Evening star., 1937-04-05
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SOUR NOTE.
.HERE is a young woman lawyer
in Washington who is def

SOUR NOTE.
THERE is young woman lawyer
in Washington who is def.
nitely of the opinion that
L hostesses and guests at cock.
tail parties should be a lot more care.
full with the names in introductions
Were they to be so, she would not
have made the embarrassing mistake
she made recently.
1t was at such social function
that she fell to chatting with 9
large, handsome man whom she re.
membered having met when she ar.
rived. Music was the subject OF theil
conversation. Both admitted an in.
terest in it and after a few minutes
she thought to ask him what instru.
ment he played.
my Adams apple" the large
handsome man said with a smile.
1t struck the woman as cutely
diSarming, nothing more.
Nothing more, that is, until SHE
asked some one who he was.
That's Richard Crooks Of the
Metropolitan Opera Co.," was the
reply. +*
TUTOR.
Ray Bell, motion picture publicity
man, recently Won trip to Italy
as you may haze read.
Since the award Ray has been
brushing up on Italian under the
tutelage OF Col. Angie Ratio, an
associate in the same company.
They had gone hard at the les
son yesterday afternoon, Dorking
particularly on pronunciations,
,Dhen after fen minutes on an
especially difficult phrase (but an
important role) Col. Ratio re-
marked:
Don't Worry too much about it.
Ray. After all, ,Dhere you are 90
ing no Italian Uould understand
my dialect anyho1D."
X X
CLIMB.
HOLLAND HUNTINGTON, who
likes the series of math problems
WHICH lids SllSdhCQ loScAACy INV Wan
Wayside, called up yesterday to sug-
gest another.
Take a hill mile up and a
mile down. says Mr. Huntington, a
pretty big hill to be taking, but what
does that matter. "A man drives up
that hill in his car at rate of Is
miles per hour. At what speed will
he have to go down the other side to
average 30 miles an hour for both
directions?"
The person blessed with average
amount Of glibness will snap out
"Why, As miles an hour, Of course.
To him we can only say that he
had better figure it with pencil ano
paper.
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RACE.
BILL BELL Of The Star reports a
small crop Of silver threads among
the gold as the result of an incident
on the plane trip inaugurating Ameri.
can Airlines' nonstop to Chicago
service.
1t wasn't the plane ride that grayec
Bills hair, but 20-mile automobile
ride from friends apartment to the
municipal airport, IA miles from the
city. A tagging companion caused Bill
to be late in leaving for the hote
where he was to join the party re-
turning on the plane. 1t was case Of
making that plane or else. The plane
was to leave at sos pm. At 4:30 Bill
and company were IS miles away and
afternoon traffic was at its heaviest
The driver Of the car twisted and
weaved through the jam at 40 and Sc
miles an hour, despite the entreaties
of his passengers, who pointed out that
they'd really rather miss the plane. II
he didn't mind, than end their journey
in the Chicago morgue. Two miles
from the airport traf11c thinned out
and the road lay open and safe. Bill
and the companion responsible for the
whole wild dash sighed with relief at
the seeming certainty of making the
plane, though it was then 10 minutes
before departure time. Their relief
was oIlOA Vel1VCO, AOl Ul1Cll CdIIlC d CllulhA
to cap all clinaxes-a fiat tire.
Jumping out OF the car, Bill stood
virtually in the middle of the road
thumbing violently. A kind motorist
stopped, listened with sympathy to a
breathless account of their plight and
took the two to the airport. They
arrived IL minutes before the plane
took of.
X
TOOTS.
A RUSSIAN girl recently enrolled
= in local school and having quite
struggle learning the English Ian
guage has found that the youths in
her history class are not the best
guides to proper speaking.
1t happens that she is the only
girl in the history class, and the boys,
with a great show Of sympathy, pre-
tend to give her valuable aid with
her English
Actually they teach her the latest
slang, as she learned after addressing
dean on the campus in the fashion
which the boys assured her was the
proper way to greet person of such
scholastic Importance.
She learned that the boys were
spooflng only after startling the dean
out Of his academic austerity and giv-
ing girl chum with whom she hap
pened to be walking at the time an
equal shock by exclaiming:
Hi, Toots!'
X
GAME.
-Four, fue, sir-pick up sticks"