rains have been frequent and the wheat, ne dandelions and other crops are doing fine at this writing. ***). Clyde Nichols, the genial realtor, is back from a flying trip to Europe. He spent some weeks in Spain, which he says is a great little country. ***Postmaster Bill Morton has put new points in all post office pens that were ruined by the G. O. P. delegates. «%* Watch this space for announcement that the G. O. P. nominee for president will be Herbert Hoover. ***Lawyer Jim Reed has brought out all the porch chairs and tables and put them on his front porch in order for the cam- paign. Are you expecting a visit from Al Smith, Jim? **“Kindling,” which was considered a pretty risque play when ye ed first came to this town fifteen years ago, was put on by home talent at the opera house here not long ago. How time flies. ***Some fine new traffic signal lights at 39th and Broadway. The lights are a great help to pedestrians on corners where they are, but they make it tougher on other corners, because the autoists don’t drive any better than they ever did, where there are no lights. C. H. Thompson. Boston Qurre a few people were down to the Cunard dock in East Boston last week to see the “Scythia” come in. ***Charley Innis, our new park commis- sioner, is learning how to spell chrysan- themum, narcissus, gladioli, etc. *°*°The Harvard-Yale boat races attracted quite a few of our leading drinkers last week. Several rowing enthusiasts carried Scotch and gin in their binoculars. This prevented them from seeing the race, but made it much easier to celebrate the vic- tory or defeat, as the case might be. **°*Prof. Bliss Perry is vacationizing in Europe, where he speaks the language with ease. ***Summer is so imminent hereabouts that our women folks are discarding their straw hats and putting on their fall felts, ***Several of our Back Bay leaders are spelling words with a ‘“‘u” in them like eee flavour, glamour, etc. We don't now whether they got this idea from traveling in England or reading Vanity Fair. ***George M. Cohan and Ring W. Lard. ner were recent visitors in our midst, handing each other laughs and putting them in their new show. George is get- ting pretty gray and Ring isn’t the spring chicken he looked when he was with Mr, Hearst's Boston American, either. ***Several members of this year’s Har- vard graduating class are not selling bonds. & If you don’t see your name here, look for it next week.—Advt. Neal O'Hara, New York Our public schools have closed and the streets are full of children and motorists. ***What with so many people going a- motoring this year and buying pennants to adorn their “autos” with, and so many collisions of one “auto” with another, we can't decide whether this will be a banner year for bumpers or a bumper year for banners, P. S.—If we didn’t think that was a pretty fair one, we'd say somebody else said it. ***Bill Stewart and his sister Princess de Braganza are at Newport, R. I., where they will give a dance on July 7 for sev- eral 100 guests, the alleged reason being to introduce Bill's niece Miss Nadejda de Braganza to society. We have attended enough parties to know that out of sev- eral 100 guests there will be at least 25 who will say “I didn’t catch the name.” ***Rea Irvin and wife celebrated the 12th anniversary of their wedding one day this month at his little 6 acre estate 6.6 mi. from turn right to Newtown on Main St. Danbury, Conn. Among the invited guests were Percy Hammond, Wallace Morgan, and others, the latter all show- ing up. ***Ye scribe is off to Chicago next wk. for a visit with friends and relatives. a If you must spend money, patronize our advertisers.—Advt. Franklin P. Adams. \\ Aw tellig wilt Smo! Tam tics. Li comicbooks.com