St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-08-30
Personalities!
By Nellie Dodson

Well, I've been pounding out this
column for four years now, and an
eventful four years it has been,
too. A lot of nice things have hap
pened, a lot of silly things, and a
few sensible things. Among the
nice things: Attending the Uni
versity. Making friends out there.
Taking subjects from really inter-
esting professors and instructors.
Living through the red-gold days of
fall, the blustery days of winter,
the lazy days of spring on the
campus. Enjoying chatty lunch
cons at campus restaurants.
Other nice things: Having a few
real friends like Thelma Thurston,
Vida Parker, and Althea Doug
lass. People you can talk to, they
are. Your problems are theirs,
and their problems are yours. ..
Knowing a few swell fellows who
are loads of fun like Jimmy Oliver,
Paul Boswell, Bootely Brown. :.
Among the unpleasant things:
Knowing some males who are per-
feet heels. Besides having one
track brains, they are minus back
bone, ambition, and everything else
that is decent. =. e. Among the en-
barrassing Nom ents: Getting
kicked out of a lecture class for
Cabling too much to the Teller sit
ting next to me. He was kicked
out, too. Other embarrassing
moments: Trying to exercise my
three year college Spanish on a
young man who had been in Spain
for couple of years on a scholar
ship. He didn't know what I was
talking about, and heaven knows I
certainly didn't understand him. :.
Moments when I wanted to go quiet
ly out of the picture: The day that
Sheldon Beise insisted on trying to
wrangle a dinner invitation, while
Stan Kostka's eyebrows went up
questioningly, and Marionne
PEBBLES and Vida Parker tried to
keep from giggling themselves
silly at the situation. The worst
part of it was, it happened on the
street, and Beise's voice carries
e. Big moments: Meeting Willis
Ward. Watching him come through
the Curtis Hotel lobby, head an,
shoulders above the rest of tn
folks there. interviewing var
Gus show-people backstage, an
finding them all just human lik
the rest of us. Having "Pug
Lund take time out at the You
Conference to talk to me when fit
other people were clamoring fc
his attention. {. Small moment
Kicking a pair of too-close fittin
shoes off in the State Theatre on,
night, losing one, and having t.
ask the usher to go under the seats
for it. >. Getting my seat check
all mixed up one night while usher
ing at the Shubert, and having t
move a couple of parties after tn
curtain went up. Seasick mo
ments: Watching medic student
work on too-old corpses one da
while I was a frosh at the Uni
versity. -. Feeling as if it was al
over the night Dick Mann's car
turned over when a tire blew out
mother socially prominent
couple will come to parting of the
ways soon,-unless the hubby gets
over his headache for a young St.
Paul pretty-one. The wife really
doesn't care whether or not he re-
covers, because she has her eye or
Chicago big-money biggie-whc
is also married. BUT she can't
risk giving HER hubby the air fol-
fear the Chi biggie might not be
able to wriggle free, BUT she IS
getting tired of the young-gal fool
ishness. If hubby acts his age and
gives up the young 'un, she'll try
and Danish the Chi dream-disturber
from her affections. If hubby
DOESN'T act his age, we'll. Any