El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-20

springing the names Il Tome OF ny
friends in the hopes that he Wouldn't
Town or no, but he sayE You are
Just blufGug as I know where every
one Of those birds were horn and
none Of them was born in the Big
Town"
Making Up n City.
Listen. he says. let's take q lot &
at the different people that makes
up New York's principle indUstrys
like baseball and actors and singers
and artists and writer's and etc and
you viii see that every one OF them
is immigrants For instants there IS
Norris Gest from wilma. Russia, and
there is Irwin Cobb from Paducah.
ky-s and there Is Babe Ruth from
Baltimore, Mary"
Well 10 make long story out OF a
short story he then went ahead and
named pretty near everybody ever
heard Of and where they was all
born and only wished had Of took
70 an down on paper and pencil so
as could give full details but the
bes. can do is set down all as I
can remember Of IL and maybe in
some cases I have got the towns
follows in the order named inclusive
under the different head lines.
Music.
Henry Caruso, Ravion, Italy. P W
L2rdner, Niles, Mich; Jascha Heifetz
Fiddle, Germ; Mischa Elman, eau
casia, Russia; Titta Ruffo. VermiceIli.
italy Geraldine Farrar. Maiden.
9 sazi; Mary Garden Chi III; Irving
berllni syncopate, Russia; Eva Tan
quay. North Adams. Mass; Victor
Herbert, Score, Ireland
Actors and Etc.
Barrymores, Philly. Pa; Geo.
Cohani Providence. r /: Al Jolson,
Ina Claire and BIZ Page, Washing
ton, D. c.; Davids Belasco and War
Ilelo, Blanche Bates, Holbrook Bliun,
Gerue Hoffman. VIM. Brady. Jim
CorDett san Francisco. Cal; r ".
stein. Pretzel, Germ; Bert Williams.
Martin, Bermuda Anna PavIowa.
Retrograd, Russia. Flo Ziegfeld. Chi.
IL A l. Erlanger, Cleveland. O.
ears hIaWs Louisvihe, Ky The
snuoerts. Syracuse n. T: Maude
Adams and Mary Pickford. salt Lake.
- u. W. Griffith, Louisville. XIV:
Chas- CRplin, Custard Pie. Eng:
Nora Bayess Chi. Ill. Dorothy Dali
ton. Chi. Ill; Douglas Fairbanks,
Buffalo, Niagara Falls; -seonora u
rich, Milwaukee. Wis: Donald Brian.
Boston. Mass Frank Tinney and I'd
wynn, Philly. Pa; Elsie Janis. Cute,
gaio' Marcus Loew, Vienna Aus.
Baseball.
John McEraW. TruXton, " Y. Mil
Ter Higgins Norwood. Ohio: Col.
Huston, Cincy, Ohio; John Heydler.
Wash. D. G: j. d. Rockefeiier'
Cleveland. Ohio: Ban johnson. Cincy,
ohio; r. W. Lardner. Niles, Mich:
William ]. Bryan, Lincoln. Neb. And
Reporters, Authors and Etc.
r ". Lardner. Niles. Mich: Booth
Harrington. Indianapolis, Ind. Da-
mon Runyon, Denver, Colo: Hvne
lgoe, Bug, idaho: F. P. A. what
Cheer, Ia Grantland Rice. Nashville.
Tenn; Hughie Fullerton, Hnlsboro.
Ohio.
Picture Drawers and Etc.
Clare Brlggss Reedsburg. Wis. Old
Tad, san Francisco. Cal; Rube Cold
berg, san Francisco, Cal; Tip" FL
Paso, Tex; WinsOr E-cCay, San Fran
cisco. Cal; Neysa McAfein, Quincy. III
So you see IL is true just like the
Dr. said and I am glad I didn't make
no bet with him as ] would Of lose
and 70 show how bad the situation
really is why the Big Town even
has to send over TO Brooklyn for
their mayors Personally the Bell
syndicate was born in Yonkers and
as j say the undersigned was born
in Niles. Mich.
Ring ". L4ardner.
Copyright, 1929. by the Bell Syndi-
cate lnc-)
Another Ring Lardner article
viii be published n week from
today IN the magazine section OF
The Fl PasO Herald.