Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-06-10
By L.. L.

O11s
become fiddlestick conscious. In fd-
dlesticks, you know, you grasp a
handful of differently colored sticks,
drop them, then try to pick them
up one by one without disturbing the
rest. Colors count in the score.
Three actors missed cues last week
rather than miss their turns at the
game and four chorus girls were
all but ousted. To date, Jimmy Du-
rante and Bert Lair are leading the
field as fddlestick experts, with Will
liam Gaxton, Ethel Norman and
Ernest Truck not far behind. Hazel
Hoffinger and Helene Ecklund OF
s'The Show Is On" lead the chlorine
section. Broadway is talking about
that new game, "fddlestlcks."
When I was a %youngster, fiddle
sticks were ~jackstraws. Tradition
has it that the Chinese originated
the game centuries ago.
Famous Footwear-The collection
of the Shoe club at the Hotel Nc
Alpin continues to grow. The club
is composed of manufacturers,
wholesalers and jobbers of shoes IN
the metropolitan area. Shoes that
have shod famous people r col
lected and exhibited. The latest
pair came from Helen Hayes. Her
dainty footwear nestles between
spiked sneakers once worn by Ty
Cobb and the cleaning pumps OF
Fred Astaire. Other contributors to
the collection are Katherine Cor
nell, Lily Pons, Gladys S~warthout,
Jack Benny and Fanny Brice, as
well as many famous athletes and
some statesmen. A request was
made for the shoe of a newspaper
writer but he didn't send it fearing
there wouldn't be room to exhibit it.
City Scene-A young woman
standing under the window OF a mu-
sic school over a Forty : second
street museum . Where the cost
of lessons is Is cents each A
young girl is singing an aria from
Gluck's "Alcestis" The young
girls voice rises and the lone listen
er down below lenses . Plainly
she is wondering if the pupil will
be able to take the highest note
She hits it exactly without trace of
hatting The listener walks
away with a smile On her face
She is Lotto Lehman, operate
star, who has sung that same aria
before brilliant audiences at the
Metropolitan.
Salute-The most courteous and
efficient salesman I have ever OBJ
served is employed in a midtown
camera shop. Customers fortunate
enough to encounter him receive
service of a kind that brings back
pleasant memories. All through the
day he demonstrates cameras, even
those of the intricate type. He does
it ~expertly and we'll, so very we'll
that intricate points become simple.
To close a camera, he presses it
against his chest. Nevertheless, the
fact that he has only one arm, and
that his left does not seem to inter-
fere with his vocation or his cheer
fulness in the slightest.
Value Plus-Attracted by an ad-
oertisement for a mattress at $22. so,
a customer of a store that special
ICES in high-class goods and serv-
ices, after an inspection, ordered
one sent to his home. The mat
tress arrived and was placed on
the bed. The next morning, the
store called and inquired if the mat
tress had been used. The customer
replied that it had and was most
satisfactory-in fact, was far bet
ter value than he had anticipated.
The man on the other end of the
wire thanked him and hung up.
The family, pleased at such courte-
sy, discussed the matter among
friends. Later they learned that the
store had made an error and had
sent a $50 mattress. And, under
the law, if it had been used it could
not be returned. So what seemed
like unusual service turned out to
be merely a matter OF proht an0
loss.
Music Note-For some time, Sig
mund Romberg, composer-conduc-
tor, endeavored to induce Frank
Black, music director of the Ma
tional Broadcasting company, to sell
him a h~arpSichord. Director Black
demurred since he cherished the in
strument, it being an exact copy OF
the n on which Bach composed
many of his famous works. But the
deal has been made. What with
three grand pianos and an enormous
music library, life in a New York
apartment was becoming just a BIZ
too complicated.
g Bell Syndicate. -WNU Service.
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