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Show AR'E LITE 'FADS Ycun ; 7cnen : cf ' Smart Set at Newport Are Posing Pos-ing for X-Ray Photos to Present to Friends. . NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Tha X-ray craie la the latest to .strike Newport. A' member of the summer smart set, on . being asked for her' X-ray photograph the other day, waa overcome with embarrassment, for she had none, fine hurried down to the colored physician phy-sician and surgeon the electrical expert. Dr. Marcus W. Whaatland, and posed for an X-ray. One must keep up with the fads and In step with the tlmea at Newport. v Tha X-ray photos are labeled and filed in X-ray albums. ' "How very flattering!" ' "Mow very old you look there!" "You must have been 111 that day!" , Such like catty remarks are never mads overHhe X-ray photographs, and that'a one comfort. -Another is that the photographer never says at a sitting: . "Now try and look pleasant, eyes up here', , lipa lightly parted there just a minute-One." minute-One." In fact, I am told by a woman who posed before the rays that she did not have to call for proofs, find fault and ait over again nor listen, to a Inog talk on carbons and parts panels. Dr. Wheatland won a local reputation last year, when Miss Evelyn Walsh was so sick, following her automobile accident, near East-on's East-on's Beach, when aha was thrown some distance dis-tance and seriously injured. Dr. Wheatland had hia electrical apparatus moved, from his office to the Waldorf -Astor estate, and for weeks the X-ray- machine was used by the staff of surgeons attending Miss Walsh. Likewise, when Master John Nicholas Brown fractured his left arm on tha Fourth of July, he was taken several times to the big X-ray machine and the injury waa made plainly evident. The doctor expresses good-natured surprise sur-prise at his sudden transformation to a photographer pho-tographer and Is a little dubious at the use of his electrical apparatus fjr fad purposes. |