Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-24

NEW YORK, March 23-In the
manner of Arnold Benefits jour
nal: M. and I were recalling at
breakfast a dessert that tickled our
palates more than any other. A
thin-crusted chocolate pie served
with a scoop of creme fraiche cheese
out of a brown Jar in Provence.
The waiter said it was a favorite
of Able Dimnet. Gourmets say all
desserts should be held back 20 min
utes to be appreciated. Apple pie,
Karl Kitchen used to contend,
should always be open faced, CHINA
mon sprinkled and served with a
cool glass of milk in a tumbler Of
deep blue.
I read last night that wood
smoke invariably has olfactory sig
nificance for those born in the out
land. Inspiring memories of child
hood. The smell of burning leaves
should be included. I finished an
article I've been dingling with for
eight months, yesterday. Like hav-
ing an aching tooth out
Some feature writer might do
something with the shrinkage of the
big art galleries on the avenue. Most
of them now just tiny salons lost in
side streets. Two visitors today l
would not have missed for speckled
pup: Floyd Gibbons and Bob Davis.
Each is a mine of copy.
Some notations recently about
summer: See rural Virginia in
April. Nowhere to study crowds
like Coney Island on Saturday
night. Make an over night river
pilgrimage on one of those side
Wheelers. I think it was Zoe Beck
ley who said she could not resist a
book or play with a street address
title. Such as: No. "a Court Street,
2 Hanover Square, etc, etc. I find
I cannot pass up titles with the
word Temptation. Best play title:
Waterloo Bridge. 1t suggested every
emotion. Another good one for a
musical revue: CoWard's This Year
e Grace.
No performer is 50 constantly in
rehearsal as the magician. Nate
Leipsig, for instance. ANY time, any
place one meets him he is fleXing his
fingers with a coin. He can make
it fairly race around his hand, like
something alive. Ditto Houdini. On
sleeper jumps Houdini took along
volumes from his vast magic library
The illusionist is interested in moth
ing save his art. None has hobby
The miss who attends my slight sec
retarial work has a pretty sounding
name-Anne Parentau. Also a mel
lifluous voice. I've never seen heT
although she has been at the syn
dicate several years. So far, too, we
have never had a difference.
An American I know in Copen-
hagen was appointed to an import
ant export job in his adopted city
His employer was a New Yorker ht
had never seen. For four years they
got along sWimmingly. Then they
met in Sweden for two weeks Of fish
ing. P. S. He lost his job. Circline
| the Park, ! felt a vince in the once
| gay Casino taking on the haunted
house look-dark and shuttered. Al
exciting after theatre place wher
Jimmy Walker was on the upbeat
and Grover Whalen the metropoli.
| tan dude.
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It Is interesting TO me that Ray
Long, Jr is showing artistic talents
of his father. From his boarding
school he sends graphic letters Il
his mother illustrated with a knack
He has also written several play
that for a 12-year- old show surpris.
ing sense of situations and dramatic
suspense. At II l wanted to be {
ferryboat pilot, siding back and
forth all day At IA, incidentally,
/ proposed to M And got what i'm
J those days was called the mitten. "