Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-30
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By Q. Q. Mcintyre

NEW YORK. April 30. Fred
stone. riding the crest again after
so. in still another amusement field,
/ should be. and doubtless is, an in
spiration to performers who believe
/ the wears have washed them up.
MANY believe Stone will receive the
sort Of adulation accorded Marie
| Dressler.
Two pictures catapaulted him to
stardom and the enormous pay
that Is so generously Hollywood. A
candid view is that Stone as a stage
PLAYER was through. His type of
show had gone into discard along
with his particular style of comedy.
His audience appeal was largely
sentimental.
However. he did not reach the end
of the road with the usual Thesplc
distress. He was comfortably fixed
/ and had launched his three talented
/ daughters. Dorothy, Paula and Car
OIL on footlight careers. He might
/ have easily called it a day and re-
/ tired to a porch rocker in Forest
Hills.
A character study in his last
short-lived play was the turning
point. 1t whetted the studio scouts
j and. coupled with. an arousing plug
from his old friend, Will Rogers, re-
suited in a tempting offer. Direct
ors soon sensed his versatility and
the result was inevitable.
The Readers Digest, which has in
a short while made a snug fortune
for its owner, Dewitt Wallace
breaks from the long established
custom of magazines that live by
quoting from others without pay
The Digest pays for everything II
uses and for which it gives credit
Thus providing the Windfall of un-
| expected checks to which writer's are
totally unaccustomed. Wallace's in
come is S1O5 600 a year.
%
Karl Bickel, one of the few news
papermen to retire at the peak Of
his career, has become, next u
John Ringing, the best known cit
izen of Sarasota, Florida. His homt
is one of the show places. Built or
iginally as a private office for Ring
ling it has been converted into
rambling Spanish structure abso'
lutely authentic in appointments
The tiles and fountain are from
Triana lust outside Seville and tht
woodwork. ceilings. lamps etc
have been as carefully selected il
the land of the Don.
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No modern artist ever received
such an enormous shot Of publicit,
as Arthur William Brown in th
Saturday Evening Post story b,
Katharine Brush. Somehow per
sonality stories rarely immortaliz
the illustrator. Miss BruSh'S finish
ed piece ran around 5000 words
The magazine regretted but it mus
be edited to 5000 Miss Brush pro
tested vigorously but the magazin
was adamant. The editors Wer
sorry but they wouldn't give NOR
than 5000 words to Ell Greece o
Raphael. incidentally, Brown ant
James Montgomery Flagg are tn
youngest looking men for their year
in the passing celebrity parade.
90
Among the latest of the feminin
heart draws is this time an eXper
billiardist The young amateur Ed
mund Soussa from Cairo, Egypt, Win
became expert on the only table IL
Cairo, an abandoned one in tn
house OF an uncle. He has bee
playing in tournaments in AM
around New York to audiences tina
for the first time in history have
large women attendance. The
come to see him-a tall. dark an
mysterious looking Oriental, as i'm
passive as the Sphinx which was hi
bOyhood neighbOr. He has also dis
tinguished himself in the Paris sa
Ions as painter of portraits an
landscapes.
90
Another lady killer. who is fillin
the baseball grandstands with fem
mime loveliness, is Jimmy FoXx, Tor
Yawkey's s25O,OOO first basemar
The Clark Gable of the diamond
he has blue eyes, brown skin, mile
wide shoulders and extraordinar
{ dimples The feminine clot at th
exit gate to see him is like the Zieg
field stagedoor days.
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ThingumabobS: Joseph p. Da
the aucioneer, who never wears a
| nVprcOaf never has q cold An