Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-18

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few opera sing-C. Is. DRISCOLL
ers whose voice doesn't seem TO
interfere with her figure j.. Calvin
and Colvin Brown sound like twins
look like brothers, and both are
publicists but they've never met
Sandhogs emerging from holes in
Sixth avenue, where they're sap
ping the new subway. They look
like men from Mars, strangely out
of place on the surface Remem-
Der when arrival of a telegram used
to cause the family to turn pale
with apprehension? William
Lyon Phelps (Uncle Billy to thou
sands of former Yale boys), knows
how to Saunter. In light gray, fluf-
fy Shetland suit, he looks natty
and eaSy-going Jack Major,
the Paducah, KY, boy, who is max
ing a name for himself as a story
teller.
journalist, man-about-town, grows
more spry with the years The
new express streets, cleared of all
parking. speed traffic but mer-
chants look sadly at business as it
zips past Commissioner Valentine
says, You can't please everybody"
Charlie Martin, radio script
writer who's made a name for him.
self in ad agency circles, is off for
Hollywood . Andy Sanella, alert,
Pumping band leader, is a short
wave radio fan, and often stays up
all night, talking to the Antipodes.
Mario Chamlee, in the estimation of
many feminine fans, displaces Law
renee Tibbett as the handsomest of
the singing idols.
Those grim-faced guards at the
piers carry guns, and when they
say no they mean it, these days
Foreign spies sleigh-ride days are
over Julian Street, whose
Abroad at Home" I read in the
Weekly Kansas City Star while
was farm lad, turns up at Dutch
Treat luncheons He could pass for
Martin Flavin if he had more eye
brow.
have a cordial note from An
nette Kellerman, dated st. Peters
burg, Fla. She was an Odd Nc
Intyre fan. In those early movies
of hers she fluttered many a heart,
and 1 can't say that I was bit
unfluttered. I shall always hope
she's doing we'll.
All of Thomas Wolfe's writing is
colored by nostalgia yearning for
home, the home town and the folk
with whom he grew up He went
reared, after his fame was eStab-
liShed. He was received with band
music and fireworks. But he found
that some indefinable effect of life
in big cities and literary atmosphere
made it hard for him to get close
to his old companions. He has been
working since on a book which may
outshine anything he's ever writ
ten. The title will be something
like this: you Can Never Go
Back Home"
It's fun to look forward to a
plotting a course to Whittier, Cali
fornia. I've been invited to deliver
the Commencement address at the
Quaker college there, and that's
the kind OF invitation | don't turn
1oWn. Wen be flying high and
happy, God willing. from NeWari;
TO the West, when June rolls round.
The habit of adding God willing"
when speaking OF future action is
ingraincd from youth My Mother
always said, with the help Of God
AMI Frank Markcy, reared by a
devOut grandmother. never puts me
aboard q plane fCr "A journey with
out the parting salute, God blces
you"
Theodore Dresser doesn't smoke,
and has the non smokers half
concealed dislike of tobacco smoke
and leavings His secretary, a ca
pable little Smith graduate, smokes
constantly She often finds tracts
on the evils Of oyer-indulgence in
tobacco, carefully spread on her
desk Il smoked as a cub reporter"
says Dresser, but when I didn't
need to do it to prove that 1 was
a newspaperman, I quit"
A marvellous green salad is the
famous dish of the Century Club.
Served with or without garlic-and
I don't mean just the garlic whiff
you get by rubbing the bowl, either.
Eight out of ten Century diners
take it with garlic. When I'm lucky
enough to be guest at this most
austere club, I'm one Of the eight.
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