Life — September 6, 1928 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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ee N nfoohay i ah fon 6.34 NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHICAGO Jot Patrenson’s talented daughter, Elinor, let Lillian Gish have her former part in the movie that Reinhardt is making of “The Miracle,"" Elinor being afraid that Max might ce, bitten by the new American idea and make aa talkie. & Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank, the well- town author, politician and hostess, is said to te entertaining right and left with. the spare rooms in her big summer house at Lake Geneva. But wo far as ye scribe is concerned, this is only a rumor. ***P, S—No sooner was the above item ssrote than the letter-carrier brought in a hos- paable verification of said rumor. Great is, we Gy, the power of the press. ***Fearing she may lift the Richard K. for crime helt from Chicago, Evanston is talk- ing of putting in some street lights. And when Evanston talks, she talks! **Gene Markey, the _broadly-known sylist in tweeds and prose, has got himself a harmonica that plays sharps and flats. Gene says be is going to become a mouth-organist on a larger scale (joke!). ***It used to be London that was the in in the plays; then it was New York; now (especially after what we hear about ‘The Front Page") it looks like Chicago. It pays to ad- vertise! "Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick visited her little farming place at Lake Forest last week. It's not yet self-supporting, but Ede should worry! @ Just as Arthur Bissell was catching himself a fine mess of freckles at Trout Lake, Wis., the missus came home from Europe. So row Art is doing his tanning and freckling twenty-five flights up on the roof of The Tavern, Be highest club in town, if not in the world— we don’t mean just prices, cither. aot idea of the perfect coward is a fellow lik like Chas. Collins, story-writer and critic, bo comes home from Montreal with "Visiting Canada" pasted on the windshield of his brother's sedan and the first thing he does is row a quart of gin. Ashion Stevens BOSTON Trt Harvarp football team starts practice rg week. They expect to be perfect by Novem- **Perley Barbour of Quincy has bought himself a” printing press and is now ready to print handbills and calling cards for friends as well as a twenty-four page daily paper. & Early this week a Scotchman was digging under Washington and Summer Streets. He was looking for Filene’s sub-base- ment. ***Donald MacMillan, our local arctic ex- plorer, is getting ready to discover some new one-night lecture stands this winter, ***°The Post Office is having a one-cent sale of postcards this week. ***Senator Tom Heflin was burned in two places here recently—both of them in effigy. ***The greatest density of population in Boston is the Boylston Strect subway, where there are 19.7 persons per seat. ***The Chamber of Commerce is en- thusiastic about Upton Sinclair's new book, *Bos- ton,”” as every knock is a boost. u>* The Red Sox are expected to mathe- matically clinch last place this weel ***Ye scribe split an infinitive yesterday. Neal O'Hara. MINNEAPOLIS St. Tuomas Coxece of this vicinity is now a western division of Notre Dame Uni- versity. We expect to see the Tommics put out a real football team this fall. *°*You can get an Ice Cream Soda for se at Witt's.—Adet. ***°The 1931 convention of Knights Templar is to be held in our fair city. Rumor has it that some of the boys who reside in other parts have already put in orders for New Fords, expecting to be able to motor here by that ume. **°The new million-dollar building which is being put up by the Y. W. C. A. is of the ‘set-back’? of architecture. The boys around town are hoping that this fact will not be too noticeable in its effect on the young ladies who make it their home. Michael Fleming. DETROIT Severna more men have resigned from the sheriff's department lately on account of ill health, advancing age, and pressing business duties, according to Sheriff Ira Wilson, who fired them. & Stronger sirens are being installed on our fire apparatus, people in the outlying districts having complained that they have missed some of our best fires in recent weeks. ***Quite a few tourists from the more southerly states are passing through every day now, this state being universally known as ‘The Tourists’ Paradise."” ***Jackie Coogan, a veteran actor from the Los Angeles” neighborhood, was greeting friends and taking in the sights of Detroit re- cently. ***The Tigers got along so good in late July and August that everybody says they are just a hot weather team. Well, the betting cle- ment, who had money on them to finish in the first division, reckon they could play like H—I if they was there. «% Alfred Sloan has taken out insurance for $400,000,000 on General Motors employees, which sure ‘makes the boys feel. good, even though they don’t get the kale till they are dead. Fine work, Alf. ***Shian (Shy) Joseph who was arrested sixty times in the past fifteen years is making a rather unexpected trip to his home in Syria (Asia) under escort of a U. S. immigration officer. Come again, Shy, when you can't stay so long. Elmer C. Adams. SEATTLE Most of the home town girls are wearing stockings again, your correspondent notices. ***Lyle Spencer, president of our uni- versity, is back on the job, ready for the young- idea-shooting season, he says wittily. ***Postmaster C. Perkins is wearing one of those Who But Hoover buttons. Chas always was one of the first to embrace fashion's latest quirk. ***Most ‘folks seem to like the new- fangled talking movies but some say they miss their title reading quite a lot. Ken Gilbert is hard at work on another magazine story, rumor has it. Literature is a hard taskmistress, says Ken, which is his round-about way of saying his lot is no sinecure. ***The steam shovel watching is good now. &% D. Tuttle is practicing on his French horn again which is hard on tempers and prop- erty values out his way, neighbors say. ***Netcusorioop News can be had on all local newsstands and from all local train butchers, so there's no excuse for your not knowing what's going on, folks.—ddet. Hal Burdick. OMAHA Carr. Rosert Dotrar of San Francisco was here the other day, looking fine. Pretty hard to lay up a dollar these days, eh, Cap! ***lt looks like a record year for con- struction although so far it has just been a wrecker year for old buildings. ***Peter J. 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