Show S f I i I NEW YORK Th rhe The most loyal lora it If you asked me mels is tl the e baseball baseball base ball fan tan I know all the theS S stories tories tI about Jj 0 u t 4 the dog t and andS S 'S what he has hasI I done for tor his master But even the widely widel wide wide- 0 l ly l advertised 4 loyalty of t the tile 0 dog falls taUs to o I move move me quite as much as the constancy and affection of the thedy dy dye in t the e wool tan fan an Whether Whether- April c comes mes in like a af deluge or ora a pretty blond the fan tan tanI will rush up barking barking- atta boy boyi slam her home homet Babe and ge geer get er eyes fixed In Manhattan at feast east he will don his sweater and his ils winter overcoat and sit shiverIng shiverIng shiver- shiver Ing ng In the stands while the winds off oft the river stir him hini to action H He He- will stand in inline line a a. thousand deep In n the cold gray dawn of ot the morning before He will fight traffic and ride for tor hours on sub sub- wa ways wayE s He will take chances on rheumatism pneumonia and nd chilblains chil chil- blains And after all his efforts and expenditures he will look 1001 upon a field soaked In mud Somehow the old familiar signs never seem to bother him Year rear aft after r year he will be gladdened by bythe bythe bythe the signboard information that 11 slide 11 slide you cart carl into sos and s emporium emporium em em- for a shirt that such and such a n show 1 id IS a three three base base hit and that you can run home In an taxicab They will look upon upon th these se without protest The most familiar advertising pun Is sweet for them to look upon And then they will howl down the umpire umpire- as as' as of old and they will all but toss pop bottles at the butterfingered butterfingered but but butterfingered fingered ter-fingered infielder r. r But fear tear not whatever today's venom they will wil wilbe be right back tomorrow faithful faithful and loyal to the he end As far tar as Im I'm concerned you'll youn younse se see me mb there when the weather gets warmer 5 S Two things ba have va happened today to make me feel fecI un uncomfortably ly old someone opened an old newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper file and revealed a a. cartoon of sf the late Happy Hooligan which I recognized and attending a a Broadway theatre performance I noted natee th the the- name rame of Master Master- Gabriel Upon the program Now the mere fact tact that I can re remember remember remember re- re member Buster Brown should be proof unto itself that I am m not a a member of the more less young er generation And the last time I C recall hearing the name of Master Master Mas Mas- ter Gabriel was when as as as a. a a lad lad-In Michigan he app appeared ared in a a mu musical musical mu mu- comedy fashioned after tb the comic strip This Master Gabriel was still playing Lilliputian toJ sf his pert part was vas that of a midget in a circus And he seemed as old young as as when Buster Brown made the rounds I Meanwhile I had the S feeling that I had probably changed con con- S S S Kelcey Kelcy Allen one of ot Manhattans Manhattan's pl play reviewers is is' is telling tilling this one on himself Kelcey who Is nothing If it not a valiant first night sufferer actually grew v bore bored to the extent of walking out on a a. performance before it had ended This is not an uncommon practice with George G. G Nathan and others of ot the cognoscenti cognoscenti cog cog- for instance But Kelcey has been looked upon as a working critic So the management called his paper and spoke to the edit editor tSay t. t Say Kelcey walked out in the middle of our show tonight came the tbs voice Oh dont don't mind that chirped back the newspaper man You probably haven't heard eard that he be walks in his sleep tOut t- t S SS Out ot df of a a. maze of af wisecracks which made th their lr appearance during during dur dur- ing IriS the rec recent nt Texas Guinan trial came one one which must be credited to th the hard bud working pro prosecutor ec He no had been trying his best to stump the night nightclub club hostess Ah lie da a as t the he ie e finally t ok his seat seat a hard to tp rattle as a a. bag of feathers GILBERT SWAN sVAN C Copyright I 1929 NEA Service e Inc |