Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-01

changed views now the scenes SnllC
in the reports of this person and
that. 1t is, after all, the old drama
of life. Our Dickens and Thacke
rays saw it all but, better than the
rest, set it down in enduring vol
umes. Ups and downs, and SUM-
shine and, paraphrasing Major
Bowes, around and around she goes
and where she stops nobody knows"
All we have to do is to sit quietly
and enjoy the ride. No use growing
weary. There's a long rest at the
end of the trip.
For six months I have noticed a
dour, disconsolate note among GER
tain friends. They seem taking life
on the down-beat. One great edi-
torialist refers to settled miasmi
that is forming like scum" The
cure for such fogginess is change.
One rarely meets traveller just re-
turned from swing around the
globe without feeling he is au cour-
ant with optimism stay-at-homes
lack Our Burton Holmses, examin-
ing life in a variety of places, build
up philosophy that steels them
against that noxious tincture we
call Life's irony.
One of my happieSt dinners was
at Explorers club. 9Among men who
had seen the world and lived among
all sorts. There wasn't an Old Man
Grump among them. They laughed
they joked and saw humor in ev-
rything-including the future. Bob
Ripley was gloomy chap until he
began popping around odd corners
Now he's the life of the party, the
ray of sunshine in the grills.
l asked the owner of a flashy
night club-if he had choice-hoV
he would like. to dress his ring
side for an opening night of new
club. He Immediately named these
Talullah Bankhead, Clifton Webb
and his mother, Mrs. Harrison Viii
liams, Gene Tunney, Jules Glaen
zer, Mary Saportas Tiffany. Floyc
Gibbons, Robert Taylor-if in towr
and Gloria Vanderbilt and hel
twin sister. With these, he said
and group of society chit-cha
writer's to annotate the doings mex
day. a place would be made-at leas
for few months
If the flossily habited elegan
across aisle from me the other nigh
had his way the doctors would b,
probing for bullets. That chunk,
comedian, Billy House, in abbreviat
ed pants Of Tyrolean vintage, mad,
some crack about boy scout on al
outing at Bear Mountain. Not par.
ticularly funny in the modern man
ner, but my sudden outburst was {
lulu. His Jiblets turned on a scowl
tried to straighten out, squirminl
and flicking imaginary fluff from
my coat sleeve. But the gorge ros,
again, so grabbed my hat and sho
up the aisle, but not without {
goodbye guffaw that set the whole
house roaring.
No dress adornment for the mall
accomplished the spiffiness in m,
opinion of the carefully selected ant
jauntily tied muffler. With it mai
expresses his barbaric flair for wilt
color without becoming a Harlem
hot-cha. England has long out
distanced the states in nifty muf
fiering. Indeed, the steady use o
the muffler dates back to the day
when Jack Buchanan showed us th'
proper muffler "do"-the whorl-ir
Charlot's Revue. English actors
such as Herbert Marshall. Leslie
Howard and Ronald Coleman have
also given it panache. Artists are
particularly effective muffler wear
ers. The late Ralph Barton, for in
stance. Ben Ali Haggin knows how
to wear one like nobody's business
/ So do John BaragWanath and How
ard Chandler Christy.
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Mark Hellinger is probably the
only newspaperman in the country
with an armored car The notation
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