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

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS BOSTON Mvssouist has been appointed Rome spe- cal correspondent for the Boston Sunday Adver- tiser. «Onc of our suburban breweries is do- ing so well it has installed a sewing machine for putting the needle in beer. **¢Arnold Horween has left his leather business in Chicago to start in on his pigskin sdeline at Harvard, Business in both branches has not been so hot these last few years. eeeEdith D, Lindsay, our well-known antique expert, bought a bag of roasted chest- nuts recently, She pronounced the wormholes genuine, ***Autumn is due in Boston on Satur- day of this week. No special preparations are being made, as the city swore off greeting celebritics after Amelia Earhart. ***Kimball Loring, who has been vaca- tonizing at Nantucket all summer, has returned to his business here for a rest. ***Last month your corr. mentioned Por- ter Adams's wick pipe and Porter sent us a duplicate of it free gratis. We are now trying to think up an item about Gov. Fuller's tick Packard limousine. ***It pays to advertise your friends in Nuciisortioon News. Neal O’Hara. CHICAGO B. Int Payne is here to stage-direct and play-act for Thom Stevens’ new season of shows at the Goodman, When interviewed by ye scribe on the timely topic of the “‘talkies,"” Ben spoke enthusiastically as follows: “At last they've found a way to keep the director quict!"* seer. N. Swanson, the boy editor of College Humor and champion club-joiner, has made a down-payment on a fine unused’ car. And we're willing to be “taken for a ride” (local slang) without any fear of getting “bumped off" (ditto) any time Swannie says the word. ***Young Art Meeker, son of Old (pleas- anty) Art Meeker, has’ been sight-seeing in England, Great Britain, We'll bet Art saw HoR. H. (his royal highness) personally, for when ‘that lad sightsees he sees sights! &% Fred Stock is home from “‘over there” with a brand-new stock (no pun intended) of band music for his coming Symphony. season. Interviewed by ye scribe, Fred said: “I think the time has come when’ I may safely say that Music is here to stay."* ***In Lincoln Park Saturday aft. we spied (Mrs.) Mabel G. Reinecke, our charming Col- lector of Internal Revenue. But we can think up another adjective if Mabel’s office doesn’t quit pestering us about those 1926 deductions for expense, ***Our popular New York boss, Bob Sherwood, citied here for twenty-four hours this week with the idea of getting more work out of us, and, perhaps, incidentally, a not too glaringly, favorable write-up for a used play of his called **The Queen’s Husband,” which was new here at the opera house on Monday night and which we hope stays longer than Bob.— Advt, Ashton Stevens. INDIANA Eprror Ben Lawrence is back in his ac- customed chair at the Star office, after an ex- tended tour of Europe, and reports that he did not see an intoxicated person during all his travels, **lt is said by those in a position to know that Elias S. Shumaker, Supt. of Hoosier Anti-Saloon League, will come out flatfootedly for Hoover. u% It would be interesting to know how many of the thousands of transcontinental tour- ists who pass through Indiana o'er the Old National Road are aware that a slight detour would take them to Crawfordsville, the home of James Byron Elmore, the author of ‘The Monon Wreck."* ***Many Hoosiers who used to enjoy dropping in the cinema theaters before the ad- vent of stage bands and guttural movies now go out to the cemetery, ***Senator James E. Watson, of Rush- ville, who voted for the McNary-Haugen bill, equalization fee and all, is reported hereabouts and may attend the State Fair. *¢*Dink Botts laid a bottle of the clearest home brew on our desk that we've seen yet. He lets his set five days before syphoning it, he ex- plained in a note. ***Editor Boyd Gurley, of the Times, is not a wing shot. The medal he wears is this year's Pulitzer Journalism prize. ***Jake Bentley has sold his farm so he won't have t' vote this fall. *°*Mr. George Ade, of Hazelden Farm, is advertising for good, steady single men to cut corn and no questions asked. *°°QOur thanks are due Mr. Maurice Judd, Washington correspondent of the New York Sun, for a splendid photograph of himself standing within five feet of Herbert Hoover an’ wife, on the verandah of the laters’ home at Palo Alto. ***Just give me a dozen shirts like Roy W. Howard, of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, wears, and I won't care who writes the nation’s songs, or wet and dry planks. Kin Hubbard (Abe Martin). NEW YORK News are certainly abundant in N. Y. right now. ***Arthur Davison Ficke the well known poct has bo't a farm up near Chatham, N. Y. mer Bercy Waxman of Scarsdale lives in a stucco house, which is how all our doors are what with the wet summer. Bobbed hair is going out of style which is in accordance with the J. P. McEvoy coiffure. ***Howard Savage is still on his honey- moon at this writing. Howard used to be com- mander of the American Legion. His bride is the former Miss Van Oss of Chicago. ***Louis Bromfield’s new book is about Italy and Iowa. Louis is a Mansfield, O., boy. Mansfield is near Crestline where Earl Babst the sugar king was born. ***At Ann Arbor last June most of the graduates were divided between the law and business as their future jobs, but 7 seniors said they were going to take up the profession of distinguishing cigarettes blindfolded. *°*Herbert Hoover will be in town next month to speak, and we feel ambitious to hear him now, but when the time comes we will probably be glad to give away our ticket. When it comes to actually hearing a speech we always quail. @ It seems to us that there are a good many writers in this country who must have the same nightmare, viz., that they are starving to death because Rob Benchley, Don Stewart, and Ring Lardner all perished in a train wreck. “They wouldn't starve," said somebody, “as long as they could buy the published works of Messrs. Benchley, Stewart, and Lardner."* “‘Amen!"* said ye’ scribe. F. P. A. CLEVELAND Many of our fellow-townsmen and towns- ladies are returning from their vacations at well- known watering places, as the saying gocs, and you would hardly know some of them on a/c of the tan. «% Our constables have raided so many *‘speak-easies"’ and “‘blind tgers’’ in search of the “Demon Rum" during the last few weeks that prominent clubmen scarcely know which comicbooks.com