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Show - about: Styles In Hair Tints. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. There's more news concerning con-cerning the mummified remains of that lovely Egyptian princess prin-cess they found the other day that daughter of some early 1'haraoh, she who died nearly r,,(iH) years ago and yet was still so beautifully preserved. Too bad that old recipe of the I'haraoh family was lost. They did make such good preserves. The last word la that the little lady's hair was dyed a henna color. Either that's news or something has stimulated a sudden sud-den change In IIol-I IIol-I y w o o d fashions. Just a little while ago, about every other potential movie queen you saw was going in for the platinum effect ; and only too frequently, alas. Irvin S. Cobb the effoct was that of a new tin roof on a vacant attic. Now, by the groat gross, the stylish styl-ish ones are going red, reddislt or redder. Today, within half a mile, I counted ten redheads, and not a white horse in sight, to prove the ancient saying. Waning Presidential Booms. WHAT with cyclones and floods down south, the daily press somehow failed to record among our spring casualties the untimely end of the Governor Talmadge boom. Poor little thing, it passed away at Its home in Atlanta, Ga., Just as it was learning, in prattling accents, to lisp "pa-pa." Still the shock did not catch some of us unawares. We had a feeling it wasn't going to live. The second summer is so frequently fatal to those Incubator babies. For instance, you take the Ham Fish boom. Or if you didn't take it, somebody certainly did, because it hasn't been seen, or even heard of for months and months. Gridiron'Club Dinners. PXCEPT the obituary column, nothing could be sadder than the newspaper account of a gridiron club dinner. Yet gridiron club dinners din-ners aim to be satirically amusing and frequently are. Turning them out must be a tremendously tre-mendously hard job. because thev deal with the national political scene, and any producer of farces will tell you you can't burlesque a burlesque. In other words, you can't be very funny on a subject which already al-ready is so much funnier than anything any-thing you can think of and that's what the fellows at Washington are up against. This business of trying to be comic com-ic is a serious business anyway, especially es-pecially since all comedy Is predicated predi-cated on distress. A fat man falling fall-ing down makes us laugh because he suffers both in spirit and flesh. But if he is a pallbearer, say, at a funeral and falls down on his own high hat and maybe breaks up the services well, now then, you've got something that's really funny. A definition of comedy could be: Tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. www Self-Chosen Landon Aids. r OVEENOR LANDON must feel awfully fractional, not to say badly scattered, what with being levied on by so many comparative strangers all at once. Every day or two, with an altruism rare in this selfish age, some gallant volunteer effects himself by acclamation as the governor's eastern manager or his western manager, or his northwestern-by-southwestern manager or something. It makes no difference that he may never have heard of these parties before; up to six months ago, they'd never heard of him either. He's like a previously neglected orphan child who suddenly comes into prospects and finds everybody in town trying to adopt him. Maybe May-be a better simile would be that of a lone Thanksgiving turkey at a tableful ta-bleful of hungry boarders with this one snatching the drumstick and that one grabbing the second Joint and Mr. W. R. Hearst clinging, with a grip of iron, to the wishbone. Folly of a Parole System. 'TPllE perpetrators of the kldnap-ing kldnap-ing case of a few months ago up in the state of Washington were both chronic offenders who, despite their records, had been paroled. The fiend who recently committed the most hideous child murder that California has known In years was1 a convict out on parole. The degen-1 erate who has Just confessed to murdering that poor defenseless gentlewoman gen-tlewoman In New York the other day was yes, you've guessed It-he It-he was a convict on parole. j And all over the Union the work of turning loose criminals who have not completed their terms of punishment, punish-ment, indeed, in some cases hardly have begun them, goes merrily on. IRVIN S. COBB, j Copjrlt.-ht.-WNU Service. |