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Show ahrmt: Our Scotch Neighbor SANTA MONICA, CALIF. When I first knew him, he was plain John Buchan, writing-the writing-the best Scotch novels since Robert Louis Stevenson. Then, in 1918, he was Colonel John Buchan of the British wartime press bureau, shrewd, kindly, and deft, handling a bunch of rampaging rampag-ing American correspondents as gently as though they were so many new-laid eggs and he, personally, had r-l laid every last one f'" , of tliem. When he y N became Sir John mj&j1 xV; Buchan, a lot of PJk 1 us said : "Well, he 4 " $ earned Ills honors I ,J but no title can ,,rnt N ever swell that g Scot's head." Now at Ottawa, the flags LV;fN! and the cannon roar m&A.tumntm for Baron Tweeds- rVin S. Cobb muir, governor general gen-eral of our noble neighbor nation to the north, but, If his lordship doesn't mind, I'd like, personally, to go on thinking of him as my friend, John Buchan, a very great gentleman. They'll like him up there, we're going to like him down here. And, if any of you Canadians has any doubt as to his diversified talents, wait till you see him casting a trout-fly trout-fly across a likely pool. Casualties in the News CASUALTIES seem to lie almost even as between the New York gang war and the Ethiopian war, but the New York dispatches make spicier reading. They print the names and addresses of the deceased. de-ceased. Borah's hat Is in the ring. It may be distinguished from some of the other, hats in the ring by the fact that his Is not a size six and five-eighths. So there's to be another new "empire" hatched in the Orient, with China furnishing the eggs and Japan Ja-pan the incubator. Tills certainly is a great year for weaker nations to wake up of a morning under a strange flag. At Panama, a deadly serpent bit an army lieutenant. He took serum se-rum and went to a party, and the snake died In 20 minutes. Whereas, Where-as, heretofore lieutenants have been regarded as comparatively harmless. harm-less. Fashions for Men TRUE to recent promises, we now offer our winter fashion hints for men. Lounge effects will be in evidence on park benches. Unless prosperity returns mighty soon, expect a continuance of the high polish noted during recent years in connection with the seats of blue serge pants. Elbows also will display a brighter sheen or patina. Trousers may or may not he turned up at the. bottoms. It depends de-pends on whether wearers are sensitive sen-sitive about fringes or just naturally nat-urally don't give a dern. There will he very little change-in change-in many cases, no change whatsoever whatso-ever in the pockets of business suits. However, the careful dresser will ask the tailor to Install a special spe-cial receptacle for carrying tax notices In. A favored perfume will be attar of moth balls. The Family Influence SIX members of the Virginia- born Lady Astor's family are now In the British parliament, if you Include In-clude Lady Astor herself and you'd better. So hereafter her ladyship can rest the voice occasionally and there'll still be an Astor to carry on. She's, not like some equally determined de-termined conversationalists, though. When she speaks, she has something some-thing to say And says It. On the other hand, only three members of the Lloyd-George household house-hold won seats at the recent English Eng-lish election. Maybe It's a good tiling to elect a whole family group, by the crate-load, crate-load, as It were. It saves having to remember a lot of different names. Being: an Actor A MAN spends half a lifetime trying try-ing to learn to write, and, if he succeeds, he's lucky; and If he doesn't, he's like a fellow whose wife Is being talked about probably prob-ably the last man In town to hear the bad news. But, overnight, you can get to be an actor at least you can get the actor's viewpoint. For instance, I've lust finished a very bitter argument argu-ment at the studio over the next picture we're going to shoot. There's a director who Insists on clutter-j clutter-j lng up the show with a lot of other I people. He's also very tiresome about dragging In a plot. I I still feel I have the right Idea I about a proper vehicle for the display dis-play of one's theatrical talents. I It's a two-hour monologue, Inter-! Inter-! rupted only by tumultuous ap-i ap-i pi a use. j IRVIN S. COBB. ' C North AmorirTi Nr. w--pn per Alliance , Inc. WNU Strvice. i |
