Life — November 2, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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26 host of relatives and friends in wishing them happy and _prosper- ous futures. & Several cars were wrecked here this week. Elmer C. Adams. CLEVELAND Your correspondent’s old friend, Don Knowlton, had a piece written by himself printed in the North American Review this month. Although an advertising and musical expert, Don is getting to be quite a Iterary man, several magazines buying his articles and paying for the same. ***Our milk dealers have promised that milk will not go up a cent a quart after all which they threatened us with when the farm- ers’ milk union raised the price to them. It is thought that this action will save the lives of a number of babies and_ prohibitionists. «> Throwing bombs at dry cleaning establishments is all the rage now, it being Cleveland's favorite form of “racketeering” as the sport is termed. ***Miss “Betty” Cobb got the $200 prize from Smith College, an Eastern school, for passing the best entrance examination of any student in the country, and all your scribe can say about that is that it makes a liar out of whoever invented the “beautiful and dumb" saying. ***Sculptor “Max” Kalish’s bronze statue of Lincoln is finished and will soon be stood in the mid- dle of Playhouse Square where the trafhe will have to turn out for it which will be, many think, a wholesome lesson for the traffic. Ted Robinson. HOUSTON Dan Moopy, our well known boy governor, has been fishing down on the bay and has sent a LIFE aa A i TT PEI BS EEE SSB ONE nice box of iced fish home. Good work, Dan, says ye scribe. We always take a good fisherman with us too. ***Henry Robinson, our popular and go-getter young insur- ance man is out again after hav- ing had his ears worked on. Hen can now hear a prospect twice as far as old man Louis Phelps can see a short skirt. 1% Marjorie Lockman who was graduated from Rice Institute, and who during her last semester at that institution was elected queen of the May Fete and most beauti- ful girl at Rice has opened a book- store which is called The Modern Bookshelf. This shows her origi- nality and daring. Any other gutl would have called it Ye Moderne Booke Shoppe. Ye scribe would call on Marjorie only he has a book. Joke. ***Bob Farish our wk. young business man and polo play- er was playing polo up in Denver recently and was thrown from his mount and hit his head against a mountain or something. It was at first thought his skull was frac- tured, but he has about recovered. Ye scribe has scen pictures of Colo- rado scenery and it is the last place he would want to play polo. Judd Mortimer Lewis. PHILADELPHIA THE. MELANCHOLY days are here—for our racketeers. «* James B. Wharton is an- other local boy who has made good in a big way. His new novel, “Squad,” reflects much honor on his home town, though the ending isn't very happy. *°°A lot of knockers in this town could very well follow the example of our chief executive, Mayor Mackey, who declared at the State Sunday school convention, “Philadelphia is not a wicked city or an outcast, but a city that America is proud of and interested in." That's the spirit, Mr. Mayor. wr Our town musicians, un- der the capable leadership of Leo- pold Stokowski, are making quite a hit with their concerts. The boys play just fine together, constant practice being one of the secrets of their success. **°The Philadelphia Opera House, which the late Oscar Ham- merstein built here, is now ‘The Met,’ a movie, proving you can’t stop progress in this town, John Forbes. BOSTON Exection Day will be ob- served locally next Tuesday. The drys claim only the le that drink will vote for Smith, Al hopes this is true. ***Nellie Revell, the lady press agent, has been in town re- cently boosting a show. Although Nellie has her own cane, every managing editor insisted on giving her a couple of sticks, too. oThey have started up a new night club in Boston where the guest is always wrong. a Mayor Eddie Quinn of Cambridge has come out in favor of widening the city’s streets. Po- litical enemies claim Eddie, who weighs 367 pounds, has a purely selfish motive. ***More than 1,227,000 rac- coons laid down their lives this year to keep the Harvard cheering section warm, E. R. Mahoney, the boss of Mr. Hearst's American, reads Neicusornooo News every week, looking for scoops. ***Only twenty-seven days left to win your Thanksgiving turkey in a rafile. *Your corr. has sent $5 to India for a ticket in the 1929 Cal- If his hone there will be cutta sweepstakes, should come in first, an opening about next June for ¢ new Boston correspondent for Neicuizortioon News. Neal O'Hara, NEW YORK Joun Heo, Jr., butchered Wednesday. ***Anybody who wants 3 motor automobile, a boat wip, a pair of shoes, or a suit of cloths better patronize our advertisers. & Leopold Stokowski brought his band over fron Philad’a Tuesday eve'g and gave concert here to a crowded house. ***Miss Alice Harvey gave ye scribe a picture of her own draw ing last week, we having admise same. *°*The social season in Gotham has begun in carnest ani our burg’s many beauty parlors ax thronged from dewy morn to dusiy eve, as the poet says, the res: being all that could be desired. ***Hugh White is going ot to Ann Arbor next week. Hugh a just as handsome as he was in 18% when he walked across the camps in a blue turtle neck sweater. **°A baseball player we have heard tell of who used to crash the old apple last summer is now bt ting the old applejack and if bk doesn't stop we'll say who he is. "© The roads out of N. ¥. are crowded every Saturday mae ing and into N. Y. every afte: noon with motor cars filled wid people going to and coming fea football games. Lots more com fortable and cheaper hearing same over the radio, is our policy. VOTE FOR ROGERS VOTE FOR SMITH VOTE FQR HOOVER OTE! BuT — First ‘fourist: What are those Indians doing? A snake dance? Seconp Tourist: Oh, they’re just making Hopi. comicbooks.com Lu ing doc wwe ano