Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-28
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now
ET1QUET;

EIlIlOEIs
Etiquet. like women'S clothes.
changes according 10 the season,
the public's whim, and the To-
cation.
We are indebted 10 Edward
Everett Horton for this eXpiana-
ton OF the difference between
etiquet in New York and Holly
wood.
when you 20 20 a party In
New York. YOU know most OF
the people," he said. "In Holly
wood. where even the parties are
colossal, YOU don't. 30 In New
York you greet people with,
How are you:
In Hollywood, you say. Who
are you:'"
Now comes Bill Brunberg OF
Warner Brothers with the latest
from Hollywood.
Ho'lywooders are so afraid OF
not remembering somebody
they've met casually. and maybe
insulting that casting director
they met at Hedy Zilch's cock
tail party, that they now greet
everybody with:
10000 happy In have met
you again"
ANENT THE WAR: Grocery
stores plugging Michigan beet
sugar rs "a way 10 beet the
Natzys." >. Young man taking
a course of defense craftsman
ship duane DeLoach) discover
ing that his drawing instruments
were made in Japan Red
ford High School preparing TO
list all of its former students
who are now IN the armed
services. II you know any such.
send his name TO Irene Cornell,
J. L. Hudson Company.
How come one free-circulAtion
paper refuses to print advertise
ments for "blackout lamps but
relents If the same things are
advertised under the name OF
defense lamps"
Reserve Officers Training
Corps of Detroit high schools
holds fits field day at Briggs
Stadium June 2 Man on
Hamilton avenue holds out his
three cents TO newsboy and de-
mands truculently, Good or
bad?" When the newsboy says.
Good news today" he buys the
paper.
AROUND TOWN: Joe Jones
and the rest OF the Adcrafters
poking fun at themselves at the
annual Ffeiie at the Players
Club And also at that big soft
drink pany. Careful
mustn't make Coca-Cola mad!
The cheap chiselers who mis-
use an army uniform 20 carry
on their schemes. Makes you
want to apologize individually
20 every man in the armed
services.
Steer clear of that win you
tive me an American dollar for
ny Canadian dollar" Half the
time the Canadian dollar" isn't
wen there. Just refined spong-
ing.
Beatrice. the black haired
dancer at the Club Royale, Just
got a letter from home. Her
father Is in a Nazi concentration
camp In France.
Dean Murphy doing his lu-
dicrous limitations OF Mrs. Roose-
welt. He quit doing them after
the war broke out, but Mrs.
Roosevelt said she thought them
funny, and made him resume.
GEORGE Bernard takes his UNI
matchable troupe to Pittsburgh
shortly.
Nurses holding their gradua-
ton party at the Wonder Bar.
Most of them going into Red
Cross work There are re-
ports that the blood bank Is
having trouble finding enough
blood donors again.
The "expert" on horse races
whose advice is followed quite
widely around town. He goes
through the racing form. picking
two horses in each race. and
marking one with an H and
one with a ct" He flips a nickel
If it's heads. he calls up his
friends and touts the horses
marked III"
Navy recruits having a tough
time finding a place TO live IN,
without going over the amount
the government allows. Why
couldn't the city let some one
reopen part Of the Barlurn
Hotel. How about II, Mayor
Jeffries! Maybe that white ele-
plant could be made 70 show
profit now.
Maybe it's an oldie. but Bob
McClellan's description OF
bloodshot drunk is vivid: His
eyes looked like they had been