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

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HARDWARE 8.sMiTH NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS CHICAGO Eaxte Byrteto, the well-known wit and hotel baron, who last spring said New York tam't sappy enough to accept Paul Ash, now ass: “I was wrong.” & Old Amos Stagg, who has been train- ing the football team for some time, has got himself a new hymn-book and expects to con- found the local grouches by winning a few games this season, Doc’? Hall is still threatening to go uly and loaf indefinitely. Our idea of the ideal drama critic is a fellow like the ‘*Doc,”* whose boss dies and leaves him a fourth inter- st in a million-dollar newspaper, which is sold, iaving the ‘‘Doc’’ nothing to do but threaten go to Italy and loaf indefinitely. ‘And our idea of the ideal American swoad is Atty. Murry Nelson, who, Lady Bea- tree Lillie Peel writes us, her ladyship was so gad to run into at Cannes, France, that she Kissed him full in the face. Mrs, Irene Castle McLaughlin has written and had accepted the article on modern dancing for the new annex to the Encyclopzdia Britannica, which is no Lire joke lugged in to Lill space, but a first-hand, first-class Neicttson- yore News scoop. " mes scoop Ashton Stevens. BOSTON Tuty have closed up Fort Warren, which has been a fortification for more than 100 years, and sent the soldiers away. We suppose this is a result of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact. ***There was an explosion in the Tran- script editorial rooms last week. Somebody spelled Cabot with a ‘K."* & The Harvard Athletic Association is out with a neat line of blue envelopes soliciting sebscriptions to the Yale-Harvard football game this fall. The H. A, A. does a fine mail order business, without resorting to newspaper or magazine ads. ***A famous publishing company has in- vited your corr. to be listed in ‘Who's Who in New York."* We suspect the Boston Chamber of Commerce is at the bottom of this. ***A nine-year-old East Boston girl can tad seven different languages, including the American Mercury. **Burton Holmes is coming on a visit © Boston shortly and we sup} bear all about his trip abroa ‘The Braintree Board of Trade has get Cut statistics showing Brainuee hasn't had a President of the U. S. since John Quincy Adams. ***Hon. John F. Fitzgerald has taken the we'll have to this summer. stump for Smith. John F, is singing ‘Swede Add-a-Lime"’ to get the Scandinavian and gin rickey vote. *°°Orly 88 days left to mail your Xmas greeting cards. Neal O'Hara. LOS ANGELES Neicueors around Florence Vidor's house have been sitting up nights hoping to hear some of the new tunes since she brought Jascha Heifetz home as her husband, The young man sure can punish a fiddle, they say. **°This is National Grape Week—no kidding. & Miss Texas Guinan is in town, she not worrying about the Gotham night club. situa- tion, “‘If things come to the worst,"’ says fun- loving Texas, “‘I think I can atways get a job as bridesmaid for Peggy Joyce."" *°*Some of E. L. Doheny’s former stock- holders have went and sued him for $10,000,000 in claims sowing out of that Elk Hills thing. Just when we thought those matters had all been cleared up ship shape long ahead of election ume, **°Joe Schenck says these “talking mo- tion pictures’’ which the actors in them tlk instead of act are just what you might call a passing fad, while the Warner boys say no they aren't, they have a great future to them, ***Baron Rothschild of London, Eng., slipped into town quict-like the other day. No- body knew he was around till one of our bright young business statisticians noticed that the curve showing the per capita wealth of the city had jumped way up overnight. William ]. Pringle, Jr. BIRMINGHAM Ocravus Roy Conen, Jr., beat his father, O. R. Cohen, Sr., the writer for Sat, Evening Post, in a golf match the other day. Your corr. is to celebrate another birthday in a few days. Installment plan col- lectors are asked to call the day before as he won't be home the day after. *°°Sen. J. Tom Heflin, of Washington was in Montgomery the other day. He dropped in to have a few words with Gov. Graves. It is not known if Gov. Graves had a chance to talk or not. ***Happy Chatziltst, the town loafer, says he’s never been late anywhere, ‘cause he's never had anywhere to go. Robert H. Brown. SPOKANE Tue Pontoon Cuvs is this city’s newest fraternal organization. It is an anti-bridge coterie and all the members so far are husbands. Jack Reinhardt has just been admitted to member- ship. & Harper Joy, the efficient investment banker and medicine show impresario, is travel- ing in the East and sends your corr. a post- card from Gotham. ‘I don’t sce how the people here keep it up night after night,"’ the missive says, in part. ***Bob Owen, popular aviator and vocal- ist, was a candidate for precinct committeeman in the September primaries, but has not been able to find out ‘whether he was elected. ***The talking movies are quite popular here, although some say it is only a trick, like Sawing a Woman in Two. ***The Dartmouth alumni hereabouts are not betting as heavily on football as they were a year ago, and the Yale alumni are a little cagy, teo. *°*Phil Garnett not only sold one of the new Fords last week, but delivered it. Stoddard King. KANSAS CITY Some of the young blades have been step- ping out with ‘the new schoolma‘ams, of which there are several this year. u& It’s pretty hard to keep our town out of the limelight. We have a lady living here who is a second cousin of A. E. (Al) Smith of New York, N. Y. Her name is Mrs. Catherine Marsh Smith, 7600 Oak Street, here. ***Terrapin races are the thing at this writing, and then we suppose the hog calling contests will come next, as we heard several in training while on a recent drive over our baili- wick. **°Sen. Art Capper of Topeka, neighbor and colleague of Charley Curtis, was an in- offensive caller at ye ed's sanctum one day re- cently. ***Labor Day passed quietly in our town, with no excitement except the usual number of auto mishaps, umpire riots, etc. Labor Day doesn't seem to be the thrill it was in the old days, when the bartenders were such an impos- ing feature of the parade. «% Lawyer Jim Reed had a long-distance tlephoce conversation the other day with Jno, Raskob who was visiting in St. Louis, relative to his (Lawyer Jim's) taking the stump for the Dem. ticket in this state. Jim is always read and willing to help out. He gave the capital- comicbooks.com