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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937 SEVEN THE B O N N E V I L L E DAM CH RONICLE But It’s True____________ ! This Business of Golf. O A K L A N D , C A L IF .— As I sit writing this, I look out where elderly gentlemen, intent on relaxing, m ay be seen tensing themselves up tighter than a cocked wolf- trap, and then staggeriiig to w ard the clubhouse with every nerve standing on end and scream ing for help and highballs. ESLIE P f BIFFEE, • vrauswYKw is FATHER, ÙRANOFRTMtR ANE M W ÍBAUDFATHfP HAUE N E V I» IC E N OUT OF HOLLAND... BUT N O N I O F THEM HAS EVER BEEN ANTTHIN6 B U T A BRITISH S U B JE C T / > W H O NEST M A N ' IN CANTONESE (C H IN A ) O’K elly’ s interest in farming is limited to his desire to show that the natural elements do more harm than good as far as agriculture is con cerned. He contends that heat and water are best applied indoors. He supplies his heat through furnaces, his water through sprinkling cans. Thus his crops never suffer from drought, wind or heavy windstorms. Leslie’s great-grandfather went to Holland on business, asked in. his will that his descendants remain British subjects. They have com plied with his request, but their personal interests have kept them in the Netherlands. Mr. Johnson’s parents were so fond of a turtle they kept for 22 years that when the son was born in 1906 he was named for the pet. Both Doveys are still alive. in Verdi’s “ Falstaff,” he stole the show from Scotti, with a thundering ovation rarely given any singer at the Met. He was the son of a sheriff in the "Badlands” country around Bakers field, Calif. His father was killed by a bandit and young Tibbett grew up in Los Angeles. He knew he had a voice, but he didn’ t want to sing. He wanted to be a Shakespearean E gypt’s New King. actor. Hoping to study for the stage, ING FARO UK I, who was he earned money singing at crowned king of Egypt recent churches and movie palaces, be ly on his eighteenth birthday, coming soloist for the California seems to be entirely acceptable to theater. the powerful Wafd sect which, dur In 1922, he arrived in New York ing the last few years, has been fan on borrowed money. He worked up ning up a challenging nationalist a concert and sold a lot of tickets, movement in Egypt. England has but he wasn’ t there. He had the done some adroit maneuvering since mumps. All that came out of the his father, old King Saud, died in concert was an extra " T ” dropped April, 1936. in his name by the program printer. King Farouk was educated in part He let it ride and that’s how he be at the Royal M ilitary academy and, came Tibbett instead of Tibbet. it is understood, is enthusiastically Numerologists would say, of course, certified by the British guardians of that that was what changed his the empire. It is believed that this luck. At any rate, the change cam e coronation will cinch a bit tighter soon after. Gatti-Casazza gave him the political and economic ties of a hearing and he was soon on the Britain and Egypt. This has be uptake in the Metropolitan. come a matter of special concern He is tall and good looking and since Italy’ s seizure of Ethiopia and lacking in those stellar eccentrici her threat to the blue Nile with its ties which make newspaper copy. bearing on vast cotton growing and There is, though, one little oddity processing projects in the Sudan. worth noting. Apt to have head For the last two years, Farouk aches, he cures them by walking has enjoyed kingly status, but under around on his hands. He says that a regency. He will now be E gypt’s sluices the blood down into his head first nominally independent ruler in and stops the pain. four centuries. He is an athlete, six feet tall, skilled in polo, swim Pennsylvania Battle. ming and other sports. OVERNOR E A R L E of Pennsyl Like his late father, he likes to vania was a Republican who drive a big red car to the mosque on Friday to observe the Moslem Sab became a Democrat. Mayor S. bath. His absorbing interest is his Davis Wilson of Philadelphia was a stamp collection. Two boy kings Democrat who became a Republi are left—Peter II of Jugoslavia, can. Each has supported the other aged fourteen, and King Ananda of in the past. Now they are deep in a rock-and-sock battle all their own Siam, aged eleven. • • • —typical of shifts and blurring of party lines under high political pres Baritone Business Agent. EW YO RK.—Opera singers of sure. The militant Mayor Wilson Genoa had a union early in the is gunning for the governor, charg Eighteenth century and sundry ing the latter with responsibility for were broken in its furtherance, but sending wire-tappers into Philadel Lawrence Tibbett is, according to phia. all available records, the first bari They fudge into the national pic tone, tenor or bass to take up that ture, as Governor Earle, it is under line of work in modern times. stood, wants to be President and Mr. Tibbett, as head of the Am er Mayor Wilson wants to be governor. Mayor Wilson was comptroller of ican Guild of Musical Artists, joins Philadelphia before he became the the drive to form a union of radio broadcasters in the American Fed city's one hundred thirteenth m ayor eration of Labor. It is indicated that January 6, 1936. He is a hefty and they are beating the C. I. O. to this hardy seasoned political battler, in politics many years, elected by lib objective. erals, reformers, laborites and New M r. Tibbett was upped to fame Dealers, but now shying away from on the night of January 2, 1925. Be the lot of them and vehemently an fore that, he had sung meager roles ti-Roosevelt under h i. 960 a week Metropolitan • Consolidated News Features, WNU Service, contract. On this occasion, singing AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA W H O ’S NEWS THIS W EEK... By Lemuel F. ParSon K G N I smile at them, for I am one who has given up golf. You might even go so far as to say golf gave me up. I tried and tried, but I never broke a ty phoid patient’ s tem perature chart — never got below 102. I spent so much time climbing into sand-traps and out again that people be gan thinking I was a new kind of her mit, living by pref Irvin S. Cobb erence in bunkers— the old man of the link beds, they’ d be calling m e n ext And I used to slice so far into the rough that, looking for my ball, I penetrated jungles where the foot of man hadn’ t trod since the early mound builders. That’ s how I add ed many rare specimens to m y col lection of Indian relics. But the last straw was when a Scotch professional, after morbidly watching m y form, told me that at any rate there was one thing about me which was correct—I did have on golf stockings! • • • Professional Orators. E H AVE in Southern Califor nia a professional orator who long ago discovered that the most dulcet music on earth was the sound of his own voice. H e’ll speak any where at the drop of the hat and provide the hat. What’ s worse, this coast-defender of ours labors under the delusion that, if he shouts at the top of his voice, his eloquence will be all the more forceful. The only way to avoid meeting him at dinner is to eat at an owl wagon. But the other night, at an important banquet, be strangely was missing from the ar ray of speakers at the head table. One guest turned in amazement to his neighbor: "W here’ s Blank?” he inquired, naming the absentee. "Didn’ t you hear?” answered the other. 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