Show j of New Hannah Gruber Caber Winsome Daughter 1 i Y Yorks York's Crowded Tenements T Explains How Her lieI Habitual t I r r r tI t c f Cheerfulness Cl U l Iless H Has as Won W Oil OilI r Z t ii I I I v i f s- s He Her Not Only a 2 i f ff f ti Gift but but Many Mang Things T I l i 41 Worth Having c 7 1 la f eF 1 y y f A ft t 1 A JW y v f v k 1 I 0 AO v i ZT f i J Mrs Coolidge's milad million mil- mil ad adY Y lion dollar ami s m i Ie 1 e J t which is believed d to tobe be a great political 1 asset to her husband y yby rather by counteracting chilling effect effects effect's the s f s 's r of the Presidents President's I stern personality x Ii A t t I J OFT voiced nurses eminent phy- phy physicians phy-I phy SOFT and distinguished lawyers were gathered about a bed in fn a vaulted high vaulted room in a Chicago man man- mansion mansion mansion sion In the bed lay Dr Howard Lourain one of the city's richest and ablest physicians the gray pallor of death creeping over his face In quiet tones one of the lawyers was sitting beside the dying ding man who was laboriously dictating his lii will The afternoon sun filtered through a window hung with an an- an an 1 dent lace on the dr drama ma oi of of a great eat mans man's passing But the great greatman's greatman's greatman's mans man's mind as ho he slowly made his bequests was str straying ng far from Chicago Chicago back back to Manhattans Manhattan's clamorous East Side and the famous fa fa- fa ous old Chrystie Street Settlement Settle Settle- ment Back to the days when he a devoted de his great talents to un unpaid un- un paid and unselfish service in the crowded tenements that lie well we'll to the east of the Bowery days Bowery days of overwork end and nights punctuated by the clangor of his door labor bell bell labor and worry and sorrowing over the hardships of the miserable poor Into th the mind of the dying physician there lashed flashed the m memory ory of an elfin girl of twelve tv-dve years ears playing on the sidewalks of New York a girl with a ashy ashy ashy shy starting slow-starting radiant smile That smile had lighted up many a gray day for the harassed physician when he was in harness in New York ten ted years ears ago indeed it must have bulked pretty large in his subconscious mind in the years ears that followed follo for before he tiled that night Dr Louraine remembered the with the Smile with a legacy of f Down around the Street Settlement they take Dr Louraine's Louraine 1 astonishing bequest as one of the pleas pleas- pleasing pleasing ing fag miracles of this America where so many fairy tales come true It just happens that the heroine of- of this charming fairy tale instead of be- be being being boing ing some far off oft Cinderella Is Mrs Hannah of Eldridge Street known to everybody in the Chrystie 2 Street area as little Hannah Gruber until she married a few weeks ago When the bequest was announced there was great excitement in Eldridge Street Miss Harriet Bates the tho representative representative of the Louraine estate who B was sent east to interview the heiress heires had some difficulty disarming the Gru- Gru bers and their neighborly advisors of suspicion At first they they- thought it was a cruel I I joke Fortunes of are not it dropped on Eldridge Street doorsteps doorstep every day Even if they were it does do seem ridiculous that one should be found on the door sill of the Gruben who live five ve flights nights up in a singularly unattractive live tl tenement Naturally it was Hannah herself who first was convinced d of the reality of her r good fortune What good looking girl with an ad a at hand ever doubted in her heart of hearts that her lier smiles were worth a r I I f V bV C Cr r r f ff f J Ja a Patrolman Oscar Hettler of the New York Police Force and the s never failing smile that won him hima hiria i a suburban home in a recent popularity contest kings king's ransom And Mr Wt was WILS courting Hannah then She Is twenty-one twenty now Mrs Hannah Gruber and an exceedingly busy y young matron what with readjusting herself after the honeymoon finding a place to live and going through the red re tape that always comes wrapped around aroun a inheritance She's not so elfin as she was at the 10 age of twelve but she still has the shy sweet starting slow-starting radiant smile th that it Dr Louraine remembered as he lay I dying Of course I 1 remember him sa said Mrs I remember him very y well But her most vivid memories are tho those of persons of her own ago age who figured figar in the comedies and tragedies of her girlhood in Eldridge Street She remembers her benefactor aa ILS old although he was not so eo old when n she smiled her way into into- his memory To her he was a busy kindly man who w never became so professional he could not play a little with his patients When he met her he used to stop and a pat her on the head talk with her tell H jokes in an effort to surprise her into the sunny smile he loved Sometimes Sometimes he called at her home 1 I He e r r 7 rr r j A 1 V i- i i 1 I Gruber Mrs Hannah s- s l s Gruber Gruber s 1 who Vho who years jears agos ago azo S smiled so fascinatingly fascinatingly into the face ofa of a Chicago doctor that he never nevel for for- forgot forgot got tor-got got her and now lOW has left her a bequest in his willis will willIs Is well remembered by the girls girl's parents and by y the older of oi her seven brothers and sisters He lie used to call her his girl ex- ex explained explained explained Mrs Gruber The doctor he worked too hard down here lIe He felt for all the people in the settlement and around it Other members of the family remember her ber that the tired out by his hi labors liked to watch Hannahs Hannah's sober sobe little face fuce light up with mirth an and seemed to draw mysterious strength from it to go goo on in the path he had ha chosen If Dr Louraine made the most dra- dra dramatic dramatic dra matic malic and substantial acknowledgement of the mysterious rious power of Hannah Hannal Gruber's smile it cannot be said he he was its discoverer No woman born o of woman long remains in the dark as to sucha such a gift from the gods Ever since her cradle days das Hannah has been modestly aware of it accord accord- according ing to her brothers and sisters Her mother admits it She could look so sad and misunderstood and abused Mrs Mr Gruber says when she was only hungry and so radiantly happy when her milk bottle was as given her Later in kindergarten and then in primary school her wistful smile won wo boys and girls te teachers chers and playmates alike In the settlement it made tl the girl a favorite In Washington Irving High School it brought her favors at atthe atthe the hands of her classmates although Ma bIa Gruber rightly describes her as never one to shove shoe herself forward It brought her many a beau who be beat beata a path ath to her door that did not open on c one of the Manhattan streets that are most pleasant tc walk along Finally it brought her Mr a Grand Street shoe merchant M Mr is not at all surprised su that the Chicago doctor found magic in Hannah Gruber's smile He i noted its strange allure long ago He is not one to break out in poetry poet about such sucha a thing for Mr is in il 1 t 4 A d p G Gw GGertrude w GErtrude Ederle r and the smile that t completed I the first conquest of the English Channel by a woma woman the shoe business not romance lIe does not pretend to flowery speech or r expertness in handling the stuff that dream are made of But Hannahs s 's smile is kind of cheering inside Yet its it's kind of sad too he admitted when hen cornered That is as far as he will go in discuss discuss- discussIng discussing s- s Ing the smile with anybody but Hannah Naturally the bride finds frank ik discussion just a bit embarrassing She b br rt toe Ina f b 5 laughingly refuses to admit that there is any mysterious magic in her smile Dr Louraine Lorraine was lonely lonel sometimes and usually weary she says I was just a friendly kid and I suppose I did grin at him whenever he flattered me by st stopping to talk talks I 1 was part of his rel relief ef from routine I guess All around me there were tragedies all the time but I was young and life was very en- en enticing enticing enticing even if a bit mysterious Of course I smiled back at l life ie Why not Little Hannah Gruber's power to smile herself into the hearts of men and women remains as much a matter of debate as the somber charm of the Mona MonaLisa Lisa One thing can be said of it It 1 cannot be just put on There is none of the smile a while spirit about this thi fortunate youn young youns woman Her smiles smile are not mechanical They are not de- de deliberate de d liberate even She seeks not to cheer some poc poor sou soul each day with the sunshine of her mirth When she smiles it is spontaneous ous unheralded like l ke the sun breaking suddenly through drifting clouds And d the result so Mr lr admits is very definite definite and appealing Its a gift in the opinion of Mr II lie is a n man of few words but buthe buthe he speaks with a sincerity that carries conviction In declining ning to attempt to analyze the charm of his wife's young oung smile Mr is in a I goodly company Smiles Sn are hard to weigh Who for instance would attempt to analyze the peculiar charm of the smile e of Al AI Smith Yet it is the greatest sin sin- single sigle gle asset of one of the most likable and popular figures in American public life lit e There is an irresistible quality about It It is sometimes so 60 cocky as liS to be dangerously close to a agrin agrin grin In corners comers of these United States s far from Fourteenth Street Manhattan and the P Peoples oples ople's House at Albany it has won friends or disarmed enemies of the boy bop who started st life too on the sidewalks of New York not far from the section in which Hannah Gruber Cruber Grubi grew up And what is the value of Mrs Calv Calvin Coolidge's friendly alert little smile now known wherever newspapers are published and movi movie news films are ai shown For that information you will have t to interview the official spokesman of the President A newspaperman of western Massa Mass Massal l r c The famous Al AI y r I Smiths Smith's smile which which j developed on NewYork's New Yorks York's crowded East EastSide Side not far from where Miss Gruber GruLer has lived all her life the Yankee country where Coolidge's strength begins once esti estl estimated A mated the Presidents President's assets in a II guber guber- gubernatorial gubernatorial gubernatorial campaign as follows Its worth votes to Calvin tobe to tobe tobe be able to pronounce cow as if it were spelled and another easy just to let the people see sec bis his Missus smile That's as good an estimate as any It Itis Itis Itis is known to Americans everywhere that Mrs Coolidge does docs most of the smiling for the Coolidge Coolid e family The President's President's dents dent's lips occasionally move as if about to assume smile formation but mostly he thinks better of it and they dont don't Intimates make the claim they have seen him in moments of comparatively el unbridled mirth but the people at large know him as a grave even solemn man manTo To return to an humbler environment there is a traffic policeman at Grand and Lafayette Streets again on the East EastSide EastSide Side of Manhattan who knows the tho money value of a fetching smile quite as well ell as Hannah Gruber lie He is Oscar Hettler now the sole proprietor of one handsome and commodious residence at Euclid d and Colonial Avenues Forest Hills Long Island Oscar is only p but all thel tha r s love oY him and nd its it's s 's all ef smile It is one of thess the s ss hta hta of of New York according to 10 his I count countless ss admirers admires Strong me men aits it lf by it while Its possessor b bem ben beni em out for crossing against ng the Is s Women drivers had rather be given t a summons by Oscar than the time of day by any other pol policeman ceman I When a Long Island candy company announced a n popularity contest witha with a house in Forest Hills ns as the prize back in 1923 some of the cops cop's good friends toll tolt him they were work work- ing working for him A traffic policeman in a popularity contest he laughed That's a hot one That's one forthe for the book But the smile had gotten in its it's work and nd he couldn't stop his boosters And when the count was in Oscar led by a comfortable margin So it goes You have it it or you haven't the it-the it the smile that charms and and lingers in the memory nary ary and Dou Dour have ha it So has Tom Meighan Mickey Walkers Walker's Huck cluck Finn grimace endeared him to thousands who o never even knew he ho was welterweight champion of the world Gertrude Ederle's victory smile made her loved by v millions who had come to th think of her heras heras as a piece of ot high powered aquatic machinery machinery ma- ma chinery Mrs Hannah Gruber has dem- dem demonstrated demonstrated once once more the might of a pleasant smile And Mr seems to have about tho the right idea of it it As he Ashe says Its a gift gilt 4 |