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Show Lidits of New York ?rumbull o ( executive was connected with the Executive mansion, be got the President's Presi-dent's secretary on the wire. That was a bit of a disappointment to the visitor, who had expected to overhear over-hear a conversation with tho President Presi-dent himself, but he still kept his ears cocked. "Tell me," he heard the executive ask. "shall I wear a black or a white tie at that dinner tomorrow night?" Martin Johnson told me the other night that the real secret of photographing photo-graphing wild animals was to know their hnblts and how they would react re-act to a given stimulus. For example, exam-ple, he said he now knew so much more concerning gorillas thnn he did when he first went after them that he was convinced he could take his next pictures of them from much closer. Both the Johnsons have learned to fly a plane and both of them enjoy being pilots. They probably prob-ably will make use of a plane on their next trip to Africa. The oddity of the present economic situation is shown by the fact that a man who was one of the architects who worked on one of New York's big railroad stations now is one of those behind the Information desk In that same terminal And he thinks he Is lucky to have the Job. Frank Case overheard an actor at the Lambs club say that he had been having a dreadful time getting a passport "I Anally," he said, "had to dig up a congressman." "Well, old chap," said his companion, com-panion, "no one will thank you for that." . 1932. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. I Just ran across n picture of Kd Norwood, on the porch of his home at Lyme, Conn. That solves one mystery. Others may have known where ICd had betaken himself, but I didn't For years Mr. Norwood traveled ahead of a circus. In New York the circus used to catch up with Win. Then I used to get him to tlx things so that Roland Young, the actor ac-tor and artist coiild get Into Madison Square garden between performances and draw the elephants. Roland Young always was fascinated by elephants ele-phants and clowns. When Ed Norwood Nor-wood was not doing his stuff for the show, he was writing essays on all sorts of subjects. He used to let me read them, and they were well worth reading. Beautiful, Imaginative things they were. Later he wrote circus stories for children. They tell me he still does, although his latest literary labors have to do with biographies. Lyme Is a literary and artistic colony. col-ony. Norma Terrls and her husband live there, as do Wilbur Daniel Steele, and Adrienne Morrison Bennett Pinker. Mrs. Pinker Is the mother of Constance Bennett Mrs. Sidney Drew was the aunt of Norma Terrls, which make the latter some relation to the Barrymores. Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore, all to appear In the movie "Rasputin," certainly should make that an Interesting film. I can't remember that they have been together to-gether In a performance since "The Jest" A New Yorker was In the office of a highly prominent executive and when the latter told his secretary to set the White House on the telephone, tele-phone, became considerably excited. He thought he was going to be In on a bit of unwritten history. When the |