The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-12-19
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6r L. /. STEVENSON

IOT couple OF weeks. Inc AFTER
noon of the fourth day, the husband
received a wire calling him back
for a most important business con-
ference. Leaving his wife behind,
he hoped into his car and headed
for New York, reaching his apart
ment at about a. m. AS he
switched on the lights he was aston
ished to find that what had been
Well-furnished home, had been
stripped clean, even closets being
empty. He tried to call the police,
but was unable to get the house
switchboard operator. Rushing
downstairs, he awakened the build
ing superintendent and asked him
to make report. The super grump-
lily refused. 1t seems that the wife
had left orders for new decorations
during her absence and the furni-
ture had merely been moved into
a vacant apartment to be out of the
way of the painters and the decora-
tors.
Search: The foregoing brings
to mind the time when the New Eng
land Chamber of Commerce decided
to sponsor series of short tech
nicOlor motion pictures extolling the
virtues of Maine, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts as vacation
spots. New York agencies were
asked to submit photographs of
various models and Patricia Gar
field was selected to be featured in
the Massachusetts short Miss Gar
fields agent called her home and
from her maid learned that the
model was on vacation and hadn't
left any address. The Bay state
sponsors were just about to pick
another girl when Miss Garfeld's
agent received a wish you were
here" postcard from her. She
was vacationing on Cape Cod. which
as everyone knows, is in Massa-
ChuSettS
Surprise: During the summer,
Lima ROmay, singing with Xavier
Cugat's orchestra, met a young man
who told her he'd been trying to
break into the popular singing bust
ness for some time. There seemed
to be agreement that his voice was
naturally good but his micro
phone technique was bad. Miss Ro-
may informed him she'd be glad to
give him few pointers. The young
mans answer was that he couldn't
afford to pay for lessons and
couldn't ask her to teach him for
nothing. After a little discussion,
Miss Romay asked the lad if he
could swim. He replied that he
could Then she told him if he'd
teach her to swim she would teach
him miCrophone technique. The Of
fer was accepted eagerly. But I'M
less he happens to read this, the
young man will not know that the
girl he taught to swim was a
diving and backstroke champion a
long time before she ever met the
gentleman.
Names: Funny how some per-
sons will stand for almost anything
except misspelling of their names
q fact we'll known to newspaper
men. For instance, Katharine Cor
nell doesn't like it at all if her first
name is spelled with an ''e'-and so
an "a on her press agents type
writer is underscored. Russell
Grouse believes himself victim Of
persecution if someone adds and eX
ira 81" On the other hand, Russell
Swami, magician. starts throwing
rabbits around if the second ''r' is
left off and one "n'' in his second
name is skipped. Donald Gallaher.
actor. swears eternal vengeance
when he finds himself in print as
Gallagher" Norman-Bel Geddes
insists on having the hyphen right
where | put it and nowhere else Are
YOU listening. proof room? We hope
you are.
Just in case you are SuperStltiOuS
irving Carroll has ID letters-coult
them-in his name. He was born
on June Is. got married on June Is
and made his radio network debut
on June Is last. He lives at 1850
Grand Concourse and with his or
chestra. has been featured at Jack
Dempsey for just ID months. Sor-
~ to disappoint you, but he has
been married only once and has
only two children. and you are
welcome.
Speed: Lyn Murray who COM
mutes from Nyack. % miles up the
Hudson, was about to board tr4.n
the other day when stranger
asked him what its destination was.
This train goes to New York in
10 minutes. replied Murray.
GOSH" marvelled the inquirer.
That's sure goin' some"
Central park fountain. near Sew
entieth street. is the unofficial gath
ering place for sailors. On a Sun
day afternoon, IT looks like rest
less BURBERRY patch.
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