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on Broadwa Etting Recalls The Old Days By EsH WToon YrTV" YORK Ruth Etting 10 years and 20 years grayer is back in that once was hers. Her now the gray of silver. It platinum blond under the phony gleaming" through the beaver board na trees at the Copacabana ringside. figure's her eyes gay. her smile --he has either good teeth or gbod dentist.

"headlined songstress of a decade ago didn't 50- i hs'e the -term comeback." she said. sounds "like you're talking of a fighter roen knocked down." I no comeback she's making at the Copa ir.f was never knocked out. She quit because s'-p trouble." 1 iooked at the two strands of pearls at her t'-roa'. the three pearls in each Clark Gable, and the s'ab of ice on her finger. I said to myself, I gentleman or a columnist and the gKSVi-er dear a columnist.

1 had to aslc joout "it." It was a famous trouble. Her first husband. Gimp," a limping martmet of Chicago, gs beloved by all who knew him as a new tax, fired his heater at her second husband, Myri Alderman, in 1938. brothers wrote that Gimp loved her wi'h a love that was more than a love, but some he was a bully and a jerk. ID you fly in?" I asked her, fearing to bring up Gimp.

-No. My husband said. "Mama, you take the train "He was in the air corps and got hurt. thing he said was 'Mama, go to the Music Hall and hear the orchestra for He music so." Alderman's a frpe-lance arranger in pictures. "Is is much different here now than 10 years ago?" I said.

"I never knew about eyelashes," she laid: "Don't think they made them then. "Ah. the bad old I said. "I'm going to sing old songs, like Ten Cents a which I've even forgotten! This is the lima To sing ths.o,ld songs." "Any time's the time to sing the old I said. (I was very witty when I got home and figured out these answers I didn't make.) TF'AS she coming back because she needed money? "I thought it'd be fun to see'if I'm Maybe I oTtrit too soon, I'm a big farmer and lazy, asd it took me two months to decide to do those three programs for Rudy Vallee, live on an 8-acre farm outside Colorado Springs, fve a.

stepson, 20." She flipped back to '20 when Rudolph Valentino came into Marigold Gardens, Chicago, where she was. a chorus girl. threw diamonds' and furs at him to show they idolized him. Not bobbysox women, either." Irving Berlin recommended her to Ziegfield -who save her a great audition for the Follies -Told hfr to walk around his desk, as he was roted for-his appreciation of trim ankles. "Don't you want to hear me sing?" she asked.

He handed her a contract. "No." he said. She was tops in the Follies then to Hollywood for radio --then -the trouble. "Did you ever see Gimp since?" and I hope I never do." "My husband," she said, "never goes te without a gun." -That scared me, so I shifted back to the last Follies. She Was in the '31 Follies, reviving "Harvest Moon." "With Harry Richman, Jack Pearl and Morgan." she said.

"Which Morgan?" I said. Pierpont, Frank, Michele. Dennis or Henry?" "Helen," she said. It' was rather a long time RESTINS FROM HIS RESCUE WORK the HL, mine bW. Harry Gutzler shows the effects of the ordeal.

He a miner. THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH MAGAZINE PAGE MARCH 27, 1947 PAGE 1-B TRAPPED IN THE CLEVELAND RRE by five font of faffing Michael Ruddy was rescued crftkafly mfared. Theodore Brenyas was Icifled fighting the $100,000 fire that destroyed the Franklin Hvd Methodist- Church. (AP) Wirephoto. MARRIED 43 YEARS Louis 6.

Mayer, multimillionaire head of the Mayer Studio, was sued for divorce by hn wife, Margaret. (AP) Wirephoto, The Midnight Elisabeth Bergner and Greta Garbo (travel- to? under the name of Miss Brown) were at the Blue Angel BUI Miller flew to Chicago to sign Eleanor Powell for his spring opening of the Riviera. r-- Irving Rueben received a $500 check from Sophie Tucker for the 52 Association Armando's lawyers have stopped 2 night spots from his name, one on Madison Av. and one in Westchester. Mrs.

Edison Reralls Edison Liked Phonograph iy Hal Bovie rORT MYERS. the hundreds of Thomas A. Edison's inventions the phonograph remained. his favorite. "He loved music," said his widow.

in her eighties. Mrs. Edison still winters Jwre as she has done annually since her famous hosband brought her here as a bride more than SO years ago. "There were only 200 people in Fort Myers then--but plenty to tell Mr. Edison that thi?" a great place to live-" The inventor selected a site a mile and $wrter out of town and, because there were no carpenters available, he ordered a hojge built Maine and shipped here in sections.

GRANTED A DIVORCE from Conrad Nagel, 49, Lynn Merrick, 23-year-old actress, taid she believed Nagel a bachelor too long (10 years) to -fit into marrfed Wirepho'to. A OF--STATE George Marshall stands in the doorway as he prepares to leave the first formal dinner at the Aero Club, Moscow, for Big Four Foreign Ministers. "At right is a general view of the reception. (AP) Wirephoto. COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY Eugene Dennis, center, is shown as he was abniptfy dismissed as a witness before the House- Un-Ameriean Activities Committee after refusing to tell his real name.

R. E. Striplmg, right, gave him a subpena to return April 9. (AP) Wirephoto. Ceit Me Ten oad Crews Clear Way For Cars in Storm By Johnny Jones 3EQNPER whether the average motor- ist appreciates the work of State Highway Department a sudden blizzard strikes.

When the barometer fen to a point below the hurricane mark, it was not long beforeMbe wind nma whistling around the uauera accompanied by heavy rainfall. The barometer toad to a point it had not reached since 1918. This happened on the anniversary of the 1913 so March was running "true to form. had an engagement in Bellefontaine with the Kiwanis Club whose members and their wives were gathered at the Logan Hotel in that city close to the highest point in the state. I was a good two hours and a half getting to Bellefontaine.

Certainly it Was "an adventure as I came down thepiigh hill into Zanesfield and acres the Mad River bridge. Never have I observed the snow swirling so and the roads blending so into the countryside as on this night. is something adventurous about being alone car in bad weather. The radio is your conggmioa and when-you only pass nine' super trucks and three cars, you are more aware of this companion. The blizzard, certainly tied up the big txycks from Lima down to these parts.

It has been, hard going for the trucks. Fred W. Carter was chairman of the Bellefontaine meeting. This Kiwanis Club is com. posed mostly of younger people who cany on work with the blind and the crippled.

Many projects have been put over by their combined efforts. I was asked to stay at the hotel aH night but for some reason the wind and the snow fascinated me and anyway your own bed is the best bed even if you do get into it an. hour or so late. The trip back from Bellefontaine was not at bad as going over until Marysvilie was reached. Here the snow had drifted and was swirling so hard I could hardly see.

The use of-a jpotUght 'shining some lOieet ahead is a great Somewhere, not so long ago, I read 1 that the engineer who devised the white line in the die of the road, had passed away. As I rode along I could not help but think what tribution to safety this engineer had made. white line is still one of the best driving ever devised and m-trttnly a monument to that engineer. 1 wondered whether he made any' money from this idea. -Just think of the mBet of line and the paint used each; year, ATMarysvffle it was Just 1 a.

m. and theMgb- way crews were out The big blade eh the front of the truck bad smoothed out the road. Calcium and the other agencies they use were being spread. "If passable," I was informed by one of the men in the truck. In the dark of the night and the midst of a blizzard the boys were, keeping things There was something dramatic about it all Sometimes a service like this that Is provided" so quk3ay IS "noT Accorded the recognition it merits.

Up north-the crews in the great plain regions were really having a tough job but give them a few hours anoV the roads win be open. The little all-night restaurant- in Marvsvflle at which 1 stopped became the scene of a midnight brawl involving; a "stranger" and a native. Words passed backhand forthr and soon the battle was on. The proprietor just'opened op the door and into the blizzard the two were thrown? still fighting. Even the cold did not cool tbetf anger.

Finally when both grew tired I went to my car, took out the first aid kit and patched them iip. When I teft they were at the same table having a peace conference. highway crews were so good at their work that by the time I reached Dublin the snow was melting and you-couW-bear the swish of Water OB the-wheels. -It was nice driving now. The glow- of Columbus -looked and a big bright star was our guide home.

1 did not know which it was. March has not been a lamb by any means. It came in like a-lion and has acted-more or Jess like lion ever since and here Is Iwping it like a lamb. Tnis may be the last winter work for the highway crews but floods may be the next on the agenda of emergency work. These crews are the true-friends of the motorists.

Johnny eaa be Tuesday, Saturday at 6:30 p. m. on Station Gardening PROMOTING THE PTA. ENSEMBLE CONCEftT. Dowthy Weagley, right, art poster chairman, is shown presenting the two top Miss Jean Patterson, center, student at South High School, and Miss Donna Needles, a student at Indianota Jr.

High School, winners of the poster contest. The contest it sponsored annually conjunction with the concert to be given April 11 at p. Cenfraf High Schodt schooner was sunk." said Mrs. Edison. "bat that didn't discourage him.

He never up on anything he started. He just ordered house." Shaded now of frontier settlement "of Fort: Myers has grown tap one of the most beautiful Florida cities. Efeon and Henry Ford helped plan its develop- oent. Some women find it trying to be married to of fame and genius. "Not Mrs.

Edison. "He worked endlessly," she said, "but he was a great tease. "We were always in one room. You didn't 1BV to hush up because he was thinking out problem. "Ke wasn't- a grouch--like some geniuses.

life was all right" of the inventors best work was done his old winter laboratory here. In the after dinner he "would jot down 50 ideas" to try the next day. "He never was bored and never hird a regret." TMo Edison. "And he never was des- He'd just pick up and do something: He was always taking money from one to help another. He was always poor.

money as such didn't mean anything to him. be as happy hi a hut as a house." her Kusband. Mrs. Edison often into the present, tense. For her he is still The old Maine house and its pardrys.

they lived so many has trfven to Fort-Myers as an Edison memorial. city-enee turned down an offer by Edi- build it a power plant and Jn R- City councilmen thought the electric turn -out to be nothing but a fad. Lowell Riley Is Too Music 1 to Bother With Hobbies By Tod Raper I DWELL RILEY probably waves a stick at more people in Columbus than any other man in Central Ohio. And strangely enough, the people like it and they come back week after week for more- Ail told. Mr.

Riley waves sticks at about 500 pf-ople in eight groups, as he is a professional chorus or choir director. His official "title organist-music director of the First Community Church, but that is only part of the musical work that crowds his life Right now. Mr. Riley is busily whipping -into shape a chorus male voices business and professional which wiU sing at the Saturday -night Parade of Quartets in Memorial Hall, staged by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. Yes.

he's an active and enthusiastic member of the SPEBQSA. He directs two downtown singing groups, the Ohfo Bell Telephone Company's Girls' Chorus and the Farm Bureau's Girls'. Chorus, At First Community. Mr. Riley directs the x-oeal activities of no Jess than five choirs.

They are the Cloister Choir rf 120 high school girls: the Men's Glee "(hub of 60 tnomTiunit- business men: thrOvaneel CTioir. which is the main. -adult choir of the church, and which has SO voices: the Junior Cloister Choir of in the seventh and eighth the 75-voiced Junior Choir of youngsters in the to sixth grades. Born in Ashley. Ohio, in 1913.

Mr. Riley is the son of the town banker. His mother and father are still living. He was educated there, and graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan Music Department in 1934. He first went to work for Radio Station WBXS as a piano player and singer, later graduating to the job of staff organist (he played the organ in church when he was 13 years old).

In 1943, Mr. Riley started teaching school choral music at Upper Arlington and Grandview high schools, and soon headed that started part-time wjth First Community Church in 1941. but it was not until 1945 that he resigned from the position and went full-tinit with the church. Another one of his varied activitK'i working witt the" Young Business Men's Club fUMr. helping prodttcejthat organization'! artnunl rmmt- shows.

The Rileys live at 1389 Artinpton Av have rthree children. Marianne, James, 5, Thomas, 2. Riley declares he has no "I bat a tennis ball around a little in he declares. "I do riding, and some target rifle shooting, but not enough to call them hobbies. "Tm too busy witlf music.

my hobby. I guess." A Lot of Work Cart Be Done By Harry R. O'Brien TJIGHT now; is the tine to get a lot of work AV done, just as soon as the weather is suitable and the ground has dried out enough to work. It is bad business though to work before the ground is Here are some of these rent, timely items. Plant small "frees, msetr-- JSet aspdrgSs and rhubarb.

Get out ftratcberry plants PDQ. Make new lawn. Put plant food on; old lawn and re-seed if needed. Get out early, cold weather as peas, lettuce, mustard, radishes, turnips and onion tett. Plant early potatoes.

TO MAKE AX ASPARAGtTS J5H, you "need space enough for 12-15 plants for each member of the family as a minimum. If you expect to freeze or can, then more can be planted. Some gardeners set the plants 18-24 inches apart each way. My method to put them about 24 inches apart in the row, with the rows inches apart. To plant, dig a trench about 8 inches deep with a flat bottom.

Ether 1- or 2-year plants are best. I 'spread out the roots making "sure they are not upside down. -Then I cover, the roots with about 4 of soil. As the plants grow and the bed is cut- 4ivated. the.

rest of the trench is gradually filled up. MARY WASHINGTON- is the variety for general O5 The newer Paradise producer a larger spear that excellent and some gardeners prt- "ler it. With my own established bed, I clear off the old tops about this time of year. I scatter a layer of 4-12-4 plant. food over the surface, then cultivate it- I often scatter; some coal ashes over and bed and.

cultivate again. If I have any compost. I scatter some bf this around too. Then it good spttoklimj of rock salt This doesn't harnr the asparagus fM keeps out most weeds quack graif. f.

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