Kansas City Tots Scorn Modern Swing Music
Swing music is definitely out as far as members of the Kansas City Toy Symphony orchestra are con
cerned. Appearing recently at the Golden Gate International exposition in San Francisco, the orchestra
was led by young Lloyd Frederick, playing marimba, xylophone and orchestra bells in a series of difficult
numbers. The tots, from 3*4 to 9 years of age, are members of a Kansas City musical school.
Heil! Heil! Gang’s All Here: Can You Name ’Em?
Diplomat, dummy and dukr—they’re all included in this controversial caricature done by Conrad W.
Massaguer, Cuban cartoonist, for the private restaurant of the Cuban pavilion at the New York World’s
fair. The drawing shows (right of dancer) Mayor Florcllo H. La Guardia playing maracas for the rhumba
dance. President Roosevelt playing the bull liddle, Gov. Lehman the drum and Grover Whalen the guitar.
At left of dancer, first row: King Victor Emmanuel, Premier Mussolini, Mahatma Ghandi, Charlie Chap
lin, Charlie McCarthy and the duke of Windsor. Rear row includes King Carol, John L. Lewis, Marshal Goer
ing, George Bernard Shaw, Haile Selassie, Prime Minister CHamberiain, King Gustaf and Joseph Stalin.
Pedal Plane Speedy—At Least on Ground j
Resembling a winged baby buggy, this peculiar looking contraption
is the invention of Paul Fouilleul (right) of Paris, The propeller is pow
ered by pedals. M. Fouilleul has not as yet attempted to take off. but
lias high hopes that the plane will fly. Ground tests have shown a possible
speed of 35 kilometers per hour.
No Alibis Accepted for Tardiness
Beauty leaders from five of the Big Ten universities, chosen as
hostesses for the Elgin observatory at the New York World’s fair, dem
onstrate the latest in “hats of time.” Left to right: Libby Rice. Indiana
university; Treva Berry, Purdue: Rosemary Best, University of Illinois;
Edith Prior Leahy, Iowa, and Sally Douglas, Northwestern.
Pulse Played an Important Role for Galileo
You carry a fair-to-middling time
keeper, right on your wrist. It is an
individual time-piece and before you
can use it, you have to test it against
a good watch which indicates sec
onds. The average pulse beats
about 36 times to the half minute,
while the person is still. Try out
your own and see what your figure
is. The pulse is a useful timer—it
was used quite extensively before
watches came out Galileo used it
in his discovery of the principle of
the pendulum—one of the first and
basic discoveries in science. But
with the advent of watches with sec
ond hands, this method went out
; Today, few people ever look at sec
Paralysis Victim
A victim of chronic infantile i
paralysis, Lou Gehrig, New York
Yankees’ ailing first baseman, may
never play baseball again. lie is
being greeted by his wife as he re
turns to New York from the Mayo
clinic In Rochester, Minn., where he
was examined.
Cinderella’s Slippers
Here arc the shoes of tomorrow,
according to Sally Hand, wcll-km^wn
figure in the entertainment world,
who introduced them at San Fran
cisco’s Golden Gate exposition. Sal
ly’s dazzling slippers are made of a
transparent plastic similar to glass.
ond hand on their watches from
year’s end to year’s end.
4-H Club Girls Taught Make-Up by N. Y. Ballerinas
Helen Margaret Michael and Marjorie Jensen, Oregon farm girls who won the National 4-H club social
progress contest, learn the rudiments of stage make-up from Ruby Asquith and Grace Thomas of the Radio
City Music hall. Miss Jensen, who is being made-up, and Miss Michael, standing beside her. renresented
4,500 club units at the New York World’s fair.
Zoo Baby Demands De Luxe Service
This 18-month-old baby elephant arrived recently at the Philadelphia,
Pa., zoo to take up temporary quarters with two antelopes. When the zoo’s
newest tenant proves to her keepers that she is accustomed to and
friendly with humans, she will be transferred to the baby zoo. The little
elephant, three-feet, nine-inches tall, was caught in Rangoon, Burma, and
is the gift of Frank B. Foster, a zoo director. Keeper Pat Cronin is
shown feeding the youngster on its arrival at the zoo.
‘Casey Jones Was the Rounder's Name’
Mrs. John Luther Jones, widow of the famed Casey Jones, hero of
song and story, who was killed in a historic train wreck on April 30, 1900,
shakes hands with Engineer Herbert Nicholson, who is in the cab of the
“William Mason” of 1870. Many of the trains that were operating when
Casey Jones died “with his hand on the throttle” are on exhibition at
the New York World’s fair. The song of Casey’s death has become one
of America’s best known ballads, originating with the noted engineer’s
Negro helper.
Even though his Belgian wife, Princess Marie Jose, snaps out the
stiff-armed Fascist salute during ceremonies in Nuoro, Italy, Crown
Prince Umbj?rto—who has had several tiffs with the Black Shirts—seems
to prefer the pre-Fascism military salute. The ceremonies were held
In honor of cadets who fell in the recent Spanish civil war.
Globe-Trotting Cyclist
Visits in United States
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Peggy Allin, 25-year-old girl from
Mayes, Kent, England, arrived in
New York recently after cycling
across England to Port Talbot,
Wales, where she took a freighter
to Montreal, Canada. She continued
her bicycle trip to New York, and
will cross the continent before visit
ing New Zealand and Australia.
World Traveler
Little Stephen Swanson, six
months old, has already seen a lot
of the world. With his mother, Mrs.
Ted W. Swanson, the infant recently
left Northern Rhodesia, Africa, and
traveled to Seattle by air, rail and
steamer. They were en route to
Norrie, Quebec, Canada, where they
met Mr. Swanson, an engineer.
Socialite Waitress
Carol Woodman, foster daughter
of Dr. James Angell, president
emeritus of Yale university, is work
ing as a waitress in a Krumsvllle,
Pa., restaurant—and likes the Job.
She left Smith college recently, in
forming her parents of the movr
and intends to stay on the Job an.
earn her own way.
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