Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-12-27

| Potpourri: Fun how hard times af-
fccted giants and midgets differently
Many Of the little folk have faced a
dcarth Of engagements in vaudeville
and musicals and 1 am told Joe Clark
| has carried dozens of them over the
| lean wears: he has for them the soft
est spot in his heart. But no seven
footer or over has felt the pinch.
Movie cathedrals always have jobs as
dOormen for the Skycraping lads and
walking barking and ad carry
ing engagements In costume are plen-
tCOus. | saw an Hight-fOoter yesterday
in Park Avenue, q crowd OF gaperS
III tow, all done out in the loudcst
plaid kniCkers and WaiStcCat and
screaming golfers attire. He carried Il
maShic and YOU turned to watch him
pass and see sign blurhing a Scotch
beverage on his back. | followed for a
couple Of blocks and finally muster
cd courage to ask him if he never
grew sclf-conscious. II got over that
at ten" he chirpcd falsCtto, when |
was a mere six feet tall!
1t was bizarre to see a couple of
windOw-waShcrs pickcting the Union
League Club not long ago. The scdatc
members peercd forth from behind
white mustachos AS if fearful tho
panCs would become frosted sudden
ly and shut them in forever. Charles
Kulman. who sings the title role in
Faust" at the Met, took up war
bling rs y lad when q ClaSSmatc, who
was getting 50 cents apiece for en-
rolling new members in the church
choir offered to split the commission
with him. He nHvcr collected.
Some of those movic-csquc stories
arc true. For instance, Colonel Peter
Fcdorovitch Abramov. former COM
mandcr Of Cavclry regiment in Rus
sia, is now an unemployed taxi driv-
cr in Manhattan. He is frequently
called upon to preside at ccrcmOn-
les Of the prCud-Spiritcd little band
OF CNpatriatCS from old. White Rus
si3~ Constance Morrow. sistcr-in-law
of Colonel Lindbergh. has adopted
Constance Reeve as a stage name
and. having played stock in Kalamazoo
has her eye on Broadway. Sinclair
Lewis offered the book, "Dodsworth,"
to Hollywood for a mere $4,000. but
when it was made into a play it was
snapped up, having been spurncd un-
til then, for $4,000.
Sign OF recovery: a census takCr
in our ncighhOrhood says that for
the first time in four years there's
a Wall street "customcr's ma. liv-
ing nearby. Hcadw8itcrS like 70 give
Jules Brulatour ringsidc tables in their
night clubs because he looks so dis
tinguishcd, but how could he look
Otherwise with a name like that?
But who would ever have guessed
that fame and honOrs would come to
a man with the homcly name of Elihu
Root?
An autograph hound tells me that
the current quotations on wellknown
Squgglcs are as follows: for Walter
Huston, IS cents: Grace Moore, 25
cents; George Jesscl. cents; Bob
Hope, IS cents Abe Lyman. 20 cents
Groucho Marx 80 cents: other Marx
brothers. 10 cents; Vincent Lopez. IS
cents; Albert Einstein, 81: Bea Lille,
so cents; Clarks Gable Is cents: Kath
crime Cornell, 81; President Roosevelt
So Mrs. Roosevelt, cents. Herbert
Hoover, 50; James 1swcn. $4,000
(when on a check for $4,000 and there
is that much in the bank)
New York, Dec. 27- Randomusinr:
| The little green and black ETHIOPIAN
flags fluttcring in the breeze in Har-
lem sidCstrccts Martha Sleeper
is sometimes troubled by insomnia
-. I wonder how John Held, Jr., re-
aims that bronZcd. out-of-doors COM
plexion it's the only one Of its kind
in the Algonquin dining room during
| the lunch hour and will be until. the
| Florida migratory lads and Iassics
return from the beach 80.
/ Enthusiasm not shared the stomp
| At.,rn linn IL.