Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-10-28


True Story: The other afternoon,
the elevator operator in the West
Ninety-seventh street apartment
house in which Mrs. Ona Wright
lives, remarked to her that there
must be some mighty fine bridge
players in her club. Interested,
Mrs. Wright asked him how he had
reached such conclusion.
"Wen," was the reply, II hear
them talking and they all seem to be
so good but they have such awful
partners"
Suburban Life: A friend who COM
mutes from Brooklyn Manor, out on
Long Island, reports an unusual dew
iation from usual practice. Each
morning, a man drives to the sta
ton with his wife and the family
dog. Nothing out of the ordinary in
that since all over the committing
territory it happens every morning.
But it isn't the husband who leaves
the auto and goes to the city for a
day of toll. The wife is the one who
boards the train. Furthermore
instead of kissing her husband good
by, she kisses the dog and merely
waves to her better half.
Urban Life: For some reason
which I have been unable to ascer-
tain-it's too much trouble to 60
down and ask questions-many New
Workers have taken to kite flying.
For weeks, especially Sunday after
Moons, the air over the upper part
of Central park has had large kite
population, big kites, little kites,
homemade kites, "store" kites,
elaborate kites, simple kites, kites
of all colors. All the kite flyers
aren't kids either, some being gray
headed. When I was youngster,
spring was the proper time for kite
flying and if gray-head had joined
us, we would have felt he ought to
have that gray head examined.
Time Marches On: John Golden,
in reminiscent mood the other
evening, recalled that when Days
theater was dismantled, he bid in
the old curtain. 1t was one of the
most beautiful in New York and
upon its arrival in this country, duty
free, had been assessed at $4,000.
Mr.. Golden paid $500 for it more or
less for sentimental reasons since
he had seen it descend on the Mans
fields, Ada Rehan and others great
in the theatrical world of their day.
Sentiment also influenced him in a
decision to use it at the Little Thea
ter where he was then producing
plays. But he discovered it was on
ly about three quarters the size of
the Little's proscenium. Eventual
ly, he gave it to Mr.. Dewey, the
simplified speller, who years ago
started the Lake Placid club, and it
is now used in the theater connect
ed with that club. And so pass the
grandeurs of yesterday.
Experiences: In the Rainbow
Room the other evening, a table
companion tried to squelch Ray
Blocks anti-war arguments.
you're musician" he sneered.
What do you know about WARP"
Block turned away without reply
+ ing. Born and raised in Alsace-
Lorraine, he saw his fathers house
blown to bits during the German
invasion, his cousin killed and his
beloved music teacher led away to
a concentration camp.
They Say: Carl Harte: 1.-THE
height of something or other would
be an attempt to put the six-day
bicycle racers on a fve-day week"
-. George Griffin: lone of the best
places to hold the worlds fair is
around the waist" George Crit
fin: Have you heard about the
horse trainer who climbed the lad
der of success stopper by stepper?"
:. /. and that's all for today.