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24 In Our Midst

Bee Lillie, the popular actress and Lady Friends and others of George Jean Na- Peel, arrived Monday on No. 7 from Chi- than are expecting to hear the wedding bells cago, where she spent the Christmas sea- ring out any day now. George has been son and last few weeks. Welcome home, scen around the cafes a whole lot with one Bee, and accept credit for the swell piece of our most proininent film actresses lately. you had in the Times Sunday before last. Good luck, George. America is proud of you. Percy ("Perc") Hammond of the Herald Tallulah Bankhead, former southern girl, Tribune ("Tribune") is going to foreign came back from a two-year visit to Albion parts with George Ć. Tyler in about six last week. She will spend the Spring sol. weeks. Drop us a postal, Pere, and George, stice with friends in Dixie. too, or rather, Mr. Tyler, "Just Like London" Loving pomp and circumstance, ev. ery true Londoner points with pride to their stunning Guardsmen. Dave Wallace, former Middle West gold champ, got off a good one at the Racquet tan Opera House these days just to see Curiosity seekers going to the Metropoli- Club last week. "It seems," said a man Gigli throw one of his fellow singers over starting an anecdote, "there were a couple the footlights are just wasting their time, of Jews" "And now look l" said Dave. say we. He has promised to throw no поге. Prince Antoine Bibesco, Rumanian Min- ister to our country, planning a Spring Beatrice Bakrow (Mrs. George S. Kauf- visit to New York from Washington, D. man) stayed in the theatre to the end of C., where he is located in the diplomatic the second act of "The Virgin of Bethulia" business. the other day, that being the longest she has watched a play for some time. David M. Mitton, Jr., Columbia Law School boy, is going to marry John D. Richard ("Dick") Bird is contemplating Rockefeller, Jr.'s daughter, Abby, in May. a hurried trip back to England during the The romance is the outcome of Miss Abby's Spring, it is said. Hurry back, "Dick." learning to drive an auto. Where do all the pretty girls you see Dick Barthelmess went fishing yesterday. along the Avenue these fine Spring after- He took his cat era with him in case e tons come from is a question that is both- chance for a snap presents itself in the cring a lot of people. Fort Lauderdale country. Do you know that bit of Lon- don right in New York--Cruger's? It's a fascinating spot to buy ties, hose, shirtings, etc. --exactly the same things men buy in those smart little shops of London. It will interest you to drop in or write Joe Pullitzer is on the fishing list. The town is practically deserted these days, with everybody at Palm Beach, and a lot of the swell mansions along upper Walt Damrosch was given a collation the Central Park West are boarded up. other night in honor of the fact that he has been swinging a wicked baton over the local Synıphony Society now for 40 years. Edna Ferber and friend were recently Mr. and Mrs. Harry ("Hank") Harkness viewed buggy-riding on 5th Avenue. Ol Flagler were his genial hosts. Edna! Lucien Jones, son of Henry Arthur Louis Lintermeyer, poet and jeweler, has Jones; the writing fellow, has accepted a returned to these parts from abroad and position writing items for the American. taken an apartment on West End Avenue. Scoop 'em, Loosh, is our way of express- The U.S., says Lou, is good enough for ing encouragement. him. CRUGER'S fair sex. SEZ INC. Eight East Forty Fifth Street-New York Jos of 5ch Ave. and 'round the corner from the be David Lee Shillinglaw, who runs the Kate Sproehnle, the ex-Chicago author. American Legion Ad Men's Post in "Chi," css and athlete, was an equestrian it was in "N. Y." of late and is starting "an Central Park Jast Saturday, the pleasant organization for consideration of interna- weather bringing out quite a lot of the tional problems to be made up exclusively of Americans who have at some time lived in Europe. Say it ain't true, Dave, say it ain't true! Cosmo Hamilton, novelist and Chicago playwright, was seen picking out stewer) tomatoes with a monocle from the bill of Anzia Yezierska once told Yr. Corres. fare in the diner of the Twentieth Century stie didn't like her own novel, "Salome of Limited the other day. They say Cos can the Tenements. Maybe that's why the see pretty good out of it now. movies took it, ch, Anzia? Digitized by Google