| Show ' THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER i it 20 1931 THERE’S MANY A DOUBT NOWADAYS BELIEVE IT OR NOT-eH- Robert L Ripley - And They Call This Living Says Odd y By o o McIntyre recent wonderings: SOME milllon-dollpier” at Atlantic City cost that? If the Kaiser has been slipping into Germany recently? What Garbo thinks of ar Del-tric- h? If when prosperity returns Investors will again Rapidly buy without investigation? What became of the show girl Teddy Oerard? How long it will be before the Empire building can remove its "Offices for Rent” signs? When will we have another great operatic star comparable to a Jeritza or Caruso? How much longer will wre have to listen to all this misery talk? Is the real truth coming out of Russia? Why are all the alleged bright sayings pinned on Dorothy Parker? Who first started wearing a straw hat on the stage— Chevalier or Harry Rlchman? Why the dearth of first rate novels in the last six months? Where in the world does Rudy Vallee buy those out- The Japanese Methuselah LliED HE WA 30E yEARS PRIME MINISTER OF for - 276 AND JAPAN YEARS HIS FACE IS ENGRAVEO NOTES ON TriC ONE YEN J landish trousers’ Who is that booking agent who looks like Eugene Howard and is always at first nights? Actually how many suits has Mayor Walker? And how many who pose as his "close friend” are? Where are the wise-bowho said Earl Carroll was "through” when he started ys for Atlanta? Lese Majeste letter: "The government has always been snooty and arbitrary even though in flush days I tried to be honest about my income tax Much of my money and money of others has been sameMiv wasted in govem-ment- al extravagance Or loaned to Europe Today I’m ness and can’t pay bioke my next Instalment more than $6000 In view of the treatment I received from impertinent tax officials in Washington I’m rather glad If that be treason make the most of It— X” Five current revues feature the overworked line: "What the flve-cecigar needs is a good country” I am a Democrat chiefly by Inheritance Yet I have believed President Hoover was doing a fair Job despite terThe sour rific handicaps economic mess was dumped into his lap and was not of Six months ago his making I believed he would come through flying and be reelected easily Today I am not so certain Unless there is a decisive and sustained upturn in business by the first of the year Mr Hoover n Chinahasn’t the nt well-know- man's chance One of the most seasoned financiers In New York recently told a close friend: "Make no Investments In even municipal bonds or any kind of stocks at this time Wait a year” After the war the lowly daschund It disappeared seemed a symbol of German sympathizing to own one But today—especially this summer— the daschund is seen One dog fancier everywhere says that next to the Boston the most popular dog of the moment the daschund is enjoying the biggest sale The Boston’s popularity waned about three years ago in fafox d vor of the terrier schnauzer and police dog But it was found that Boston is the best of all and far the cleanest of house dogs In many ways too he Is the most companionable Short Shavings: Chicago has a new gossip weekly called "The Bun Dodgers Van and Schcnck was the act to play first The the lower East Side Central is now a continuous theater making burlesque Insiders four in midtown are talking of Senator Copeland to succeed Mayor Walker Shurly Hott is a downtown soda fountain cashier Helen Wills Moody the tennis star spends her spare And she time painting and her husband are going around the Horn in a windEarl jammer soon Sande's last name is Sand Trmmy Gulnan's club called The Napoleon is the current Broadway hot spot Alfred Knopf was the first Ametlcan publisher to Conrad encourage Joseph Theodore Dreiser is A glutton for publicity sordid book “The Sons of Mrs Arab” by Ocitrude Mll-l!- n THE ONLY PERFECT BUILDING wire-haire- non-Jewi- a eomic suspend -- It— m While the General Grant is older and the Hail is a few feet taller the General Sherman carries off eill honors for size In this one tree there are C00120 hoard feet — enough lumber to erect 40 five-roohouses which is as much as is contained on 20 ones of average California pine forest One limb almost 7 feet in diameter is larger than the largest tiers A train of 30 cars in many localities to would be required transport the trunk of this giant and if made into tooth-picl- s edlnwing 8 (mo to a board foot the tier would piovide iv billion foothpuhs or 21 foreaeh human on earth aerending These 'mea to a conservative estimate m The' slump has hit tattoo parlors— two have Bea- old-tim- THE awns Cornice stylo&aTE and ALL THE Columns ape PfitCAItiY Cvmo r0 illusions avoid optica The H i albook company to theater now presuits only big movie hits of w tout D Young is to in ad one of Mw Yolk s lirg-e- t hint's after January 1 Ann Pinnmgton Miullest loot of am W Ralph hpr m ill Rogers homa c part 's the h-- rami from Rumors of Okla- pusist ' that Owen Synthetic nitrate is 1 a Tom Mx is running to pl res in a t’ouitney TamKyle y Coopf r story many has cone Into another fion 11 whiapriod huddle over an alarming situation no longrr bins stn ls and bonds Annuitus only Fdi "r Rl e B irrouglix is The living in Cahfoinn well-know- “PLICA rOLONICA” HAD HAIR 13 FEET 9 INCHES LONG— The original “Plica Pol onion” was a Polish peasant woman 52 years old with hair 13 feet 9 surements are the result of a recent official investigation conducted by the California state chamber of commerce during which engineers made 100 different calculations on each tree THE CROW’S NEST OF SPECTACLES —Some twelve years ago the Lawrence and Mayo company of Bombay India had a mysterious series of thefts in their spectacle works which even the police could not solve Later dining a lundt hour when the place was deserted crc pi for the foreman he saw a crow fly in through a window over to a work bench and fly out with a spectacle frame The crow was traced to a banyan tree nearby where a Urge nest was found built entirely of gold spectacle frames and it contained every frame that had disap paired from the plant THE GENERAL SHERMAN TREE— The immensity of the “Sequoia Monarch's” — the ( lencral Sherman General Grant Hart and Boole trees— is not comparable with anythin g else in plant life But interesting weeklw h shortly to trice Lillie has become a chill She nevei tasted addict Masters it until recently of euimonv me on their wav out in H'vui s and n! ht club Ouidone Geoige Arte e Pas w nt B n a book about s loons that will lie among the first to be published by Ray Long’s new a ! EXPLANATION OF LAST SUNDAY’S CARTOON sh closed in Biooklyn wtutMunin EVER ERECTED n have £ Hol-Iwo- Hillman Bioth-er- s retired Horn Los Adi la Uoi'i rs Lt John Is planning a pumanrnt residua c in Angeles banHng Bubaia Cm Fianoiseo Mirquis 12- a’ o'd Isdaughconter (if Don Maiquis tributing to eenst mn'uinis -i King C Gillette tlw safe inelus long exhibited at the Saxon Elector's fair in Dresden vi 1780 She had never cut her hair from infancy because it was considered dangerous to do so THE PALAWAN PIGMIES’ II RITS — The pigmies who inhabit the southern part of the island of Palawan in the Philippine archipelago dread a common cold in the head more them anything else in the world CIGAR-SMOKIN- G Their curious manner of smoking cigars putting the lighted end in their mouths was originally their means of counteracting the menace of this dreadful affliction (Copyright 1031 King Foatuies Syndicate razor man Is raising dates as a hobby on the California Ho Hcgfold and riescit Muk Hi Monger are boon Hellenger companions winte many of the hilnlous Bale skits In the Folia s Dudley's beautiful daughter ty Inc) is completely recover- Doris ing fiom infantile paralysis Dob Brlnkeihoff lives on an Bland he owns near Med-dy- b nips Maine in the (Copy light 1931 Syndicate Mi sum-m- ci Naught Inc) |
