The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-23

creepy: "A Irleno OF Faul WING
told him this tale as a true story:
The friend, with several compan-
ions, was driving toward Westches-
ter. A woman thumbed ride. Ordi-
narily, he pays no attention to hitch
mixers but as the woman looked
weary and destitute, he gave her a
lift. After riding for some time,
the passenger announced that she
had reached her destination. The
only way she could repay the cour-
tesy extended her, she said, was by
telling the fortune Of one of the
women in the car. None cared to
have her palm read, however. Then
the woman announced: 81 will make
a prophecy. If you carry a corpse
in this car before midnight, Hitler
will be dead before the first of May"
All laughed at the prediction. On
the way home that night, police
man stopped the car and asked
that an injured man be taken to a
hospital. Before the hospital was
reached the man died.
Financial. Mana-Zucca, blonde
composer of 81 Love Life" and other
well-known numbers, who recently
broke into swing with '"Two Little
Shoes" maintains a year-round
home at Miami, overlooking Bis
cayne bay. Recently annoyed by
her gardeners failure to finish seed
ing the lawns, she sent him a Wig
orous note of disapproval. The gar
dener showed the note to friends
and was surprised to receive an
offer of So cash for 1t. A second
and more vigorous note followed
and that was sold at an even higher
figure. Some time later the garden
er showed up and was admonished
severely by the composer.
"Why didn't you answer my
notes?" she demanded.
81 was hoping you'd send me a
new one every day." was the calm
answer. "They pay lot better than
gardening"
Good Deed: On the bulletin board
of the Majestic theater, where that
Dwight Deere Wiman smash hit,
"Stars in Your Eyes," is playing,
is the picture Of a little Spanish
boy with a sad look in his eyes.
His name is Hipolito Carreras and
he is IL years old. He is an orphan
of the Spanish Civil war. The rea-
son his picture appears on the stage
of a theater in New York, when
there are SO many thousands like
him, is that the cast of "Stars in
Your Eyes" has officially adopted
him through the Foster Parents
plan. Hipolito is at present in a
refugee camp in France, near the
Spanish border. He will be trans
ferred to a regular children's col
ony where he will be raised and ed
ucated for useful manhood. And a
salute to each and every member
of the cast of "Stars in Your Eyes"
Correspondence: The Andrews sis
tiers report that these days mash
notes come from the following types
Of males: High school boys who
like to make their girl friends jeal-
GUS by displaying a letter from a
celebrity; callow youths who are
too backward to express their feel
ings and who find an outlet in writ
ing to girls they have never met;
married men who are on the outs
with their wives; smart alexis who
think they can play rings around a
Gable in penning torrid love blurbs;
ambitious lads who'd like to marry
a money-making gal-and manage
her affairs, and old bucks who have
become tired of whiting and have
taken up letter writing.
Skip 1t: According to the recollec-
ton of Ernie Hoist, who supplies
dance rhythms at the Glass Hat,
Robert Morley, John Gielgud, Noel
Coward, Reginald Gardiner and 9TH
er noted English performers who
have dropped in from time to time
have always avoided the dance floor
when he swung into a rhumba. It
seems that some seasons ago, in one
of the Cochran revues in London,
there was skit burlesquing rhumba
dancers, and the English, still re-
calling it, are wary. At least, that
is the explanation Hoist got when he
made inquiries.
End Piece: Night clubs featuring
Hawaiian music seem to be doing a
good business. To me, that's en-
tirely understandable. It's obvious
that there are plenty of folks who,
even as I, are curious to find out if
there is on this earth just one
Hawaiian number that doesn't sound
exactly like all other Hawaiian num-
bers.