Evening star., 1932-04-10

This is a story based upon what two
other authors have said Nearly all
stories have been based upon what
other authors have said since Beowulf
and Homer-and we don't know how
much they were indebted to their un-
known predecessors. Only I'm two up on
Homer. because I'm using credit line.
The two other authors are Oscar Wilde and
Edna Ferber. Oscar said that Nature copies
art, and Edna said
DOLLY HAYDEN had a perfectly good job in
Washington Heights speciality shop and a
perfectly good boy friend in Zach Collins. The
job paid 2S perfectly good dollars a week, and
al but eight she had for herself, because she
lived in a perfectly good Washington Heights
apartment with her parents. and So satisfied
them perfectly well as her weekly contribution
to the family budget
Zach was a 45-dollar "a week salesman and
spent 20 of it on Polly. He could do that and
still be a quietly natty dresser because his
board and room with his married brother set
him back only Is
He had automatically glossy brown hair with
q manly natural wave in it, gay brown eyes
and the usual other features which added up
that girls in the buyers Offices called him
Good Looking" and thought he was. His line
was amusing if not brilliantly original, and
he slid a snaky foot in the slow, seductive
nyCIlinS Oh the lateSL Qance steps.
Other girls were quite aware of his attrac-
tions, and efforts to detach him from Polly
were not infrequent But Zach failed to reg
lister anything save wise-cracking camaraderie,
and the understanding was that when he got
his raise to 60-which was promised as soon
as things took a turn-there would be one less
vacancy in q new apartment house on the
Heights.
Now what, looked at practically, could be
sweeter than that? Check.
But Polly had been reading the papers-and
thinking What another author, Mr. Long
fellow called the long, long thoughts of youth
I don't think he said anything about their
depth.
And she remarked to Zach, over a soda in
the buffet of the Lilacland Dance Gardens "I
see where Edna Ferber says the youth of this
country is only IL years old"
I'm 49," grinned Zach IT still got the
birthday candles to prove it."
She says all we do is wise-crack around and
there isn't any youth movement in America
Boy commented Zach, "the way this youth
moved today nobodys business. Up to
Ninty-sixth street, down to Fourth across to
Tenth avenue, over to First-back to Fifth and
up to Seventy ty-second-and notta sale Slough.
Whaddyuh mean no youth movement"
She says on the ship coming back from
Europe all the young folks did was say Yeah
and ramp around the decks"
nNEAH? Well, what did she expect 'em to
do? Sit in the library and study? On
boat-with decks full of games and maybe
swimming pool and good orchestra? That's
the bunk
Look, that gives a hunch Whaddyuh
say we pipe down on our regular parties for
month or two, you save your jack and I'll put
mine in the sock, and we'll go on one of these
week end ocean trips. Fifty go bucks apiece
Don't be like that mean on the level of
course. baby-you in a cabin with nice old
dame and me at the other end of the boat.
Dancing and swimming and swell feed and a
decent cocktail before meals-ramp! And how
we would rampl You said it. Let's CO. lady"
But Polly, using that lovely golden head of
hers for thinking and pursing that 12-year-old
girl mouth of hers and turEeng her peluSid