Smyrna times., 1932-03-16
LIGHTS OF NEW YORK
Happenings in and About New
York as Told by Walter TrumbuIl

Happenings III anu ADout new
York as Told by Walter TrumbuI
She was a light opera singer,
young and beautiful, and she mar
ried a well-knOwn novelist. Two
temperaments were one too many
in the same family, so finally they
were divorced. Then she married a
wealthy broker. This time it looked
as if everything was smooth sail
ing. They had plenty of money, q
lot of friends, and they got along
beautifully. Then something took
the wall out of Wall Street and in
the tidal wave which followed, the
mans fortune was washed away al
most to the last dollar. They must
have been fond of each other, for
poverty has not parted them. She
has a job as singer in a cabaret.
He always is on hand to take her
home. That is not hard. He is,
you see, one of the walters.
Residents of East Fifty-Seventh
street were startled to see a young
man walking along, graphing a
large bird. The bird rigidly held
it's head high and made no resist
ance. AS matter Of fact, this may
have been due to the fact that it
was stuffed. The man was DR..
Laurence NJ. Gould and the bird was
the giant penguin which usually
stands in corner of his living
room. A book store wished to use
it in connection with a window dis
play of Doctor Gould's book, Gold"
and he was searching for a taxi to
transport the penguin to its new
setting. Moreover, he was becOm-
ing a little annoyed as several taxi
men, after a quick glance, appeared
deaf to his halls and drove rapid
ly away. This might have been due
to the fact that, as he held the
bird in front of him, its head tow
cred above his and rather hid him
from view. The general effect was
that of a moving and weird looking
fowl about seven feet tall. When
Doctor Gould did induce a taxi to
stop. He pitched the bird in so fore
IDLY that its bill almost went
through the glass behind the drivers
head. Then there was more de-
lay while he convinced that driver
that the penguin was really dead
and had not tried to bite him.
Here is a tip for housewives:
Should your husband happen to
bring Maximillian Otto Seigfried
Schmeling, present heavyweight
champion, unexpectedly home to
dinner, don't worry if you don't
happen to have ducks or chickens
in your ice box. All you need do
is to take what remains of the steak
or roast beef and put with it some
potatoes, onions, tomatoes or what
ever else happens to be handy.
Mr.. Something's favorite dish is
meat stew.
Cardini, the famous magician,
says he doesn't see why Gandhi
can't be just as much of Mahatma
wearing pants and seeing his dent
ist at least twice a year.
aCrdini, the famous magician,
was born in Wales, but is now an
American citizen. He was wound
ed in the war and used TO amuse
himself in the hospital by practic-
ing sleight-of-hand tricks. Later, he
got a job with a man whose bust
ness was making apparatus used by
magicians. Cardini probably is
the most air minded of all presti-
His entire act consists
in pulling things out of the air.
First he snatches hundreds of play
ing cards from the ozone. Throwing
these away, he reaches out and
plucks clusters of billiard balls. If
he set his mind to it, he probably
could make it rain cats and dogs.
Gene Lamb has started on an
other journey to Tibet. Chinese say
that Mr.. Lamb is one of the few
western white men who can speak
their language fluently and without
a foreign accent.
(9 1892. Bell Syndicate.)-wNUS Service.