Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 7 1931 11 AND SO BURNS THE FLICKERINGrrrrr CANDLE rn What London Artist Thinks BELIEVE IX OR NOTBy 'Robert L Ripley - --- - — - rrrr rr r ri rrr r -- -- a Of America By o o mcinttre the famous rM WEBSTERof the London Daily Mail sends the follow-In- g "personal nominations’ after his visit In America: Funniest comedian— Frank Tlnney The best Goldberg: fellow — Rube Prettiest flower — Texas bluebell Most generous gentleman— the late Jimmy Hussey Quietest gentlemarth— Bugs Baer Most Interesting Broadway crowd— at the Sunday night bill at the Palace-Prettiest view— Arizona as the sun sinks Worst Americans — those around the lobby of the Hotel Savoy In London Best story teller—O Henry Most hospitable American — W F Carey of Madison Square Garden Favorite luncheon places— The Rltz Colony and Mar-gue- ry Most Interesting sporting rendezvous— The Tavern — Friendliest Americans— bartenders In the speak-easlMost polite cop— the traffic man at 49th and Madison - es avenue Most charming theater— the Empire A delightful walk— Inspiration Point on Riverside Drive Favorite American dog— the Boston Best dancer— Bfll Robinson Smartest night club— Montmartre Best yam spinner— Inin Cobb Brightest weekly—The New Yorker Snappiest revue— Zlegfeld’i Follies Most amusing clown—W C Fields Noisiest comer— 23rd street and Broadway Most striking building— American Radiator Favorite columnist— (Censored) Favorite popular tune — My Baby Back “Walking Home" Favorite operatic star— Jerltza A Buffalonlan wants the public to know his city has made Important contributions to the theatrical life of Among natives Broadway are Gus Shy Katharine Cornell Lee and J J Shubert (I thought they came from Syracuse) Ed and Morton Beck E Ray Goetz Ray Henderson (once Ray Brost) the Watson Sisters Russell Hardle Jack Yellen Irene Rich of the films and of course the Big Shoe of the movies Winnie R ' In the burlesque Sheehan field are Johnnie Webber Etta Plllard Gus Fay and Joe Lang e Down south they are expecting a game of bowling to be as popular as miniature golf—which originated there It is a collapsible rolling pin affair and Is making great headway Hot dogs are a nickel at soda Coney and the has appeared ta the outlying districts of the city pee-w- ee fiWtck Vorv three-quart- er flve-ce- MlNi&TCft Every day R I am of CLOTHES Compile JvomHavd ta Foot 32 years employed 12 Tailors Who maps him more 6000000 Than 12000 outfits 3 this uNjoimo Pitct or DOUGLAS FiR PlYWOOO LUMBER -- 4 FT WIDE (pmo n wat Cut from this FOOT 3 DOUGLAS Ntxv IuNOnA Fir LogI Ufltto) &ANOUU EXPLANATION OF LAST SUNDAY’S CARTOON 100 between Columbus Circle and 23rd street than - OF MEKNES — The WoefuhWalls of Meknes encircle what is left of the most ambitious building scheme in North African history' Mulai Ismail of Morocco who died in 1727 conceived this tremendous structure to house his 4000 wives and hundreds of children- Fifty thousand white captives labored for 20 years in the construction of this edifice The mortality was very high among these white slaves of dusky masters as a result of untold priva Their dead bodies tions and indignities were forthwith immured in the structure as TIJE WOEFUL WALLS ’ o - - shavings: Ben Ames Williams maintains an office in Boston where he does his And keeps reguwriting lar business hours George Arllss does not eat meat Will Rogers started out to be a Methodist preacher Watterson Rothacker Is ta Java Anna Q' Nilsson Is home from Switzerland and Is to resume her film career She’s been 111 five years Damon Runyon's first book will be "Bloodhounds of "Burton Ara-Broadway ” btan Nights Adventures” by Fairfax Downey (Scribner’s) Is packed with breathless reading and ‘The Monk’s Hood Murders’’ by the Edtag- - for COSTim & Ten years Antonio Texas ago this column wondered why there were no chill parlors In New York’s midtown has But the wondering ceased There are now more eration” SAXONY WORE A DIFFERENT SUIT nt The late George V' Baker considered the soundest of financiers left a warning to his fellows Shortly before his passing he told a group of Intimates: "Unless New York bankers keep faith with patrons who trusted them ta making Investments they will never restore confidence ta sound banking ta this gen- or cKotn August iht Strong told most hot tamales devoured by New Yorkers are out of cans from San Also BrM their taskmasters believed that such an act would render the edifice indestructible Mek-nes was the idea of a single man Moorish empire under the driving power of Mttlai Ismail who populated it with the overflow of his harem By right of descendance Meknes is the most royal city in the world MARIE CLASHAN SPOKE A LANGUAGE SUE NEVER llEARD—The case’ of Marie ‘ Clashan Skotnicki of Warsaw Poland who overnight became possessed of the ancient (Copyright -- — ' Is a tons (Cosmopolitan) When dandy mystery yarn Bert Lahr gets nervous he tugs at his coat button Ziegfeld once refused Helen Morgan a Job in his chorus Ftfl- - Dorsay is really Unless Yvonne Lussler some of the big banks shoot square with their operations during the boom wild-catti- ng v days they are facing heavy damage suits Wall street hears The Idaho Springs (Colo) Gazette runs a column called "Observations by the Street Walker"—- -- The late— Lillian Leltzel circus aerlallst became train sick on New ' York subways Tallulah Bankhead was a hit despite that the scenario of her film The city was built and erected into the capital of the 1931 King lly p The letterhead of Dr W R Brumfield Gloster Miss has “Ordinary Country Doctor” and ‘“Dam Poor Collector” Jay C Fllppen lives at the Str Moritz i It Is the only new hotel incidentally out of the E Ray Goetz may red open up a theater on a Park Avenue roof top if he can feature Syndicate create $ quite a sensation in medical circles toward the middlei of the 19th century The child’s only connection with this ancient language was the fact that she was descended on her father’s side from a native of the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides Scotland who immigrated into Poland in the 18th century For more than 110 years the language had been completely forgotten in Marie’s family According to Professor Scligman there is no record of a similar manifestation of acute psychic avatism J Gaelic idiom ” Inc) find the right spot Odd F Ott lives at 924 West Pleasant street Springfield Ohio Richard Bennett sleeps in a green smock Mae Mel- vllle' of the old vaudeville team of Melville and Higgins now lives in Los Angeles Lcs Angeles 1s said to have the finest haberdashery In Ed Wynn's son the world Keenan is attending a miliSomerset tary school Maugham and Warwick Deep-ta- g once studied medicine Charles Francis Coe was a Cain’s theprizefighter atrical warehouse hs had Its busiest season Many legal firms are forming to specialize ta stock and bond holders’ suits against corporations Julian Eltlnge’s name Is Jack Marie Dressier has Dalton found movie lobs for many old Weber and Fields players In the movies In the sta- tlstical record of panics for 100 years the decisive upturn has always been during June July and August (Copyright 1931 McNaught Syndicate IncJ |