The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
Rv LESSEE uFNDERSON

Special Correspondent of The Age Herald
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 New York, May 2I--whenever You approach a group of people just now you know they are talking about one If three things; or. indeed about all three at once, The Egyptian spook. the latest shooting mystery, and the radio show.
 Egyption spook
 The Egyptian spook has been flit- ting around in the inner conscious ness of Mrs Emma Field. of Chicago, for the past ten years. Mrs. Field has now come to New York 10 con suit various people, among them Con an Doyle, in an effort to find out what it's all about, anyway. She her self laughs at the idea that any ghost of Rameses guides her pencil in its intricate designs and multitudinous human and animal figures. She says she has never studied Egyptology and she merely looks surprised when scientists exclaim that her drawings are reproductions of those in Egyp- tian tombs
 pr Prince, who laid the Marry El- len ghost in Antigonsh. Nova Scotia, has come forward with the theory that the. Egyptian ghost turks in every telephone booth. Anyone walt ing for a phone call who scribbled things on a scrap of paper or the walls of the booth is haunted" &C., cordmg to this theory. In other words, the phone call scribbler and the Field drawings are automatic and have something to do with queer reflex of the subconscious. if you know what we mean.
 Latest Shooting Mystery The latest shooting mystery, which has sprung up just as the Stillman case and the Valentino tangle were beginning to pail. has laid all too little emphasis on snap the delicious lady with the delicious tsubrquet. who is somehow mixed up with the Wavd hlackmailing and gun play. Any lady whose nickname IS Snap" deserves much more space
 even than this lady has received. An interesting volume could be written on the pet names born by ladies who figured sen sations of a day. There was famous "Toodles' once, and "snook3."
 Radio Show
 As for the Radio show, all or Gotham went to look and hear. There were radio sets about the size of a ten-cen piece. There was also set 1 with the largest amplifier in the | world-an amplifier that throws the l incoming message for mile. There was a little boat. too, all nicely mag netized and guided over glass sea lby radio to the astonishment and un- lending entertainment of many thous- and of lookers-on. The amount and lvariey of apparatus as well as the amount and variety of radio enthusi- lasts. was remarkable when the youth Iof radio is considered. It all goes to Iprove how swiftly We move in these
 rapid times The miracle of yester- day is the commonplace of tomorrow. Speaking, for example, of miracles
 and the commonplace, graceful
 air liner drove over City Hall park 1.-the other afternoon, skinned down the river past the towering Singer and Woolworth buildings. and shot off across Jersey. It was the Santa
 Maria, which accommodates 14 pas Isengers and flies between New York land Atlantic city. It is possible to sleep in Atlantic City these hot nights and yet be in your New York office before the dew fs off old George W. Civic Virtue and his mer-
 maids.
 Picturesque bazars are becoming Itypical of New York streets IS they