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Volume XXVII. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, APRIL 30, 1932

A TRAGIC MOMENT

\^y HE evil Babylon ian King (Emery Richard son) attempts to corrupt the High Priest (J, Homer Tutt), a dramatic highlight of the great production, "The Green Pastures," which opens a week's en gagement at the Metropoli tan May 2. APRIL 30, 1932 two THE TOWN CRIER Coon-Sanders—And dance orchestra. • • For the Gourmet AROUND THE TOWN 8:30-9:00 p. m. Tuesday. KOL. Irving Cobb—With Grantland Rice, Blanc's (308 Marion)—It's always a By MARGAHET BUNDY discussing the Kentucky Derby. joy to eat here, if you're not count 7:00-7:30 p. m. Wednesday. KOMO. ing your pennies just at the mo Florence Bean James. Opening »•••••• otage Radio Bugs Frolic—Informal varie ment. The Italian spaghetti is date to be announced later. ties. 9:30-11:00 p. m. Wednesday. among the best in town. Many "The Green Pastures" (Metropolitan) "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" (Cor KOL. rank it at the top without a rival nish Theatre)—Moliere's satirical —One of the greatest dramas of all Rudy Vallee—And his Connecticut Holland 1 Hitch Cafe (1823 Olive Way) time. Original New York cast, en drama produced by the Cornish —About the best of the moderately Players, under the direction of Yankees, with Irene Bordoni and tirely negro. Adapted by Marc Con repertoire of new songs. Fleischman priced eating houses in the Broad nelly from Roark Bradford's "Old Alexander Koiransky. May 26, 27, way district. Dinner is 40 cents, 28, 8:30 p. m. hour. 4:00-5:00 p. m. Thursday. Man Adam and His Chillun". Con KOMO. steak dinner 45 cents. The atmos cluding performances Saturday af phere a bit clattery, but friendly. ternoon and night, 2:30 and 8:30 "Today and Yesterday"—Music. 9:30- 11:00 p. m. Thursday. KOL. Manca's (108 Columbia)—The best p. m. • • t • • Screen of the high-priced grills. Crowded "The Good Hope" (Cornish Theatre) Irving Cobb—Master of ceremonies on at noontime, but not so much in —Revival of the Dutch drama of •The Wet Parade" (5th Avenue) — the Armour hour, with Roy Shields' the evening. The Manca special sea-faring folk, directed by Jean Walter Huston and Dorothy Jordan. Orchestra, Edna Kellogg, and the dishes are fit for the gods. 'Scarface" (Music Box)—Ranks with Fireside Singers. 5:30-6:00 p. m. Mercier. An exceptionally fine pro Doc Hamilton's (Twelfth and Jack duction. April 30, 8:30 p. m. "The Public Enemy" as one of the Friday. KOMO. best gangster pictures ever pro son)—If you can catch this place- Wrestling—Local bouts. 10:00-11:00 when it isn't being raided or pad "Faust" (Repertory Playhouse) — duced. Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak. p. m. Friday. KOL. Goethe's monumental drama, with locked. Southern dishes a specialty. Burton James as Mephistopheles, •Symphony of Six Million" (Orphe- but the prices exhorbitant. Negro Helga Lund as Margarete, and Fred um)—Edna Ferber's new heart entertainers. erick Patterson as Faust. Directed throb. Ricardo Cortez and Irene Dunn. • • • Special Features The Blue Lantern (Marion, between by Florence Bean James. Saturday 2nd and 3rd)—Excellent food, quiet night (tonight), and every Friday •Beauty and the Beast" (Blue Mouse) "TWO Hearts in Waltz Time"—Return atmosphere. The home-cooked ef and Saturday following until fur —Marian Marsh and Warren Wil engagement of the very popular fect. Fifty-cent dinners. ther notice. liam. Not so important. Viennese romantic operetta, a UFA La Tosca (Eighth at Union, Second "The Cherry Orchard" (Repertory picture, on the world film series at Stewart)—Price of dinner haa Playhouse)—The Russian Tche- sponsored by the University of come down from $1 to 65 cents, but kov's salient drama, directed by Washington drama division. Willy it's still too high. Moderately good • • t Art Exhibitions Forst in the leading role. Egyptian Italian food. Harry Hartman's (1313 Fifth Ave.) Theatre, University Way. Thurs Scandia (Howell St.) — Sandwiches?, —Etchings and woodcuts by con day and Friday, May 5 and 6, 2:00, and hot chocolate (served in a. temporary American printmakers, 3:30 and 11:15 p. m. pitcher) make an excellent lunch . including Mauroner, Meissner, Science Field Trip—"Meadowdale Recommended for breakfasts be Lankes, Nason and Andre Smith. Pottery and Nursery." (April 30.) cause of the excellent coffee, serve* Continuing through May. Leader, F. W. Schmoe, with assist in a pot, and good waffles. Athenian Cafe (319 Yesler)—If yo Henry Gallery (University Campus) ants. Meeting place, Meadowdale —Paintings by contemporary Hun Nursery, five miles north of Ed looking for an interesting experi garian artists, collection sent on monds. Time, 2:30 p. m. Trans ence, and incidentally some good tour by the College Art Association. portation, 1:15 p. m. Edmons bus, food. A rendezvous for the Alaskan* Through May. from Central Terminal, Eighth and fishermen when they're in town. Stewart. Fare, 50 cents round trip. Lots of olive oil in everything. Northwest Gallery (1206 Fifth Ave Inform secretary if possible. Prices a little steep. nue)—Sales gallery devoted exclu sively to work of Northwest artists.

• • Radio Highlights Masterwork of the Piano — Frank Leon playing a program for chil dren, consisting of masterpieces in cluded in the repertoires of all young students of the piano. (A se ries.) 12:00 noon to 12:15 p. m Saturday. KOMO. Anson Weeks—And dance orchestra. 10:15-11:00 p. m. Saturday. KOL. Special General Electric Program— Including Schumann Heinck, John Charles Thomas, Lily Pons, Grace Moore, Theodore Webb, Reinald Werrenrath, and others, and orches tra conducted by Walter Damrosch. 1:00-2:00 p. m. Saturday. KOMO. Guy Lomhardo—And orchestra on Panatella program. 6:00-6:30 p. m Monday. KOL. Lawrence Tibbett—Singing request program. Firestone. 8:00-8:30 p. m. Monday. KOMO. Ed Wynne—With Graham McNamee and musical diversities. 6: 30-7: (to p. m. Tuesday. KOMO. THE TOW \ < IS I l<; IE roperty ct

Volume XXVII. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, APRIL 30, 1932 icz, Number 1 8

Published every Saturday at 2100 Fifth Ave., Seattle joy than most of our amusements at present deficit? And who should pay the operating E. L. Reber and W. H. Seifert Publishers C. B. Rathbun Editor betray? The best encouragement we can afford costs of the street car lines, the taxpayers or Adele M. Ballard Associate Editor Margaret Bundy Associate Editor depression is to make that depression the the street car patrons? Roscoe C. Torrance Business Manager Janet Haugen Advertising Manager chosen comrade of our days and nights. To There i.s no inherent sanctity in a 5-cenr ENTERED as second class matter September 24, 1910, take even our holidays sadly is but to prepare at the Post Office of Seattle, Washington, under the fare. The street car patrons of most cities pay act of March 3, 1879. here on earth that infernal atmosphere about more, including those of Seattle. San Fran SUBSCRIPTIONS $4.00 per year, payable In advance. In all foreign countries within the Postal Union, which, according to Dante, its victims com cisco has been held up a shining example subscription $5.00 per year. Single copies, 10c. Sample copies free. plained: by municipal ownership enthusiasts becaus" IN LONDON, The Town Crier may be had at The We once were sad it has avoided the increase in fare that has International News Company, limited, 5 Breams Building, and at Daw's American News Agency, 4 In the sweet air, made gladsome by the sun ; been found necessary elsewhere. It is noth Leicester Street, Leicester Square, W. C. 2. MAKE CHECKS, drafts and money orders payable to Now in these murky settlings are we sad." ing to its credit that it has merely compelled "The Town Crier." —HERBERT II. GOWEN. taxpayers to pay something that should be ADDRESS, 2100 Fifth Ave., Seattle, U. S. A. Main 6302. paid by the car patrons. ADVERTISING RATES upon request. This much we are willing to concede: thai , e • San Francisco Car Lines the arguments advanced by our correspon • May-Day HE TOWN CRIER is very glad to receive dent might hold if the theory be accepted that and to publish the letter, which appears INCE the selection by the International T street car transportation is something that on another page, from Frank II. Copp. But Socialistic Congress of 1889 of May-day to should be provided by the community, just S it is no more convinced than it was that the be an international Labor holiday there seems like paved streets. But in that case he does operation of the San Francisco municipally- to have crepl into the observance of the festi not go far enough. If the theory is good, it owned street railways at a loss is good for the val something of a harshness and a grimness should be carried to the length suggested in people of San Francisco or that it demon which marks a wide departure from the an Seattle by Former Councilman Erickson and strates to any degree the soundness of muni cient use. One may well allow that the strug fares eliminated altogether, the taxpayers cipal ownership. footing the whole bill. Such a plan would at gles of the laboring classes have left memories The municipal lines, cites Mr. Copp. show least be consistent. But we don't believe it and sears which afford excuse for bitterness. an annual deficit of about $216,000, or about would be acceptable to many Americans who Vet it is nevertheless unfortunate and psy () per cent of the gross revenues. This aside are Struggling under the vicissitudes of this chologically hurtful that with labor demon from $324,000 "taxes assignable" which the year of 1932. strations hinting at grievances and wrongs California law requires to be set up in the # * * rather than giving glad expression to the new report to show the amount of taxes that would hope which is the boon of the spring-tide of i099 Lighting Everett Streets be paid if the lines were privately owned. fered to all mankind the day has lost some He cites also that the wages paid on the lines HERE are those who are still obsessed thing of the gaiety it possessed of old. are 50 per cent higher than paid by the pri Twith the idea that government to be en One recalls, of course, thai hopes have some vate company; that the latter has paid no tirely beneficent should restrict itself Io as times proved delusive. In climates where no dividends since 1923; that so long as the essential functions as possible. And. moreover, exact dependence may be placed either on the municipal railway maintains a 5-cent fare the have never been able to convince themselves moods of spring or the predictions of the private company will be unable to raise the that activities that infringe upon the fields weather prophets the month of May i.s not fare and "obviously the thing to do i.s to take amply and satisfactorily covered by other without its menace. Old proverbs have no the cash and let the credit go—absorb the agencies come under such a heading. Public doubt experience behind their triteness when $216,000 deficit (disregarding, of course, the affairs are public affairs and public endeavors they affirm, for example, "Cast no clout till taxes assignable) rather than consent to a properly should look to public purposes. Devi May i.s out". raise that would cost the car-riders ten or ation from these principles, there is plenty ol But human instinct i.s generally more cour twelve times that amount." evidence to prove, accounts to a very great extent for the distress in which a good many ageous than the weather prophets and men THE TOWN CRIER is unable to see anything and maids in the old days went 'a-Maying,' or meritorious in any of these phases of the sit American municipalities find themselv chose the Queen of the May. in the joyous nation that he cites as public benefits. If It is impossible from such a viewpoint to conviction that May was indeed the 'merry' the municipal lines pay wages that are 50 per note the ambitions of the Seattle Lighting month, the 'bounteous' month, the month of cent higher than the going wage for similar Department to sell its current to the City of Flora which in due time would yield its fruits, work, they pay 50 per cent too much. That Everett except with misgiving. The lighting the month when hope was in the ascendent is all there is to it. from a common sense busi of Everett streets is not an essential, nor even high in the sky. It was even once the month of ness standpoint. And may it not be sub a proper, function of the city government of weddings, till fear of the old, discarded pa mitted that the reason so many American Seattle. It is already done to the entire satis ganism frowned on the recognition and some cities are flirting with bankruptcy today is faction of all who are properly concerned, how contrived to shunt some of the weddings because they disregard common sense business that is to say. to the satisfaction of everyone a month further down the calendar. principles. If the lines are operated at a except the Seattle Lighting Department. It is Might it not be a good thing to revive, in deficit of $216,000 they are costing the tax not a public purpose, so far as the public of whatever fashion is possible today, an ob payers of San Francisco $216,000 that should Seattle is concerned. servance of May-time such as should soften be paid by patrons of the car lines. They are the amenities between classes and individuals also costing the taxpayers of San Francisco The Lighting Department, despite all and restore to life the joyousness which now $324,000 that they would pay in taxes if they propaganda 1<> the contrary, has been a very is clouded with distrust and gloom? Why not were privately owned. expensive thine' for the people of Seattle. A rid ourselves of the harshness and the sourness Nor are we able to recognize the necessity of mass of facts could be cited to Support the which Nature so glowingly rebukes and sup absorbing a deficit rather than consent to a statement, if necessary, but perhaps merely plant grimness with gladness.' Why not use raise in fare "that would cost the ear riders a reference to the Amount of property which it the larger leisure, which is apparently to be ten or twelve times that amount." Why not makes tax exempt will suffice. Why should henceforth the lot of many, to learn a saner raise the fare jusl sufficiently to cover the these burdens be carried by the people of tour THE TOWN CRIER APRIL 30, 1932

Seattle for the benefit of any other city. If the Empire. The dynamics of the situation make Child Welfare? Talking to one of the Com City of Everett shared in the investment of a war between America and Japan the re munity Nursing Service nurses one gets a many millions, in the increase in taxation, in motest conceivable possibility, which Japan running narrative something like this: the other disadvantages which the City of knows as well as does America. Father out of work, bills piled high, funds Seattle suffers from its Lighting Department, Indeed, it would not be surprising if Japan low, child very sick. The nurse gives the sick there might possibly be justification for selling and America should be engaged in war at the child care, calls a doctor, secures aid from the current at a low rate to light Everett streets. same time, to find them on the same side. right social agency for the family. But as the case stands, there is no good reason There are some observers of world affairs A new baby arrives without the benefit of a why Everett or any other municipality except who speculate upon the possibility of another layette, must be wrapped in an old dish towel the City of Seattle should have any of the World War with America, Japan and Great until the nurse can collect clothes for it. facilities offered by the latter \s Lighting De Britain on one side and Soviet Russia and Mother and new baby have no one to care partment. allies not yet to be named on the other. for them, father out of work. Community Street Lighting, of course, is a proper func # # # Nursing Service calls each day. cares for tion of a muncipal lighting department, if it , t Community Nursing Service mother and baby, later gets the mother to take has any. Some will urge that it is pretty N an effort to make every day in Seattle the baby to the Infant Welfare Clinic . . . nearly the only proper function. It is safe to I Child Welfare Day, members of the Board gets the father a job. Just the "tide over" the say that nine out of ten persons who welcomed of the Community Nursing Service are dedi discouraged family needed. the launching of the department believed that cating their time during Child Welfare Week This campaign in no way conflicts with the its chief purpose would be to provide current to the raising of special funds to aid in the Orthopedic Penny drive as the Service gives for lighting the streets and other strictly pub- care of Seattle's sick children. During the care only to the sick child in the home. lie purposes, Seattle streets, of course. past year the Nursing Staff of the Community Two dollars pays for two visits to a sick Instead of which the Lighting Department Nursing Service made 28,851 visits to 8,0!) 1 child. Donations are being accepted at the has grown into an enormous thing, that seems patients. Of this number more than 20,000 of Community Nursing Service. 322 White to devote its interest to every other purpose the visits were to 5,260 patients under twenty Building. except the economical lighting of Seattle one years of age. # # # streets. Indeed, it prevents, instead of assures During the past year the Service also gave • t • • "The Green Pastures" street lighting in Seattle at the lowest rate nursing care to 460 new mothers and 437 E would list the coming of "The Green available. babies, more than 4,337 free visits being paid W Pastures" to Seattle as an event of first The Puget Sound Power & Light Company, to these and other child cases. The Service magnitude, and we would say from the bot- you will recall, offered to furnish current to in addition made 653 visits to 392 children tomest recesses of our heart, don't miss it. light Seattle streets at a rate which would who come under the care of the Junior Red Those who have read the play and have fol mean a very handsome saving over what City Cross. lowed pantingly the long, record - breaking Light charges. Something like $100,000 a year, Child Welfare Week . . . what does it mean .7 runs in New York and Chicago, hoping if we remember correctly. Now City Light Miss Olive Kerry, president of the Board of against hope that the gigantic company would offers to light Everett streets at a rate which Community Nursing Service, answered that be able sooner or later to break away and tour would save $1600 a year over what the com question readily, telling how the Board in the West Coast, don't need to heed this ad pany charges, a rate, moreover, which has terprets child welfare . . . two fine golden vice. NothingCOUld keep them away. lint there been questioned as, according to City Light's treasured words. are many who, too busy with the business and own figures, being below cost of production. "The Board of the Community Nursing social duties of life to keep up with happen Which leads naturally to consideration of the Service feels that it would like to make every ings in the theatre world, do not realize the possibility that City Light's generous offer to day in the year Child Welfare Week," said tremendous importance of this great modern Everett is more of a gesture of reprisal than Miss Kerry. "We, however, must have help classic of the stage. a sound effort to extend its market. to extend this free nursing care for sick The original organization, complete in every # # # children into all Seattle homes and also to detail save for one role vacated by death, will • « • • • • • As to Spies maintain a low priced service for those who be seen throughout the engagement heir, are able to pay a small amount and still could ATEWSPAPER dispatches exposing the in- which opens May 2 (.Monday evening) and not afford hospital or regular nursing care." •L* iquitous manner in which Japanese continues for six evening performances and steamships, for purposes of espionage, follow "The larger portion of our work at this two matinees. Headed by Richard P.. Harrison. our fleet around as it moves up and down the time is free. This necessitates larger donations whose delineation of the role of "the Lawd." Pacific Coast, remind us that the silly season to the Community Nursing Service. It also walking the earth in the form of a "natchrel is approaching. Put a few weeks more and means that we must have more new members. man," became a world sensation overnight, the sea serpents will appear off the New Jer We are also greatly in need of layettes or any the more than a hundred Negro artists con sey Coast. other article of baby clothing as many new stitute the most unique organization the stage It is extremely unlikely that Japanese spies babies in Seattle today are destitute. Mem has known in many years. The exacting char on the decks of tramp steamships, even if berships in the Service, donations of money acter of the roles has made it impossible to equipped, as is reported, with high-power and baby clothing are what we hope the people organize a second company, and only sixteen binoculars, could learn anything about the of Seattle will send to the Community cities will have been privileged to witness American navy that isn't already well known Nursing Service during Child Welfare Week "the divine comedy in blackface" prior to its to the Japanese government. The navies of —every week for that matter—but we are presentation in Seattle, although every cul the world are pretty thoroughly acquainted especially concentrating on the sick child this tural center in the world is clamoring for it. with each other. Perhaps any one of them week. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding may develop some new gadget of offense or "The members of the Service believe that excellence, and hailed by press, clergy and the defense and keep it dark for a time. But not child welfare means caring for the child in theatre-going public as the greatest show since for long. Within a period of months it is every way . . . we are trying to take care of the days of "Ben-Hur," the attraction is the common property of every navy in the its health, thus assisting parents and social completing a transcontinental tour in its own world. And there is little that is secret about welfare agencies in their job. Since the Com special trains, to be followed by a jump across personnel, organization, major equipment, munity Nursing Service is the only bedside the country in a single movement from Los tactics or plans of campaign. nursing agency in Seattle, its work in caring Angeles to Boston, where it, will open a long And, anyhow, there is small likelihood that for the sick child is a tremendous and an ,-,,,, ,„, Labor Day. Pour 70-foot baggage caw anything Japan might learn about the Amer important job ... the Service needs help are required for the spectacular effects, which ican navy will ever be of value to the Island RIGHT NOW." include Creation, the Deluge and cruise of APRIL 30, 1932 THE TOWN CRIER five the Ark, the Exodus of the Children of Israel in 1904. For twenty-five years Mr. Reiter from Egypt, the taking of Jericho, Bondage headed the Orpheum Circuit's Seattle theatre, in wicked Babylon, which encompassed its moving with it from the old Coliseum at Third Have You Seen Littler's fall, the sack and destruction of Jerusalem, and James (where the County-City Building and the introduction of the Christian era. All now stands) to the new (and then palatial) 7 are depicted as seen through the imaginative house at Third and Madison, to the Alhambra Windows. eyes of the unlettered, yet deeply religious at Fifth and Pine, to the Moore in 1917, and Negroes of the Mississippi delta. finally to the new R. K. 0. Building in 1927. The play is by Marc Connelly, who drew Two years after the last move Mr. Reiter re for his material upon the amusing series of signed. His only active participation in the Southern sketches published by Roark Brad theatre since that time was as manager of the ford under the title, "01 Man Adam an His Bainbridge stock company at the Moore a Chillun." While it abounds in comedy-often year or two ago. bordering on burlesque, pathos, tragedy, There aren't many of the notables in vaude and sheer beauty abound in an amazing de ville that Carl Reiter hadn't known for many gree. Throughout the progress of the spectacle years, and he is credited with having started the famous "Heavenly Choir" illuminates the on the road to fame such prominent enter Featuring our new "Meadow- action by .singing appropriate spirituals after tainers as Harry Houdini, Fred and Adele brooke" 4-piece flannel suit and the manner in which the Greek Chorus was Astaire, George Olson, and many others. The employed in the classic drama of ages ago. stalwart little manager with his unfailing slacks combination, priced at Eighteen sensational scenes are crowded friendliness and warm cordiality was as pop into the preformance, which moves at light ular backstage with the troupers as he was $34.50 ening speed, combining the oldest and the with the patrons whom he greeted at the front newest features of the stage, employing motion door. picture technique in visualizing the history of Carl Reiter probably would be very sur man throughout the ages. prised should he be able to realize how sin Large numbers of drama and music en cerely he will be missed by those many persons who never saw him after his resignation from thusiasts from throughout a wide zone are the Orpheum except to pass him on the street. arranging to come to Seattle to enjoy the un # # # usual treat, as has been the case wherever GENTLEMEN'S APPAFLEL "The Green Pastures" has been presented, • Rotten Soft FOUR SEVENTEEN UNION and the occasion will take on the character THOSE are rough he-words but fitting to M.Ju.y Bclutc. Ptll 0//i« ««J WljIuBglon AAUtk CW istics of an amusement lovers' convention. Tapply to the editor and staff of a Yale In Metropolitan Center publication, who recently declared in print Carl Reiter that "politics is too dirty for college men's careers.'' La-de-dah young men ; shells of nerveless hands into the beastly criminal con EATTLE and show business lost a fine men ; lacking in intestinal fortitude, sports trol of the underworld. Can you deny that friend when Carl Reiter died last Satur S manship and manliness. Deliberately making they hold the balance of power? day. In Carl Reiter there were incorporated all up their cloistered and etiolated minds to keep To whom shall we turn for leadership when the traditions of that grand institution, show away from the political arena, to protect their those who have been educated through colleges business—the color, the gallantry, the drama. precious selves from the grime and heat of and universities largely supported by their the gaiety and the human-ness. Just as all politics. country and public funds, abandon the field types and classes of persons have loved and Colleges cannot furnish intellect where it to enter business or the professions because been made happy by show business, so thou does noi exist. This is not the day of miracles. financial returns are surer, leaving racketeers, sands of Seattleites in all walks of life have But, given an average amount of intelligence bootleggers and kidnappers to rule the United loved and been made happy by Carl Reiter. and intellect to work on, college training States? What have we now? The only countnj There was something about Carl Reiter's should widen horizons and strengthen char in the world where the children are not safe. greeting in the lobby after the show that added acter. Otherwise we have builded in vain . . . That's where our rotten softness has landed a precious genialty to the evening. We hear men say "Why should I put myself us . . . up as a target for mud to be thrown at ?" The We don't know whether Mr. Reiter left any • • * memoirs but we hope he did. and that some answer to that is, "Why shouldn't you?" effort may be made to have them published. Better men than you have done it. Unfortu • • • A Costly Experiment The story of his life is a richly colorful one, nately the breed is dying out through too much HE nation has heard a lot about the Se and is entwined with the oldtime showdom coddling. Tattle street car line : How the city original that is already—or is rapidly becoming—his If you have an honest desire to be of use ly purchased it to prevent an increase in car tory. From parts in a juvenile opera company, to your country, your state, your town, your fares; then how the carfares were increased which he joined at the age of twelve, in spite ward, get in and make that desire felt through higher than the private company ever asked of the objections of his religiously inclined your work. What difference does a little mud for; then reports of deficits, inability of the parents, Carl Reiter became a black-face min make? It will dry up and fall away, your city to meet warrants for wage payments when strel, a prestidigitator playing in tent shows. reputation will suffer no lasting damage and due, dilapidated equipment, poor service, dif circuses and medicine shows, manager of mid your character will develop strength through ficulty in meeting bond payments, interest, dle west carnivals and amusement palaces, conflict. No permanent danger lies there, but etc. and finally manager of the Orpheum at Chi it does lie in the inherent weakness of a man Now. a threatened railway strike at Seattle cago, from where he was transferred to Seattle who shuns politics fearing he might be soiled has the unusual aspect of a labor movement or be thrown with persons not in his social directed against government, because the set. That goes down too deep to be healed. Rot street railway system is owned by the city. ten soft at the core; no fortitude; no courage. The only demand seems to be that in simple DUNCAN MCGREGOR That's what ails our sick government today : Tailor justice the employes be paid in cash or in Men who should be contributing something Fifth at Union MAin 3808 warrants that are good for cash. And the of value to American life have sidestepped In Metropolitan Center taxpayer holds the sack.—San Francisco the issues; authority has slipped from lax and Wasp-Newg Letter. SIX THE TOWN CRIER APRIL 30, 1932

YOUNG woman writes to Law Interlude A renee Gilman, the famous music NOW let US talk of something sircet. critic, and asks him the proper —For life goes on— course of procedure to follow in an And blowing down the night there attempt to train herself to be a mu comes sic critic. As she is old enough to The scent of April lilacs, thai write a letter she is at a disad blossomed vantage, for the training should have —In the sun— begun when in her mother's arms TT GOES without saying that you or fifty years before. But this is Mr. -*• know your James Norman Hall, Oilman's reply: who is now down in Papeete, Tahiti, Here are a few of the essential VARIOUS AND SUNDRY keeping "far away from all the mess qualifications: the constitution of By ADKLE M. BALLAKD at home" as he writes to The At a traffic policeman; the nervous lantic. He reads the Weekly Man system of a coal-heaver; the hide which was first produced in New COME S a notice to my desk—For chester Guardian—he would—and of a rhinoceros; a measure of York and opened at the Globe this Immediate Release: "The first the Weekly Springfield Republican— philosophy adequate to survive the week in London, the American set book on the kidnapping of young again he would—and while he is not realization that you can claim no ting to be used and our Rouben Charles Lindbergh will be issued gloomy over the situation, yet he disinterested friends in that pro Mamoulian's prompt book also. April 28th." "Cashing In," by the reflects: fessional world which views you (Didn't Mamoulian stage "Porgy?") Prosperity Press. May adversity at "The thing that numbs the heart is either as a ruthless detroyer or Mr. Browne who, with Ellen Van tend it. . . . The United Press As this: as a useful builder of reputations; Volkenburg, established the Little sociation sent out an inquiry to That men cannot devise a willingness to accept the fact Theatre in this country and the prominent papers of the country Seine scheme of life to banish fear that your praise of artists will be dramatic department at The Corn asking for opinions concerning the Thai lurks in most men's eyes. regarded as their due, and your ish, has written another play, "The coverage of the Lindbergh case. The dispraise as the natural result of Wife of William Plavy." Another replies varied, but Frank Knox of Fear of the lack of shelter, food. ignorance, animus, dyspepsia, or item of local interest has to do with "The Chicago Daily News" hit the And fire for winter's cold; all three. Finally, you must cher Richard Odlin who is the comedian nail on the head when he said that Fear of their children lacking these. ish a passion for the most ador La "The Heart Line," translated from there is undoubtedly the impression This, in a world so old, able of the Muses so unslakable the French by Frederick Rolbein, that the newspapers recklessly and and enduring that it will cause you that is now playing in London. heedlessly capitalized the story for Where man has lived so long, so to regard the pains and penalties And 3,000 miles nearer home is circulation. . . . "It is a calamity • long, incidental to your devotion as Josephine Hutchinson who will take to the press that the story has been Finding no way to share merely a play of wind in the dust the title role in "Dear Jane" when so handled as to earn the unques of an endless road. the Civic Repertory Theatre opens The bounty of a world so rich tioned disgust of thinking people That none need suffer there." There are other requirements; this season, which will be the sixth everywhere." . . . but these will do to start with. But Mr. Hall is sure that this pe- of Eva Le Gallienne's downtown * * * —L. G. ventures in New York. The play I iod had to be gone through in order Not only a critic of music but a deals with the life of Jane Austen, T) EADING Clarence Darrow's book. to bring mankind to a proper sense poet also is Mr. Gilman—must not and it is to be hoped that it holds IV "Tne story of My Life," reveals oi what life is for. . . "What a com the first be the second as well?— more drarrtatic quality than "Ali such infinite patience, justice and mentary upon a nation that allows suffering "pains and penalties as son's House," the story of Emily sympathy for the weakness of hu Itself to be led by Henry Ford am' merely a play of wind in the dust Dickinson—even though that was manity that it is a catharsis, a hi- kind! Well, we are beginninc of an endless road." evanescent as awarded the Pulitzer Prize. cleansing of one's mind of petti to realize now how much BUcfc music itself. . . . No more "provincial" news of the ness, of all vindictiveness. At least leadership is worth." . . . * * * theatre today—which reminds me of one person felt that she was, or Happy is he with his acre ot TnROM London comes the news of a recent line: "One must be first would be, a better woman for ha\ ground around his house at Arue. "Wings Over Europe," by Maur a provincial before one can become ing read it. Then came the kidnap It produces coconuts, breadfruit ice Browne and Robert Nichols, a cosmopolitan." Mull that over. . . . ing of a child and again the devil mangoes, bananas and alligator of revenge was enthroned. Down pears, and, best of all, much con into the bottomless pit of anger and tentment and peace of mind. "The horror she went and it is believed best of my garden is the roof at by some, herself included, that she night: the fronds of the coconut has not yet emerged. palms hanging motionless against In FURS . . . Turning again to that book she the starry sky. I could better do reads: "In my vocabulary there is no without its material than its splr ALBRECHT Interpretations are smarter than such word as 'guilt', and no such itual blessings. ... If things go to ever. Upon the basis of confidence established, thing as moral wrong. Believing that pot, just move down here. We will start a new world on a small s<-ale." we assure you a new Luxuriance, made possible the law of cause and effect reaches through every part of the universe * * * by the present low prices in Furs. —believing that men and women do T IS not probable that you will what was set down for them to do I meet any people you know in —no one deserves either praise or Louis Bromfield's latest novel, "A II. F. ALBRECHT, Inc. blame." Is it "fa(reordination," or Modern Hero" (Frederick A. Stokes) Exclusive Furriers Fate in which he believes so firmly? but you will meet a modern if lim 1222 5th Avenue At University St. Well, then; this question rises: ited Casanova, who eventually be How does Mr. Darrow reconcile his comes a financial adventurer. This philosophy—"that there is no such son of a leopard trainer, who, him word in his vocabulary as 'guilt' self was a bareback rider, Pierre and no such thing as 'moral wrong' Radier by name, and of a Jewish —with his presence in Honolulu on hanker whom he never saw. A rough |OU will enjoy the notorious Massie case, which life, a crude, ambitious exploiter of the evening Concert in the should have been tried in camera? women, yet learning in time that he There is little doubt that he will had lost the best in life—the happi Georgian Room . . . Every clear the killer and will have and ness of a home which he never knew evening except Monday will meet the approval of at least There was his mother, Azais; Jo and Tuesday . . . From six every white person alive. But there anna, a clean-minded country girl, to eight o'clock. la the other side: Does Mr. Darrow by whom he had a son; Leah Ernst, feel that the brown man was with older than he but who kept him as Dinner out 'guilt' and that there was no he rose from rung to rung on the $1.50 'moral wrong' committed by that financial laddder and was the only gang? one who gave him the tenderness he Or does Mr. Darrow draw the craved; Hazel Flint, whom he mar J THE OLYMPIC color line of guilt and moral wrong ried, and the cold snaky Claire Ben son who was more than his match. A "UNITED" HOTEL FRANK W. HULL, Manager strictly between brown ami white'.' A complex world, my Masters. . . (Continued on Page 15) sever. APRIL 30, 1932 THE TOWN CRIER

Post Card Venders (~\tlE good thing about the depres- NOT€S FROM PARIS ^sion is that it has apparently hit By THE BOULEVAHDIEB the business of the street vendors of risque postcards. Last year, at the francs. As you walk along you spy again one that is always annoying height of the summer tourist season, two little cardboard figures, about the first time it is incurred, is that no foreigner could walk along the three inches tall, jumping around involved in being shown to a seat Avenue de l'Opera without having and boxing with each other right in a theatre. The usher always ex these leering merchants spring upon in the middle of the sidewalk. It is pects a tip, and many an American him from every doorway and lamp very mysterious, as there is ap has an unpleasant experience post, thicker than pigeons around parently no one near to make them through ignorance of this. Some Times Square. What they are all do operate, and no string or thread can times a long and violent French ex ing now I don't know, but at least be discerned. The vendor walks planation must take place before he there has been a gratifying decrease around, now near, now far, calling realizes what is wanted, and this is in their numbers. out commands which they obey, sometimes followed by a scene when, comprehending finally, he fails to Foreigners, especially Americans, "Box! Stop! Box! Kneel down. Sit give a sufficient tip. A franc a seat here for a few days, find these fellows down! Box again!" They will also is the maximum, though 50 centimes pesteriferous enough, and others of obey commands from the passerby. would do for the more inexpensive their ilk, the self-appointed "guides," The secret—though most people seats. Anything less is hardly who offer to show you the night life have to buy a pair of the figures enough in the theatres frequented of Paris—at a fat price, augmented to learn it—is that the vendor has by Americans, and is not seldom by commissions from all the night an accomplice standing near with a thread to his pocket. However, it thrown to the floor with curses. QJLd clubs they take you into. But a per Many ushers, in theatres like the manent resident is driven almost is hard to discover the accomplice, especially in a crowd, as the mo Moulin Rouge or the Casino de Paris, crazy by them, to the extent that he knowing that Americans do not know even avoids their district if he can. It tions of his hand in his pocket are imperceptible, and he always pre how much to give, impose on their is, fortunately, comparatively small, tends to be as interested and mys fear of not giving enough, and get, ou extending only a block or so along tified as the rest of the spectators. instead of the usual franc, two, the streets that radiate from the Often the accomplice is a fairly well- three, and even five francs a seat. Place de l'Opera. dressed woman. Of course, if any The whole tipping problem in Ordinarily the tourist runs no one should walk between the ac France is one of perennial interest c^c^- • • • great personal danger in going with complice and the figures, he would to visitors. It should be realized, in these guides. They are expert poc- break the thread, but when you try the first place, that many people in ketbook-milkers, however, and gen to do it, you always find the vendor humble stations receive no salary, erally make an effort to get their and have to depend on tips for their in your way. patron drunk, in which case the living. Others—many waiters, for in APARTMENTS money always flows more freely. If * * * stance—receive a small wage, and oportunity presents, too, most of The Lido the rest must be made up in tips. at THE LOWELL . . . them are not above making off with HE Lido is the most popular— This is why a tip is looked upon as you can only anticipate the wallets, watches, rings, and the T and by the same token, one of the obligatory. A safe rule for Americans how convenient your like. But it is only occasionally that most expensive—of the Paris night to follow is to tip one franc for a tourist is drugged or hit on the clubs just now. As soon as you sit every ten francs or fraction there town home can be! head, to wake up the next morning down the waiter brings champagne, of. That is, on a 5 franc taxi fare, stripped of his valuables. One chap and other expenses are in scale. The tip 1 franc; on a 13 franc charge who got drunk in a cafe, the next club, besides the usual vaudeville at a cafe, give 2 francs. On an morning found that his money, and dancing, boasts the additional amount such as 2 or 3 francs, 50 LITTLE NOTES .. . watch, passport and steamer ticket novelty of a swimming pool in the centimes will do, but less than that were all gone. While he was kick midst of the tables. The thing to should never be given. The follow Quiet, convenient First Hill loca ing himself around the room, a bell dc is to have a few drinks, go for a ing rule is said to be a sure test of tion. boy arrived with the missing articles s\\ ira, and then have dinner. Some whether your tip has been right: if Courteous service. and a message from the cafe pro young Americans, having been stuck the waiter says, "Merci, bien, mon A dignified atmosphere. prietor, who had taken them for with champagne, and champagne sieur," it is likely that you have An exceptional dining room and a fear they would really be stolen. But juices the first night they came tipped too much; if he says, "Merci," commissary. I am afraid this was a little unusual. h< re, found a way to beat the game. you have given about the right A friend of mine told me about The next night they came without amount; if he says nothing, probably his experience with a postcard ven- coats or cloaks and went directly you have given not quite enough; - dor the first time he came to Paris. to the dance floor—the place is so while if you have given much too The vendor, looking furtively over large that no one noticed. The mu little, he will generally let you know. his shoulder, made a great business sic being continuous, they danced I am not sure that this rule is fair of secrecy as he exhibited the cards. for some time, exchanging partners to the French, however, as they are Suddenly he thrust them—apparently now and then. Some of the party a very polite race. the same packet of cards he had then went home, not having spent * * * been showing — into my friend's a cent for music and entertainment, pocket, saying, "Here comes a po while others stayed the rest of the Embarrassing Moment LOW€LL liceman—give me seventy-five francs evening, parking on the chairs at WENT into the American Express Apartment Hotel quick. Or give me fifty. Ill get run the bar and ordering lemonades in if he catches me selling these. I for mail the other day, and my EIGHTH AND SPRING when they were tired. attention was caught by a costume Quick! Quick!" My friend fell into » * * SEATTLE MAIN 1041 the trap, and hurriedly gave him scmewhat out of place even in Paris: fifty francs. Looking around for the Annoying Expenses a Swiss mountaineer's outfit, com policeman, he saw none, and when ISITORS to Paris are always in plete with leather jacket, harness he turned back, the vendor was dis V dignant after sitting for the suspenders, shorts and socks that appearing down an alley. The two first time in one of the numerous left the knees exposed. I didn't im New Silverware dollar set of pictures proved to be chairs ranged along the walks in agine that even an American would postcards of different kinds of the Tuileries, the Luxembourg Gar have the nerve to wear one of these for flowers. dens, along the Avenue du Bois de rigs in the heart of Paris, and as * * * Boulougne, and other promenading a matter of fact, the wearer—who Bridal Gifts places. No sooner do they sit down. obviously was an American boy— Some are plain, some Puppets Profitable even for a moment, than an old seemed to be lingering in corners, chased, and some hand- trying to keep one knee behind the 7\ NOTHER of the popular rackets lady appears from nowhere, with wrought. . . . We know other, and in general looking as if **• along the Avenue de l'Opera is ticket! for the privilege. The cost we can please you. he felt the way you do when you the sale of little cardboard boxing is only 25 centimes, or a cent, but dieam you are walking through the men. However, this is more of a the initial shock is always un L. W. SUTEII Olympic lobby in your pajamas. I legitimate street vending business, pleasant. 1324 Fifth Avenue learned that the costume was a mat- as the usual charge is only five Another trifling expense, though eight THE TOWN CRIER APRIL 30, 1932

ter of necessity, as he had shipped his other clothes on from Switzer land so he wouldn't have to carry them on his walking tour. Euro pean mails are notably unreliable, and he had been three days in Paris in this embarrassing situation so far; three days spent mostly in his hotel room and in skulking over to the American Express. I saw him a few days later on the street in his regular clothes, so evidently his package finally arrived. Mural Dedicated a self portrait, as the title suggests, Mother * * * AT a dedication ceremony at has received widespread recognition ilnoughout America during the last Will like Artists And Their Clothes Broadway High School last week Eustace Ziegler's already widely- twelve months, having been entered in Your Gift of x IANY of the costumes, for that practically all the leading American •*•"•*• matter, that prove so amusing known mural, "Masterbuilders of th<> Hose Northwest," was unveiled before an print exhibitions. to visitors in the more "picturesque" "Cavaliers d'Apocalypse," by Louis parts of Paris, have as their raison audience of very enthusiastic citi The Lady Betty Shop zens and students. Mayor-elect Don-. Bouquet, is a woodcut of great beauty. 4340 University Way Seattle d'etre nothing more nor less than Bouquet, while hot of the same sta necessity; a cause that the visitors whose son, a student at the high school, was active in acquiring the ture as Rouault, still achieves a decor- do not always thing of. While many atlve beauty that is remarkable. of the types seen around the Dome mural, opened the ceremonies. Fol lowing him on the program were "Jailhouse," by Charles Heaney of A FOX FUR or in Montmartre effect the bizarre Pert land, won third award. It is a because they enjoy the attention various other prominent Seattle FOR MOTHER ites. combination of etching and aqua they attract, many others look funny tint. Ordinarily this would be a ter because they have had to make shift The canvas is of imposing dimen rible combination of mediums, but the best they could. Long hair saves sions, twelve by thirty feet, and A Perfect Fox Neck worked out by Mr. Heaney's hands haircuts—even to cut it yourself you brings to fruition a dream long the result is amazingly successful. piece ... in the New must have a pair of scissors; beards cherished by Mr. Ziegler. Conserva Mr. Heaney has for several years re save the cost of shaving, razors, tive in arrangement and execution, Spring Shades ceived purchase awards a)t North razor blades, shaving brushes, soap. the painting depicts the contribut west Printmakers' exhibitions. His Maybe the man you see wearing ing factors in the growth of Seattle interest in prints is not limited at $39.50 white shorts and a frock coat has from the arrival of the settlers to to technical problems nor perfect nothing else to wear; this other the present day. In the background, ing technique, going much deeper. smokes a birchwood pipe because he towering buildings absorbed in Sincerity and a searching for depth made it himself for nothing. clouds represent the future city of are apparent in all his work. Seattle. Broadly handled, a massive Most of these artists, poets, sculp BROWN BEAR strength is carried throughout. It is Thomas Nason's "Forest Road," a tors are pathetically, sometimes well held together, and painted with wood engraving, is a delightful print SHOP amusingly, inadequate in practical directness, freedom and surety. The by an engraver who has recently and 106 10th North matters. I know of one who slept CA. 0578 color is characteristic of Mr. Zleg justly advanced to front ranks of uncomfortably for years scrunched ler's work, high in key, rich and American engraving. His purit.\ up under a blanket that was too vibrant. line and splendid technique allied i short for him; he happened to be with emotional depth make his we'.l-to-do enough to have bought a A mural in a Seattle high school prints powerfully convincing. marks a definite step in Seattle art. longer one, but the thought never "Villeneuve les Avignon," by Ma> THE ART occurred to him. Some of the ones It is, I believe, the first instance of a Seattle school's acquiring a mural. Aimee Smith, an American now liv with long hair or unkempt beards ing in Paris, is the fifth and last undoubtedly are so because, not hav It is to be hoped the influence of the painting will bring about more purchase prize. In this print she has DIGEST ing enough money to pay a barber, achieved a considerable depth and interest in art in general, and will they shrink from the mechanical solidity. It is not studied nor is it IS AMERICA'S LEADING task of trimming their own hair, open up a field for art appreciation ART PUBLICATION through the placing of murals in careless. No striving after effect is even if the possibility of having it evident, a common characteristic in done by anyone except a barber does other schools. Appearing semi-monthly, it * * * average wood engravings of land occur to them. "When I sell another presents a digest of all the scapes. It is rich, strong, quaintly picture," says the man with a beard, Printmakers' Awards latest art news and opinion charming and sincere. "I'll have a barber shave me. In the ^HE Northwest Printmakers' pur * * * of the world, and is indis meanwhile I had better let my hair chase prizes for 1932, selected pensable to all grow as it will, because I might from the annual exhibition which Seattle Artists Accepted make things worse if I tried to trim recently closed at the Henry Ca! RNEST NORLING, Kenjiro No Art Lovers it." The thought that he looks dif lery, are as follows: E mura, T. Fujii and Kamakechi ferent from everyone else, in any "Autoportrait," a lithograph, by Tokita have all reported pictures case, does not strike him with the Artists and Georges Rouault of the Ecole de accepted in this year's San Fran same force as it does more conven Paris; one of the greatest living cisco Art Association show. There tional people. He is too interested Educators French artists, he is considered by may be other Seattle artists repre- in his work to give his appearance many as one of the world's great sented, hut I haven't heard of them. more than an occasional thought. This news-magazine is est contemporaries. The lithograph, —Kenneth Callahan. without prejudice or bias in It may be a romantic notion, but I favor of any "ism" or move think that years of (what we call) maladjustment to life, and defeat by ment, and represents with the material powers of the world, fairness all sections of Amer produce a typical expression in the We constantly ica. Especially has it sought features of these artists. The eyes strive to so plan to obtain recognition for take on a squinting look, as if our service Western artists in the East. searching for something, and a ver that the most tical line of puzzlement appears be comforting SUBSCRIPTION: tween them. The general cast of memories countenance reveals an inherent One Year $3.00 friendliness to the world, but timid remain. Single Copies „ _ .25 now and apprehensive from having Address: been so often repulsed. One thinks Descriptive Booklet Sent on Request of a dog, fearful of a beating from 116 EAST 59TH STREET an unkind master whom he loves, Alt I III It A. WKICPIIT & SOX NEW YORK CITY for some reason he does not under FIMlllAl. lIBBCTtll stand. SIXTH AVENUE WEST and QUEEN ANNE BOULEVARD

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LUXURIOUS MODERN COMFORTS AT LOW THATS N EW >^0 R Y\ SPRING RATES By PATRECrA LOVELADY Will Wonders Never Cease which the pay-station caller is the ""pHE wonders of science offer New complete and helpless victim. •*• Yorkers a seemingly endless The racketeer—usually a youth round of free amusement. In turn with advanced ideas on the matter there has been the cigarette-making of working for a living—stuffs wit li machine, the doughnut mixer, the cotton the slot from which coins are automatic flapjack contrivance, and returned in the event of wrong num US 11 now the wonder of wonders—a door bers and busy wires. The phone user that opens itself. It is on more or gets his busy line in the usual MODERNE course of time, and stands around A distinguished less permanent exhibition as one of the built-in fixtures of a new chain waiting for his nickel to be returned. in treatment, the decor residential hotel in a He becomes impatient, reflects that residential district. All restaurant on Lexington avenue in ative detail throughout the Fifties. There, surely, the food after all it's only a nickel, says a modern hostelry "damn it," and departs. in the Baroness appeals should be and much is little inducement except perhaps The racketeer lets a few nickels to the fastidious. more than you usually for those obstinate mortals — and and dimes pile up and then comes find, or expect. 200 there are millions—who prefer their around and takes out the cotton— Yet, this Apartment rooms, all with bath, of food in job-lots. Yet this eating house and the coin. Hotel is smartly Amer course. does literally a landoffice business day and night. Science is the an * * * ican, located only a swer. On Fifth Avenue, Anyway few steps from Metro Leaving the scientific explanation ""pO AN outlander, one of the most politan Center! to some more academic mind, in ef constantly amazing questions fect, the magic door works this way. about New York must be: "How can HOTEL A waitress, or a busboy or even a there be so many offices with Fifth Hohoken policeman for that matter avenue addresses?" We always won As for —the door isn't the least bit dis dered what the answer was, too. EDMOND criminating—advances at full steam The answer is in brief that the of Entertainment on the kitchen. The bustling invader fices are small, and small is being crosses a beam of light just outside pretty liberal with most of them. Group Luncheons and MEANY the wonder portal, and, presto, with Several large office buildings, we Dinners are arranged 45TH AND BROOKLYN out a word, it swings wide open. have learned, are divided up entire with pleasure in the EVERGREEN 0222 The diners just sit and gape. To ly into tiny stalls which pass for traditional Stark and some it remains living proof that offices in which the business is Armin Dining Room. DAN E. LONDON, Manager witchcraft isn't dead yet. largely a mail business. We wan * * * dered into one of these the other Our chef is at your afternoon. There was a long corri service. Audubon Home Doomed dor, and on either side rows of doors 7\ MONG other topsy-turvy news we almost touching one another. We -** have to report this week is that entered one—like picking out your The Grote-Rankin Manhattan is about to lose one of locker in a bathhouse—and luckily Company those few places where a man can a prior caller was just departing or fall from the sidewalk to the roof we wouldn't have gotten our 103 —without the aid of a balloon, a pounds inside. There was a small S€TS ITS€LF UP parachute or usually even a desire desk, two chairs and a telephone. The AS AN €XAMPL€! to make the descent. This, we must These, plus a central switchboard, admit, is an awkward way of get are the modus operandi of a mail BARONESS First of all the very existence and ting around to the fact that the Au order house with Fifth Avenue con 1005 SPRING ST. SENECA 0787 success of this business must and dubon mansion on Riverside drive— nections. does depend upon your judgment a shrine for birdlovers the world But then it sounds good out in of its values. The Grote-Rankin over, is about to enter the limbo of Iowa. Co. never could have succeeded in the quickly forgotten. The Drive at business . . . much less progressed * * * the point at which it passes the to its present position among In The Par-Aide home furnishing stores, if its prices Audubon home, dating from the days had not been as low or lower than when its site was far, far out in the ^pHE block-aid movement, which is similar quality merchandise and country, is an elevated highway and A taking the unemployment prob service commanded elsewhere. The the mansion is located far below on lem right by the horns, is doing a first can be proven by personal the bank of the Hudson. Here was grand job for the unfortunate, but value comparison. founded the Audubon bird preserva is getting in bad with purists who We shall count it a privilege to be tion movement, and while its worthy feel that punning is an evil which permitted to show you the many purpose is to live on, the old man even such a worthy cause as this beautiful things that are assembled sion is doomed this Spring. can ill afford to sponsor. The pre here for the furnishing of your Easter publicity of the block-aiders, home, even though you may not We can't think offhand of any as their public relations counsels contemplate buying. person who has ever made the side call them, asked New Yorkers if walk-to-roof plunge willingly, but a they were going to be Easter For Mother's Day lot of automobiles have taken the Paraders or Easter Par-Aiders. trip. Send Flowers The GROTE- We have a lot of sympathy for the idle, being practically that way our- from RANKIN Co. A New Trick self, but still we joined on with the

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