The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-17

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he's made no
change in the excellence of his de-
pertinent. His questions and the
explanations are unexcelled for
clarity.
That staunch conservative, Jus
tice Sutherland, continues to look
gentle and kindly.
Justice Stone, whose liberal con-
victionS are not always shared by
the majority of the court, gets the
most fun out of the court pro
ceedings. He has a permanent
twinkle in his eye and sometimes
smiles as he whispers to the JUS
tees besides him, during the long
speeches of lawyers before the bar.
Justice McReynolds looks a
laughter Roman than ever this
season. Perhaps he is still brood.
ing over the way the New Deal
took his 20-year-old home by TAX
ing over the Hotel Rochambeau
for Government offices.
The news that Sally Salminen'
SO-year-old Finnish-born house
maid of Stockbridge, Mass, has
won a $1,000 prize for her first
novel, katherine" rouses fearful
uneasiness in the soul OF the un'
protected employer.
For Sally's success will undouot
edly set hundreds of other house
maids to chewing on lead pencils
and dreaming about Pulitzer
prizes.
Any f1ousekeeper realizes the
danger of employing Boswell dis
euised as a cook. A family servant
knows all and could so easily tell
all. She sees the family with It's
back hair down.
But most any day now we see
other geniuses breaking into print
with such stories as. What !
know About the Madame" AND
"Where Does the Mister Go When
He Stays Downtown at Night"
The popularity of murder stores
will probably produce a Magnum
Onus entitled: "The Krime in the
kitchen" or "She Told Me to
Pare the Potatoes Thin" =.
The DIARY of a Dish Washer, "
ar "Why I Left the Soap in the
Pan" would also make gooo
reading.
It's easy to joke about this liter
arv-culinary prospect, but it's
really no chuckling matter. It's
bad enough to have genius OF a
cook go intellectual on you, but
there's also the personal pain.
Do YOU want your servant to
tell the world what she THINKS
about you?
Imagine, just imagine this pic
tire. Your cook is sailing the soup
with one hand and with the other
making notes on the kitchen wall
about your early morning looks.
Or thistle vacuum cleaner,
the mop, dust cloth, dust pan ana
brush are scattered over the front
haIl-your housemaid has gone to
rewrite the opening paragraph OF
chapter two on why He Divorced
Her"
We think personally that al
though. Sally Salminen may have
deserved that $1,000 prize, Mrs.
Proctor. her employer, deserves a
reward in Heaven.
A certain form of kitchen writ.
ing is being done in our family at
present. It mostly concerns
"lis-es."
A "lis" is a scrap torn from a
magazine or newspaper, never
from the tablet nearby, on which
are written such cryptic words as:
pineaples Squshed.
shuggerS 5.
coffy.
spinish.
cukumb-SaladS.
Godfrey Creyke and Day Tut
tie, who are going to lay the
cornerstone of the washington
civic Theater on October 20 at the
Wardman Park Theater, remind
us of Bobbie Bell and his Little
Theater.
Bobbie. son of the late Charles
J, Bell, conducted his theater in
the basement of his parents town
houSe-now parking lot-on
Connecticut Avenue.
The Little Theater was fash,
ionable and artistic success. But
Washington was not quite ready to
appreciate financially any Little
Theater movement.
Authenticated Josephine Hutch.
inson, member of the company
whom Bobbie fell in love with and
married, was later discovered by
Eva La Gallienne. Josephine is
doing well for herself on the legit'
innate stage and in the movies.
Robbie Bell, to whom she is no
longer married, is acting in New
york.
Day Tuttle and Godfrey Creyke
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