Life — November 23, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Lil FE ja for him that it's press time. Watch your step! That's all we're saying at this writing. Thomas Hornsby Ferril. OHIO Seasonat weather is being generally experienced in this vicin- ity. « Money is high, hereabouts, on a/c of many of our citizens hav- ing to obtain it hurriedly for the settling of election bets, the results having been unexpected to many. ***Almost all of our “intel- ligentsia,"” as the phrase hath it, are reading and talking about “The Book of Rabelais’? which was writ- ten by an Akron boy, Jake Falstaff. Most of us are in on the secret that ‘‘Jake’s’* real name is Herman Fetzer and that he is _no relation to the stage character of the former name. ***Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Drury, of New York and Augusta (Ga.) but formerly of Cleveland, were shaking hands with old friends for a couple of weeks lately, and took occasion to visit a per- formance at the Francis E. Drury Theater, as the larger auditorium at the Playhouse is fittingly entitled. wr “Lady Audley’s Secret,” a sterling drama founded on Miss Braddon's popular novel of the same name, is expected to draw immense crowds to the Charles S. Brooks Theater where it will be presented by ‘“‘local talent,"’ next week. Don't fail to sce the in- human murder, the realistic con- flagration, the funny drunkard, the dances by the villagers, and’ the famous mad scene in the last act. Admission by invitation only.— Advt. ***Y our correspondent is official “press agent’’ of ‘Lady Audley’s Secret.” Ted Robinson. CANADA Proor that the days when men were men are disappearing with the buffalo and that this machine age is softening our fibers is found in the fact that when Editor Napier Moore of our Na- tional Magazine wanted the Wind- sor-Detroit’ bootlegging — situation investigated and written up he had to get Expert Fred Edwards of M't'l to do it for him. In the case of Home Lire, however, we retain the old-fashioned practice of not asking our toilers to go places where we wouldn't go ourselves, a policy which is peculiarly apropos of our views on the bootlegging industry. « Your traveling corresp’t did not get to Ottawa for the fes- tivities surrounding the person of Prime Minister Bill King on his return from Eur. Having been in the national capital two days be- fore, however, we can tesufy to the fact that there was plenty of room for visitors in town, ***Hockey again holds sway in the land and a lot of good young Canadians are now back in the Etats Unis for the winter provid- ing the human exponents for Uncle Sam's popular winter pastime. ***Irvin S. Cobb of N. Y. was a recent visitor to the foothills country where he spent happy days bending the backs of Frazier Hunt's best saddle horses. «~ Some day, maybe, poli- ticians will rewrite that swell gag about ‘“‘three thousand miles of boundary and not a shot fired’? to read ‘and not a bottle seized" and then, say we, the millennium will be hard on these weary heels. Leslie Roberts. TEXAS Jack Crark, leading director of boys’ activities in our fair city, is still explaining to indignant tele- phoners that he had nothing to do with directing boys’ activities Hal- loween. ***Word comes “Just from Georgia" that Frank L. Stanton’s little girl Marcelle Megahee has a little girl, born on her wedding anniversary and named Marcelle Stanton Megahee. Columnists all over the country who loved the Southern poet are thinking of giv- ing his litle girl's little girl a col- umn shower of things to paste in her scrap-book. Nothing like “Marcelle, long may she- wave" tolerated. Ye scribe wishes the happy parents many happy returns. « Vandaveer, Browne & Stoy tried to get into Home Lire by telling ye scribe they were going to build a sidewalk in front of their building material place, and then they didn’t put down anything but gravel. They'll have to do better than that to make this column, Judd Mortimer Lewis. ILLINOIS O'coats were O. K. yester- day, including ye ed’s, which was also C.0.D. When we took John Nor- ton, whose undraped murals in the Norton Room at The Tavern are the art-talk of the town, to see a music show and asked him what he thought of today's cuticle dis- pay compared to the silks and jinens of yesterday, Honest John said there was no comparison with theold days-whea'makiog love: 1 a girl was like eating an artichoke. ur We saw two spirited horses hitched to a bright red buggy on the 42 road last week, and somchow they didn’t look any more old-fashioned than Mrs, Rockefeller McCormick's two-story, pre-war, R.-R. limousine. ***Phil R. Davis, the Loop theaters’ pop. divorce lawyer, 1s spare-timing a dramatization of Jim Tully’s “Shanty Irish,"* most of The Week SUN., Now. 25th j ORD'S_ DAY. Workers in R. R. removing discarded programs, unfinished sand- yards kept wiches, crumpled lily cups, empties, etc., from cars of football specials. MON,, Nor. 26th we L. Macadam, father of our highways, died, oo. 27th —Horace, Roman poet, died, 8 B.C, Those who get TUES.,Ne. 27th up carly enough today will’ witness a total eclipse oft he moon. WED., Nov. 28th —Washington Irving died, 1859. THU., Nor. 29th THA bama v SIVING DAY. Penn vs. Cornell, Ala- eorgia, Colgate vs. Brown, Columbia vs. Syracuse, Pittsburgh vs. Penn State, So. California Oregon, Vanderbilt vs. Sewanee, N. vs. Oregon Aggies. FRI., Nov. 30th —This is ARBOR DAY in Porto Rico. SAT., Dec. 1st —If you don't pay those bills now, before Xmas shopping sets in, just think what you'll have to face on Jan. Ist, 1929! Phil's work said to consist of pet ting in damns and rough situatogy the author. overlooked. Hearing that the talkies had greatly advanced, we let out foremost ex-movie critic, Johnnie Joseph, lure us to “Mother Knows Best." Well, notwithstanding the good work ‘of our fav. cellulad matron, Louise Dresser, ye ed re. luctantly confesses that it. al sounded pretty Mid-Victrolian ed. pe «> The Opera is now in full pop, we hear, And “we hear" jg right. In fact, as we write in om sanctum in the Congress the new opera hats across the street in the Auditorium are plainly audible, Ashton Stevens, NEW YORK Lots of December weddings are in what John Toohey used call the offing, and lots of pro spective ushers are all agog ex pecting cuff buttons, etc. ‘Alex. P. Moore was Am bassador to Spain and then he came back and bought the N.Y. Mirror saying things about de future of tabloid journalism being his belief. Then he became Amba sador to Peru and sold the Mirror, but whether on acc. or in spite of his belief in the future of tabloid journalism he did not tell us, *°*Don Marquis and family have gone out to the Pacific Coast for a while. Dorothy Parker and Sidney Howard have also gone, though on separate trains. **°Gil Gabriel has accepted @ position with 'W. R. Hearst. «> Byron T. Gifford whos father Geo. P. Gifford used to rea Gifford’s Hotel on Oconomowoc Lake, Wis., where Geo. W. Peck author of ‘'Peck’s Bad Boy"’ and ye ed, used to spend the summers 35 yrs. ago is in the financial busi ness in Chicago. *¢*Sing hey for the mine pie and sing hay for the turkey which is what the white met tastes like. ***Nov. 29 is Thanksgiving as exclusively predicted by Howt Lire. ***Sally James Farnham the gifted sculptress of here and Of densburg, N. Y., had_a_ birthday this week. M. h. or, Mrs. Fy how we feel about it. « Mr. Zeppo Marx is 9 pated up over the notice taken of im by Mr. S. J. 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