Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-06-28
PERSONALITIES
By Nellie DOdsOn

Was it Adolph Thomas or Bud
Kelley who had the trick hat which
was supposed to collapse or fold
up, but which kept popping back
to its original shape at the least
expected moment? l met Bee
Edwards that night. Both of US
had feet that hurt like the dickens
in new shoes, and we started SYM
pathizing with each other. Bee
had curls then, and was just too,
too sweet. I laid eyes on the
handsome Mr.. North for the first
time, also. He was at our table
at the after-party. l sat there
staring at him, and wishing he'd
ask me to dance, but the big bum
didn't even know / was around.
We're good friends now, and he
tells me. how ! should run my col
umn. How things do change! . 1.
John Douglass had a stiff front
to his tux which almost choked him
to death. Danny Allen had on
a tux which hit the high water
mark at the strategic points.
Seems as if it was rented affair
and the people who rented it to
him got the size wrong, or sum-
thin. 2. Lonnie Thompson had
on some trousers which also hit
the high water mark. He was an
other victim of some last-minute
not-getting-together Does Dot
Gardner remember the formal
which she priced so highly for
weeks before the party? -. Dot
and Aggie Ellis and Clarissa Law
son and Jane Lee and Sally Parkes
and myself were all ushering at
the Shubert Theatre then, and
what a madhouse our dressing
room was the night of the party!
We couldn't get out of there fast
enough after the first act, and get
home to dress for the great event.
=. / was out until dawn for the
first time that a. m. Every
body went to the after-party at
Smelling Tavern, and it was ter
rifically late before the whoopee
let up. On the way home I saw
the milkman making his rounds
and almost went into a dead faint,
l was so excited. Now / wouldn't
even blink a second time at the
boy delivering the afternoon pa
pers. That Cameo formal will
go down in history, my trans.
Folks still talk about it.
The Union Picnic: Those were
the days when the "old folks" in
my crowd could go out and get a
kick out of walking around with
the favorite boy friend. The
gels would all get new dresses and
the boys would get new summer
suits. You would go to the
pavilion and some nice boy would
buy you fee cream, or a balloon.
Then you would go for a walk
down by the falls and everything
would be very fluttery and ro-
mantle. Of course, there would
be the dance at Pioneer Hall in
the evening, following the picnic.
The idea there was to pick out one
spot and dance on it all evening.
You couldn't move if you wanted
to, anyhow, because there was no
vacant space to move in. saw
Ollie Grantham for the first time
at a Union Picnic, and he had on
knickers and blue socks. .. Some
smarty-alec kids would always be
around to stick pins in your bal
looms.
I'm going by the Aristocrat par
ty tonight and see how members
of the young crowd look when
they're all dressed up and in one
group. wish ! could get the
party news in this weeks column,
but deadline is in an hour or so,
SO I'll have to. wait until next week.
From what I've seen, the young
sters ought to make a mighty at
tractive group as the girls are