Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-03

MIR. PICKERING and IL WAS me
Henry kclm."
"What did you want your wife
90 go to Reno for?"
~ didn't" ne said. II told you
II was just a gag. 1t wasn't even
"A real ticket. got Tony, at
United Airlines. 10 write II up
and IL looked real"
Didn't your wife get mad: ."
said
"No." be said Jane didn't get
mad. Everybody said l shouldn't
do II, hut l thought II was too
good Joke ~ ! did II anyway.
But Jane looked at II and she
caught on right away"
And bcllboy Henry Klein
walked away with the strangeSt
expression on his face $500 half
prlde because his wife catches
on 50 quickly and half disap-
pontment because his Joke went
flop
} The photography fans. usually
so serious about everything they
do. get kittenlsh every 30 often.
and the January bulletin Of the
Photographic Guild Of Detroit
has this COY little phony In Its
classified adj section:
FOR SALE: Leica with tele-
photo lenses. high power binoc-
ulars, fishing boat with tackle
and nets, like new. Must leave
country Immediately, - sorry.
Sahure kuruSu."
It's probably Art Howard
having fun. although il might be
Charlie CharmatI who Is wacky
enough - Do It, Or If they
didn't, who did,
Speaking 81 wacky people,
sam Gruber il one such. His
brother Les is the serious one
in the family, but sam believes
in taking life without running
his nerves ragged.
sam seems Ia lack Les talent
for seeing things that Will get
the London Chophouse in the
paper. hut he has more fun maxi
ing mp crazy puzzles about De
troit.
His latest: Why do mer-
chants pull awnings down only
halfway when IL rains: l don't
know why, but lot Of them
do IL.
And AnOt her OF Sans:
Strangers are always surprised
when they discover that Canada
II south Of Detroit, not north.
But where II the nearest place
ut which Canada lies NORTH of
Michigan?
said supposed IL would he
north of Isle RoNale, or possibly
at Sault Ste. Marie. Sam says
no: that there il such place
within "A few miles OF Detroit.
but he won't tell me where.
So I guess I'll have II get out
"A map and find ont for myself.
NOTES: More now patriotic
songs coming along Leonard
Smith The trumpet wizard, has
written a new ono but is going
20 reWritc it before publishing
it,. Two others have appeared
10 Detroit i'm published form,
"FrceG.~ by oliver Wendell
Motlcv. and Buck Private
Jones by Id Womack. VIII +.
Dulmage and Eddie Dorr.
one Of the nations most sue
CcsSful winners OF various con-
tests Is Detroit girl. Joyce
O.Hara. who has won thou
sands % dollars in cash and
other prizes
Sonia Henie pays $40 a pair
for her skates and makes faces
~ photographers If they happen
10 snap her when she happens
10 be in an ungraceful pose.
So naturally they do II again
20 rile her. Happened when she
was at Olympia last year, and
probably will again this year.
Rumor is going around town
that a European night club
entertainer, now IN Detroit, was
caught with a Short-wave radio
hidden in her suitcase . And
what about the report that the
argument over having night
baseball games has been settled
by the war-because the army
needs the lighting equipment?
and that the next phone
directory won't come out TIL
October or later because OF the
paper shortage?