The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-25
PopuInrlty of .srhs Foliicns.

tf ~1tosASiu III 1toFtAiyihsg ahp, as Will Rogers says, Fat the same time exposing the American Girl" in his gorgeous glittering 'TvoIIiss, again furnishes the "tired busi- ness man" the chance his his life to sec the most layishly, beautiful spectacle According to the oritlca) ever before produced tis he can get ticket).
 Opening on the Monday evening before we left New York q few days later, not a seat was to be had for weeks In advance for the "golliea."
 One of our friends wanted to give party for us at the FollIes and SO dispatching his secretary to secure six seats--money was no objeot-- tho "sky was the iimit"-not a ssat was to bo had at the theatre; 7 not one from the sDeculatorsi finally phoning Mir. ziegfeld personally, tho information came from the redoubt- able Flo" that he had some friends in town himself just for the eve ming, and he was offering any price for four tickets. which he couldn't get from any source for love or money. sts44
 And so we had to content ourselves with reading about win Roksrs' and his ever present lariat. saying at 12:45 Tuesday morning from the stage of the New Amsterdam the atre the show having opened prompt ly at s:2O Monday evening, that he'd brought his umbrella along because when Mir. ziegfeld started the show yesterday 1t was raining"
 And so 1t goes, on and on, pagan and puritan. saint and sinner. cabaret and Christian in gay. rollieking, naughty, nice, noisy New York towni
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 THE MODERN STOCK sWINDLER Theodore Waters, in Leslies Weekly
 In the classification of the New York district attorneys office mod ern stock swindlers arc divided roughly into three classes: The wire less wire tapper," the bucket shop operator and the fake stock seller who for the most part solicits by mail. The wireless wire tapper" has nothing to do with the con man, who affects to tap wires no that his vic- tim may win big beta on the race track his cognamen is merely one which has been bestowed upon him by his confraterpity and relates to his ability to use fake telephone calls over wires which do not in fact exist. He Is the descendant or rather the successor, of the fellow who used n nIaXt ba 01dfffna tgfclx game. We shall treat of him first.
 In the old days the victim was ap- preached by one of mob of confi- dence men, who told a weird story of having made the acpuaintanes of an old prospector who had discover ed gold mine, but did not realize It's full value. The old prospsctor lay sick unto death and wanted to cash in on his find before he passsd out. Of course the confidence man had made an investigation and found that the mine instead of being worth the paltry s1o,000 at which the pros pector held it, was really worth nearer si.o00.0oo. If the sucker swal- lowed the bait he was taken to see the sick man, who looked and acted his part to perfection.
 There he lay in imminent danger of passing. Apparently suspicious Of
 
 him, 1t was only with difficulty that he could be persuaded to take from indicated the richenss of his mine. On the earnest representation of the con- fidence man he would allow the sucker to take one of the smallest nuggets and have it assayed. But. and this was whispered by the con man in the suckers ear. it would be necessary to move quickly for Athe old fool might die st any minute" in which event the whole property would pass to his heirs. If the sucker under his pillow the little buckskin bag of gold nuggets which clearly was a real come on'' and not over scrupulous, the trick often worked. The money was paid over. thet title passed, the con man and his confed- crate decamped for parts unknown. and the sucker was left with hand ful of nuggets for his s10,ooo.
 This game was successfully played again and again. But how differ ently 1t is Hdone nowadaysi ~