Life — October 5, 1928 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS INDIANA Waite crackin’ safes last week Stew Nugent, paroled convict, ran across a world- wartime photograph o° ex-Grand Dragon Dave Stephenson, that old young man. @&Lafe Bud wuz taken alarmin'ly ill from cucumbers last evenin’, an’ it wuz thought fer awhile that it would be best t’ remove his liquor ° th’ home next door. ***Franklin Booth, Fred Yohn, Johnny Gruelle, an’ George Brehm are all ole Hoosier boys who've made good in New York, Anyhow they never come back unless they're named in a will, eel did intend t’ write a novel this afternoon, but I've got t take a De Soto demon- stration,”” said a prominent Indiana author, while payin’ a Gant visit t' me recently, ***Carl G. Fisher, th’ fer visioned de- veloper o’ Miami Beach, an’ Montauk Point, is an’ ole Hoosier boy who never quite got th’ In- dynoplus rubbed off. He still rides a bicycle, but tusn’ carried his dinner fer quite a while, *eeT kin make it all right on a kitchen char, but jest th" minute I drop in one o° them big, overstuffed Columbia Club chairs my knees jest seem t° ferget ever'thing,”” said a prominent an’ modest Indynoplus woman t'day. ***Strect wider.in’ is th’ order o° th’ day in this town, an’ many a noble elm is bitin’ th’ dust ° make way fer progress. & It wuz thought that our late State fair would bring a few lifelong Democrats t' th’ surface, but only one set 0” whiskers got tangled in th’ turnstile, an’ they belonged t’ an authority on bees. ***Grain harvestin’ has been goin’ on at a lively rate hereabouts, an’ very little ‘uncut"* ye is reported. Kin Hubbard (Abe Martin). P. S—There’s no sense in withholdin’ the fews that station WOWO in Fort Wayne is coverin’ th’ Indianny territory with th’ Will Rogers Party broadcast next Wednesday evenin’. SAN FRANCISCO Ht Jouxson seems about to be elected again, there being nobody running against him but some Democrat. Miss Eleanor Geratti has got back from Amsterdam (The Netherlands, in Europe), where she went in swimming several times for prizes. ***Dr. Sanford Moose, the tooth extri- ctor, has added the April and May issues of the Elks Magazine to the modern library in his cozy reception room, ***Mischievous Old Dr. Stork presented Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Edwards, of Ninth Ave., with three daughters one recent day. The girls are wiplets, ***Tony Caglianoni’s peanut wagon whistle sounds swell since he got it cleaned out. *°°The Hotel St. Francis has been sold for about $8,000,000, but this time Templeton Crocker says the rumor is a fact. ™® An auto thief secking to evade justice ran his auto into the auto of Curran Swint. Not knowing about Curran being a dramatic critic, the thief only slightly dented one of Cur- ran’s fenders, Chet Johnson. CHICAGO At Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and other talented Theater Guilders are doing well here at the opera house despite serious opposition from the conversational celluloids, They could have taught the talkies their place, we opine, if they'd only thought to bring along ‘Strange Interlude,”* Gene O'Neill's great thinkie. &%* 1929 Buick coach for cash or cow. No bull, Apply Neiciorstoon News office.—Adet, **°There was quite a family reunion in the lobby of the Goodman Theater last weck sehen Violet Kemble-Cooper, the highly-pedigreed English actress, met up with the Shee portrait of her famous actor kinsman, John Philip Kemble, which hangs near the oil sketch of Lilian Gish. Although hand-painted from life some 150 years since, Vi said she never saw her Uncle Phil look- ing better. *°*Buy your tkts. for the Big 1933 Fair carly, we have been asked to remind. Special excursion rates over all roads. (Newark and New York papers please copy.) *°°We saw Mr. T. E. Tallmadge, the genial author and architect, coming out of the Dignified Credit Jewelry Store the other day with a small package that looked suspiciously like a fing easet Who's the lucky girl, Tom? ***Eddie Cantor, who has F. Ziegfeld booked to work for him this winter, won first prize with a mustache cup at Benj. Marshall's Bad Taste Donation Party, but Bennie and ye ed. think several of the girls tied him with their escorts. & The home office has practically or- dered us to make no secret of the news that next Wednesday evening Station WMAQ will broadcast one of their laughable Rogers Rallies.— Unpaid Advt. Ashton Stevens. CLEVELAND Myron T. Herrick of here, who has a overnment position in France, got back home fot a visit the fore part of the week accompanied by his son Parmelee Herrick and Parmelee’s wife and son, the latter being a grandson of Myron, He is looking fine. & Officers of the rum chaser that chased our fellow-townsman M. F. Bramley’s palatial yacht thinking it to be a rum runner declare that the resulting trouble was his fault because he did not stop when hailed, he claiming different. ***Critic McDermott, Director McCon- nell, Actors Russell Collins and K. Elmo Lowe, and Stage Manager Max Eisenstatt are all back from Europe where our local “‘thespians" always go in the summer unless they have jobs. ***Your scribe is now back home from Cape Cod wearing a fine coat of tan, etc, Bring your items direct to our office in future. ***Everybody is talking about Pugilist “Gene"* Tunney's European tour, but few know that he was chaperoned there by our popular fellow citizen and Playhouse President, Leonard Hanna. Leonard is too modest to get his name in the papers about it, but let the credit go where the credit is due, say we. ***The younger married set is welcom- ing its latest addition in the shape of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Shannon, who are now at home in their Coventry Road residence. The bride was née Miss Marjorie Leedy, being the daughter of Youngstown's famous humorist, ornithologist, magician, whistler, juggler, raconteur and broad- caster Charlie Leedy, and Mrs. Charlie Leedy, «% The Congressional committee consist- ing of Congressmen Boylan, Bell and Cooper, with Hastings E. Hart, the penologist, which has ‘n inspecting our local bastile, declare it one of the four worst prisons in the U. S. Some think we ought to have a new jail, while others de- clare that it is good enough for the class of people that get into it. ***Radio sets are selling like hot-cakes in view of the big Rogers-for-President rally that is to be broadcast next Wed. eve. from Station WHK.—Adet. Ted Robinson. BOSTON FLanneL nightgowns are in order. **°One of the fellows who flew Amelia Earhart to England was in town the other day. We could not learn his name. ***Business is quiet in the cod liver oil industry on acct. of this being a presidential year. The idea is that people don’t want to go and buy any cod liver oif until they know whether Smith or Hoover is to be the next President. It's comicbooks.com