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The Bridge That Wasn't There
« By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter.
W ELL, give a good look at this one, boys and girls, from Dr. Alex
ander E. Strath-Gordon of East Orange, N. J. If you ever read
this yarn he is going to tell you, in a novel, you wouldn’t believe it
could happen. If your own brother told it to you, you’d tell him he
was just plain gpofy.
Doc Strath-Gordon thought he was cracked himself when he
found out what had happened. And the people he told his story to
thought Ae was crazy, too—for a while. But here are the simple facts, all
checked||gid attested aud sworn to. You can’t get around the truth of the thing.
Y^ti can’t say it was 9 dream, because a bridge is a big, heavy, solid
object. If it’s there, it’s there, and if it ain’t, it ain’t. You can’t dream
4 it out of place and then back again.
All of which leads up to Doc’s story. The date Is August, 1909, and the place
Is—well—somewhere oh the foad between Seattle, Wash., and Duwamish Head
on the other side of Elliot bay. Doc was practicing medicine in Seattle and he
had received a hurry call from a patient in Duwamish Head.
Patient’s Husband Thinks Doc Flew to Sick Room.
He started out in his car, and you know what those 1909 vintage automo
biles were like. To make makers worse, the dirt roads of the time were wet
from a week’s steady rain. Parts of them were flooded. But a patient had called
him, and even though he was twenty miles away, it was up to Doc to get to
him if he possibly could.
The night was pitch dark. The roads were unlifehted, and the
flickering kerosene headlamps that rattled on the sides of Doc’s horse-
, less carriage didn’t throw any light, on the road at all. There were
two ways to get to Duwamish Head aiffcl Doc took the shorter. It took
.him an hour and a half to cover that twenty miles, but when he got
there, his patient’s husband said: "Good gosh, but you made that trip
fast. How did you manage to get here so quickly?”
Well, sir, Doc thought that was funny, but he didn’t say anything then. His
patient was waiting, and he was needed in the sick room. He worked over her
DUST
Myrna Loy
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The Car Crossed Like an Acrobat on a Tight Rope.
for half an hour until she was out of danger, and then he went out to assure
her husband that everything was all right
Doc Hears He Crossed Bridge That Was Out.
He sat down for a few moments’ rest before starting on the return trip,
and again his patient’s husband brought up the subject of the quickness with
which he had arrived.
M How the dickens did you come here, anyway, Doctor?” he asked.
, *Did you fly?”
"Why, I came by the Bay Side road, of course,” said Doc.
The man looked at Doc sort of curiously. "You couldn’t have,” he
said bluntly. "The bridge is out”
Doc thought he was joking, and tried to laugh it off. But the man Insisted
the bridge was being repaired—that the planking was all off and it was un-
passable. He told Doc that the only available route to his house was the upper
road, a 28-mile trip.
He began to urge Doc to stay all night, and at last Doc saw he was serious.
Then it occurred to Doc that the man must have gone insane, or become un
nerved by his wife's illness.
Daylight Reveals That Bridge Wasn’t There.
Says Doc: “I decided to stay with him, partly to humor an overwrought
man, and partly because I didn’t think it safe to leave his sick wife alone with
one in such condition. I spent the night at his house, and in the morning he
brought the subject up again at breakfast He said: ‘Now Doc, let’s both go
^own and look at that bridge before you go back to town.’ ”
Tbere was something in that fellow's manner that reminded Doc of
| a sane''man humoring a sick one. It occurred to him then that this
bird thought he was the crazy, one. But he agreed to go down and look
over*the bridge, which was only a mile away from the house. They
i got into Doc’s car and drove the short distance down the road. They
got in sight of the bridge, and then-—
“Imagine my surprise—even horror,” says Doc, “when I saw that bridge in
broad daylight All pat he had told me was true! There was nothing left of
the bridge but the gaunt string pieces—two of them—running from one side
of the river to the other. . ‘
Strath-Gordon Had Piloted Car Over Fingers of Death.
“The planking—the rails—the superstructure, all had been taken away. And
yet I had come across that bridge In the darkness of the night. I knew that
I wasn’t crazy. And yet for a moment, I began, to think that I was losing my
mind.
"The string pieces were the answer. They were less than a foot
wide, each, but they were separated by the same width as the wheels
, of my automobile. I had driven across them in the dark, like an acrobat
; on a tight wire. My heart came Into my throat when I thought of what
might have happened.
All the local people knew that the bridge was impassable, so no warning
that, having a surgeon’! , —. - . ...
performed operations. Had I deviated an inch from the straight path over that
bridge, I would have fallen into deep water—and I might not have attended my
patient.”
C—WNU Service.
History of the Fan Is*
as Old as Civilization
Ever since the vestal virgins used
fans to encourage sacrificial fires, wom
en have prized these time-honored irav
piements of coquetry, states a writer
in the Kansas City Star. Cdfrld, ac
cording to mythology, tore a wing from
Zephyr’s shoulder when he was flirting
with Psyche and presented it to her to
prove he was the better man.
“Helen of Troy," Euripides wrote,
“knew when she suffered from summer
heat how to cool her cheeks, fresh and
velvety as a ripe peach, by the use^ 0 *
a peacock’s tail arranged fan-wise.
Queen Elizabeth loved fans and her
subjects vied with one another In giv
ing them to her. It Is said she had
27 in her wardrobe when she died.
Shakespeare demanded a wing of paint
ed butterfly to waft over the sleeping
Titania.
The history of the fan is as old as
civilization. In the beginning It prob
ably was a palm leaf of a bird wing
used for winnowing grain, fanning fires
or brushing flies. The first record of a
fan. It is said, appears in the annals oi
the Chow dynasty, 1052-1101 B. C. The
emperor received as tribute two mag
nificent tropical birds. The birds not
surviving, the feathers were made Into
fans. Ancient sculpture shows attend
ants waving fans.
Fans were first used by men, but
women soon discovered their artistic
possibilities and quickly appropriated
them. When an emperor went to war
two fans were nailed upright on his
chariot as standards. The empress car
ried a fan to dust the chariot wheel*
lest her robes become soiled.
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★
T HERE’S nothing like keeping
your business all in the fami
ly ! Gene Markey wrote a scena
rio, “By the Dawn’s Early Light,’’
(and can’t you see that title being
shortened so that it will fit thea
ter marquees?) and RKO has
bought it for his wife, Joan Bennett,
which is nice as he wrote it espe
cially for her. Fred Stone will be the
other star. It sounds pretty exciting.
Stone will play an American consul
stationed in China. Joan will be his
daughter, and a revolution will furnish
the drama. Joan is making a picture
in England now, and is eager to get
home and begin work in her hus
band’s story.
—k— *
It rather startled everyone to have
Myrna Loy and Arthur Hornblow get
ting their romantic af
fairs straightened out
at last; there have
been rumors of a mat
rimonial nature about
them for a long time.
Hornblow and his
wife, the lovely Juliet
Crosby, had separated,
but he had been op
posed to a divorce.
(Meanwhile Hollywood
gossips were rushing
about, saying that it
was Just too dreadful
that his wife wouldn’t divorce him so
that he and Myrna could be married!)
Eventually Mrs. Hornblow went to
Reno, and after that It was plain sail
ing.
—k—
Don’t refer to Buster Crabbe as
Buster any more; he doesn’t like It
He got the studio to let him be Larry
Crabbe, but they Insisted on putting
“Buster” in the middle, and now he’s
known by all three names. He’e work
ing in “The Arizona Raiders” for Par
amount, with Marsha Hunt
—k—
Warner Brothers and Paul White-'
man have Joined forces in an effort
to discover talented children. Chil
dren from all over the country will ap
pear with Whiteman on his radio
broadcasts each week, and be given
tests at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio.
Warner Brothers will also make a
series of shorts, the casts to be com
posed entirely of children. And of
course any children who make the
grade will be under contract to War
ner Brothers. , •
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While we’re on the subject of chil
dren, the settlement of the squabble
over little Freddie Bartholomew is good
news. Apparently he didn’t want to
leave hie beloved aunt, who had done
so much to develop his talent and
taken such good care of him, yet nat
urally hit mother couldn’t be denied
her rights. His aunt said recently that
she was disturbed over the effect the
whole thing had had on him; he forgot
his lines when he was working, a thing
he had never done before, and had
told her that. If he was taken away
from her, he’d run away and keep run
ning away until he got back to her.
—k—
The Yacht Club Boys, whom you’ve
heard on the air and seen on the
screen, have been asked by both the
Republican and Democratic national
committees to write their campaign
songs. Judging by some of the songs
that the Y v acht Club Boys write for
themselves, it seems to me that that re
quest is a bit dangerous!
Irene Dunne has been having a.
grand time In New York. She and her
husband were guests
the other evening at
a small dinner party
at which the eldest
son of the former
king of . Spain was also
present
The Four Hundred
of New York long
since took the lovely
Irene to its heart, but
she is still the same
sweet, unspoiled girl
that she has always
been. The prize for
the most “regular” person in pictures
certainly ought to go to her.
—k—
Mitchell Lelsen, Paramount director,
could take bows if he wanted to over
persuading the great Stokowski to
break into the movies. The famous
conductor will appear In “The Big
Broadcast of 1937,” along with a couple
of jazz bands—but not all playing at
the same time!
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ODDS AND ENDS . You'll want to
see Edward G. Robinson in “Bullets or
Ballots"; this time he's against the gang
sters instead of being one of them . . .
Robert Taylor broke ihnvn the other day
and confessed that his real name is Spang
ler Arlington Brough . . . Merle Oberon
and David Niven would like to get mar
ried, but their contracts forbid it , Kay
Francis wanted to take a vacation in the
Far East, but she has to slay home and
make another piclure,“Mistress of Fashion"
. . . W. C. Fields is improving in health
and will be ready to make another picture
soon ... An independent movie producer
is trying to get Emperor Haile Selassie
to come to Hollywood and make a pic
ture ... In Australia the censors cut out
the burial sequence of “The Trail’of the
Lonesome l*ine , '*--and mangled the plot.
8) WealM-n Nawapayar Umoo.
Irene Dunne
Smart Silks for Spectator Sports
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
TEA TOWELS BRING
GAYETY TO KITCHEN
PATTERN 5547
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I F THERE Is one pla<fe more than
another that daytime fashions show
off in a panorama of sur|assing style
interest, it is at the race^ The influ
ence of the French race^ and Ascot
was very evident at the openings of
our own American tracks ids season.
Although there were no traling skirts
there were the reminiscent (Brtwheels,
the tiny elaborate “doll” hits which
smart Parisiennes love so veil with
flower, vegetable and bird trimming—
millinery fantasies such as a$ almost
amusing in their eccentriciles, yet
quite worthwhile in that they kfe add
ing such zest to the current mode.
Silk taffeta frocks and suits \qre nu
merous and set the pace for a) inter
esting style movement. Skirts lynches
from the ground, any number ofshort-
sleeved dresses and -jackets wifi uni
versally square shoulders were, like
wise interpretative of new fqdiion
trends.
Typical of the choices of many ve.l-
dressed women was the very 4ort
black silk crepe suit with a ftted
jacket that is worn with an enornous
black feather-trimmed cartwheel nft.
A huge ufhite kid water lily at te
shoulder gave a dramatic touch. Mufc
is being said In fashion circles in r^
gard to water lily colorings and wate,
lily boutonnieres and corsages. As t£
suits of this type the fashion parade
includes them in dark silk failles, in
faconne silk taffeta, and of course, the
gay printed silk suits are that ubiq
uitous they are taken for granted.
As to the newer silk prints there Is
a marked tendency to select tiny neat
patternings for daytime wear. Made
up in trimly tailored frocks with short
sleeves and matching jackets, you have
the costume-ideal for going about town
No “afternoons off” for this col
ored Mammy, for she must “wash
the cups and saucers up, and put
the clothes away.” But you can take
an afternoon off and embroider your
self a set of tea towels with these
amusing Mammies, for the work goes
very quickly, It’s cross stitch, out
line, running and single stitch. Her
gay bandana and checkerboard apron
suggest themselves for the brightest
floss you can find. A set’s nice to do
nate when Fair time comes around.
In pattern 5547 yoti will find a
transfer pattern of seven motifs—one
for each day of the week—averaging
6 by 8 inches; material requirements
and color suggestions; illustrations
of all stitches needed.
Send 15 cents in coins or stamps
(coins preferred) to The Sewing Cir
cle, Household Arts Dept, 259 West
Fourteenth St, New York, N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number, your
name and address.
K : >V
anu RNiJ^e,practical hours of general
activities. Now that summer Is near
ing the trend toward cool silk sheers,
both plain and print are obvious. To
glorify these intriguing prints one must
be^ccess^y-mlndeJ to a high degree.
wJFh is not at all difficult since the-
jwiops are filled to overflowing with the
most fascinating neckwear, gloves, bou
quets, belts, footwear and handbags
that genius might devise. i
Some of the smartest women are en
dorsing tunics over slim skirt founda
tions. Se^ the tunic model to the left
in the picture. Schiaparelli’s new ging
ham silk taffeta is the fabric chosen
for this tunic. It Is worn with a red
leather belt over a black silk crepe
skirt
Seen at the Belmont race track was
the jacket dress centered in the illus
tration. It is styled of dotted silk
crepe, white on gray (a very important
color is gray this season). Fitted Jack
et, square shoulders with big sleeves,
and a ruffled jabot on the dress are
details that interpret high swank. The
bag is white calf, the hat a black straw
pillbo with red and chartreuse flowers.
The contrast Jacket Is a pet project
with fashion these days. Note to the
right in the illustration the stunning
model. Here a black sheer silk dress
s topped by a short swagger jacket of
rhite silk crash emblazoned with coin
ots In jockey colors—maroon and
iue. The hat Is of white silk crash
*th extreme eye-shading brim which
iflnspired by a jockey’s cap.
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FOR NEXT AUTUMN
Wile most women are concentrating
now»n the purchase of their summer
wardjbes those who are designers of
fashUable clothes are concerned
aboutnext fall and winter’s styles.
They ire considering the creations
shown’n recent Paris collections and
thinkln up ideas to produce some
thing tw In the way of silhouettes
for the utumn.
The flit Inkling of the trend which
has leaki ou t; of the workrooms con
cerns th^idth of hemlines. Circular
lines are iid to be so well liked that
every onef U s will be wearing skirts'
that whirlaround U s like ballet cos
tumes bef<K many months have gone.
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Camisolefend Petticoats
Shou] Be in Vacation Bag
Every yo\g woman’s bag packed
for vacation^ summer will carry its
supply of daty camisoles and rustling
petticoats. Te favored ones are lace-
trimmed. The nm { SO ies are made with
shoulder pointfront and back, and are
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CLOTHES
Typical Difference
Leave ten men to describe “a typ
ical American” and there would be
ten wholly different descriptions.
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edged with
Many have shoulder
The linen suit In natural or pure
white is an important number on the
style program for summer. The accent
on suits has been most pronounced all
spring and now enthusiasm for suits
is continuing for summer—suits of
linen particularly that are cool and
comfortable as temperature rises. The
classic white suit here pictured is of
linen of superfine grade imported from
Moygashel, Ireland. It Is particularly
smart for town wear when a’ccom-
panied with dark accessories such as
fashion decrees with white. Note the
navy beret, the navy-striped silk shirt,
the navy gloves and bag. These iden
tical accessories carried out in Dubon
net red are stunning.
A Fox Bracelet
Fur bracelets are next. Fox takes
the lead and either bands the elbow or
encircles the lower arm Just above the
wrist.
straps made ^ 0 ne row of insertion
banded on eaclijde W i t h lace. Others
are made of stfoy net wit t, V al trim
ming.
As for pettle^ s> some are the old-
fashioned One fisH D with eyelet em
broidery; otheri re of p a9 tei taffeta,
or plaid, or flowq^ taffeta, with rows
and rows of nariy Val Iace ruff i e8>
Swankiest Tailed Suits
Are Boa^g Lace Gilets
Many of the swaj es t tailored suits
boast iace gilets. W a re dainty and
soft and provide JA the right back
ground for a beautfi brooeb, or
treasured strand o^arls. Some of
the daintiest gilets ^ lace fronta
and collars and net i.jj g w jth elastic
in the waistline. Ot^ are b ac ijies S j
others are really all-L r , ace blouses
with short sleeves. 4jcon, yards of
val, or net are the f^ re( j ma terials.
If you visit the srD: hneckwear de
partments or lace yard\ departments,
you’ll want a supply <gj] e t s to pro
vide variety for your \mj-by suit
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