Life — September 6, 1928 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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18 LIFE Sc tt ss SS gk —_— says our liquor is pretty good. Thanks, Pete. Al most of you visitors do is knock. u% A number of gridders will be glad to hear that Wally Marrow, Cornhusker back, will dance in vaudeville this fall and not on their necks. ***Clarence Spier has quit trying to say it and asks Neicteorinooo News to announce that he spent the humid term at Lake Winni- bigashish, Minn, ***Carl Gray, of the U. P., has restored the first capitol of Kansas, voluntarily, Other roads, please take notice! ***Nels Updike, having sold his news- paper to a Mr. Hearst, will devote his full time to his lumber, coal and feed business and will be pleased to ‘see his old friends and new ones as well at the old stand.—Adve. B. F, Sylvester. NEWPORT Mrs. Vincent Astor was among the umbrella box holders at the tennis tournament. Although the tournament was called an invita tion tournament spectators were charged to get in, but the players paid nothing including their expenses. ***Porterhouse steak is up to seventy-five cents a pound as a result of the visit of the New York Yacht Club squadron. Wu Adele Astaire was among the prom- inent society folks who were enjoying a sail in Mrs. C. Oliver O'Donnell’s speedboat when it blew up. Miss Astaire in private life is an actress. ¢°*The merry whirl of the summer season continues, there having been a benefit for the Home for the Aged, a Aower show, and an ex- “Talkies? Bah! hibition of old attic furniture and prints among the recent sprightly doings of society. ***Several of the young people of the summer colony who have stars after their names in the Social Register indicating they are not yet out, have been seen out a good deal neverthe- less. Refreshments were served a large gathering at the Swanhurst School of Art after Ruth Thomas and Olive Watson had read their own poems the other afternoon. Lloyd Mayer. PHILADELPHIA Asters are in bloom. ***Many of our young belles were greatly surprised ‘to learn that Gene Tunney had gone all the way to Connecticut to become engaged. They point out that it was in Philadelphia that Gene won the championship. ***Workmen have been making repairs to Independence Hall, This is quite an old structure, and many residents have voiced the »pinion that a new Independence Hall should be crected, of, at least, a new Liberty Bell procured, as the old one is badly cracked. ***Connie Mack recently was seen in his front yard practicing raising a piece of bunting on a flagpole. Connie is a great hand at pre- paredness. As he laughingly remarked, he hasn't had any practice at this in fourteen years. ***David Stern, not satisfied with two newspapers in Camden, has taken over the Philadelphia Record and is determined to put our city on the map. More ink to your pen, Dave, is our wish. ***Wedding bells will be heard in our fama M4! pom A guy can’t take @ respectable nap no more.” midst soon, they being about to be Miss Helen Piper, daughter of Dre ani Edmund B. Piper, and Henry Brinton Coxe, jr Miss Mary Dixon Thayer is also wearing ag attractive engagement ring these days, Dy Maurice Fremont-Smith, of Boston, having given it to her. Ye scribe extends best wishes all around, John Forbes, KANSAS CITY Hor afternoons have been in Kay See here of late, causing many of our housewives » leave their fruit-canning and spend their p. ms lolling about in our relfigerated catheurals of the silent drama, «% Sen. Francis Wilson of Platte City, near here, who has been on the sick list sine last. winter, has recovered enough to get out and win the Democratic nomination for governor of the Imperial state of Missouri, recently. ***Miss Dolores Del Rio of California was through on No. 4 one eve., recently, bound for somewhere in the East on business which ye ed didn’t bother to find out. ***Lawyer Jim Reed got out and took the stump shortly before the primary for Jim Collet for U. S, Senator on the Democratic ticket in our state, but Charlie Hay got the nomination, *°*Frank McGowan, who played center- field on the local nine and hit 1238 in this league, has gone to the St. Louis Browns in the American where the pitching doesn't look good, and is doing better. *°*Marshal Link Toyne, who won the G. ©. P. nomination for’ sheriff in our county, may resign his position on the police force i it looks like he would be elected. Clad H. Thompson. NEW YORK ***News is hard to get this week, and not much good when got. ee). J. Tunney and Thornton Wilder are coming back to the U. S. in a few days. *°°The big depot was repleter with trunks of returning vacationers than ever before, & Joe Robinson of Little Rock, Ark., was in town last week and he says he thinks Smith has a good chance. **°W. L. Phelps, Gene Tunney’s Bard of Avon sparring partner, is spending the summer out in the Wolverine State. *¢*Charley Curtis of Topeka, Kans., was in town the other day and he says he Hoover will be our next Pres. Miss Neysa McMein and Mr. Alex. H. Woollcott have returned from their croquet out ing at Neosho Island, Lake Bomoseen, Vt. **°Walter Winchell took ye scribe night clubbing one morning last month, till we gt tired of watching people tripping the heary fantastic. ***Looks like our Gallic friends would win the tennis singles championship at Fors Hills next week. Henri Cochet of Lyons, Franct, is our pick, we being a Lyons Plains resident ths summer. F.P.A. e ° comicbooks.com pl ay \ MN . 4