New Britain herald., 1927-07-30
THE OBSER YER
Makes Random Observations
On the City and Its People


Really enjoyed it?
Hiking has come down to us from
the Spanish Inquisition and is still
popular among certain form o.
morons. But seeing you are so de.
sirous of learning how to hike We
will stick to our promise and tel
you just how to enjoy it the most
First, arrange to leave camp al
about c o'clock when dawn is Just
streaking the eastern sky with it,
saffron tints 1--WE think we should
have been poe) and take the dirt
road to Finney's Crossing. You will
find good roads all the way except
for stretch of about 18 miles this
side of the place the bridge Is down
just beyond the point they're blast
ing Keep your car in gear going
down the six mile hill and for the
love of all that's holy don't forget
TO STOP AT JOE'S LUNCH FOR
HOT DOGS AND ICE COLD SODA.
Now you are in the woods and
now you are being chased out by q
farming gentleman with a long
shiny pitchfork Now little Edgar
has fallen in the swamp and now
Virginia is settling down to the job
of plucking a bouquet of poison ivy.
Your shoes, which the glib salesman
at the sporting goods store crooned
over will suddenly begin to develop
queer weaknesses such as three PEN
ny nails nudging through the sole
and q small file suddenly springing
from nowhere to rub up and down
the heel. My, isn't this fun. Whoops
is that a rattlesnake? Yes, indeed
See how the place around the bite
is swelling up rapidly. Gather round,
kiddies, here is a real live rattle
snake and not moving picture.
Educational, that's what it is-edu-
cational.
Now we are lost and isn't 1t great
sport to find that every way we turn
leads us to the same place? LOOK,
1t is getting dark and here we are
IS miles from home and "a miles
from a trolley line. Who said hlk-
ing was not sport?
Let us have dinner. Where is the
lunch box SO we can find out just
what we have forgotten? Amateur
campers usually forget salt. bread
and matches but the real camper
will also include the thermos bottle,
the olives and the paper plates.
When YOU get to the point where
YOU can neglect to bring the whole
lunch box-you have arrived or ar
riven, as you will, We won't argue
about it.
And now let us think about start
ing home. Fathers feet have gone
down a bit and there is no time ike
the present to get an early start.
Down the road We go, all unbe-
knownst that it is the wrong road
and that we will land up exactly 10
miles out of the way. Hand in hand,
in order that each might help sup
mort the other, we wabble down the
dusty road into the velvety purple
ness Of the silently descending dusk.
We are quite sure we should nave
been a poet. ,
And now that we have arrived
home at last, let us rest for a brlef
instant, say three days, While your
Cousin Joel thinks up something
new for YOU to do. Next week we
will have
"Fishing: or Gentle Forms OF Be-
ing Lazy" Complete with paper
binding and illustrations.
Ages and salaries are usually mat
ters of such a private nature that
they are not discussed-eXcept at
afternoon bridge clubs. But ages ana
salaries of motion picture folks are
nublic property-that is the penalty
they must pay for being prominent
Variety a theatrical magazine, mas
complied a list of stars, their ages
and their compensation when
throws an interesting sideiight on
tbe personal affairs of the people
who smile or frown from the screen
The Oldest star for United Artists
Holm Barrymore, was born In 1872
and is As years of age. He is the
Youngest of the Barrymores. Doug
las Fairbanks is A and Charlie
Chaplin, around 40.
The youngest pair in United Ar
lists are Gilbert Roland and Dolores
del Rio, both %. Roland was born
in Mexico. December, 190o
Miss del Rio was born August 3,
1905.
Tom Mix was a Rough Rider I'M
der Roosevelt during the Spanish
American war, sent home after
being wounded in battle. Later MIN
served in the Philippines. was again
wounded and didn't go to war again
until the Boxer uprising in emma
Tom must have been treated pretty
rough by the Chinese because all nc
did for the British government dur
ing the Boer War was to break II
horses. His scrapp!ng actlVitles
following the Chinese shindig, have
been confined strictly to westerns
ever since.
Lon CLANCY is 40. Ramon No
varro is IS; Eleanor Boardman, -;
Joan Crawford. %; Pauline Starke
81, John Gilbert, who has MOI
committed himself so far, is in the
SOS. Greta Carlo is officia! J reg
istcred at q. She entered the
United States as a minor.
Edward Connolly and Frank Cur
rier are the two oldest on the Metro
lot. Currier was born September 4
1857. Connolly won't tell his ag'
but admits he is more than 20 whel
its a case of who should be al
lotted an old man part.
Milton Sills is about 43. Richart
Rarthclmcss. So. Harry Langdo1
and Johnny Hines may be anywhere
from 90 to co. Both are not onl.
possessed of poker faces, but sale