Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-02
Lights Of WAITE. =,
NEW YORK TRUMBULL

MI w O4NAA
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 fortu-
nate persons who doesn't let mis- ar
Fiction affect his disposition. Like the
late Harold MacGrath, who was dea1
to the same extent. this man Is hap
py, cheerful person who gets lot out
Of life. Recently. he had an idea. he
took vacation and spent 1t In taxing
lessons in lip reading. Then he came
back to the Office, leaving his hearing
apparatus at home. with the idea OF
astonishing all his employees. 1t just
happens that one of his close assist
ants is so buck-toOthed that ne talks
practically without any movement OF
his upper lip, and it also happened
that this was the first employee the
manufacturer encountered. He couldn't
read the mans lips. because there was
no LID movement TO read. They con-
versed by writing on pad, while the
Office boy dashed in taxi to the man.
ufacturers home to retrieve the head
phones.
Willard Fairchild once had to make
an advertising layout for clothes made
Of q certain cloth designed for such
places as Palm Beach. Bermuda, Mas
sau and sunny California. The thing
was to be based on photographs and,
owing to the elements of time and ex-
pense. the photographs had to be made
in the vicinity Of New York. In order
to give them the real atmosphere, IT
was decided they must be taken out
of DOORS Mr.. Fairchild gathered his
models, four girls and three men. and
took them, with the clothes, tennis
rackets and golf clubs, to Atlantic
City. The layout had to 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 bowling
gale.
The third day broke bright and fair
with a temperature of ID degrees
above zero. Mr. Fairchild hustled his
models into the 95-degrees-in-the-sh 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 spectators on the board
walk had a grand time. An artists
model has great life.
Will Rogers is now one of the most
constant and accomplished air travel
ers in the country, but Casey Jones
tells a story about him before he be
came a veteran of the sky route. II
was one of the very earliest flights
Rogers took and when they strapped
parachute on him he wanted to
know why they always hung the ring
attached to the rip cord on the left
Casey Jones told him il was because
the instructive gesture of person
jumping was to feel for the heart and
that automatically brought the hand
to the ring.
Don't be silly" drawled Will ROg
ers. "My heart probably would be in
my throat and. if I made an instinc
tive gesture. the chances are I'd choke
myself to DEATH"
Fire Bird" was going pretty wei
when Judith Anderson. the star. joined
the Manhattan flu club. for which Sc
many of us have qualified. The show
closed and Miss Anderson. in care o.
her mother, left for Bermuda to recu
perate. Meanwhile, Jean Dixon lief
the cast of Dangerous Corner" to g,
W hoiiy "oou anu appear III d mONl'
to be called THE Kiss in the Mirror.
Quite lot of friends were at the sta
ton to see her off. among then
Hughie O'DOnnell. He said. "Yol
should realize, Jean. that even Mar,
Boland didn't do so well as this. Sh
had only three bags and seven PEG
pie"
@. 1893. Bell Syndicate.-wNU Service.