Smyrna times., 1933-07-19
SIDE LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK CITY
Told By Walter Trumbull in
His Own Immical Way
of DOings in. City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

The head of a big business in New
York is so deaf that he can hear only
with the aid of ear phones and one
of those little boxes with an electric
battery, but he is one of those for.
tunate persons who doesn't let his
affliction affect his disposition. Like
the late Harold MacGrath, who was
deaf to the same extent, this man
is a happy. cheerful person who
gets lot out of life. Recently, he
had an idea. He took a vacation
and during it took lessons in lip read
ing. Then he came back to the Of
nee, leaving his hearing apparatus
at home, with the idea of astonish-
ing all his employees. 1t just hap
pens that one of his close assistants
is so buck-tOothed that he talks prac-
tically without any movement of his
upper lip, and it also happened that
this was the first employee the man.
ufacturer encountered. He couldn't
read the mans lips, because there
was no lip movement to read. They
conversed by writing on a pad. while
the Office boy dashed in a taxi to the
manufacturers home to retrieve the
head phones.
Willard Fairchild once had to
make an advertising layout for
clothes made Of a certain cloth de-
signed for such places as Palm
Beach, Bermuda, Nassau and sunny
California. The thing was to be
based on photographs and, owing to
the elements of time and expense,
the photographs had to be made in
the vicinity Of New York. IN order
70 give them the real atmosphere,
IL was decided they must be taken
out Of doors. Mr.. Fairchild gath
cred his models, four girls and three
men, and took them, with the
clothes, tennis rackets and golf
clubs, to Atlantic City. The layout
had 70 be made and approved around
Christmas SO as to be ready for the
spring exodus to the South. The
first three days produced hail and
snow. driven by a bowling gale.
The third day broke bright and
fair-with temperature Of Is de-
grees above zero. Mr.. Fairchild
hustled his models into the 95-de-
grees-in-the-shade outfits, covered
them with fur coats, gave them the
rackets and golf clubs, tucked them
into wheel chairs with blankets
around them and took them to the
beach. Then he set up the cam
eras, unwrapped his models and. to
keep them from freezing, ran them
down on the sand, where they pro /
ceeded TO register summer sports"
He says the great difficulty was TO
get them to stop shivering long
enough to make a clear snapshot. |
The coated and blanketed' specta-
tors on the board walk had a grand \
time. An artists model has a great
life
VIII Rogers is now one of the
most constant and accomplished air
travellers In the country. but Casey
Jones tells a story about him he
fore he became veteran of the sky
route. It was one of the very earli-
est flights Rogers took and when
they strapped a parachute on him
he wanted to know why they al
ways hung the ring attached to the
rip cord on the left Casey Jones
told him it was because the instinc-
tive gesture Of person jumping was
to feel for the heart, and that au-
Dramatically brought the hand to the
ring.
Don't be silly" drawled win
Rogers. "My heart probably would
be in my throat and. if / made an
instructive gesture. the chances are
I'd choke myself to death"
Fire Bird" was going pretty well
when Judith Anderson, the star.
Joined the Manhattan flu club. for
which so many Of us have qualified.
The show closed and Miss Anderson.
in care of her mother. left for Ber-
muda to recuperate. Meanwhile.
Jean Dixon left the cast of Danger
GUS Corner" to go to Hollywood and
appear in a movie to be called "The
Kiss In the Mirror" Quite a Iot of
friends were at the station to see
her OFF, among them Hughie O,Don-
nell He said. you should real
ize. Jean, that even Mary Boland
didn't do so well as this. She had
only three bags and seven people"
g. 1889. Bell syndicate.-wNU seryica