Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-08

sing on the
Pere Mar
extrad ! ion MIR. PICKERING
hearing before the governor, and
was idling the time away read
ing the time table.
South Lyon" he read. salem,
e Dehoco."
II was that town Of "Dehoco"
that Johnny's eyes popped.
"Dehoco," my pets, IL the
underworld Authorization for
Detroit House Of Correction,
and il used particularly when
somebody doesn't want caves
troopers 10 know what he's
talking about"
Jimmy Boynton. another at
torney, says that he has heard
such conversations, one involv-
ing Hogue himself: Hogue ask
ing a man, haven't / seen you
before ?" and the man replying.
Yes, sir. We met at the Hotel
Dehoco two years ago"
How that bit OF argot got
into the Pere Marquette time
liable, we do not know. We al
NAYS took il for granted that
lhe people who made up time
tables were devoid Of sense Of
humor. But / guess we were
wrong. chums: / guess we must
have been wrong.
Boris Morros, the producer
director OF Tales OF Manhat-
TAM" was in Detroit yesterday.
and ran true 10 form. Every
time cavalcade from Holly
wood arrives. they go through
the same routine--hire a special
dining room at the Statler, in
vite in a bunch of reporters.
show people and public relations
experts. and then wait for the
visiting dignitary TO perform.
Morros, who knows half the
words in the dictionary and
mispronounces all of them, came
up with the most recent story
which he gleefully tells on him
self.
Travelling by airpIane, he met
Mrs. Roosevelt. taught her TO
play gin rummy, and finally
went to sleep-he says he gets
three hours sleep out OF each
81, but I don't believe him. In
S fact, 1 don't think anybody can
get along on less than six, and
most people need eight or nine.
But anyway. Morros went 10
sleep, and later wakes up 10
find the First Lady looking al
him curiouSly. you even, she
said. -Snore with an accent,
don't YOU
NOTES IN PASSING:
Mrs. William Cobb writes
frantically: TO settle an argu-
ment. please tell us the answer
To the old riddle:
Brothers and sisters l have
Done.
But that mans father is my
sther's son.
am not an authority on
riddles. but II il will give the
CobbS some peace. the answer
10 the riddle is My son That
is. If you substitute my son
for that man" the riddle Is
clear.
The draft is likely 10 break
up the Four Keys, currently
singing with lovely voiced Ella
Fitzgerald AT the Bowery. Slim
FurneSS is the one expecting 10
be called a pat on the back
10 Gus Howard, at the Palm
Beach. a master of ceremonies
who knows how 10 be funny
without a particle of dirt. is
clean humor disappearing, when
they even have TO use club
10 keep the radio clean?
Street Scene: A man and
girl quarreling on Woodward
avenue, and in 20 seconds n
hundred people have gathered
10 listen, until the couple pile
into a cab and 20 away, still
quarreling. Back home, II wasn't
polite To cape Mt family spats.
We used to pull the shades down
and turn out the lights before
we listened to the neighbors
fight.
Add doubles: The girl dancing
teacher who could pass as Katie
Hepburn's double Decent:
Gil Guymer and the No. l
Kiwanis Club. offering 10 help
some other charitable project
because its own, the Joe France
Outings for underpriVileged
children, had 10 be dropped for
lack of transportation Eye
catcher: The old-fashioned horse
drawn carriage at Hamilton and
IL