*fke CHICAGO AN May, 1932 Price 35 Cents J/J C/ uggesllon joi* CDvening ^OUe MARTHA WEATHERED SHOPS Vogue soys. TWO TEAGOWNS TO ONE PAJAMA And here ore two of the seoson's most charming teagowns IF YOU ARE RECEIVING FORMALLY BE A GRACIOUS HOSTESS IN THE TEAGOWN PICTURED ABOVE. LANVIN'S DRAMATIC TWO-COLOR GOWN IN BLACK AND WHITE, RED AND WHITE OR BLUE AND WHITE, $45 JUST A FEW OF YOUR FAVORITE PEOPLE DROPPING IN FOR A CUP OF TEA? THEY'LL ADORE YOU IN THE TEAGOWN BELOW. FLAT CREPE FALLS SUAVELY INTO A TINY TRAIN/ IVORY, GREEN, BLUE, RED OR YELLOW, $19.75 FIFTH FLOOR, SOUTH, STATE ALSO IN SUBURBAN STORES / MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY ,fe> #33 v5> r«JB2 2^ STAGE (Curtains, 8:30 and 2:30 p. m., Matinees Wednesdays and Saturdays, unless otherwise indicated. Call The Chicagoan Theatre Ticket Service, Harrison 003 5, for prices.) iTtCusical THE BLUE MASK— Great North ern, 26 W. Jackson. Central 8240. Guy Robertson, Barbara Newberry, Carl Randall and others in a Shu' bert musical comedy. DON PASQUALE— Blackstone, 60 E. 7th St. Harrison 6609. Oper atic comedy, in English, with Vit- torio Trevisan in the title role. Opening May 16. GEORGE WHITE'S "SCANDALS" — Civic Opera House, Madison and Wacker. Franklin 9810. Rudy Vallee, Willie and Eugene Howard and Ethel Barrymore Colt in the eleventh annual White revue. Opening May 22. "Drama COUNSELLOR -AT -LAW — Er- langer, 127 N. Clark. State 2460. Elmer Rice's fine, detailed play about life in a law office with Otto Kruger and an able cast. A CHURCH MOUSE— Adelphi, 11 N. Clark. Randolph 4466. Louise Groody, of musical comedy fame, and Ernest Glendinning in a very nice and rather amusing sort of- comedy. THE DEVIL PASSES— Selwyn, 180 N. Dearborn. Central 3404. Com edy about the Devil mixing with a group of Moderns. The fine cast includes Basil Rathbone, Mary Nash and Arthur Byron. CONFIDENTIAL SERVICE— Grand Opera House, 119 N. Clark. Central 8240. George M. Cohan as the star of his new play. THE GOOD FAIRY— Harris, 170 N. Dearborn. Central 8240. A Molnar comedy wherein a more or less dotty young woman tries to spread joy among a lot of people including a stodgy old lawyer. Helen Hayes and Walter Connolly head the cast. Opening May 16. CINEMA GRAND HOTEL — The greatest cast since The Birth of a Nation in the greatest production since the same. SO BIG — A triumph of characteriza tion for Barbara Stanwyck and a play no Chicagoan should miss. THE CROWD ROARS— A short cut to Indianapolis Speedway with a better seat and a worse headache at fractional prices. THE MIRACLE MAN — Hobart Bosworth captains a noble effort to recapture the Meighan-Chaney- Compson magic of another decade. THIS IS THE NIGHT — Roland Young, Charles Ruggles and asso ciates make mirth, music and merry in a genuinely sophisticated comedy. ONE HOUR WITH TO U— Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald excel previous excellent results un der Lubitsch direction. c 0 N T E N T S l TURF TIME, by Burnham C. Curtis 4 CURRENT ENTERTAINMENT 6 DINING ROOMS AROUND THE TOWN 13 EDITORIAL COMMENT 15 CHICAGO ANA, conducted by Donald Plant 17 IT'S BOOTS AND SADDLES AGAIN, by Larry Fitzgerald 18 CRADLE OF THE PRESIDENCY, by Jordan 19 THE CONVENTION RACKET, by Milton S. Mayer 21 KATHARINE CORNELL, by Vandamm 22 CHAIRS IN THE AISLE, by William C. Boyden 23 WHAT-SHALL-WE-DO-AFTERWARDS, by Durand Smith 24 OUR DEBT TO EUROPE 25 THOSE VOICES CALLING, by Lucia Lewis 26 MORE ABOLTT PROUST, by Henry Channon 27 SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB HORSE SHOW 28 ACTIVE IN Y. W. C. A. WORK, by Paul Stone-Raymor, Ltd. 30 ON TO GREENER PASTURES 32 BEVERLY HILLS INFANT WELFARE WORKERS, by Paul Stone- Raymor, Ltd. 34 BLACKFRIARS AT PLAY 35 PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, by Caroline S. Krum 36 CLOTHES ON THE GO, by The Chicagoenne 37 ILLUSTRATIONS, by Jane Currie 38 TAKING THE AISLE, by The Hostess 40 CLOTHES FOR THE SUMMER SEASON, by Frank Hesh 46 BARKS AND GROWLS, by B. M. Cumminga 49 URBAN PHENOMENA, by Virginia Skinkle THE CHICAGOAN— W.ll.am R. Weaver, Editor; E. S. Clifford, General Manager- -is published monthly by The Chicagoan Publishing Company. Marti n Quiglev, President 407 South Dearborn street. Chicago. 111. Harrison 0035. M. C. Kite Advertising Manager New York Office. 1790 Broadway. Los Angeles Office. Pacific States Life Bldg Pacific Coast Office, Simpson-Reilly, Bendix Building, Los Angeles; Russ Bldg., San Francisco Subscription $3.00 annually; single copy 35c. Vol. XII. No. 10. May, 1<)32. Copyright l')3-> Entered as second class matter August 19, ly.ll. at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the act of March 3, 1879. MISLEADING LADT — Claudette Colbert sustains interest in a light comedy of no particular moment. ARE TOU LISTENING7— William Haines without the wisecracks turns out to be a quite acceptable journeyman actor. CARELESS LADT — Joan Bennett disposes nicely of sister Constance's recent plot about the nice girl who got herself a reputation to get her man. HOTEL CONTINENTAL— A not uninteresting, nor engrossing, hotel robbery story. TOUNG AMERICA— A plain, di rect treatment of the bad boy problem and a fine hour for parent or child. TARZAN THE APE MAN - Johnny Weismuller's screen bow and that's worth the time. ART ART INSTITUTE - - Michigan at Adams. International Exhibition of Etching and Engraving, until May 1 5. International Water Color Exhibition, until May 30. ACKERMAN'S — 408 S. Michigan. Exhibition of etchings by W. Rus sell Flint, A.R.A. English paint ings, sporting prints and water colors. ANDERSON'S— 536 S. Michigan. Exhibition of paintings of the sea by Frank Vining Smith. Etchings, mezzotints and find prints. A. STARR BEST, INC.— Randolph and Wabash. Special exhibition of a collection of iron-stone china and silhouettes; antiques and 'works of art in the Collector's Corner. BROWN-ROBERTSON CO. — 302 Palmer House Shops. Exhibition of woodcuts by Walter J. Phillipps. GALLERT OF MODERN LIFE— Diana Court, 540 N. Michigan. Tenth Annual Exhibition of The Chicago No-Jury Society of Art ists. May 21 through June 18. INDIAN TRADING POST— Italian Court, 619 N. Michigan. Indian jewelry, pottery, textiles; Navajo rugs and Mexican craftwork. CHESTER JOHNSOH — 410 S. Michigan. Drawings of planets and compositions by Ferdinand Leger. Water colors by Victor Higgins. M. KHOEDLER & CO. — 622 S. Michigan. Exhibition of bird paintings by Karl Plath, until until May 14. M. O'BRIEN &• SON — 673 N. Michigan. Exhibition of etchings' and drawings of polo and the hunt by Paul Brown. INCREASE ROBINSON — Diana Court, 540 N. Michigan. Ex hibition of water colors by Edgar Britton, Richard M. Crisler and Elise Donaldson with drawings by Raymond Jonson. TATMAN. INC.— 625 N. Michigan. English china; modern and antique crystal service; lamps and furniture. GERRIT VANDERHOOGT — 410 S. Michigan. Exhibition of fine prints by contemporary artists. TAMANAKA &• CO. — 846 N. Michigan. Chinese and Japanese art objects; oriental- paintings of all kinds. TABLES Luncheon — Dinner — Later A BIT OF SWEDEN— 1011 Rush. Delaware 1492. Unique, quaint and the atmosphere and cuisine are Swedish. Especially famous for its smorgasbord. Decorated with Swedish objects d'art. CHARM HOUSE — 800 Tower Court. A new establishment bring ing to Chicago the same food that has been enjoyed and so well served in Charm House in Cleveland for four years. MRS. SHINTANI'S — 3725 Lake Park. Oakland 2775. Here you can be served a complete Japanese meal — suki-yaki and the several other Japanese dishes. Better call a day ahead. MT. ARARAT — 117 E. Chestnut Delaware 3 300. Armenian cui sine; something different that ought to be tried. Host M. Jacques (who has exhibited at the Art Institute) has done the interior himself. GOLDSTEIN'S— 821 West 14th St. Roosevelt 2085. In Death Valley to be sure, but you ought to taste the steaks prepared in the native Roumanian style and the other Roumanian dishes. HTDE PARK CLUB— 53rd at Lake Park. On the roof of the bank building. Excellent luncheon and dinners. A'so, perfectly suited for dances, private parties and so on. 4 The Chicagoan Individuality. in the Women's Costume Shop ... is often achieved in the simplest of ways. Take this after noon dress. It's just a blue Canton crepe affair, with eyelet embroidered bands across white crepe shoulders. Something like the jumpers you Wore as a child. But it's so right, so typical of the clothes Nelle Diamond always selects, that to see it is to love it. Bruyere created the original. Mandel copies $49.50. The square crowned sailor hat is a copy of Marie Alphonsine. $15. MANDEL BROTHERS a store of youth • a store of fashion • a store of moderate price Copyrighted Photographed by Victor Haveman SANDOR PRESENTS ANOTHER ESCUTCHEON, THE SEVENTEENTH OF HIS SERIES, TO ANOTHER LOCAL CELEBRITY, MAX EPSTEIN HUTLER'S — 20 S. Michigan, 3 ION. Michigan, Palmolive Building. For luncheon, tea or dinner and no matter where you are, if you are around Town at all, you aren't too far from one of the three. WON KO W— 223 5 Wentworth. Calumet 1189. Not the usual chop suey place, but a real Chinese dining room situated in China town, serving real Chinese dishes prepared in the native way. CASA DE ALEX — 58 E. Delaware. Superior 9697. That old Spanish atmosphere, service and catering. It is, all in all, rather unique and your out-of-town guests ought to enjoy dining there. NINE HUNDRED— 900 N. Michi gan. Delaware 1187. A very knowing place; for one thing, there's the cuisine, and for another, if that be necessary, the at mosphere. MAISON CHAPELL— 1142 S. Michigan. Webster 4240. Where those who are connoisseurs of ex cellent French cuisine assemble for the pleasure of an evening. HARDING'S COLOHIAL ROOM — 21 S. Wabash. State 0841. Fa mous for its old fashioned Ameri can dishes, including corned beef and cabbage, and for service, effi ciency and a variety of foodstuffs. ST. HUBERT'S OLD EHGLISH GRILL — 316 Federal. Webster 0770. Anglo-Saxon atmosphere, waiters in scarlet jackets and all of the noble foods of old England for those who would dine well. CHEZ LOUIS— 120 E. Pearson. De'aware 0860. French and Ameri can catering. M. Louis Steffen has with him his old Opera Club and Ciro's staff and chefs. SHEPARD TEA ROOM— 616 S. Michigan. Webster 3163. Good foods at reasonable prices; in the arcade of the Arcade Building. RED STAR INN— 1528 N. Clark. Delaware 3942. Abounding with noble Teutonic foodstuffs and the quiet of an old German Inn. For three decades Papa Gallauer, who will attend you, has kept his estab lishment what it is today. RICKETT'S— 2727 N. Clark. Diver- sey 2322. The home of the straw berry waffle. And here, too, the late-at-nighters find just the right club sandwich or huge steak. MME. GALLI'S— 18 E. Illinois. Delaware 2681. Here one finds stage and opera celebrities and ex cellent Italian cuisine. MAILLARD'S — 308 S. Michigan. Harrison 1060. Pleasant surround ings and people and a moderately snooty luncheon, tea and dinner place. They'll be glad to check your dog, too. GRATLING'S— 410 N. Michigan. Whitehall 7600. Catering to the feminine taste, but there's a grill for men in the rear. Well patron ized by nice people. And right at the Bridge. JIM IRELAND'S OTSTER HOUSE — 632 N. Clark. Delaware 2020. An astonishing selection of deli cacies from the deep; wonderfully prepared. ]ULIEH'S — 1009 Rush. Delaware 0040. Heaping portions of every thing and a broad board and Mama Julien's equally .broad smile. Better telephone for reservations. LE PETIT GOURMET — 615 N. Michigan. Superior 1184. A luncheon and dinner place well at tended by good people and some thing of a show place. It, too, is perhaps more feminine than mascu line. ROCOCO HOUSE— 161 E. Ohio. Delaware 3688. Swedish menu and unstinted hors d'oeuvres and an amazing variety of dishes. Works of Scandinavian craftsmen are also on view. ALLEGRETTI'S— 228 S. Michigan, 1 1 E. Adams. Convenient eating places where excellent foods may be had, especially for luncheon or tea. L'AIGLOH — 22 E. Ontario. Dela ware 1909. French and Creole dishes prepared by a competent kitchen. There are private dining rooms and an altogether pleasant orchestra. M. Teddy Majerus over sees. EITEL'S — Northwestern Station. Truly a blessing in a neighborhood where good restaurants are few and far between. A place you'll want to remember if you ever go over that way. KAU'S— 127 S. Wells. Dearborn 4028. Sound, hearty German dishes appealing to those who would be well-fed. MAISONETTE RUSSE— 2800 Sheridan Road. Lakeview 10554. Russian-European catering and a concert string trio during dinner hours. VASSAR HOUSE — Diana Court, 540 N. Michigan. Superior 6508. Here you may have luncheon, tea, dinner and even breakfast in a most modern setting. There's the lovely Diana Court, too. HENRICI'S — 71 W. Randolph. Dearborn 1800. Always a sub stantial menu and, as you know, when better coffee is made there'll still be no orchestral din at Henrici's. zJxComing — Noon — Nigh t HOTEL SHERMAN— Clark at Ran dolph. Franklin 2100. At College Inn: Julius Tannen is M. C. Grand music and good fun. Every Thursday is Theatrical Night. Maurie Sherman plays for tea dances. CONGRESS HOTEL — Michigan at Congress. Harrison 3800. Bernie Kane and his band play in the Balloon Room. There's a floor show, too. Weekly cover charge, $1.00; Saturday, $2.50. A la carte service. DRAKE HOTEL— Lake Shore Drive at Michigan. Superior 2200. Carl Moore and his band are in the Lantern Room. A la carte service. Weekly cover charge, $1.25; Sat urday, $2.50. Table d'hote dinner in the Italian Room, $1.50. HOTEL LA SALLE— La Salle at Madison. Franklin 0700. Charley Straight and his boys play in the Blue Fountain Room. Dinner, $1.50; supper, $1.00. No cover charge. NEW BISMARCK HOTEL — 171 W. Randolph. Central 0123. Art Kassel and his orchestra play for dinner and supper dancing from 7:00 p. m. to 1:00 a. m.; later on Saturday. Dinners, $1.50 and $2.00. No cover charge. STEVEKLS HOTEL— 7 30 S. Mich igan. Wabash 4400. George Dev- ron and his band play in the main dining room. Dinner, $1.50. No cover charge. BLACKSTONE HOTEL — 656 S. Michigan. Harrison 4300. The traditionally fine Blackstone food and service. Margraff directs the String Quintette. Otto Staach is maitre. PEARSON HOTEL— 190 E. Pear son. Superior 8200. Here you will find all the niceties in menu and appointments that bespeak re finement. EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL — 5300 Block, Sheridan Road. Long- beach 6000. Charlie Agnew and his orchestra. Dinners, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50; no cover charge. After dinner guests, $1.00. Sat urdays, cover charge, $1.00; after dinner guests, $2.00; dancing till 2:30 a. m. LAKE SHORE DRIVE HOTEL — 181 Lake Shore Drive. Superior 8 500. Rendezvous of the town notables and equally notable for cuisine and service. Luncheon, $1.00. Dinner, $2.00. Theodore is maitre. GEORGIAN HOTEL— 422 Davis Street. Greenleaf 4100. Fine serv ice and foods. Where Evansto- nians and near-northsiders are apt to be found dining. HOTEL WINDERMERE — E. 56th St. at Hyde Park Blvd. Fairfax 6000. Famous throughout the years as a delightful place to dine. Two dining rooms; no dancing. Dinners, $2.00 and $1.50. HOTEL BELMONT — 3156 Sher idan Road. Bittersweet 2100. A Paris trained chef who prepares delicious dinners which are prop erly served by alert, quiet waiters. SHORELAND HOTEL— 5454 South Shore Drive. Plaza 1000. The splendid Shoreland cuisine and hospitality are a delight to south- side diners-out. Dinner, $2.00. CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL— 1660 Hyde Park Blvd. Hyde Park 4000. A pleasant place with an ample menu and alert serv.ice. Conven ient for the southside diners-out, especially. Dinners, $1.50 and $2.00. Gifford is in charge. EAST END PARK— Hyde Park Blvd. at 53rd St. Fairfax 6100. A popular dining place on the southside. Table d'hote dinner, $1.00. SENECA HOTEL— 200 E. Chest nut. Superior 2380. The service and the a la carte menus in the Cafe are hard to match, no matter how meticulous the diner may be. Table d'hote dinner, $1.50. PALMER HOUSE — State at Mon roe. Randolph 7500. In the Vic torian Room, dinner, $1.50. In the Chicago Room, $1.00. In the Empire Room, $2.00. KNICKERBOCKER HOTEL — 163 E. Walton. Superior 4264. One of the outstanding ballrooms of the Town and smaller private party rooms, too. The cuisine is excep tional. In the main dining room, dinner, $1.50; in the Coffee Shop, $1.00. Dusk Till Dawn CAFE DE ALEX— 80 W. Randolph. Andover 2438. "Gorde" Birch and his Texans and a Spanish floor show. No cover charge. LINCOLN TAVERN — Dempster Road at Morton Grove. Al Hand ler's band until May 26 when Earl Burtnett opens. BLACKHAWK — 139 N. Wabash. Dearborn 6262. Herbie Kay and his orchestra play. Service is alert and Blackhawk cuisine has always been known as perfect. TERRACE GARDENS — Morrison Hotel, 79 W. Madison. Franklin 9600. Frankie Masters and his band play and there's the famous Morrison kitchen to prepare your food. Dinners, $1.50 and $2.00. No cover charge. THE RUBAJTAT — 657 St. Clair. Delaware 8862. Eddie South and his international orchestra, direct from a three-year tour, are drawing the crowds to one of the Town s newest clubs. VANITY FAIR — Broadway at Grace. Buckingham 3254. Floor show, four every evening, and Leo Wolf and his orchestra. No cover charge. CLUB ALABAM — 747 Rush. Dela ware 0808. Chinese and Southern menus, Frank Furlett and his orchestra and a floor show. PARAMOUNT— 16 E. Huron. Delaware 0426. The Town's cosi est club. Syd Lange and his boys provide the music and there's a floor show. No cover charge. CLUB NOCTURNE— 12 E. Pear son. Delaware 9823. Eddie Ma- kin and his band and a good revue. No cover charge. GRAND TERRACE — 3955 South Parkway. Douglas 3600. Earl Hines, at the piano, and his band are back again. Ed Fox is in charge. BLUE GROTTO — Van Buren and Wabash. Webster 4122. Good floor show and Corey Lynn and his orchestra. No cover charge. Victor Muzii leads the way. 6 The Chicagoan THE PACKARD TWIN-SIX ^zisl/nerica's finest motor car PACKARD, builder of this country's first twelve - cylinder motor car, now offers America's most advanced twelve -cylinder car — the new and sensational Packard Twin Six. Those who have driven this great, new Super- Packard go farther still and pronounce it America's finest car. They base their judg ment on its majestic beauty, its richly luxu rious interior, its complete and restful comfort — but more especially on its superb and thrilling performance. The new Packard Twin Six motor is a masterpiece of automotive en gineering. At a conservative rating it develops 160 horsepower. This over- abundance of power is reflected in flashing, brilliant speed — speed that is never labored, speed that always leaves something in reserve. We believe that never before has there been a car so swift, so quiet, so smooth. We are sure that it obsoletes all multi-cylinder cars of conventional type. We invite you to see it — to drive it — at any time We want you to see and drive the Packard Twin Six. It will be your great est motoring experience, for there is literally nothing with which to com pare this supreme car. With Silent Synchro -mesh Transmission, quiet in- low as well as in second and high, -with simple, safe Finger Control Free wheeling and the original Packard Ride Control, you will find it the high est development of driving ease and riding comfort. Again we say, there is literally nothing like it. Twelve dis tinguished body styles are available, with a wide range of color combina tions and upholstery selections. Prices, compared even with today's low trends, are most moderate. Come and be our guest for a demonstration drive in a new Packard Twin Six. ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE PACKARD 7320 Stony Island Ave. 3156 Sheridan Road MOTOR CAR COMPANY OF CHICAGO 2357 South Michigan Avenue 1735 E. Railroad Ave., Evanston 925 Linden Ave., Hubbard Woods May, 1932 7 M\ rennet, ote ^°m fj trees ^d f * , .uests _—. *o*£« *>»*! L res" DON'T HIRE A HALL hands >N ... ... — — ' or it's too much ns and rooms and <,0o .w-t- Tcur11 When you have a larKt: function on trouble to entertain at home, just rem rooms at LAIGLON. For private parties and banquets of any size — from two to two hundred — L'AIGLON has a series of special dining rooms. The same inimitable cuisine, the same swift service, even the same music brought to you by radio outlets from our Main Dining Room. Orchestra and Dancing No Cover Charge Luncheon Dinner Supper ICUIl JLF111 L 9Ai± 1 ' iglon Delaware 1909 22 East Ontario Sunda '2 No 800 XE >«¦¦ Mich, ?:30 P. tt 9 P- M. ^e £/< ld Water TV Chica*°> aler I ovver —^"P^-'or 4781 co"'Pfete 37, _ ^»***,7. "i/ a*rf 4, Us V. vv. Or »/>o C-/7fi 1U'are Unique Russian Retktaaram MAISONETTE RUSSE Luncheon $.75 Dinner $1.50 Russian hand carved souvenir given to the ladies at after noon Samovar teas, dinners. Russian Folk Songs by Miss Mary Sava anil Mr. Sankajevsky Piano Solo by Louis Laughlin Formerly Starj of the PetTtuhlta Club Diversey and Sheridan Lakeview 10S54 3rm ST O tcGaUaUer' P-oprJetor '"• Clark Street rw Oelaware 0440- C. Gallat 1 528 N. Clark Street -0928 r -o<5 ?^^9^ — haV( WocV » VEBX^viCB ^SVVOOC A^D Sprlng r— » p, w" j from v"w raEi)«'l __ Dinner Served ^^ ^^ AlO^^^^ VrS Te\ePV The Chicagoan The freedom of SPACE TO «UVOP^ Yes, it's full size. Yes, that's a hedge of real trees. Yes, that's the Atlantic. Beyond the hedge, a duck of a court- side caf6 serves post-game tea and scones. This new size-speed-SPACE liner provides an unheard-of Trans-Atlantic luxury. . . space to play . . . space to live . . . more square feet per first-class passenger than any other ship. Squash, swimming. 27-foot apartments. Private baths. Holds all Am erica-to -Europe speed records, too . . . dock-to-dock 4 days, 17 hours, 59 minutes . . . land-to-land 3 days, VA hours. Regular sailings from Quebec to Southampton, Cherbourg . . . from May till October. 20% REDUCTION IN RATES. ALL CLASSES Empitss<*Britain TO EUROPE \<mJfenfr it SEA-GOING npurttn&nt: Four months in a world-cruise "Empress" apartment costs no more than living in town. You make new friends, live a varied life. You hail a rickshaw, not a taxi. You cannily haggle over ivories, embroideries, in the Chandni Chowk, instead of tele phoning for some rabbit's wool underwear. You look out from your awninged deck on a colorful harbor with native dhows ... go to dances, play tennis, swim in the indoor and outdoor pools, listen to good music aboard . . . come home with new conversation, pictures of a new world. Fares as low as $2,250. 70% of First Class apartments have private bath, at low rates. FROM NEW YORK DECEMBER 3 From New York Dec. 3rd GIBRALTAR ALGERIA ITALY GREECE PALESTINE EGYPT INDIA CEYLON JAVA SIAM 1 29 DAYS 81 PORTS AND PLACES Taj Mahal Empitss"rBritain WORLD CRUISE Canadian Pacific Information, booklets, reservations from E. A. Kenney, Steamship General Agent, 71 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, 111. Wabash 1904. May, 193 2 9 \ /l S IT •• • Hie V PITTS Fl ELD BUILDING CHICAGO'S LEADING SHOP AND PROFESSIONAL BUILDING Shops of the most exclusive type where real quality and value are assure d PITTSHELD BUILDING Wabash and Washington Streets Opposite Marshall Field's 10 The Chicagoan shop s in t h e Pittsfield Building MERTON P. METCALF Pioneer Stationer of Chicago Stationery - Engraving Wedding Invitations Featuring the new thin wedding sheet of the fin' est quality — the most fashionable you could choose. Monogram Stationery Prices Most Reasonable MERTON P. METCALF Room 305, Pittsfield Bldg. Telephone Randolph 5551 William J. 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WASHINGTON Suite 431 FRANKLIN 9801 1215 E. 63rd STREET FAIRFAX 88SS Custom Made Hats Hats moulded to the head — reflecting your personality ilarrtette p. Jf rattfe Suite 420 Pittsfield Bldg. Telephone Dearborn 6746 l2vrchopedk: SHOES For the WOMAN Who Likes STYLE Plus COMFORT Two feet of comfort in every pair £7.50 to £10.50 LEONARD VAN, INC. Main Floor — Pittsfield Bldg. 31 N. Wabash Ave. Telephone State 9743 THE MARK vOF THE GENTLEMAN Belzer & Noren Importing Tailors Serving a clientele of conservative well dressed Chicagoans Business suits Now $90.00 and $100.00 Suite 741 Pittsfield Building Telephone State 8857 Stop In At The PITTSFIELD TAVERN For Luncheon and Dinner You'll Enjoy Eating Here (Entrance off lobby) May, 1932 11 K These different Irish homespuns! "Sportocccisins" — the comfort of a moccasin in a smart golf oxford. Spiked or cord soles. $10 to $13 The old, loosely-woven homespuns from around thehillsof Donegalwere beautiful incolorandchar- acter. But their open weaves made them wear some what baggy. Under strain they pulled at the seams. So we worked with Irish spinners and hand- weavers to produce a closely-woven, durable homespun with the coloring and character of the ancient fabrics but suited to the modern demand for smartness, style and correct tailoring. We have these new Irish homespuns in a wide variety of four- piece sport suits. The popularity of English wool neckties will be noted this Spring. Checks, Stripes, Figures. Imported. $1.50 Anderson and Brothers MICHIGAN at WASHINGTON ROGERS PEET CLOTHING Hats • Shoes • Furnishings 12 The Chicagoan CHICAGOAN EDITORIALLY THE upturn impends. It must. Calamity has ceased to be comic. Poverty has become a bore. Depression, a stale joke, an explored novelty and an exhausted experi ence, slips now into tired memory. Mind has anticipated the market and men are swift to the conquest of careful money, too careful money, returned into circulation by forces as dif' ferent as economic rebellion and spring urge. Did we say men? Reference is to no such stalwart figures as those captained by the Potter Palmer who led a charred Chicago to new heights. Such may come. Meanwhile it is the pygmy profiteer, no matter how shamefully, whose ratlike bur- rowings beneath the wreckage of a crumbled confidence bring up evidence of unstemmed life below. The case of one of these, new to business and distinctly a product of the times, illustrates. The merchandise racketeer is the child of the foreclosure, beneficiary of the receivership, his success guaranteed by the failure of his victim. His method is accident proof. He accepts custody of a business brought low by devotion to standards rep resented in an ancient and honorable name. He announces liquidation of stock on hand at record reduction. In reality, he returns to manufacturers all returnable merchandise on hand and substitutes inferior grades promptly proffered at prices low for the name adopted but excessive with relation to actual quality. You may have met him. The law has. There are always the pygmy profiteers. They pass, but they serve. They have been first on the scene after every eco nomic crash in history, ghoulish harbingers of brighter days. We thought this was just the right kind of fine spring morning to break the glad news. Thespis Instructs AS this is written two Chicago theatres are functioning in a manner unheard of these two score months and more. They are the Harris and the Woods and they have only Dearborn street in common. At one Miss Katharine Cornell enacts The Barretts of Wimjpole Street upon the stage. At the other a dozen Cornells of Hollywood Boulevard enact Grand Hotel upon the screen. Everybody in Chicago seems to want to go to both plays, tonight! This is not the time of year for this kind of thing. Tradition is that about now a summer show of a sort moves into a small theatre to entertain Chicago visitors during the dog days and the cinemas put up announcements of thermometric conditions prevailing within. Something, a very nice kind of something, has upset tradition's apple cart. Mr. Boyden analyzes the Cornell phenomena lucidly and at commensurate length in his drama notes of the month. He says, in more words, that the Harris houses a damn good show. He or anyone could employ as many words or as few and state no more truthfully the case of the Woods. But what we would like to know is how it can be that a certain play and a certain picture, advertised and publicized no differently and no more extravagantly than any other play and picture, get to be known overnight to every member of a varied and innumerable public as the very best play and picture of the period. We suppose the answer is the familiar better-mouse-trap story again, and if it is we're tremendously glad to know that the old law is still in force. We never did understand its working, but it's a great system for days like these and we're for it. Farewell to Arms T TNLESS the expected unexpected that has figured so con sistently in his record intervenes, Mr. Alphonse Capone will be cultivating new associates in a far and presumably per manent place when this is printed. If the unexpected expected that usually trips up logicians follows as planned, columnists and after dinner speakers and transient notables and novelists and musical comedy gagmen will cleanse their repertoires forth with of all jests, allusions, insinuations and puns having root in Chicago's ancient reputation for bigger and bloodier crime. That will be dandy. Somehow, we can't believe that Mr. Capone's incarceration is going to work out quite that gloriously. Mr. Capone's con viction didn't draw just the applause that might have been wished for. Mr. Capone's departure for prison 'was not de clared a feast day by a delivered citizenry. The Capone era ended, if it has ended, on a very flat note. Perhaps it could not end otherwise, although a little thought ful stage dressing would have added to the tone of the produc tion and harmed no one while pointing the inevitable moral sharply enough for all. The detention of a gangland ace, any gangland ace, is a splendid accomplishment of course, but the Capone conviction should have been dramatized for the good of the town and the country. The man is gone, but the melo drama that he lived is not erased. It should have been. It pos sesses many of the qualities that enter into the makeup of a classic. Chicago could have done without another such. Welcome to Chi cago T^REE as we are of political interest, we have arranged to A observe fittingly the approach and passage of the national conventions. Mr. Milton S. Mayer's article in this issue, The Convention Rac\et, is prefatory to an even more illuminative and amusing treatment of the subject in the June number. And both, if not too many wrong results mark the ceremonies at the Stadium, are curtain raisers to a proper summarization of the situation come July. We emphasize these articles for several reasons. Firstly, we consider them excellent reading. Secondly, they regard their subject without dismay or confusion and exemplify an attitude toward the crises of June and November that several millions of voters could adopt with considerable profit to self and nation. Finally, we feel that a gesture of welcome to the oncoming hosts is no less than an obligation. We trust that it will not be misinterpreted by the delegates. MKS~FSFT'H/ 4V£A/|/, Announcing the Opening of THE TALLY-HO SHOP Outdoor Fashions for Misses and Women We've found that the American sportswoman cares just as much about correct form in her sports clothes as she does about form in her tennis stroke. Whether she actively participates or takes her fun in spectating she knows that good form is nine-tenths of the game. So 'we've assembled everything in apparel and accessories together for her in one room. Whether it's a washable dress that will stand the sun — and the full sweep of her golf swing — that she is searching for — or a stunning ensemble to wear out at Arlington or the coun try club — she can find it in a twinkling — and have all her accessories to match. SECOND FLOOR SAKS-FIFTH AVENUE • CHICAGO North Michigan at Chestnut 14 The Chicagoan Chicagoana A Few Seasonable Observations and. Possibly, Pert Commentary Conducted by Donald Plant /ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S life, we under- /-% stand, will play an important part in ¦*¦ the educational features of A Century of Progress Exposition in 1933. A group of five buildings will be erected on the lake front near Twenty-eighth Street visualizing the principal events in the picturesque history of the (Great) Emancipator. The buildings will comprise the log cabin in which Lincoln was born, the cabin in which he spent his boyhood, the old Lincoln-Berry store, the Wigwam in which he was nominated for the presidency of the United States and something that will be known as the Rutledge Tavern. Dr. Louis A. Warren, director of the Lin coln Historical Research Foundation, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, which has the largest private library of Lincoln literature in the world, is cooperating with the Congress Construction Company to make the reproductions of the Lincoln buildings and their furnishings his torically correct in every detail. Dr. Warren was in Chicago recently looking over the site. Ground has already been broken for the first of the group. It is planned to have the buildings completed before June 1, so that the replica of the Wigwam may be dedi cated before the Republican National Conven tion is held here in June. At the World's Fair the Wigwam, which will be forty by seventy-two feet, or two-fifths the size of the original, will be used as an exhibit hall show ing all sorts of Lincoln lore, Indian and pio neer relics, to give a complete picture of those old days during the life of the former presi dent. In it also will be reproduced the parlor of Lincoln's Springfield home in which he was notified of his nomination to the presidency. The rustic log cabin at Hodgenville, Ken tucky, which was the birthplace of Lincoln, will be realistically reproduced. It will be twelve by sixteen feet in dimensions, with a stick and clay chimney such as they used in those days. It was in Indiana where Lincoln spent his boyhood, so next to the first cabin will be a replica of the cabin at Lincoln City, Indiana. It was there that Lincoln struggled for his early education and where he learned to wield the ax that gave him the name of the Rail Splitter in later life. Although he was only eight years old when the Lincoln family migrated to Indiana, he helped build this cabin himself. The replica will be eighteen by twenty feet. The furnishings will be of the same type as used by the Lincoln family and it is expected that some of the actual furni ture will be obtained. The Lincoln-Berry store, which was run by the Lincolns at New Salem, Illinois, will be another one of this World's Fair group. It will be an exact reproduction of the original, which is now located in the public park at New Salem. The interior also will be made to resemble the setup at the time it was used by Lincoln. It was in New Salem where young Abe had his early romance with Ann Rutledge which ended so tragically in his sweetheart's death. And the reproduction that is to be called the Rutledge Tavern will be the fifth of the Lincoln group. What Price Name? TT SEEMS that Miss Amy McVicker, grand- daughter of The McVicker who figured largely in early Chicago history, was visiting here not long ago. She went to the old Mc- Vicker's theatre (now under the guiding star of Balaban and Katz), purchased two tickets and then asked if she might see the offices, for sentimental reasons, adding casually that her grandfather had built the theatre. The house official was interested. "That so?" he asked. "Which one was your grand father, Mr. Balaban or Mr. Katz?" 'The By field Basement M. C. JULIUS TANNEN is being hailed every where as something unique and swell in the way of masters of ceremonies, but some of the colts around town have referred to him as a "newcomer" to Chicago. Newcomer, as all of us early settlers will aver, our eye! Julius' rich and prolific one-man entertainment at the College Inn is something Chicago can point to with pride. For Julius is a Chicagoan, even though he was born on the East Side of New York and went to school across the street from Youngling's Brewery of sainted (and scented, as Mr. Tannen recalls) memory. He spent the years from seven to fourteen in an orphanage in N. Y. C. and came here in search of his father after being graduated, summa cum laude in double-ledger book-keep ing and hell-raising, from the orphanage. He found his father — a clerk in a pawn shop on South Clark street, and the boy Julius slept in the back of the shop. His first job was sweeping the cuttings from the floor of a shirt-waist factory at $1.50 a week, but after a half-day at that he realized the salary would not support him in the manner to which he had become accustomed. At fifteen he was taking down the minutes of the meetings of railway presidents' and at nineteen he was J. Ogden Armour's secretary and enforcing Dr. Frank Billings' orders that Mr. Armour was not to leave for home before he had con sumed two bottles of milk each day. De Wolf Hopper, Nat Goodwin, Richard Mansfield, and George M. Cohan liked his impersonations of themselves, and Amy Leslie and George Ade let the world know what a grand thing this youngster was, and Julius quit packing hogs to pack vaudeville houses. The rest of his career is better known. He was a headliner in vaudeville in a few years, and then came the legit, with the Erlangers and Al Woods and Earl Carroll. We remem ber him with Nora Bayes in Her Family Tree, as "Mawruss" of Potash and Perlmutter for two years, and as the original M. C. in the Vanities of 1925. Julius is a loyal Lamb and the most be- seeched toastmaster and after-dinner speaker in New York, a city in the southeastern sec tion of the state by the same name. He's now "LET'S GO, EMORY. YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH MATERIAL FOR YOUR BOOK" May, 1932 15 batting for Ben Bernie at the Inn, and the fun-and-frolic division of the local citizenry are happier than they've been since — well, since Julius Tannen was last in Chicago. What really proves Mr. Tannen's worth is his admitting that he's a Chicagoan when he's in New York — and getting away with it. 11 Make Ours an Eddie" A PARTY of young people stopped in at a dollar-a-drink speakeasy and took stances and stools at the bar. They ordered a num ber of different nuisance drinks, no two want ing the same kind. One young lady, appear ing to have what novelists call a veneer of sophistication, was the last to order. "I think," she said, "I'll have a Jimmy Collins." "You don't mean a James T Collins, do you?" asked the bartender, drawing himself up to his full height. Chicago . . . 10; New York . . . 0 f l *HE only man who, in one week, saw both Mayor James J. Walker and Mayor Anton J. Cermak presented with watches told us all about it. It seems that the mayor of Elgin thought it would be a pretty nice gesture, and one in the interests of punctuality, to give Mayor Walker an Elgin watch, His Honor being what he is: America's most famous exponent of tardiness. "Miss Elgin" (her real name is Miss Ruth Weddon) took the watch to New York on the first run of the Twentieth Cen tury on its eighteen-hour schedule. Mayor Walker was due to receive the watch at 11:30 A. M. But Mayor Walker showed up at 4:45 P. M., five hours and fifteen minutes late! When he appeared and took the watch he apologized in a most charming manner. He was wearing a brown suit, green shirt with tab collar and a light necktie, and was the personification of grace and dappcrness. That was on Monday, April 25. J\ few days later, Mr. T. Albert Potter, the new president of the Elgin National Watch Company, decided that Mayor Cermak might be jealous when he read about the Walker Watch Presentation, or saw it in a moving picture news reel. So Mr. Pot ter went over to Our Mayor's office and pre sented him with a watch. The Mayor didn't keep Mr. Potter waiting a minute. He was wearing a dark blue suit, with a pin stripe, a white shirt with a stiff collar and a polka-dot necktie. Partly due to the fact that he weighs about twice as much as Mayor Walker, he didn't look quite so dapper, but he did look very neat. Our reporter told us, too, that there were about two hundred people waiting to sec Mayor Cermak, while only one man (and he had only one leg) was waiting to sec Mayor Walker. The New York performance had nine photographers and about twenty report ers witnessing the presentation. The local give-away had one photog and one reporter — the City News Bureau man — present, indi cating Chicago's blase attitude towards pres entations. Mayor Walker's office is much larger, grander and more elaborately furnished than our mayor's. There aren't any hangers-on hanging-on around his City Hall as there are here, and no one seemingly ever wants to see the Mayor, because during the five hours the Elgin Presentation People sat around his of fice less than twenty-five people entered the outer reception room. Here there is a steady stream — something like one hundred persons an hour — calling to see Mayor Cermak. Both mayors enjoy being addressed as Mr. Mayor. The Lion's Roar 'TPHE program director of a local radio sta- -*• tion was faced with the problem of ob taining the roar of a lion for a big client. The program director had an elegant idea. There was always, of course, the ancient device of the tin can with the strings pulled through it. But why not a real lion? He got in touch with the famous Cincin nati zoo and had a record made of their most virile lion in the process of roaring. The rec ord was put on in the station, and the client said positively no. It sounded like a horse, he added. "But this is a real lion's roar," said the pro gram director. "I don't care what it is," said the client, "It doesn't sound like a lion to me." So the program director, still unwilling to resort to the tin can deception, looked through his file and found three professional lion-roar ers listed there. He called them in, one by one. He wanted to pay $30 for a record of their roars. No, indeed, each of the lion- roarers protested. They would roar regularly, in the flesh, for $5 an appearance, but no rec ords. They admitted that they had banded together in a sort of Lion-Roarers Protective League to prevent cut-throat competition. At writing (as one has to say sometimes on a monthly magazine) , the program director has presented them with a plea for lower wages. "Why," he sums up, "when everything else is selling cheap, should Lion Roarers command such a salary?" The matter is still in abeyance, both parties standing pat. As for the King of Beasts in the Cincinnati zoo, he is quite out of the running. He doesn't sound like a lion. Infernal Machine HEN that new apparatus from North western University's police and crime laboratory, the "lie-detector," failed to detect a test prevarication on the part of Evanston's Police-Lieutenant W^eideling not long ago, he guffawed freely. Apparently it takes the police to outwit the police. When a group of clubwomen tried, quite experimentally, to white-lie Mr. Keeler's little device on a recent occasion, it trapped them neatly. One of the group who were to face Mr. Kecler and his contrivance, so we are told, first exacted the formers' promise that no questions would concern ages! Even Wal ter Winchell, who might be termed a sort of human equivalent to the merciless Keeler fact finder, usually spares that. The lady was spared. 16 The Chicagoan "IfeK. * vv £,mM^^ It's Boots and Saddles Again 7"^ Local Racing Season Is Underway By Larry Fitzgerald A RAGGED and sleepy black boy gen tling a blanketed thoroughbred down ¦ the wooden runway of a horse car is a harbinger without equal of the Chicago spring. There are plenty of gullible robins, and most blades of grass are suckers for a light shower and a few hours of sunshine. But a black boy out of New Orleans who does not own an overcoat cannot afford to take any chances on his spring; when he comes shuffling down the path to the stables at the Aurora racecourse he does not want any of this hop ping over snow piles or backing into wind. It is now some weeks since a stable boy, his upturned collar as frayed as the chewed end of the straw dangling from a corner of his mouth, did this bit of pioneering. And he proved as reliable as ever, for there has been no break behind him in the procession of the hundreds of horses that will carry silks upon the Chicago turf this season. With them have come the first regiments of that hopeful little army of professional turf followers which takes its literature from the form chart, its mechan ics from the stop watch, and its economics from the morning line. Not many of the horses now on hand are what radio announcers call blue-blooded equine aristocrats of the turf, and within the month not a few will have departed for a summer upon the minor tracks. But more will stay the season out, moving on to Washington Park to race during June against fleet arrivals from the Kentucky and Maryland courses, to the rich purses of the July meeting at Arlington which will see the greatest of America's horses under colors, to Hawthorne in August, to Lincoln Fields in September, and then back to Aurora and the half-mile Sportsmen's Park oval for the brief October meetings which end the local racing year. As far as the tracks and their manage ments are concerned this long season can be nothing but successful, despite the current shortage of what is known to the trade as fresh money. Were racetracks operated for profit it would be another matter, but, as the managements themselves have often declared in speaking right from the heart, racetracks are operated for the improvement of the breed of thoroughbred horses. It would be very diffi cult in this day to find a racing magnate who, however furrowed his brow after a counting of ticket stubs and a tallying of bet ting sheets, could escape a warm glow of satis faction as he raised his seven-power binocu lars to witness the heartening spectacle of a dozen thoroughbreds going right on improving themselves by running a half mile in 0:46 2/5 and going the six furlongs in 1:12 just as though large amounts of folding money were being -wagered upon them. For the racing casual, even though he can not go to the track often, the season may be made an individual success in as short a space as a single afternoon. One method, and a good one, is to pick the winner of the first race and then to follow the common-sense ex pedient of betting back all of the profits upon each of the six succeeding winners. The other, favored by those who must get away early, is to place a shrewd ten-dollar wager upon one or another of the 100-to-l shots that is certain to pop up before October. There is much to be said in favor of each method, but it is best that the individual make his own choice be tween them, for were he persuaded to use one there would always be the lurking thought that the other might have been even more successful. 1 HE success of a season from the sporting point of view, however, lies with the horses themselves, and it is here that Chicago racing in 1932 promises to be both important and of high interest. There are, as in other years, three matters to be deter mined upon the American turf — the two-year- old championship, the three-year-old cham pionship, and the handicap championship for which the older horses race. At this early date there is nothing to be said of the two- year-old championship, for most of the better juveniles have yet to face a barrier and the sifting out of the good ones will require many races such as Washington Park's Curran Memorial, the Arlington Futurity, and the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap. But Chicago's contributions to the settling of the other two may be decisive. The feature of this year's fight for honors among the older horses should be the promised duel between three outstanding four-year-old colts — the Greentree stable's Twenty Grand, A. C. Bostwick's Mate, and C. V. Whitney's Equipoise. The rivalry began when they were two-year-olds, and at the end of 1930 the un handsome Equipoise was considered best. An injury forced his retirement just as he was to meet the other two in last year's Kentucky Derby. Twenty Grand went on to be con ceded the three-year-old championship, but Mate defeated him in two of their three meetings. Twenty Grand is not expected to start this year until the Arlington meeting. Equipoise has come back to race brilliantly in Maryland this spring, and with Mate reported training well the rivalry between them will begin all over. All are named for both the Arlington Cup and the Arlington Handicap, and if one wins both decisively he will be forced to re veal enough speed to make further search for a handicap champion almost unnecessary. The Hawthorne Cup and the Hawthorne Handi cap furnish August possibilities for the trio. The three-year-olds must remain a puzzle until the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby have been run. (And you know the results now.) As a two-year-old in 1931, C. V. Whitney's diminutive filly, Top Flight, won all seven of her races and $219,000, more than any horse of the year and more than any filly had ever won. Just now she is favored to win the three-year-old title. But being a very comely filly with a good instinctive knowl edge of the facts of life, many horsemen feel that preoccupation with the problem of choos ing between a home and a career may prevent her development into as sensational a three- year-old as she was a juvenile, just as it has sent many a promising warbler and fancy diver back to the dishpan. Depending upon her performance in the spring stakes, she will be afforded an oppor tunity either to clinch the three-year-old cham pionship or to regain lost prestige in the $50,- 000 American Derby at Washington Park and in the $70,000 Arlington Classic. If she fails badly in her (Continued on page 55) May, 1932 17 THE PICTURE IS OF THE STADIUM The perpendicular white support of the netting in the lower right hand cor ner mar\s the spot where the next president of the United States, be he Democrat or Repuh' lican, will be nominated °.VS PHOTOGRAPHS i CRADLE OF THE PRESIDENCY WHERE FOURTEEN HUNDRED PRESS WIRES WILL CROSS CHARLIE HALL S OFFICE IN THE COLISEUM MR. HALL IS AT HIS DESK SHOWING THE CHAIR IN WHICH THE LATE WARREN G. HARDING SAT DURING THE CONFERENCE THAT BROUGHT ABOUT HIS NOMINATION WHERE THE TWO NATIONAL COMMITTEES WILL CONFER The Convention Racket Tradition and the Political Field Day By Milton S. Mayer I T'S a good thing it burned down," said Gov. Stokes, gazing at the blackened heap that had been North Carolina's capitol until the night before, "otherwise it might have collapsed on the legislature and many valuable lives would have been lost." Years later, long after Gov. Stokes had been gathered to his eternal julep, Carolina histori ans began suspecting a double meaning in this remark. They pried into the dust of the man's private life, they investigated his public activi ties, they went through his addresses and let ters with a comb. They went so far as to in timate that they had learned what the Gov. of North Carolina said to the Gov. of South Carolina. They ultimately came to the con clusion that Gov. Stokes was just a great big kidder and that nothing would have given him more genuine pleasure than to have seen the capitol at Raleigh come tumbling down like Jericho upon the heads of the legislature. Gov. Stokes was not the last of a long line of kidders. There are still a considerable num ber of pagans and renegades -who invoke Beelzebub nightly in the hope of persuading something hard and heavy to fall down on the heads of all politicians. "But it would have to be something dog-gone big," they tell each other, "or it would fall into their mouths." The fact that every four years the politicians of the United States are all brought together under one roof always sets up a furore among these nihilists. "Ah," they say, as they sum mon up Satan in their black chambers, "think of it. The -whole pack of them in one place. What a haul. What a killing." But some how it never comes off. Maybe they aren't willing to give the devil his due. Maybe as so many suggest, the Devil has been lined up by the politicians. I'm sure I don't know. But I have been talking with Mr. Strotz, who runs the Chicago Stadium, and I can tell the pagans right now that there is no hope that the place will fall in on the Republican National Convention of 1932. Even if it does, it can't collapse twice within a month. And what good would it do to get rid of only half the politicians? It would be like exterminat ing only half the bedbugs in the Drummers' Home in Columbia, Tenn. Don't mistake me. I do not intend to lift a finger in any movement to pull down the Stadium around the politicians' ears — not even around Gov. Emmerson's ears. I think that the politicians are a little bit of orl right. I think that a national political convention is the greatest show on earth. But I think too in my weaker moments, which are many, of the great big way in which they slaughter a crowd of politicians in France about once a week. Not a bad crowd either. Over there a bad crowd is booted out before you can say "Gen. Yoshinori Shirakawa." The French may be a funny race, as the ballad runs, but their public servants are public servants with a smile. True, when they shovel out one crowd of politicians, another crowd piles in. But the rapid turnover has done wonders. While we rant and roar and wail and whine La Belle France goes right on stuffing the world's wad into her well-filled stocking, toss ing out administrations every hour on the hour, and whistling the Marseillaise. The politicians are com ing to Chicago in June to sing the national anthem, wave flags, pass out cigars, run off at the mouth, and then shut the transom, draw the shades, and make their deals. When it's all over, we'll have two nominees for president. Will they be Nicholas Murray Butler and Rube Goldberg? No. John Dewey and Ted Cook? No. Bobby Jones and Preston Brad ley? No. Moran and Mack? No. They'll be two of "the boys." Smith and Hoover. Or Garner and Pinchot. Or Roose velt and Johnson. Or Ritchie and Coolidge. Two of the old, respected hands at the game who can be depended upon to play ball. Two of the "regulars." Two of the "reliables." Two of the fellows who know when they're •well off and won't grab the sceptre and holler, "Get out of here, you tramps. The people are going to run this show from now on." Two, in short, of the politicians. But why revile the politicians? Why wind up and pitch a creampuff at the pyramids? Like that famous Frenchman, MacMahon, who announced flatly, "J'y suis, J'y reste," the politicians are here to stay. They like the view, the transportation's good, no one annoys them, the profits are, well, attractive. Why shouldn't they take another four years' lease? Wouldn't you? The big mistake that fewer and fewer peo ple make as time goes on is the confusing of a national political convention with something important. It's true that the national conven tion nominates a man for President of the United States. But so does the Tipton Corners Progressive Party meeting in the back room of Katzenmeyer's One-Price Grocery. The con vention in Katzenmeyer's back room may be important, because it's likely to nominate a man who intends to give the government back to the people. But not the major party con- ventions. There's no danger of their nominat ing anyone who isn't pledged "to carry on the great work of this illustrious party." The Republican and Democratic conventions are funny, very funny, but they're not important. The government, however disorderly and desipient and degenerate it may be, must be respected. But a political convention is just a bunch of the boys gathered together to yell at each other, sponge up all the wet goods in town, take in a few shows, and, incidentally, flim-flam the public by promising the ancient promises which have never been fulfilled and are consequently as good as new. If a political convention conducts itself re spectably you will be expected to respect it as one gentleman respects another. If it con ducts itself like a brawl you are at liberty to regard it as a brawl. When you walk into the White House or the Governor's Mansion you have to take off your hat, no matter what's going on inside, but when you walk into a national convention and see that it's just an other bull session you don't have to take off your hat unless you want to cover your face with it to keep the flies off. President Hoover of the United States of America is a man to be feared and revered, but Herbert Hoover, avowed candidate for the Republican nomi nation for president, is just another politician — just another one of "the boys," just another job-seeker, and you may think of him and even talk of him as a mutt, a boodler, a fraud, or a Mongolian idiot. Governor Franklin Roose velt of New York is the symbol of law and of government, but Roosevelt, the candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, is just another ambitious politician lining up votes, and you may write to the Voice of the People and call him a side-stepper, a straddler, a snatcher, or a yaller dawg. How does a politician suddenly divest him self of the crude, clayey rags of a crumb-hunt ing beggar and achieve the shining armor of a mighty prince? How does a politician who has been hailed as a Plumed Knight and an Apostle of Right suddenly find himself kicked into the street and forgotten? How does a politician who has been reviled and repudiated suddenly become the snow-white champion of a holy cause? How does a politician who has been tramping around Nebraska looking for a chance to use his silver tongue, or a politician who has been staring hopelessly at a pile of split rails on the Sangamon River bottoms, suddenly rise to the leadership of a great party? There is only one answer. A miracle takes place. A thousand miracles take place. A national convention takes place. The convention racket had its beginnings in the caucus, that uniquely American institution that dominated our poli tics as early as the first half of the eighteenth century. There had arisen among the colonists of the New World the determination to gov ern themselves. This determination, some of the better minds in England and America de cided, was childish. "People," they said, bor rowing a phase from a thousand kings, "can not govern themselves." Then they added, in a low tone, "Not if we have anything to say about it, anyway." From the first there was no question about allowing the people to gov ern themselves. The question was: who will govern them? England's politicians decided that they would do the governing; the colonial poli ticians decided that the governing would be done at home, and by them. A skirmish re sulted, beginning in 1776 and continuing with more or less heat for five years. By the time Gen. Cornwallis of England decided that the jig was up (an expression now used in con- May, 1932 19 nection with lynchings), the dispute had come to the attention of the papers, and it was an nounced that the plain people of the United States of America would govern themselves or die in the attempt. They never did either. The caucus con tinued to do the governing until 1824, when the national convention, the modern tour de force, took its place. The caucus had been in operation in the colonies in 1745, perhaps earlier. A Mr. Adams and twenty of his in fluential friends in Boston put over one of the first fast ones in electing Mr. Adams' little boy Samuel representative from Boston. Thirty years later Samuel was throwing caucuses of his own and becoming a national hero. The word "caucus," of unknown origin, was in the vernacular at least as early as 1763. In February of that year John Adams wrote in his diary: This day I learned that the caucus club meets at certain times in the garret of Tom Dawes. . . . There they smo\e till you cannot see from one end of the room to the other. . . . There they drin\ flip, I suppose. . . . Captain Cunningham says they have often solicited him to go to these caucuses, they have assured him benefit in his business, etc. . . ." Following the adoption of the Constitution, in which it was announced that the people would govern themselves, the caucus system naturally extended to Congress, and it was in Congressional caucuses that the presidential nominations were made. By 1824, the in crease in population, the growth of democratic sentiment, and the spread of suffrage had so inflamed the people against the now arrogant oligarchy that was leading them around by the nose that in the month of August of that year, Thurlow Weed, the most powerful boss in American political history, gathered half a dozen of his lieutenants about him in an "ac cidental meeting" and decided to experiment with the idea of giving the people a convention which would keep them quiet and at the same time in nowise interfere with the rule of the nation by the caucus. It was decided to work it out on a small scale first, so delegates from New York State were called to meet and nominate candidates for governor and lieu tenant-governor. This convention, as Weed was thoughtful enough to emphasize, "was the beginning of a new political era." What slipped his mind completely was that it was a new political era for the politicians but not for the people. Re counting the work of this convention later he wrote, "Thus the policy of nominations emanating directly from the people was in augurated," but he and his gang had of course established the assurance that they could con trol the delegates before they had permitted the convention to be called. The New York affair was successful. The convention movement gained immense popu larity. The plain people lapped it up like babes, and among those chosen spirits in whom the government of the nation continued to re pose Mr. Weed was hailed as the true Mes siah. As the politicians saw the situation, it was simply a matter of more men to be bought up in a convention but bigger and better spoils — the renewed and implicit trust of the people — to justify the expenditure. I T must warm the cockles of the Republicans' hearts to reflect that the first Democratic convention in history was a fraud. And it must be a great source of satisfaction to the Democrats to reflect that the first Republican convention in history was a fraud. In 1832,. President Andrew Jackson, unop posed for renomination by the Democrats, wanted to have Martin Van Buren as his running mate but was well aware that Martin was far from being the popular choice for the vice-presidential nomination. So the wily gen eral directed the New Hampshire legislature to propose a national Democratic convention. This proposal, with Jackson's encouragement, was commended by the Democratic press. The convention was called and Jackson saw to it that most of the delegates chosen were amen able to his advice. After the convention had assembled those few who indicated that they were unalterably opposed to the se lection of Van Buren were sandbagged with the suggestion that they had better listen to reason "unless you wish to quarrel with the general." Van Buren was nominated by a tremendous majority. Three years later Jackson, who had been re elected president, used the same method to in sure the nomination of Van Buren as his successor. Having suggested a national con vention composed of delegates "fresh from the people," the founder of Jacksonian Democracy proceeded to fill the Baltimore auditorium with office-holders who did his bidding so literally that Van Buren was nominated unanimously. In 1839 the Republicans (then the Whigs) held their first national convention and em ployed the same coy methods to defeat Henry Clay, the overwhelmingly popular candidate for the nomination, as Jackson had used to se cure the nomination of the unpopular Van Buren. The manipulator in this case, as in so many Republican conventions that followed, was the great Weed. Although he admits having found, upon his arrival at the conven tion, "a decided plurality in favor of Mr. Clay," Weed makes no mention in his auto biography of the plot which he directed against the candidacy of the Kentuckian. But Horace Greeley, in his Recollections of a Busy Life, frankly admits Weed's generalship of the pro ceedings that resulted in Clay's defeat by the Weed candidate, Harrison. Weed's proposal, which was presented through the mouthpiece of an ostensibly harm less Massachusetts delegate, was that the vote of the majority within each state delegation be reported to the convention as the vote of the entire delegation. Weed wielded enough power to railroad the rule through and he knew that with this rule in effect he could ac complish his purpose. When the balloting was over, the candidate for whom Weed found "a decided plurality" upon his arrival at the con vention had been defeated, and Benjamin Harrison had been assured of the presidency of the United States. I His bit of good clean fun was the origin of the "unit rule." It was introduced into politics by a political boss who was determined to prevent a rara avis — a man who was genuinely great and a politician even so — from being president. He did more than prevent Henry Clay from winning the nomi nation — he broke his heart. When the man whom history calls "The Great Compromiser" received the news that he would not be presi dent, he pulled himself to his feet (he had been drinking heavily under the tension) and roared, "My friends are not worth the powder and shot it would take to kill them." Only a month before, he had said, imperishably, "I would rather be right than be president." But the plain people do not hold grudges. The well of forgottenness is crowded to the gills with dirty deals. Five years after Weed had told the people where they got off at, the convention racket had become a fixture. What in 1824 had been a roar of protest was now a whisper of indifferent insinuation. When the Democratic convention of 1844 nominated James K. Polk in a fake "stampede" in which the dying Andrew Jackson had a hand, it was generally understood that a carefully laid plot to betray Martin Van Buren had been the basis of the "spontaneous" selection of the first "dark horse." But only a few independent newspapers bothered to protest. The New York Evening Post said : We believe that if the secret history of the convention could be written, a large number of the delegates would stand disgraced in the eyes of their constituencies. Sainted and pilloried in alternate biogra- phies, Abraham Lincoln, as Goldwin Smith has said, played the political game. Like every politician who has been successful, Lin coln was no ingrate. He never bit the hand that pushed him precipitously ahead to the presidency — the hand, there is no question, of the political machine. But that he clearly saw from the beginning the delicate character of the profession into which he had ventured can not be doubted. In March, 1860, he wrote to an enthusiastic Kansas politician, and his words, which are not memorized in the public schools, are as important a contribution to the literature of American history as the Gettys burg address : I say in the main the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects in a political contest the use of some is both right and indispensable. With me, as with yourself, this long struggle has been one of great pecuniary loss. I now distinctly say this: If you shall be appointed a delegate to Chicago, I will furnish one huri' dred dollars to bear the expenses of the trip. William Henry Herndon, Lincoln's law partner until the President's death, wrote, in 1 889, before the legend of the passive Lincoln had been seriously challenged: I \now the idea prevails that Lincoln sat in his chair in Springfield, and that one of those unloo\ed-for tides in human affairs came along and cast the nomination into his lap;_but any man who has had experience in such things \nows that great political prizes are not oh' tained in that way. The truth is, Lincoln was as vigilant as he was ambitious, and there is no denying the fact that he understood the situation perfectly from the start. Lincoln did not, of course, buy the Repub lican nomination. He was not a rich man and his friends were not rich men. Indeed, the man he won it from, Gov. Seward of New York, was buying men and delegates more openly and pouring champagne and whiskey more liberally than any iniquitous candidate had ever done in the past. But the myth that Lincoln was nominated in a frenzy of spon taneous acclaim was long ago discredited by Thomas H. Dudley's revelation in the Century magazine of the deal that was made in David Wilmot's rooms at the (Continued on page 43) 20 The Chicagoan KATHARINE CORNELL To this generation what Maude Adams was to the generation of our fathers, Miss Cornell as accurately interprets the thought, temper and taste of her time as Miss Adams did of that earlier and more trusting period. Paradoxically The Barretts of Wimpole Street treats of the heyday of the era which was ending when Miss Adams was in her prime, but there is nothing Victorian in the phychological realism of the play, nor in Miss Cornells starkly honest portrayal of Elizabeth Barrett. Both are modern and \eyed to the spirit of our day Chairs in the Aisle Katharine Cornell and Her Dog Flush on the Stage FUNNY to see people going into a theater again. Unusual to call up a box-office and be told that you can have two in the eighteenth row week after next. Believe it or not, these uncanny phe nomena are happening nightly at the Harris where Katharine Cornell is suffering with quiescent vibrancy through three acts of the best play she has had since Candida. Even a critic on a daily with reportorial duties would have no need to retail the story of The Barretts of Wimpole Street. History has told too often the romantic tale of Eliza beth Barrett and Robert Browning. What of Rudolph Besier's treatment of the theme? Gripping his play surely is, awesome at mo ments, again sweetly tearful, yet it failed to come to me in terms of greatness because of the character of the father. Heaven knows the austere parents of the Victorian age were hard bitten as judged by the standards of this generation. My father was not allowed to dance nor to play baseball while at college, and Sundays at Grandpa's bore but slight re semblance to a present Sabbath in Lake Forest. Even with this knowledge of life in a more moral era, I could not believe the character of pater Barrett. In spite of the indubitably powerful acting of Charles Waldron, this weird monster with his Dracula make-up, pathological sadisms and curious affections kept reminding me of horror dramas like The Man 'With Red Hair. And I felt so, while still harboring doubts as to whether or not the incest motif has been read into the character by Freud-wise literati. No, it is not the incest but the general insanity of the man which seemed to weaken the intrinsic quality of the drama. It would take too much mental perspiration to conjure up adjectives of approbation which have not been utilized in connection with Miss Cornell's acting. And the critic's first reader admonishes against remarking that she has glamour. So let her greatness be attested by the happenings noted in the opening paragraph hereof, and an additional laurel wreath be placed on her broad brow for allowing Brian Aherne the fullest possible scope in his depic tion of the bouncing Browning. Novelty may account for it, but I found Mr. Aherne held most of my attention during their scenes together. And he has no others. In this connection it might be in order to deplore the dramaturgical reticence which dispensed with a scene between the father and the unwanted son-in-law. History may be to blame, but it would have been a thrilling bit of apocrypha. 'What the beastly Barrett needed most was the experience of trying to pick on somebody his own size. Certainly none of the vaguely de fined and robot-like sons were of a character to supply the dramatic spark of equal combat. Excepting, of course, the final revolt of the fragile Elizabeth, filial insurgency against the intolerable conditions at 50 Wimpole Street is chiefly in the hands of Margalo Gilmore. As By William C. Boyden one of the other daughters who demands the right to marry the man she loves, Miss Gil- more uncovers considerable emotional power — more, in fact, than I believed she had. I hope she will forgive me for that remark and for coupling her in a paragraph with another actor; to-wit, Flush, the dog. Flush is a Cocker Spaniel, not to be confused with Springer, Clumber, Field, Sussex or Irish Water Spaniels. He (or she) supplies most of the laughs. ^/alter Hampden has been jumping around the United States like a grasshopper, lighting for one night stands, split weeks and full weeks in Main Street Opera Houses, town halls and school houses. And like the grassohpper he has devoured a good deal of vegetation of a monetary variety. Which is but another proof that the "road" is not dead, merely tired of phoney productions with deceptive Broadway labels. You might think he would have rested his long legs (nice to be able to carry out the grasshopper simile) for more than a week in the fourth largest city in the world. But no! One extra per formance of Cyrano De Bergerac was all that he allowed the Blackstone and those who ¦wanted to buy tickets but did not get around to it. A revival of Cyrano is a signal for the scholarly critic to wax learned and compar ative. Is Hampden equal to Mansfield? Is Brian Hooker's translation the best for acting purposes, or not, or why? But if one never saw Mansfield, and knows the translations only from long forgotten reading, then there is naught to do but to be as romantic about it all as the play itself is romantic. And, offhand, I can think of no play more romantic than Cyrano with its unrequited love, its alarums and excursions of war, its moonlit balcony, its mellow death scene. Just such a drama to stir one on a warm April night, provided, of course, that an April night could be warm in this paradoxical climate. As to Mr. Hampden, the part fits him like an old shoe. He reads the flowing lines as though he loved every one of them, as no doubt he does; he fights and gasonades with the vigor of a man half his age; he delivers the wit of the piece with pungent flavor; he emotes tenderly and with nice restraint; he carries his nose with proud humility. And, above all, he keeps a sophisticated audience in its seats from eight o'clock to eleven-twenty. Among the actors whom Mr. Hampden has taught to love Pullman cars are Whitford Kane, almost a native son and a most engag ing Ragueneau; John Seymour, nephew of Fanny Davenport and a very sincere and handsome Christian; Robert Hudson, forceful and direct as Le Bret; and about seventy other good troupers. This season has been a field-day for secretaries. The supposed auto maton of the typewriter has come into her own dramatically. There was Experience Un necessary. There has been Counsellor At Law. There is The Church Mouse, which should be doing business at the Adelphi. Nor is Louise Groody any less attractive and effi cient than her secretarial predecessors, Verree Teasdalc and Anne Teeman. In fact, if The Church Mouse fulfills my prediction of a run, Miss Groody can fairly claim most of the kudos. She is as cute an "ugly duckling" as ever hid a lovely pair of shoulders and a smooth rippling back under a shapeless, high- necked blouse. From the moment she enters the office of the bank president as a hungry waif, through the pouring of perfume down her unaccustomed evening gown, to the final curtain when the boss dictates his proposal to her, she succeeds in getting a laugh on prac tically every line. This plot sounds vaguely familiar, does it not? Yes, it does, but the cocoon-into-butterfly motif is sure-fire. It flatters the women and appeals to the senti mentality of the men. Perhaps I am a little unfair to Ernest Glendenning, the co-star, who does a very workmanlike job in the conventional role of the employer. Mr. Glendenning is one of those thoroughly competent actors who seem to go on year after year working steadily and never getting any older. One of my earliest theatrical recollections pictures Mr. Glen denning with triplets in his arms in that excruciating farce, Babv Mine. The remainder of the cast is almost completely made up of attractive young people who had previously worked in Louder Please; to-wit, Joan Win ter, George Blackwood and the ex-Good- manite, Earl MacDonald. As the high-flying foil for the little secretary, Miss Winter dis plays considerable comedy sense and not a little beauty. I HE bile-dipped pen of Satire is a weapon never out of date. Our contemporary group of mordant young dram atists, Kaufman, Connelley, MacArthur, Hecht, may not live to be numbered with Aristophanes, but they give our topical foibles some sharp pricks. Although obviously of lesser stature, Norman Krasna, brain-father of Louder Please (Woods), followed the satiric pattern in his noisy walloping of the Holly wood press agent. Certainly there were comic possibilities in the production of romantic hokum for movie magazines in the manner typified by a line from the show, "Remember, as far as this department is concerned, that girl is a virgin until her contract runs out." Where Hollywood cried "touche" at Once In a Lifetime, the proper exclamation at Louder Please would be "ouch." Speed, burlesque and gags were its ingredients, and I do not quite understand why it did not draw more trade at the bargain prices which pre vailed. But my judgment of values has not been good since November, 1929. 22 The Chicagoan What-Shall-We-Do- Afterwards? Solving the Post-Prandial Problem By Durand Smith THIS deluge of after-dinner games has gone far enough. Every time I am asked out it seems that my hostess or one of her more insistent guests has another game which is the best yet. Salvo, Categories, Bridge Keno, Mental Whoopee, Peggitty and a dozen others have swept through the nation's drawing-rooms in the past year like the plague. After such an evening my mind is a jumble of cards, counters and diagrams. In my dreams I play an exhausting combination of two or three games, and with angry futility pursue my arguments that Antwerp is not the capital of Belgium and that Benjamin Franklin really was a philosopher. These after-dinner diversions always aim to embrace the whole party and it is difficult therefore to refuse. "I don't care for a high ball" is considerably less conspicuous than "I don't want to play Adverbs." He is a brave, if rude, man who can buck the "let's play" spirit once it is fairly started. Bridge and backgammon I can easily avoid, but when my hostess announces in a loud and cheery voice : "Now, everyone take pencil and paper," I know that I am trapped. Next to those people who insist on lending you their books, no social pest can equal the person who has "a marvelous new game for us all to play" His wide-eyed eagerness and enthusiasm bespeak the evangelist or crusader. The manifold complexities of the game he will gladly explain no matter how apathetic his audience. His complete conviction of your ultimate and boundless gratitude usually over comes all opposition. I happen to know be cause, as the apostle of Pounce, I am just such a pest. Of course, all these games have been a great boon to our harassed hostesses. The prob lem of what-shall-we-do-afterwards takes care of itself. But the game craze has become fever ish, almost frantic. This exaggerated restless ness, this itch to be always active, doing something, is altogether unnatural. Is it, per haps, a symptom and a warning? Entertaining these days is of necessity less elaborate. Fewer din ners are followed by paid entertainers, the opera, the theatre or a trip to a night club. Restricted to enjoying themselves economically in their homes, people logically turned to games. But our gracious hostesses have over done this business of organized entertainment. In the midst of a delightful tete-a-tete sud denly to be told to write down five vegetables — ! A policy of laissez-faire must be insti tuted. Only in that way can the moribund art of conversation be revived. Not long ago the young lady whom I was taking to a Sunday supper party said, as we started out, "I wonder what we're going to do afterwards?" I suggested that it would be nice to sit around and talk. This was en tirely too radical for her to accept, so she merely smiled indulgently at my whimsicality. It dawned upon me, then, that the younger hostesses of today do not dare to give dinners without planning on something definite after the coffee. Restless as children, we must be diverted or amused. Our resources are so limited that playthings must be put in our hands. We have not the capacity for enjoying ourselves, nor the ability to create enjoyment. We demand sweets to suck, instead of meat to chew. In the town of Cam bridge, England, lives an elderly lady who in her quiet way plays a leading part in the uni versity life. She is a collector of people. To her charming drawing-room are bidden from time to time all those whom she finds interest ing, those who will provide sharp contrasts, who will contribute something to justify their presence. Blessed with taste and erudition, money and "family," Mrs. Gordon entertains informally and simply but with infinite distinction. On the many occasions when I have lunched and dined at her home, never once has a game been suggested, a pack of cards appeared or a gramophone record been played. (There is no "wireless" in the house.) We have al ways talked. Many of the most entertaining, the most stimulating evenings of my life have been spent before her fire, beside her tea table. Skilfully, unobtrusively, she would guide the conversation, giving generously herself and dropping now and then a provocative remark to provide further fuel for the discussion. In a group which might include a writer, a musi cian, an Irish patriot, a don's wife, an old "blue" and several undergraduates both male and female, a diversity of opinion on any topic would never be lacking. Our scope was 'bound less, our subjects unnumbered. We were caustic, witty, argumentative; we used our brains and our tongues, until at a quarter be fore twelve, Mrs. Gordon would rise and push those of us who wore caps and gowns out into the night, still striving to press our points as we ran or pedalled down the dark streets in our race with time to reach the haven of our college gates. xvLy experiences at Mrs. Gordon's were not unique. English people generally, spend many a pleasant evening in conversation — not in gossip, small-talk or story-telling, but in friendly discussion, in an exchange of views and ideas, in that easy flow of speech that comes of an intelligent interest in the world around them. At such times, the natural reserve of the English vanishes. They say what they think, often in a manner so ingenuous as to make an American stare. The ease with which even the undergradu ates would slip into a discussion of morality or what constituted success in life constantly surprised me. Remembering the awkward silences and hesitant expressions in the discus sion groups sponsored by the "Y" at my American university, I was all the more amazed at the fact that there was no deliberate in- tellectualism about it, no intention of being high-brow. Frankly interested, they talked un selfconsciously on many topics; they probed beneath the surface of things, attacked impor tant problems, settled in their own minds vex ing questions, discussed values, and made of life an absorbing, fascinating adventure. Now we are no less intelligent than the English, but — let's admit it — we are less cul tured. We are more spontaneous, more dem onstrative, yet, temperamentally perhaps, we are of a less speculative turn of mind. Our preoccupations are more with the prosaic facts of our existence, and with sports, Prohibition, crime and the stock market than with art, music, literature, politics, world affairs and so on. In part, then, this accounts for our devo tion to after-dinner games. But conversation as an occasional diversion really should not be considered so unthinkable. The people 1 know are not so mentally sterile as not to enjoy a dinner party unless games are provided. Most of them have interests, usually described as worth-while, which would be deepened and broadened by discussion. And, in their de sire for relaxation and entertainment, it would surprise them to discover how real and how exhilarating the pleasures of conversation can be. We need hostesses with courage and cul ture to bring about this post-prandial Utopia. To overcome our inherent selfconsciousness, to develop conversation as a fine art, to produce a society of wit, brilliance and fluent expres siveness is a job worthy of a dozen Madame de Staels. But until they shall appear to lead us into the Land of the Grown-Ups, we will go on sucking lollypops. May, 1932 23 OUR DEBT T O EUROPE THE SPIRE OF NOTRE DAME BROODING OVER PARIS AND THE BRIDGES OF THE SEINE 'OLD, OLD, FOREVER OLD THE HILLS OF BUDA." IN MAGYAR SONGS AND LEGENDS THE HUNGARIANS CELEBRATE THE BEAUTY OF BUDAPEST *' I Mm I Igjfeff QUITE FEARLESSLY THE RHINE STEAMERS CHUFF BY THE LORELEI ROCK. THERE IS NO GOLDEN "MADCHEN" BUT SPRING BLOSSOMS ARE BEWITCHING ENOUGH INTO DENSE FORESTS THE SPOTLESS GER MAN ROADS WIND THEIR ROMANTIC PATHS 24 The Chicagoan |^M^Bi_^Brt a^B>^ HOT* _ "V/7-*^ ^iftlss *»^£SSjS» ijkA*» Bl tB gt : Wf ""LjM^B^t 1^~ VnH^ JlH Ifc ¦W^*gp:u i"6* i GERMAN TOURIST HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME OVER THE BOULE VARDS OF BERLIN IN THE GRAF ZEPPELIN TRAN5AMERICAN LOADING A SHIP FOR A NIGHT FLIGHT IS JUST A MATTER OF ROUTINE AT THE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT Those Voices Calling How About Greener Pastures ? By Lucia Lewis THE open season for the kicking of traces needs no official announcement but just to start things off, it's an nounced, right now. Not only announced but urged upon you, and quite seriously too. There's a time of the year when the accumu lated pressure of cuts to the right of us, repara tions to the left of us, elections ahead of us and the din of economists sounding all about becomes just too much for sensitive human beings. That's when a kicking of the traces and a dash to greener pastures becomes im perative as a sanity investment. That other pastures are greener has been questioned but just have a look at these German hillsides, Parisian boulevards, and those ranches and camps and peaks and streams on page 30. Choose your spot and then roll, stone, roll. If you're rolling over the ocean waves you'll stop off for the Season in London, even though you do plan later to steal away to a quiet cot tage in Surrey or somewhere on the Brittany coast. No matter what happens to the British pound British sports must go on, and everyone flocks to the capital as a base for the famous events you can't afford to miss. The Derby and Ascot, Hurlingham and Ranelagh for polo, the Henley Regatta and the royal Cowes Regatta, Wimbledon tennis — these are only a few of the high spots about -which London builds a blaze of activity in its opera, theatres, night clubs and restaurants. Mad dogs and Englishmen go to the city in summer but after seeing how much fun it all is you'll understand why our gals fight to marry British. A short jump to Ger many and you might be in another sphere. Berlin of course is glittering and gay and per haps by this time the most sophisticated city in Europe, but for true old German flavor get out into the country and smaller centers. You might rest up after your London and Paris dissipation in the Black Forest of Baden. There are any number of smaller health re sorts besides the famous Baden-Baden. If you are just too tired for words you can steal away to serene spots like St. Blasien, once a 9th century Benedictine Abbey and now a se cluded little resort, deep in the heart of a forest of firs and pines. The larger resorts such as Baden-Baden are a splendid combina tion of outdoor life and almost metropolitan gayety. And there are Heidelberg and Karls ruhe to wring the sentimental heart, walking tours through the Black Forest, water sports on Lake Constance, -wine distilled on the very slopes about you, song, beer and gemutlich\eit, and unbroken traditions no matter how many Hitlers thunder in the distant Reichstag. Everywhere you go you'll bump into Goethe festivals and probably have an interesting op portunity to compare the way two countries honor their great men. Besides these there are always the great music festivals and folk plays of genuine artistic importance. The Wagner- Mozart festivals in Munich, Goethe's musical plays presented in the court of the Carolingian kings at Weissenburg, the German Singers festival at Frankfurt, the Hauptmann festival plays, the Rhenish Vintagers' festival, the Walpurgis celebration on the Witches' Danc ing Ground in the Harz Mountains — it's go ing to be hard to tear yourself away. But tear you must, if only for a few weeks while you are in central Europe to gather some of the flavor of Vienna and Budapest. There's no other hotel quite like the Dunapalota overlooking the Danube, no other cafes quite like the busy Tsfeu; Tor\ and Spolarich's, no other music so haunting as the gypsy violins and cimbalom, no place so astonishing as St. Margaret's Isle between Buda and Pest; well — no place which stirs the emotions quite like this rare capital which will make a whimpering idiot of me in a minute. Then there's the mystery of Russia, a mys tery you are cordially invited to solve for yourself now. You may get into economics again and study the operation of the Five- Year Plan, the State Farms, the gigantic indus trial developments, or you may bask in the former seaside resorts of Russian aristocrats on the Crimea, delve into folk lore in the Ukraine, or rattle off to Samarkand over the trails of Marco Polo and Genghis Khan on the new Turkestan railroad. On the Other Hand JUST to make decisions more difficult may we ask you to turn about and face the other way for a moment? A few thousand miles of rolling mountains, virgin forest, rich streams, bewildering beauty lie before you due west and northwest. There's new life, re freshment, rejuvenation and peace for frazzled nerves in those miles. Maybe you'll take them luxuriously, rolling in your Pullman from famous hotel to famous hotel; maybe you'll settle down to learning how to roll your own on the back of a ranch horse; maybe nothing but nightfall can lure you out of a trout stream; maybe you'll paddle through the wil derness in an Indian canoe; but whatever you do, you'll be a different person two days after you start. You may go to a ranch two days from here or do a magnificent circuit of half a continent by starting off to take in the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and then rumbling north to Canada through the Canadian Rockies and back over the northwest route. Canadian Pa cific has also planned a short trip for those rushed souls (and economical) providing six and a half days in the Canadian Rockies at a total cost of less than ten dollars a day. But plan to stay longer if you can, because the whole territory is so stupendous that try ing to grasp it in too short a visit is like bolt ing a quart of Cointreau. These mountains woods, and the glorious developments in the Banff region are one hundred per cent intoxi cating — they should be sipped. Leaving Calgary (Continued on page 50) May, 1932 25 More About Proust A War- Time Glimpse of the Great Frenchman By Henry Channon IT was in 1917 or early 1918 that I first met Proust. We were ten or twelve peo ple at dinner that evening, which was quite a large party for Paris in War-time, and my hostess (now the wife of a well-known French writer) apologized, "I am afraid there are very few ladies to-night." She led me up to a gentleman who looked not quite — or per haps not quite willing to be — middle-aged. Handsome in a dark leonine way he was sleek, elegant and fatigued. With elaborate polite ness he gave me his hand, it was hot and fever ish. I noticed that only he was in evening dress, that is with tails, a white tie, and glittering studs; we others were in uniform or en smo\' ing. Presently we went in to dinner. There were, I think, only three ladies, and I, the youngest guest, found myself between Jean Cocteau and the gentleman I had just met. I asked Cocteau who he was. "Proust . . . the author of Swann," he laughed. "What is that?" (I was eighteen.) M. Cocteau smiled, and whispered something to his neighbor which she in turn passed on. Embarrassed I watched a ripple of amusement pass around the table as my remark was repeated, like the game of Russian scandal, until it reached an old Abbe, the most famous old Abbe in Paris. The Abbe heard, threw up his hands, and talked of Huysmans. M. Cocteau was immediately brilliant with an explosion of verbal fire-works. If German aeroplanes must bomb us he hoped that they would come tonight as he had heard that the cellar of the Ritz was the most chic place in all Paris to be during a raid: one saw Elinor Glyn with her lovely long hair down, generals in pajamas, ladies who ought not to be in the Ritz at all; it was very exciting. After a little M. Proust turned and smiled. He had the most astonishing eyes I have ever seen. Mr. Clive Bell has said that they were glorious; they were; they shone like black onyx. They haunt me now. He asked me about the great of England, the dukes, the Royal Family, and did I like Ruskin? I did not at first under stand that he had taken me, doubtless because of my khaki tunic and clumsy French, for an Englishman. When at last I said I was an American, I thought he seemed disappointed. If for a moment he was chilled, he quickly, as if to make up for it, became more charming. "You have no heraldry in America," he sighed. And he talked on for some time en couraging me very earnestly to indulge my youthful emotions. Only eighteen, it was not possible, and in Paris! I must live, learn, love, and above all, watch! The party broke up early, partly because of the light restrictions, and partly because it was almost impossible to find a taxi at night. M. Proust said that he did not mind that as he always walked, what ever the hour, to his apartment on the Rive Gauche. Would I care to walk with him? I watched him get into a large fur coat with a mink collar, and then stop to talk with the concierge. He called him mon ami, and handed him a hundred francs, with an impressive ges ture. It was the grand manner. He gave me his hot hand again, and we parted at the door. As he walked away I was reminded of a con juror, a kindly sort-of Svengali. In my diary written that day there is a long paragraph about the "famous M. Cocteau," and the brief entry: "also a dark man called Proust, think he's a writer." We met again a few evenings later. Mean while I had heard stories about him. People said that he was unduly sensitive, and that he wrote a hundred letters a day; that he could draw the armorial bearings of any prince in Europe; that he dined every evening very late at the Ritz where he gave fabulous tips to the servants and was afraid of them; that he thought dukes a race apart, like pagan divin ities, half -human, half -god; that he disliked sun-light which tired his eyes and gave him asthma : they said other things. And so it was with considerable curiosity that I saw him for the second time. He greeted me gravely, cere moniously offered me his hand, and was so excessively polite that I suspected a touch of mockery in his manner. Almost at once he talked to someone else. A FEW days after this second meeting an unfortunate incident oc curred, which after nearly fifteen years. I am still regretting. I was walking in the Place Vendome with a friend; it was one of those grey and gold Paris evenings, and we were on our way, already late, for the play, when we met Proust. White tie, great fur coat, white gloves and all. My friend stopped to talk to him as I walked on ahead, and when he had caught up he asked why I had not spoken to Proust? In France, to an older man. . . . "I didn't want to bore him, and besides he probably doesn't remember me, why on earth should he?" I replied nettled. We always re sent people who point out to us our bad manners! The Spinelli revue was amusing, and we thought no more about the meeting. The next evening my friend rang me up, "Something frightful has happened. You have mortally offended Proust, come around at once." That afternoon he had received a brief pneumatique, a special delivery note from Proust, saying that on no account was he to pay the slightest attention to a letter that he would shortly receive from him. The letter had soon followed. It was a long letter first de manding to know why I had cut him, and then the almost incomprehensible document advanced many theories for my "incredible" behaviour. Did I dislike him? (There was nothing, as I afterwards learned, that so hurt Proust, as to be thought disliked.) Did I not condescend to remember him? Or had he offended me? And how? By taking me orig inally for an Englishman? For talking to me too much at our first meeting, and too littfe at the second? Was he of so little importance that he was to be snubbed by a mere boy? Did I think him an old bore? Or had I been warned against him? Had people made mischief? Had Mme. de M., because he had contradicted her on a point of precedence, been spiteful? And so it went on for more than twenty pages. "How can he make such a fuss about noth ing?" I demanded. "Well, he is what we call un homme d scenes," my friend laughed, and together we concocted a conciliatory answer: I was shy, I had thought it an impertinence to trespass on a slight acquaintance, that kind of a letter. Proust acknowledged it gracefully, and we became good friends. I sat with him some times in the evening in the long foyer of the hotel. He would smoke many cigarettes, or a cigar (I am not sure about the cigar) as he told me amazing stories of Paris Society. They were long stories rich in subtlety and detail; frequently I did not understand them; but he lent glamour to the people one saw every day, and made them live like characters in Saint- Simon. Often I was embarrassed when I met them afterwards, and feared that I might be tray my secret knowledge of them imparted to me by the arch-dissector. His tales were a welcome change from the War atmosphere in which we lived all day. The accusation hurled at that time against many of his race (he was, of course partly Semetic) that they were Inter nationals, and "above patriotism," was untrue of him. He was passionately French, or per haps I should say, passionately Parisian, and was disgusted with the hundreds of thousands of people who fled the capital as danger threatened. Nevertheless he was a little aloof from the War — although the guns at Chateau- Thierry could be heard in the quiet seclusion of the Ritz — and always more absorbed in the past than interested in the present; it is prob able that he did not fully understand it. References to it in his long work are few. He shared the popular hatred of the Germans, except for the Teutonic aristocracy, for like his Prince de Guermantes, he could never really dislike an aristocrat of any country. Sometimes he talked longingly of England, its splendour, its great country houses, its privi leged caste system. It was no doubt part of his picture of himself to be "tres Anglophil." One night an English friend was dining with me, and Proust, de lighted, joined us. "Big Bertha" had been roaring at us all day, and my friend had to return to Versailles. It was a lovely Spring evening and Proust suggested our motoring there. He would hire (Continued on page 43) 26 The Chicagoan THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL SHOW THE RING AT SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB WHERE, FROM JUNE 7 TO 11, THE HORSE SHOW WILL BE HELD MR. GEORGE PEAK DRIVING SIGNAL FLASH, WIN NER OF THE 1931 ROADSTER STAKE MRS. A. C. THOMPSON DRIVING RIO SAXON, WIN NER OF THE 1931 HEAVY HARNESS STAKE May, 1932 27 EIGHT WOMEN OF PROMINENCE MRS. RALPH D. SMALL MRS. ALLEN CLEMENT MRS. CHARLES W. GILKEY, Grand President MRS. BYRON S. REID 28 The Chicagoan ACTIVE IN Y. W. C A. WORK MRS. HERMON B. BUTLER MRS. HOWARD FENTON MRS. MELVIN TRAYLOR MRS. WILLIAM L. HODGKINS, President PAUL STONE-RAYMOR, LTD. May, 1932 29 INTO THE WILDERNESS ON ROADS AS SMOOTH AS RIBBONS AT EATON S RANCH MARY ROBERTS RINEHART FOUND THE WEST A SHRINE LIKE THE ANCIENT DRUIDS IN 2ION NATIONAL PARK. THE TEMPLE OF SINAWAVA GRI I N AND BLUE AND GOLD IN A HUNDRU LAKE ON TO GREES One forgets. One trots about eastward and across th* forgets the joy and release in this stretch of territory that ' and discover once in a jaded while that we still have hor* Where pioneers watered their horses and built their t* their steals or freshly caught mountain trout. W7ic?'<-' palace until a golf course velvety before it. But the mountains and forests are still mysterious, the glowing. They offer their age-old release to city fol\- cabin with electric lights and showers or a luxurious hot the least. GAME OF MANY SPECIES ABOUNDS IN THE; TERRITORY OF THE RISING SUN RANCHES OPERATED BY CHICAGOAN S I'ARXDISi: INN, SI RROUNDED BY GLACIERS AND ALPINE FLOWERS 30 The Chicagoan TROUT FISHING IN THE RAPIDS OF ONE OF THE TURBULENT STREAMS OF GLACIER PARK LADIES TEE ON THE TOUGH 8TH HOLE AT BANFF — JUST A PIER IN THE LAKE ARIATIONS FLOOD THE ROOMS AT CHATEAU LOUISE ER PASTURES Atlantic, one sinl{s into a despondent rut at home, and s flung out to the west of us. But it is well to go bac\ zons to lift the American spirit. mid campfires, dude ranchers now ride the trail and coo\ hiaians held their tribal powwoivs now towers a modern trails as secluded as ever, the glaciers loom as calm and And to \now that the end of the trail means a pleasant *l room and a Beauty sleep mattress doesnt spoil things in THE PRETENTIOUS GOLF CLUBHOUSE OF THE BANFF SPRINGS HOTEL S EIGHTEEN HOLE COURSE, ONE OF MAGNIFICENT LAYOUT AND HARD HOLES THE OLD WESTERN CANTER BY CITY GIRLS AT KEEWAYDIN CAMP, MONTANA IT'S COOL AND INVIGORATING IN THE HEIGHTS OF NEW MEXICO CAMP AT CANJILON CREEK NEAR SANTA FE May, 1932 31 GROUP OF MEMBERS OF THE MISS ELIZABETH PAPE MRS. W. R. BLEND MRS. ARTHUR E. SHARP MRS. LEWIS BARKER The Chicagoan BEVERLY HILLS INFANT WELFARE ^ _ b MISS HELEN GUERTIN MRS. KINGSLEY COLEMAN MRS. ARTHUR CLARAGE MRS. EUGENE SCHOBINGER, President PAUL STO> May, 1932 33 CHICAGO'S BLACKFRIARS AT PLAY A CHORINE IN THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL PRODUCTION ANOTHER GORGEOUS "'LADY OF THE ENSEMBLE" OF W/lOtI Henry! JOE SALEK, THE HEROINE, AND MILT OLIN IN THE TITLE: ROLE BOB BALSI.EY, ANOTHER LEAD IN THE: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SHOW 34 The Chicagoan Personal Intelligence Dinner Parties, Benefits and Society Notes By Caroline S . K r u m /% YOUNG Chicago matron says she has /-\ found the perfect dinner partner. He -^- ¦*¦ sat down beside her at one of those pleasant and not-too-large gatherings so much in vogue just now, and, turning an admiring glance in her direction, remarked, "You're looking perfectly lovely this evening — for a molecule!" As she happens to have more than her share of good looks, as well as a keen wit and agile mind, she was delighted. Their dinner table conversation was off to a flying start, and the enthusiasm soon spread up and down the festal board, banishing, for the moment at least, the spectre of the Lost Art of Conversa tion, to say nothing of such banalities as the stock market, the bootlegger's last visit and scattered tid-bits of personal gossip. After all, anyone who goes about at all will run into all sorts — and conditions — of dinner partners. In the great majority are the affable, courteous and more or less amusing men who can and do contribute much to the success and enjoyment of the meal. They are inter ested in the talk going on about them, in the exchange of ideas and opinions; they have entertaining experiences to relate. Then there are the men who deliberately go in for contentious conversational open ings, the light of battle flaming in their eyes and a cynical smile ready for any contradictory response. They are fun for a time, but let them beware lest they repeat the same initial battery too often. It may be amusing to argue the everyday value of, let us say, Mourning Becomes Electra, once, but after a while the novelty wears off. The president of a certain ¦well known corporation has a fine and varied collection of just such remarks — wherever he goes his intelligence and conversational ability receive an A-l rating. There are also, alas, the dull and handsome gentlemen who have little or nothing to say and only a slight interest in the food that is set before them — give me a monosyllabic epicure any day in preference to the taciturn HE who is dieting for his health or his figure! As to the ladies, God bless 'em, be they chatty or reticent by nature, there's probably not one of them who hasn't been advised by some devoted female relative during the course of her growing up years and early training in the social graces, "So if you have nothing to say, my love, learn to be a good listener." The radio has aided remarkably in the devel opment of this admirable trait, but after all, even the best of listeners must have something to listen to. Speaking of the radio, have you been among those present at any of the cocktail parties, after-dinner-coffee hours or any other sociable moments of the day and heard some startling announcement concerning yourself, your friends or your family coming from the loud speaker? The surprise is accomplished by the installing of a little microphone attachment through which anyone can speak (from an other room) and the results are most amusing. Philanthropy and pol itics have engaged — and violently! — the at tention of everyone in our fashionable world most of the spring. The primaries are a thing of the past and the Republican and Demo cratic conventions still to come, which means a momentary lull in that line. Most of the charity benefits are faits accomplis, and a MISS JANE MARTIN, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. J. L. MARTIN OF HIGHLAND PARK, WHO IS ENGAGED TO MR. LUMAN R. WING, JR. PAUL STONE-RAYMOR, LTD. dosen or more "Drives for Funds" have been successfully launched, the beneficiaries includ ing Arden Shore, the Infant Welfare, the Y. W. C. A. and other worthy organisations. Leading the list of large April benefits was the Breadline Frolics, which opened at the old Majestic theatre — given for the occasion by Otto W. Lehmann — on the twenty-fifth. Mrs. Waller Borden evolved the idea of the show some months ago, and it was her enthu siasm, energy and generosity that carried it through to its ultimate success — but I must start at the beginning of the story to do it justice. Just before Christmas, Mrs. Borden heard from Mrs. Joseph M. Cudahy and Mrs. Charles G. King, both of whom have been ardent workers for the Joint Emergency Re lief Fund, that the jobless and homeless men of the city's shelters were to have no Yuletide cheer. Having bent her wits and endeavors to take care of that sad situation, Mrs. Borden went still further in her good work, and secured for them all sorts of things that would help keep up their morale — games, boxing gloves, playing cards, musical instruments and even half a doz,en pianos. Later visits to the shelters disclosed the fact that any number of these men were skilled vaudeville and revue performers, and the "Breadline Frolics" began to take shape, staged and produced by the men themselves. Occasionally such undertakings, backed and sponsored by society folk and done in the name of charity, prove disappointments, but in this case the show was a great hit on its own merits. And of course Everyone was there on the opening night, having come from one or another of the many dinner parties given beforehand. Harry Gordon Selfridge and his chic and charming daughter, the Vicomtesse Violette de Sibour were there with the C. B. Goodspeeds — the Selfridges arrived in town the day be fore for a flying visit. They stayed at the Drake and were here only until Tuesday of that week, but they found time during their brief stay to see and greet many of their Chi cago friends. On Monday morning they went to breakfast with Mr. Frank Chandler at his Rush street house — a delightful reunion for these three longtime friends and in a house that has always offered hospitality to the Sel fridge family when they are in Chicago, on one of their visits from London. .And now, for the mo ment, the social spotlight is focused on the opening of the many fine country places roundabout Chicago — at Lake Forest, Lake Geneva, Wheaton and other smart commu nities. Gardens and lawns are being groomed, swimming pools being put in order and hand some houses aired and polished for the June- to-October season. Golf courses, tennis courts and bridle paths are in constant use, except when the spring rains drive the out of door enthusiasts to such sheltered diversions as con tract, backgammon, ping pong or shopping expeditions. Life in these parts goes on much as usual, at least as far as the externals are concerned. One hears, of course, that such and such a house is for sale — that Mrs. So and So has had to dismiss most of her retinue of servants — that this young financier has been short of the market and "cleaned up," while that one is down to his last twenty-five thousand. Gen erally speaking, however, the "boarding up" of beautiful country houses — a situation that took away much of the sparkle of so many of our popular winter resorts during the season just past — isn't going to be part of the sum mer program in this particular corner of the universe. Amazing tales have been drifting back from Florida — of the renting and real estate bar gains to be had there. I heard recently of one young Chicago man (in very moderate cir cumstances) who took his family to Palm Beach and started (Continued on page 56) May, 1932 35 I Clothes on the Go Travel and Sports Fashions B y The Chicagoenne BEING A SPECTATOR HAS ITS JOYS WHEN ONE CAN WEAR BLUE AND WHITE DAISIES ON A CREPE SUIT WITH GAY PUFFED SLEEVES AND A HUGE FOX COLLAR. SALLY MILGRIM. THE OTHER SPECTATOR GOES IN FOR A DARK BLUE FROCK WITH LOVELY PRINTED TOP AND A LITTLE JACKET HUGELY CUFFED IN BLUE FOX. THE TAILORED WOMAN. DISAPPEARING INTO THE CLUB ROOMS THEY SHOW THE SLIM BELTED BACK AND AND THE CAPE EFFECT ON THESE TWO SUITS. THE FETCHING WOOL CROCHETED FROCK WITH ITS SHORT SEPARATE CAPE IS IN A BRIGHT RED AND IVORY PATTERN. FROM LESCHIN. HER COMPANION WEARS THAT SLICK WHITE TENNIS FROCK FROM VON LENGERKE AND AN- TOINE WITH ITS KNITTED YELLOW BOLERO SLIPPED ON IN FRONT AND TIED IN BACK IN AMUSING VICE VERSA STYLE. STRIPED BROWN AND WHITE SILK JERSEY IS STUNNING AND PRACTICAL FOR SPORTS THIS SEASON. AND SEE THE INTERESTING SLEEVES AND NECKLINE WITH ITS WHITE PIQUE JABOT. LESCHIN. PECK AND PECK DOES DELIGHTFUL THINGS WITH CHAMOIS BLOUSES LIKE THE ONE IN WHITE WITH ITS KNITTED BANDS OF DARK BLUE. THE SKIRT IS FLANNEL AND THE BIT OF A CAP IS IN CHAMOIS AND KNITTED BLUE TOO. 36 The Chicagoan WHETHER your 1932 treks mean a cruise to the North Cape, a sum mer at Southampton or simple week end dashes to Barrington or Lake Geneva, you'll have to do something about out-of-town clothes. Doing something about getting away is about the most pleasurable occupation imag inable at any time. This year it's more fun than ever, with the textile people, the cou- tourieres, the shops, spurred on to superlative efforts to satisfy a more and more exacting clientele. Quality is surging to the front as people discover they can't afford the faddish and the cheap in fabric, design or workmanship. Fab rics, for instance, are fascinating in their beauty of color, texture — and practicability. Here are wools and silks that will live se renely through strenuous days on trains and planes and golf courses and ships, under sun and wind and spray. Lines that are sinu ously feminine and yet permit the utmost in freedom and comfort. Tricks of design and costume assembling that give double lives to most costumes and allow us to prune our wardrobe down to a minimum without sacri ficing a bit of variety or charm. Take the versatile redingote as an illustra tion. It's a tremendous redingote year but there's something inimitable about the smart models of this costume that prevents it from becoming a Ford that you meet everywhere. It is the perfect basic costume for the trav eler, as it adapts itself smartly to so many occasions. The one in the illustration is Vionnet's famous version shown by The Tailored Woman (who, by the way, has just moved into a handsome new shop at 650 North Michigan) . Vionnet's redingote starts with a simple printed silk slip — tiny diagonals in blue and white — over which the redingote is tied with a novel twisted belt. The redingote shows another 1932 high sign in its two color effect, the top in the printed silk and the skirt in dark blue wool. The Tailored Woman makes much of other redingote combinations here — dresses in printed crepes and coats in contrasting solid colors. For country wear look at their sports dresses in a new crinkly vege table silk which is washable, egad, but has so much body that it's a far cry from the sleazy wash silks of other seasons. Lanvin has a bril liant bit here in a blue dress accom panied by a dash ing waist-length cape which does double duty. If you feel fairly conservative you turn the cape's solid blue side out, if it's one of those skittish days in the country and your dearest enemy is eyeing your arrival you flaunt the impudent reverse side of the cape, a widely checked blue and white surface which is as French as French. After seeing half a dozen fashion shows with the inevitable wed ding round-up at the end and after seeing story after story on what the June bride will wear we decided we'd had enough of brides — and that brides (Continued on page 52) 1^4 r\- .z ;./,; ^rs AT THE EXTREME LEFT IS THE PERFECT SPORTS FROCK FOR HOT DAYS. IN TAN WASHABLE SILK SERGE WITH RED LEATHER BELT, PLEAT ON THE SKIRT AND WAIST IN BACK ALL THE DETAILS MAKE FOR COMFORT AND STYLE. VON LENGERKE AND ANTOINE. A ROSY MELON TONE FOR THE JACKET, DARK BROWN SKIRT, AND BROWN AND WHITE BLOUSE ARE THE FRESH COLORS IN SCHIAPA- RELLl'S KNIT SUIT FROM SAKS-FIFTH AVENUE. A SKY BLUE OSTRICH CLOTH AND DEEP BLUE SILK BLOUSE FORM ANOTHER COLOR HARMONY IN THE MILGRIM SUIT TO THE LEFT ABOVE. VIONNET'S REDINGOTE DRESS SLIPS ITS PRINTED TOP AND BLUE WOOL SKIRT OVER A PRINTED SILK SLIP AND GOES ANYWHERE WITH VERVE AND IN HIGH FASHION. THE TAILORED WOMAN. LUGGAGE AND GOLF BAG ON OPPOSITE PAGE IN NATURAL IRISH LINEN WITH BLUE BINDING AND SWAGGER CLUB STRIPES. HART- MANN TRUNK COMPANY. May, 1932 37 Taking the Aisle Weddings — Gifts — Entertaining By The Hostess RIGHT at the start I'll let you know that you can take it or leave it alone. If ¦ you have a bride or a crop of brides to stew about, if you are a bride, or the bride's mother there's a little batch of information here which should help you to Get Things Done. But even if you are none of these there's no reason why you shouldn't give your self some of the things that do so much to lift the spirits at the opening of a new season. Bride or no bride, you should go to see the originals of the gay pieces shown on the Mexican table in the picture. This ware is charming for the bride who would like some different, informal things but gets so many of the stately sort of gift which she won't use until she has a great big house and a great big butler to do them justice. It is also perfect for the country house or the modern apart ment and just about everyone should have a few pieces because it is so fresh and un spoiled an example of native artistry right at our gates. The plates are large and individ ual in design, each one having a different motif in the strong blues, coppers, ochre, and greens typical of Mexico. The glasses are that lovely marine blue I told you about last month and there are any number of other interesting pieces in the pottery and the glassware, gay little figurines for table decorations and whim sical animals for all the world like the Painted Pig that Pita played with. The cranes on the table are unusually fine examples of Mexican decorative art and very dashing in their black bodies, silvered wings and red legs and beaks. They are effective either as a table decoration or in any room — say in front of a fireplace or in a corner which needs a striking note. All these are in Mandel's Foreign Galleries. AN ENGAGING BIT OF MODERN DE SIGN BY RUSSEL WRIGHT MAKES AN ALUMINUM BEVERAGE SET AT MARSHALL FIELD'S. 1 RUE native art need not be foreign to have a place among the last ingly beautiful. The Rcx>kw(x>d pottery created right near Cincinnati is as fine as any thing imported today and it has long had a place of genuine distinction. In the Rook- wood Room at Field's you find all the beauti ful designs in the older tradition but just as many new things done with a sure flair for modern lines that rouses new interest. There are fascinating arrangements of squat contain ers for cactus and exotic plants which make one think of the desert architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. There are sprightly animal figures, as modern but not so grotesque as much of the European school, assuring them a longer life in my affections at any rate. The new Rookwood decorative pieces for the table are stunning. The bowl and candle stick shown are part of a group in that lustred but slightly grayed purply black which shades off to a faint silvery sheen at the edges. You can see the interesting lines of the candlestick but you must see the original of the porcelain flowers which fit into the irregular octagonal bowl to get their utter beauty. The flowers arc lovely in their soft tones of pink, hyacinth and melting tans and exquisite in shape — it's a centerpiece you'd never tire of. Another group here is in a lustrous ivory with two magnificent masks to place on either side of the center bowl. These make a striking table decoration or used by themselves anywhere would be as striking as a fine piece of sculpture. Another triumph of modern design is Rus- sel Wright's aluminum beverage set, also shown at Field's. Both in design and in prac ticability it's a triumph. The mere exhilara tion of the starkly simple tumblers and amus ing tray should double the intoxicating per centage of any beer (it could be anything, but beer would be swell in it). The tray is in some extremely light wood with a curved aluminum band about it and the whole set is so light that anyone could whisk it about like a professional stiiberl attendant. On the trail of individ ual native art one comes inevitably to Georg Jensen. The handwrought silver of this Swedish master is a real heirloom and some thing absolutely inimitable. A very fine repre sentative collection is shown by Hipp and Co- burn and the pieces we have photographed are only a few of his famous designs. Many of his things, as you know, have been purchased .by the Metropolitan Museum, the Luxembourg, the Chicago Art (Continued on page 58) WHERE MEXICO BOUNDS RUSSIA. THE PLATES, TRAYS, GLASSWARE, AND DECORATIVE BIRDS ARE MEXICAN AND THE HEAVY WOVEN CLOTH IS RUSSIAN HANDIWORK. MANDEL BROTHERS. GEORG JENSEN S DESIGNS IN SILVER RANK WITH THE FINE ART OF ALL TIME. FROM HIPP AND COBURN. IN THE BACKGROUND A PIECE OF OLD BROCADE FROM YAMANAKA. 38 The Chicagoan BOWMAN BROTHERS, INCORPORATED, 952 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE ' j|5^|^m CAGOAN 407 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois One year $3 Two years $5 Gentlemen: I enclose the indicated amount, for which please mail The Chicagoan each month to the address given below. (Signature) (Street address) - (City) (State) May, 1932 39 Clothes for the Summer Season Outfits Necessary to the Warm Weather Wardrobe By Fran k H k s i i YOUR clothes closet or your wardrobe can be as packed with clothes and acces sories as it is possible for you to have it, or it can be not especially overcrowded and still be complete enough. There are, of course, a few specific items that are important to the several varieties of summer dress. That's another thing about the still pretty-good-old-summertime — there are so many things to do. And you may, if you are that fortunate, have an outfit for every sport. But you can get along, and you'll probably have to, with a lot less. The several articles of apparel illustrated above make quite a sufficient summer wardrobe. The suit worn by the elderly gentleman, the first figure on the left, is a conservative dark blue business suit. The shirt is pin-striped, the tie dark, with small figures. We sketched this at Anderson and Brothers. The next figure, dressed for a day at Expo sition Park or Sportsmen's Park, wears a dark brown flannel jacket, double-breasted and tan, striped flannel slacks. The soft shirt might be white or tan, and the tie foulard. The hat is lightweight, soft and brown and the shoes are brown suede. We picked out this outfit at Finchley's. At the Kenwwd Mills shop we caught the next, the third, figure. The suit is a light grey flannel, three piece, and one of a number of swell models. With it might be worn black and white calf shoes, a Panama hat with a narrow black band, soft shirt and foulard tie. The fourth figure wears tan corduroy slacks, very new in the odd-trouser field, a V-neck sweater with sleeves and a sleeveless, lighten ing fastner leather windbreaker. The cap is white linen and the golf shoes are tan and white. Spalding's showed this outfit to us. Marshall Field's, we found, as we expected, have complete yachting and boating clothes. They suggested that we sketch the above fig ure, the fifth from the left, wearing a dark blue yachting jacket with the customary brass buttons, white flannel slacks and white buck shoes with no toe-cap and with rubber soles, and an excepted yachting cap. It's been years since we've seen a Norfolk suit, such as the figure on the right is wearing, but Capper 6? Capper are offering them now. And it's an ideal sort of suit for general sports or town and country wear. It's very informal, as sports clothes should be, and it gets far and away from the usual sports jackets that we've been seeing for so long. The one we sketched w;is a dark brown tweed, with a herringbone pattern which fits the general vertical lines. 40 The Chicagoan T&«~k y^^ &c*&^ The Kleenex Co., Lake Michigan Building, Chicago, 111. Gentlemen: My husband thinks you should build an ad around the gratitude of the fortunate men in the world, who, after years and years of finding their bureau drawers bare of their own handkerchiefs, can now sit back and watch the women of their families happily blow their cold noses on Kleenex. Very sincerely yours, [fyXtsJl*^ ~fyo~*U^ Port Washington, L.I *~^Tl<^£-Ccs$^c£sy ^J-Cst^dl KLEENEX COMPANY, Lake Michigan Bldg., Chicago, Please send sample packet of Kleenex. ^ Name I City State In Canada, address. 330 Bay Street, Toronto, Ont. THE CHICAGOAN Theatre Ticket Service Kindly enter my order for theatre tickets as follows: (Pi*y) •- (Second choice) (T^umber of seats) - - (Date) — (T^ame) (Address) (Telephone) (Enclosed) $ Attend the Theatre Regularly, Comfortably, Smartly By arrangement with the theatres listed below, THE CHICAGOAN is pleased to assure its readers choice reservations at box office prices and with a minimum of inconvenience. Adelphi Apollo Blackstone Cort Erlanger Grand Great Northern Harris Majestic Playhouse Princess Selwyn Studebaker May, 1932 41 FORCE! To move mountains, to gouge river beds, to fascinate yo'ji forever — one of Alaska's many live glaciers, going places! Totem poles, weird, fantastic, line the way as though they were guide posts of the north country. Action.' Maybe it's a whale, a herd of Caribou, a fishing expedition. There's always something to hold your attention. ai ¦mm Step up front! Travelers peering from the prow of a Princess liner as it winds i ts way past glaciers and icebergs. Banff and Lake Louise enroute. The most thrilling of all mountains. Palatial Hotels. Always something different to see and do. Stop over if you can. Amazing . . . the Low Cost of Seeing Alaska AND it's a thrilling adventure! Ocean washed sun rays tone **- you up like a magic tonic. Salt-savored alpine air whips your appetite. You'll marvel at the masterful color effects of that long-shift sun, the live glaciers, the towering mountains, villages on stilts. Two thousand cool, smooth miles by the in side passage aboard a big Princess liner. There's never a dull moment. Deck games. Wonderful dance music, (masquerade ball, last night out). Informal parties, smart world-traveled companions — all adventure bound. At Skagway there's a 36-hour stop for exciting inland trips. (Stay over and take the Klondike trip if you can.) Special de luxe cruise 12 days, $125 and up. Regular cruise 9 days, beginning at $90, meals and berth included. For full information and reservations write or phone 90 up THOS. J. WALL, General Agent 71 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago Phone Wabash 1904 From Vancouver (Kvery Wed.. Sat.) Victoria. Seattle. To SkaKway and return, 9 days. Canadian Pacific Reduced Fares West. All-Expense Conducted Tours. GOING: Grand Canyon and California— or Yellowstone, Columbia Highway — or Glacier and Mt. Rainier — and Alaska. RETURNING. Lake Louise, Banff. Also 6H Glorious Days in Canadian Rockies, from Banff or Field, only $60. "COR those who cherish the joy and adventure of personally -*- choosing and arranging their own homes, Danersk Furniture has a special appeal. In our showrooms you will find just the right furniture, rugs and draperies to carry out any room schemes you may conceive. And you may specify wood finishes and choose covering materials with expert assistance, if you wish it. New groups for complete dining rooms and bedrooms in maple and knotty pine may be had at prices ranging from $298 to $690. Send for illustrations. DANERSK FURNITURE ERSKINE - DANFORTH CORPORATION Designers and makers of choice furniture NEW YORK CHICAGO LOS ANGELES 383 Madison Avenue 620 North Michigan Avenue 2869 West 7th Street 15 East 69th St., New York Choosing the Westbury as a New York address is more than a gesture of social desirability. Located on ultra fashionable Madison Avenue, just one block from Central Park, it is conveniently accessible to smart shops, theatres, cultural centers, the business and financial district. Rates are reasonable and flexible in order to meet all requirements. Table d'hote meals permit the establish ing of a regular budget while the mod erately priced a la carte menu is an added attraction. The Westbury means distinctive atmos phere. Wire collect for reservations RUDOLPH HISCIIOFF, Managing Director 42 The Chicagoan ABOUT PROUST j4 Personal Reminiscence By Henry Channon {Begin on page 26) a taxicab. This was princely recklessness. He talked about it with his friend the concierge, and no doubt gave him two or three hundred francs. As it turned out there was only an open car avail' able with the necessary Police Permit. We hesitated: as it was a clear moonlit night, we were almost sure to have an air raid and we should be able to watch it from St. Cloud. It would be magnificent, the enemy planes, the defense barrage, the searchlights, the falling bombs; but it was bitterly cold and we could not decide. M. Proust was boyishly eager for the expedition; I was indifferent; my friend was against it, and after some argument he returned by train. All that last year of the War we met occa- sionally. Then came other interests, the Armis' tice, his frequent illnesses. He shortly became world-famous, and died. Sometimes now when I read of M. de Charlus and of Swann him- self, I wonder how they could be the children of my friend's brain, bits of himself? And I remember Proust's gentleness, his sensitiveness that was almost an illness, his hot hands, and sad wonderful eyes, his rather tawdry ele- gance, and the determined parting of his black hair. The last time I saw him he brought me a copy of his Pastiches et Melanges, and he assured me that he had put me recognizably in the great work he was writing. I have read some thirteen volumes of La Recherche du Temps Perdu, and have never been able to find the least trace of myself. Of course if we had gone to Versailles that night he would most certainly have died of pneumonia, and they would never have been written. THE CONVENTIONS Past a?^d Present By Milton S . Mayer (Begin on page 19) Briggs House the night before the convention which had been bought and paid for by Seward performed a volte face and nominated Abraham Lincoln. Thus the glorious ideals of Mr. Weed in establishing "the policy of nominations emanating directly from the peo- pie" have been justified. The caucus still nominates the president of the United States. The essential procedure has not changed an iota. An asbestos curtain, in the form of the people's eyelids, has simply been drawn be- tween the whooping Comanches known as the convention and the bosses in the hotel rooms or the ante-chambers of the hall. The caucus of John Adams' day chose their man in Tom Dawes' garret. The caucus of Abe Lincoln's day chose their man in a room in the Briggs House. The caucus of Warren Harding's day chose their man in Charlie Hall's private of' fice in the Coliseum. Weed's wisdom in pre- serving the caucus in all its strength and smoke-screening it with a convention that per formed for the plain people has been as en- L — 2 liljill eilfl JSmmmmlimmSki ,JL , ¦¦MHHI A pleasant dinner — an en joyable show — and now for the grand finale! The liveliness demanded when hours grow small can be provided only by super- sparkling White Rock — the thirst cutting, energy giv ing beverage. Order White Rock when you are stepping out — serve White Rock when your friends step in! kawsE fflhifeTtock ^cIhe leading mineral watei\* When ginger ale is in order, make it White Rock Pale Dry, the only ginger ale made with White Rock Mineral Water. May, 1932 43 Moscow—The Kremlin— Soviet Children— Workers' Club MOSCOW. KHARKOV -KIEV Three great cities of the SOVIET UNION Gain personal insight and knowledge of Soviet giant activities. See the "news of the day" for yourself! Moscow . . . daily developing vast construction. Communal dwellings, museums, remarkable theatres and intense life. Kharkov . . . pulsing with industrial activity. Kiev . . . with its ancient memorials, new factories, cinema industry, picturesquely on the Dnieper. This Tour S110 — 10 Days Price covers travel in the Soviet Union, including first class hotels, meals, railroad and sleeper, autos, guides, interpreters, theatre tickets and visa. Price does not include round trip passage to the Soviet Union. Other unusual tours: Moscow or Leningrad, 5 days, $65; Dnieper River Tour, 14 days, $140; Volga River Tour, 16 days, $160 up; three tours to Turke stan; Round the World in 60 days . . . leave Chicago July 6. Cruise to the Arctic, sails August 1. Travel In The SOVIET UNION Write for Booklet No. CM5. INTOURIST, Inc. U. S. Representa tive of the State Travel Bureau of the U. S. S. R., 261 Fifth Ave., New York; 110 Boylston St., Boston; 304 N. Michigan Blvd., Chicago; 756 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. Or see your own travel agent. during in its effect as it was precise in its conception. A lew national conventions have worked the will of the people — or at least the instinctively honest (and therefore fleeting) desires of the massed delegates. (If the politicians choose to resent the remark that they are or ever have been instinctively honest, I shall withdraw the statement and explain that it was made in a light-headed moment.) Notable among the few genuinely spontane ous nominations in convention history are the victory-drunk nomination of Grant in 1868, the selection of Gen. Garfield by the Republican conven tion of 1880 following his brief, bril liant speech in support of the candi dacy of Blaine; the unanimous re- nomination of Grovcr Cleveland, the most popular man, excepting Grant, in American political history, by the Democratic convention of 1888; and the classic storming of the 1896 Democratic convention by Bryan's "cross of gold" speech, and the roar ing acclamation of the Nebraskan in the conventions of '00 and '08. The plain people wonder some times — not often — what actually hap pens in the "regular" conventions, in which honesty plays no appreciable part. The people wonder, as the New York Evening Post timidly won dered in 1844, what the "secret his tory" of our national political con vention would read like. But they wonder just as they vote — impotently. The president-makers arc wise men, and they carry their secrets with them into the irretrievable grave. Up from the grave those secrets sometimes rise to ride the dawn like headless horse men, but they hurry back into the churchyard before the sun rises in men's minds, and there, in Marion, Ohio, and not only in Marion, Ohio, they find sanctuary. Once the politicians carried their good thing too far. That was in 1912, when the gang that was cur rently running the Republican party renominated President William How ard Taft with 74 delegates who had been repudiated, by their constitu encies while 349 of the 1100 dele gates refused to participate at all. I am speaking of the priceless "Steam-Roller" convention in Chi cago, dominated by the arch-demon of modern politics, Boise Penrose. This affair resulted in the bolting of the 349 disgusted delegates and the immediate formation of the Progres sive Party. The gang paid dearly. The Democrats, with Woodrow Wil son as their candidate, won the elec tion. Such an enormity is not likely to occur again. The country will con tinue to be governed by the bosses, but the governing body will be con fined to the hotel rooms and the ante-chambers — to "Tom Dawes' gar ret." The people will never again see the legend of representative gov ernment garrotcd before their eyes, and Theodore Roosevelt will never again climb to the platform of the Auditorium and thunder: "Thou shalt not steal a nomination. "Thou shalt neither steal in politics nor in business. "Thou shalt not steal from the people the birthright of the people to rule themselves." It is an established fact that everything ol importance that is spoken in a political conven tion can be recorded in a large flow ing hand on a grain of rice. But aside from the ineffable emptiness of the oratory, there are a hundred fea tures of the convention which are, to the innocent bystander (if he is not too innocent), ritously amusing. The field day-barbecue spirit, the pompousness of the yokels who think they have been brought together to run the government, the news reel boys interrupting the proceedings to tell a speaker to "open your mouth wide like you was saying something," the presentation of the gavel by the Traveling Salesmen of America, the Klan lobbying against Al Smith, the all-night poker sessions, the 24-hour war-whooping, the drunks fist-fight ing, the sobers fist-fighting, the wets itching to take a poke at Cannon and Hoover, the drys itching to take a poke at Du Pont and Raskob, the W. C. T. U. praying to God to save the nation from Al Smith, the local politicians selling the free admission tickets for fifteen dollars apiece, the complete and enthusiastic disorder while the chaplain invokes Heaven, The Star Spangled Banner led by Schumann-Heink in twenty yards of green organdy, the determination of the rural delegates to "pull a Bryan," the contempt of the Southern Demo crats for the Northern Democrats, the contempt of the Northern Repub licans for the Southern Republicans, the contempt of the Republicans for the Democratic platform, the con tempt of the Democrats for the Re publican platform, the entire similar ity between the two platforms, the buttons, the banners, the conferences, the debauches — the whole thing is re produced nowhere else in the civil ized world, if this be a civilized 'world. The entire local population should be grateful to Mr. Hurley, generous and lo! public-spirited, who secured the billing of the two circuses. The local merchants should be grateful to Mr. Hurley for bringing to town five thousand delegates (who must have money because they have to pay their own way) and perhaps one hundred thousand rubber-necks (who must have money or they'd stay home and take care of their stills) to put a lit tle starch into the local business dur ing the dog-days. The Shuberts and the Balabans and Katzes should be grateful to Mr. Hurley for luring the most enthusiastic show-goers in the world to Chicago during the off-sea son (which off-season?). The Ca- pones, the Bugs Morans (if there are any left), and the Spike O'Donnells should be grateful to Mr. Hurley for enabling them to corral within a square mile of skyscraper hotels a complete collection of the most ardent consumers of iced goods to be found anywhere. The local politicians should be grateful to Mr. Hurley for bringing within range of their clutch ing fingers the big boys who may be willing to let them knock off a little something good in Washington, some one of these days. Mr. Hurley may not want the gratitude of all of these groups but he'll have it, willy-nilly. There should be a good deal of gratitude all around. Houston and Kansas City showed the boys a big time in 19 28; Chicago can do no less in 1932. And when the smoke of two million five-cent cigars has cleared away and the local drug stores have been restocked with bromo seltzer and aspirin, how will things stand? What will be written on the Golden Roll? Will they have decided, in the hotel rooms and ante-chambers, to give us four years of phooey administration? What boots it? We've have phooey administrations before. Come to think of it, we have one now. 44 The Chicagoan LU XURY witVi ECONOMY P«n:rkshoire MOTEL IIVE, and in the living, enjoy every J moment to the utmost. That is your perfect privilege when your home is either the Flamingo or the Parkshore, two of Chicago's out standing, most coveniently located apartment hotels. • Flamingo and Parkshore suites are modern, spa cious, beautifully appointed and superbly serviced. Their rental rates are remarkably moderate. At the Parkshore the guest may have a choice of a completely appointed suite, or may provide the furnishings at a considerable saving in rental. • A very limited number of unusually desirable apartments, overlooking Lake Michigan, the new outer drives and Jackson Park are now available. "Where Smart People Meet" I 4 &§¦ Phone h the Lake :a 3100 la.mmqo MOTEL • 55-r-h Sfreet- at" "hhe Lake Phono Plaza3800 KENwoon C3rt, juh&u cx/ug Acy xcL/ruaie ! They may be blase' about the silver and crystal — they may pass up rare Persian rugs with just a nod of approval — but where is the bride that can restrain a gush or two over a gift of real Kenwood all wool Blankets? Delaine Merino Shropshire has gone completely ga-ga over her Kenwoods. So much so that she has uncorked a fast one in gush number one. Kenwoods are lanatel No matter how often they are laundered they remain la- nate. Wear —years of wear — and they are still lanate. That \* iu>t one of the qualities in which they differ from the ordinary run of blankets. Others, that make brides of today or last year proud to own them form an impressively Ions list. But to get back to their lanate lovelintss — Webster says a blanket is lanated when it is — wooly; covered with fine. Ions hair, or hair-like filaments. That is where Kenwoods stand atone. They are wooly — permanently wooly — the kind of pure wool — wooliness that means warmth, comfort and Refreshing Rest for years and years. The new 1932 Kenwoods are now being featured for bridal gifts. ! SAW BE 550 NORTH MICHIGAN AVE i/J STROBE :uTiru"' IDEAL FOR GIFTS Tableware of Enduring Beauty— Color of Gold— Strength of steel — Resist s food acids — Guaranteed 100 years COSTS LESS THAN STERLING — China and Glass to match Dirigold Distributors, Inc. 70 E. JACKSON BOULEVARD Harrison 7181-2 May, 1932 45 MEDICAL ATTENTION Barks and Growls The Boston Terrier By B . M . C u m m i n c; s PATIENT RECUPERATING JUST quivering all over ready to go — ready to play — ready to please: That's the Boston Terrier. He's alert and im petuous, he is, and you can gamble on his intelligence, smartness and companionship. While his weight should not exceed twenty- five pounds, every ounce is grit and aggressive ness, and he will at all times register an ap pearance of lively high intelligence and give an impression of strength and determination second to no other breed. That he is popular, the show bench and boulevards bear witness. And watch him do his tricks. He is probably as quick to learn stunts as the smooth coated Fox Terrier is, and can be counted upon to entertain the whole family. For example: We saw a Southsider the other day (we live on the North Side) who said to his Bos ton, "What would you rather do than live on the North Side?'" Down dropped the Boston — dead dog. iiNB he's an American through and through. About six decades ago his ancestors took ship in England and came over to Boston. Just ordinary terriers and bulls, they were. And now see what Boston culture has done. That's another thing about COMPLETE RECOVERY a Boston Terrier — he's a cultured gentleman. No bulldog was ever as courteous as the Bos- ton, and no other terrier was ever as genteel and conservative. Sometimes his ears are trimmed, but even if they aren't his general appearance, mannerisms and actions are such that it is obvious that he has had a college education. As a matter of fact, Harvard sticks out all over him, but not a touch of the famous "Harvard indifference."" In a small apartment, in a large house or in a smart hotel, he's quite perfect of manners. He isn't always trying to pick fights and he doesn't make a practice of barking at every footstep in the hall, and best of all, he doesn't leave hairs all over the carpets. Altogether, he is a little Aristocrat whose liveliness and intelligence make him an ideal pet. And it's a part of his inherited creed that he knows he is meant to be owned, that he's yours, body and soul. Don t Gamble with KIDNAPERS! . . Buy a Doberman Pinscher puppy and have it trained by us as a companion and protector for your home and family. No home has ever been burglar ized with a full grown Doberman at large in it. They are gentle and intelligent and instinctively know how to dif ferentiate between friend and foe. Puppies available at The Rennels Kennels And training school for Dobcrmans only LAKE VILLA, ILLINOIS Chicago Office 22 West Monroe St. Something Unusual! Saluki Female 11 months old, perfect health Come and see this dog and the modern Pug dog Mrs. Sarah Waller Arcady Road, Llbertyville, Illinois (6 miles west of Lake Forest) 7 ?&m£i)tre fennels. w Breeders of Wire Haired Fox Terriers and Scottish Terriers Ogden Ave. (Route 18) and Madison St. HINSDALE, ILL. Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Roberts Phone Hinsdale 165 4 DOG FAVORITES Hollywood Chooses Schnauzers We have both Giants and Mediums. Wonderful family and watch dogs. Covered Wagon Kennels Naperville, Illinois Chicago Office: 10S W. Adam. St. DOCS BOARDF.n TERRIERS STRIPPED Seven Airdale Puppies Sired by Ch. Walnut Commander Kvery one a healthy, sturdy dog. Ideal companions for chil dren and instinctive ly ] ) e r i e c t w a t c h dogs. Dr. W. J. Nixon Davis 7706 Saginaw Avenue South Shore 02f»2 Phera- Kalvit Body, bone and fur builder Highly concentrated nourishment contain- ing all of those vita mins, minerals and organic salts neces sary for strength and good health. On sale at V. L. &. A. and all pet stores 1 lb. can $1.25 2 lb. can $2.00 5 lb. can $4.7? Sole Distributor Foil ma n Schmuttermaier 189 N. Clark Street Phone Dearborn 7163 YOUR DOC'S SLIMMER Riveredge Kennels has available space for 10 dogs to board dur ing the summer months. Modern, home-like care guaranteed. Riveredge offers for sale a few St. Bernard puppies by champion dogs. Riveredge Kennels Owner: Mrs. Marion A. McDonald Route 22 — % mile east of Milwaukee Ave. at Haltday. Illinois 46 The Chicagoan HIGH-BOYS AND WHAT-NOTS wrought in glass by that whimsical craftsman •lolui Held jr Can you look your guests in the eye when you serve them highballs in nondescript iced-tea glasses, milk mugs and jam jars? If you can, our leather-lunged glass-blower, John Held, Jr., is wasting his breath. (Cries of "No! No! a thousand times no!" All right then, Mr. Held, resume blowing.) Gaze above, if you will, at the what-not effect. Working from the bottom up, you see the "Happy Dase" set of Highball glasses decorated by John Held, Jr. in the famous Hot-Cha manner — a bevy of tall pleasure vehicles that will stamp you as a host apart. The decanter in their midst holds 1 quart of spirits, no more, no less. The ice tub, with tongs, completes the homey picture. Oh yes, the price — $6.00 for the set of 6 Highball glasses; $3.50 for the ice tub and tongs; $3.00 for the decanter. The Dunbar crystal ware shown above can be had at the better shops everywhere or postpaid direct on request. Dunbar Glass Corporation, 141 Dunbar Street, Dunbar, West Virginia. West oj Roches, add 10% to above prices DUNBAR GLASS ACK of water will cause the health iest plant to droop and fade. Lack of water causes the same "droopiness" in human beings. The human body is two-thirds water. It "uses up" over three quarts of water daily. This amount must be replaced if true, energetic health is to prevail. You get some water in coffee, soups and cooked foods it is true, but to be sure you get your full share doctors say you should drink from six to eight glasses every day. Drink Corinnis Spring Water — the water that is not only good to taste, but which is rich in the minerals essential to health. Pure, sparkling Corinnis helps purify the bloodstream, it rids the body of poisonous, acid wastes — and that means new zest, new energy, new joy of living. Corinnis Spring Water is always crystal-clear and always good to taste. Thousands of families enjoy it daily. Thousands of business firms serve it to their customers and employees. Due to this widespread popularity it costs but a few cents a bottle — only a fraction of what you must pay for most mineral waters. Order a case today. It can mean so much to your health. HINCKLEY & SCHMITT 420 W. Ontario St. SUPerior 6543 (Also sold at your neighborhood store) Corinnis SPRING WATER May, 1932 47 One can't readily fly over night to Paris, to enjoy there its famous foods. But one can swiftly hop by bus or taxi or motor to The Belmont and ac tually dine as delightfully as though at the Cafe de Paris or the Restaurant Foyot. For both Pierre Deltort, our Chef de Cuisine, and Eugene Bouillet, our Maitre d'hotel, learned their art in those culinary capi tals. If you can appreciate really fine French cooking you will dine here and rush to tell your friends the good news. REGULAR TABLE D'HOTE DINNERS INCLUDING SUNDAYS SA.25 $H.50 $000 HOTEL Belmont B. B. WILSON, Resident Manager Single and double rooms with bath. Suites of 2 to 4 rooms, with or without kitchenette SHERIDAN ROAD AT BELMONT HARBOR Bittersweet 2100 15 MINUTES FROM THE LOOP So do Others! 7000 People Flew between Chicago and Detroit last year on TRANSAMERICAN AIRLINES Chicago business men and women fly this deluxe Transamerican air route to Detroit regularly. They find the trip clean, restful, time-saving. It requires but 750 minutes to fly from Chicago to Detroit. No wonder T.A.C. planes carried more than 7000 pas sengers between these cities last year. Why not fly on your next trip East ? Then you, too, will appreciate the advantages of Transamerican's splendid inter-city service. Fast airliners leave from Chicago Municipal Airport at convenient intervals throughout the day for South Bend, Fort Wayne, Detroit, and Michigan points. Direct air and rail connections at T.A.C. terminals pro vide through service to any point in the United States. Phone State 7110 for complete air travel informa tion and reservations. transamerican Airlines Corp. 10 South La Salle St. - - - Chicago FLY ON THE GOVERNMENT MAIL LINES 48 The Chicagoan URBAN PHENOMENA This and That, Here and There About Town By Virginia Skinkle WELL last month we told you all about Spring and Robins leaping in the Parks and bowls of Daffodils on practically everyone's tea table. Now we have to admit it was a pretty mean trick; as a matter of fact while we were writing it we had on our Goloshes . . . what's more, the winter coat is NOT in moth balls . . . and how are you? Things Keep on Happening . . . the Don Boweys are leaving any minute now for California . . . Eliza- beth Peabody has opened the "Town and Country" shop (coats and soots) in Lake Forest . . . Jessie Artamanoff is in the Real Estate business with Freida Foltz . . . Florence Higgin- botham is planning a jaunt to Vir ginia Beach . . . the Hal Strotz have sold their house on Astor Street and will prolly go to Europe . . . Maxine is having her portrait painted. Peggy and "Fuzzy" Bissell have romped off to a picturesque spot in Indiana for two weeks. Hooray three or four times out loud for Dr. and Mrs. Otho Ball for having such swell parties . . . it's the grandest place in town to drop in and meet interesting people. The Sunday party they had for Bishop Mardery was the most fun we've had all season. Jean Stevens is home from Palm Beach via New York . . . Ghita Watson McLallen is selling sports clothes with Mrs. Agus- tus Eddy . . . the Kimbroughs have a new wire puppy named "Jock" . . . he's Grand. The following advertisement (com- plete with illustration) appeared in a Canadian Newspaper and we think prolly that it was translated from the French. "demonstration in our corset department. The demon stration of the famous nu-back cor sets and corsettes, by MRS. masse, ex pert corsetiere from the D & A Com pany, is proving of great interest, if one can judge by the numerous ladies and misses that have visited our de partment, and the great many sales that have been done. Whether or not you are in immediate need of a corset, you owe it to yourself to see this demonstration which, although given on living model, is strictly MORAL." 1 HE Lewis Barnes have moved to Evanston. . . . Marion Strobel Mitchell almost floored a sales girl in a Smart Specialty Shop by calmly asking for a short-skirted- fancy-ice-skating costume which, as a matter of fact, she really wanted on account of taking fancy-ice-skating lessons at the Stadium. Mrs. Oliver Pitcher has a new Modern Study in her home in Hubbard Woods; its very amusingly decorated by Mrs. William Scriven: being a baseball fan, she has lamps in crystal shaped like a base ball bat that, when lighted, have silhouettes of Hack Wilson and all the famous players. We went to a very elaborate Fashion Show recently in one of the exclusive Michigan Avenue Shops. Like most affairs of the sort the pro cession of mannequins was climaxed with what the smart Bride will wear this year . . . just as the bridesmaids, carrying fresh orchids, started down the stairs the orchestra burst forth with I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store. Henrietta Countiss has gone to New York where she hopes to find a publisher for the novel she has just finished . . . we think she is pretty Smart what with painting all kinds of pictures and being no mean Sculp tress and doing Junior League Char ity work on the side. Isabelle Davis has just returned from Phoenix all beautifully tanned and so full of pep that she walks for miles by the lake every day. We were sitting around a very modern red, white and blue room the other day and admiring the clever way in which the colors were contrasted when one of our friends announced that she would just as soon rest in Old Glory. /\ girl we know, who was at the time engaged to a Promising Young Salesman from out of town, gave a Sunday Dropping In and Out party. . . . After a highly successful evening the Hostess bid one after another of her guests good night. Suddenly she realized that the Fiance who had certainly been among those Dropping In was the only one who had not as yet Dropped Out. Thereupon she organized a Searching Party consisting of herself and a young woman who was spending the night with her. They looked all over the front of the apartment, try ing not to arouse the family. No signs of the Vanished One. Sud denly they came upon a Strange and Wonderful apparition in the dining room. None other than the Colored Cook, by name Gertrude . . . more famous for Waffles than Pulchritude . . . seated with her teeth chattering and costumed for the night in a man's pajama top and bright green rayon bloomers, she was the very picture of Terror. Inquiring into her predicament the Search Party was informed that nothing Short of a Shooting had occurred and The Re mainder was at that moment lying on his face in the middle of Gertrude's bedroom floor. After listening to the cook's Lurid tale the Questing party proceeded bravely to investigate on it's own account. Gent'e Reader, as you may have guessed, the Remainder was none other than the Fiance who, having duly Dropped In, had chosen this informal way of Dropping Out. After the young man had left in dis grace for his Home Town this ex change of telegrams took place. From Her: "if you think you were being original stop you are mistaken stop some years ago an irish gentleman named cohen 'wrote a musical comedy called 'up in Gertrude's room.' " From Him: "IN REPLY TO YOURS STOP I PRO TEST THAT MY REGRETTABLE BE HAVIOR WAS SOLELY DUE TO A SCIENTIFIC INTEREST IN LINOLEUM AND A STRANGE CONFUSION OF DOOR KNOBS." Chapin Hunt has returned to his native Seattle, joined the Diamond Match Company and is about to set fire to the world . . . crowds of gay young things spend GERMANY 5.95 PER DAY I his is the year when big price reductions in Germany have enabled leading American travel bureaus to offer tours through that wonderful country for as little as $5.95 per day. Follow the gleaming trail through the land of legend- haunted castles, ancient towns, modern cities, moun tain and sea resorts — for less than the average cost of staying at home. The modest price of $5.95 up per day includes travel ing in speedy express trains, comfortable hotels, all meals, sightseeing, tips, bus excursions and baggage transfers. All this is backed by the largest American travel bureaus of national reputation. Please use the coupon. "3 ^(Xoinnjoi -to &uAxjm' 'm&MW (pvngth GERMANY GERMAN TOURIST INFORMATION OFFICE 665 Fifth Avenue, New York City Please Send Booklet F 62 and Tour Folder ADDRESS May, 1932 49 Announcement of Great Interest to all Women • Silhouette Shop — WILSON METHOD OF BODY BEAUTY The question is so often put to us: "Why does your business keep up?" We take this means, of not only tell ing: you but proving to you WHY AND HOW WE DO IT. This present business condi tion cannot last, any more than you could get yourself down to correct contour and perfect measurements — in a few weeks. Hence, the smart woman of today looks ahead. She plans to continue with her aim of keeping slim, provided the cost is kept within her means — and she has the joy of looking better and feeling better while doing it! Second: We've reduced prices as well as figures. Prices now range from $25.00 to $45.00 per course. Circulatory applications $2.50 each. Prices according to correc tion necessary. It's a thrill from the start. No failures. Take advantage of the low prices; secure your appoint ments immediately to avoid disappointment. Our capac ity is limited. In order that every woman may realize the benefits ob tained, we are selling for a limited time only, half courses from $12.50 to $25.00. Sixth floor Phone Randolph 1500 for an appointment CMASASTEVENJSBROS Sunday afternoons riding horse-back at Knollwood. . . . We're excited about the Lighthouse Ball and the Garbo-Crawford version of Grand Hotel. "The longer the run the shorter the breadline." We enjoyed Breadline Frolics . . . particularly the song Traveling' put across with all the racial drama and beauty that made Old Man River famous. This and That . . . Here and There. Spotlight on Fran Weary dashing to luncheon in a brown suit with a large plaid taffeta bow tied under the chin ... on Peggy Bissell in a chartreuse wool dress and a pert brown hat with a long veil ... on Vera Wolfe in a brown sports costume out window shopping on The Avenue ... on Elizabeth Peabody looking like a pic ture out of Vogue in the newest combination of navy blue with brown accessories ... on Cornie Fairbanks and Margaret James lunching at Huyler's. Gibby and Ann Robinson have moved out to their home at Glenview . . . Esther Kirkland has left the city and gone to Lake Forest for the summer . . . Elecka Rostislav is Fashion Consultant for The Fair . . . Jean Spens and Fran Weary and Christy Mann have joined the army of the unemployed and seem to like it . . . so would we at this point . . . Spring does things like that to us. Ellie and Bye Webster have a new apartment on Elm Street with a brown and white living room and parquet floors that are swell to prac tice your tap dancing on. Did you know that the Tango Helen Rend wrote is so simple that one of our best orchestra leaders couldn't play it without a rehearsal? Katharine Cor nell rented the David Adlcr's house. . . . 'Bye Now. TRAVEL Calling Voices (Begin on page 25) early in the morning one sights the distant shim mer of snow-capped mountains. Shortly after entering the range the train puffs down the Bow River Valley, and there is Banff set in its colorful mountain pocket. Banff is worthy of all the delirium that has been penned about it. The hotel itself is as self-contained as a small city and queens it over the surround ing territory from its magnificent plateau, looking down over the junc tion of the Spray and Bow Rivers with the amazing golf course stretch ing into the distance, mountains and forests and waterfalls in a lofty circle all about. In this circle lie seven bungalow camps, the chateau Lake Louise, Emerald Lake Hotel just as beautifully set — in short an alluring chain of hostelries ranging from the royal splendor of Banff to the sim plicity of a genuine woodland retreat. Things arc artfully arranged so that the region can be all things to all men. For those who want almost princely splendor, bang- up parties and Patou frocks, sybaritic swimming pools and the like the Banff Springs Hotel docs it all perfectly. Though you can be an honest-to- God outdoor soul while stationed in the heart of this luxury. Motor trips, fishing trips, walking tours into the wilderness that hugs the hotel, won derful horses and wonderful trails, canoeing, every activity under the sun may be arranged for at the hotel. ENTERTAIN economically but not cheaply! When you give a party— do not economize on standards. For your standing may demand an environment of prestige. You do want economy — but not cheapness. Give your dinner, dance, lunch eon or wedding where you obtain desired value — where everything is provided to make your party effective and out standing — without a concession to your own social standardsl You will find we appreciate your problem — and realize economy must be considered today. HOTEL SHORELAND 55th SI. al the Lake Plaza 1000 Our new dining room — enthu siastically acclaimed — pro vides a unique and unusual setting with luncheon and din ner innovations in both char acter and price. m to cultured people! The recognized high charac ter of Hotel Pearson is but one appeal to those who without added rental seek a higher standard in hotel living. For here — advanced and up- to-the-minute arrangements provide in a new measure for a degree of comfort and happiness rarely found. New, smart, modern appoint ments. Larger, more cheerful rooms — most effectively dec orated. Dining rooms in the apartments as spacious as in most private homes. Every attribute of a cultured hotel home — every desirable fea ture — and a most distin guished clientele. Your visit is invited. You will be delightfully surprised at the outstanding advantages and unusual features we are ready to supply for you I HOTEL PEARSO 190 East Pearson Street Telephone Superior 8200 Chicago But where will we get a FOURTH? but coma a< you ara There's a simple solution to this very serious problem — just come to the Chesterfield Bridge Club, Chicago's new est and finest. Here you can drop in any afternoon or evening, and know that you'll find exactly the kind of game you'd have in your own home. Not for large stakes, but good bridge, in a de lightful atmosphere, with the sort of people you like to meet. Membership dues are ridiculously low; membership qualifications, well, rather high. Formal* opening, Saturday the 1 4th, at 8 o'clock. CHESTERFIELD BRIDGE CLUB 2212 Medinah Athletic Club Building 505 N. Michigan Blvd., Chicago The Chicagoan ^B «^Raa»»aB r+? Mm I ¦¦ * . - THROUGH THE VISTA OF PTORMIGAN TUNNEL MOUNT WILBUR REARS ITS LOFTY HEIGHT IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK Not to forget that heavenly golf course stretching away from its club house high on a steep slope. This is actually one of the finest courses in the world, laid out by Stanley Thompson, with so many natural hazards and beauties and so ingen iously planned that one could play it for years and find something new at every stroke. Each hole has three sets of tees — for crack, average and novice golfers — and the bunkering is so worked out that each tee is prac tically a different course, with two routes to each hole. The place is rich in native color. From the elaborate Indian pow-wow in July and the Highland Gathering in August, from gaping at the North west Mounted Police, to chatting with hardbitten natives and guides in the village, dancing at the village pa vilion as a gay contrast to the lofti ness of the hotel affairs, one gets the feel of Canadian life. But it's the mountains and forests themselves that will bring you back again and again once you have sa vored them. You can find sump tuous hotel life elsewhere but you'll never taste any other steak like the steak which Bill Micheltree sizzles on a hot rock at sundown after a day on the trails or in rushing trout streams. And you'll never forget the huge beds of Iceland poppies tossing their yellow, white and orange crowns at Lake Louise . . . the chip munks scurrying about and running right across your lap with their little pouches filled with nuts . . . solid patches of forget-me-nots shimmering like a wisp of sky near the purl of tiny streams . . . the scent of heather, balsam and spruce . . . the foaming drop of Takkakaw Falls seen from your cottage door at Yoho . . . the intense blues and greens of Lake Louise . . . the utter piece of Emer ald Lake . . . well, one must exercise restraint and get down to facts. Before you even think of going to the Canadian Rockies you know volumes-worth about Banff Springs Hotel, the Cha teau at Lake Louise and the Emer ald Lake chalet. But you should take in as well, or arrange to spend a season, at the secluded bungalow camps and ranches for a thoroughly outdoor vacation. In the foothills near Banff is Mrs. Bill Brewster's Kananaskis Ranch, long a favorite among those who know what's what in ranches. Charlie Russell, the famous cowboy painter, reflects the life of this region in many of his pictures and at the ranch hangs the last painting he did just before he died. Flocks of Chicago and North Shore girls spend the summer at the Lake Windermere girls' camp owned by Doctor Harriet Cooke and Miss Mary Cutler of Chicago. The Yoho Val ley Camp is another splendid home for the entire summer but if you can't do that manage a few days here at least. On horse and foot you can explore a magnificent stretch of coun try, breaking the trip with a few days' stay at one of the many camps scattered about in the area. The Alpine Club of Canada welcomes vis itors to its annual camp and the Trail Riders' organization accepts guests who have ridden fifty miles or more in the Canadian Rockies. Their official ride this year will be to Mount Assiniboine, seventy miles south of Banff, and a grand experience for the horseman or horsewoman who wants to get a real taste of life in these Rockies. Horses and Dudes ON this side of the border lies another kingdom for riders. If you have ever rolled along Glacier Park on the Empire Builder you must still be haunted by the mysterious country that towered about the train. If any place calls with an almost liv ing voice it is this park, which isn't a park. Glacier is different from our other national parks and one senses this difference right through the train windows, something removed, yet powerfully alluring, an antiquity and majesty and a peace that is like nothing else on earth. Fortunately this feeling is preserved by a wise government (really our government is awfully wise about national parks) which has secured Glacier Park perpetually for those who want a genuine retreat. The Park — its real inner beauty — is known only to those who ride the trails, for automobiles do not and cannot pene trate its rich interior. An amazing chain of trails has been developed to heights and into valleys which only the horse can manage, but on the park's eight or nine hundred finely trained animals and with the expert guides provided, even novices get the thrills of riding through these color ful forests, camping at the feet of prehistoric glaciers and discovering hidden streams and lakes. There are, of course, hotels, chalets, and camps for motorists and others who want SPALDING JT INTRODUCES the first golf shoe DESIGNED to help you pivot FOR several years, the only changes made in golf shoes have been style changes. Spalding — convinced that shoes could be improved in design, just as clubs and balls have been improved — took the thing in hand. And the result is a definite advance in golf shoe construction — the new Spalding Full -Swing Shoe. The shoe actually helps you to pivot correctly; and, therefore, to swing correctly. The inside edges of the sole are beveled to facilitate an uninterrupted roll, and wider heels act as sway checks. Notice the flange on the outer edge of the heel as indicated by the shaded portion. On the right foot this flange stabilizes the back swing and encourages a fuller movement because balance is better. On the left foot it adds firmness against the force of the blow and tends to correct the premature sway of the body. Compare the inside edge of the sole of the ordinary golf shoe (indicated by the shaded portion) with the "Full-Swing." The sharp-cornered extending edgeofthe ordinary sole may be likened to a brake on the free, easy roll of the foot. The Full-Swing actually promotes and ac celerates the proper foot movement. Come in and try on the Full- Swing, at any Spalding Store. You can notice the difference immediately. You can see for yourself that this is one shoe that can aid your swing. Full- Swing comes in the four most popular golf shoe styles — and asks no premium for its pivoting features. $1 Q and $19 © 1932. A. G. S. 211 SOUTH STATE STREET May, 1932 51 McAVOY 615 NORTH MICHIGAN AVE. GOWNS, WRAPS, HATS AND FURS GEO-B-CARPEtfTER * CO. (Established 1840) 440 North Wells Street — Chicago Superior 9700 • Awnings, Canopies Out>of>Door Furniture Modern Ideas Modern Materials Modern Service 1932 Prices Literature on Request luxury and comfort, but once there you'll never be satisfied until you hit the trail to the interior. Down from Glacier Park, through Montana, Idaho, Wyo ming and nearly all the western states stretches a network of that rare American institution, the dude ranch. This year of all years the ranch should be a nerve-replenisher because more than anything else it plucks us east erners right out of ourselves and fills our days and thoughts so thoroughly with the whinny of horses that the howls of bulls and bears are utterly forgotten. Most ranches manage a pleasant balance of civilized comfort without getting fancy about it, and at even the very, very snooty ones life is genuinely simple and no one ever bothers to climb out of the sim plest of sports clothes except to fall into bed. Considering this, and the fact that the average rate is now about from thirty to fifty dollars a week, the cost of a dude ranch sum mer for the family should loom favor ably in the building of vacation budgets. It's a good idea to write the pro prietor of the ranch which you have selected, for exact information about clothing and equipment needed in his locale. If you arc going to go cow boy completely, in ten-gallon hats and chaps, wait till you get out West to buy your equipment. Absolute essen tials are breeches, coat, riding hoots of good practical structure -no fancy bridle-path stuff. Thick-soled, high- topped boots arc absolutely necessary for climing, hiking, and general wear, and these may be worn for riding in stead of regulation riding boots. Many of the younger crowd lopes about, on and off horse, in simple dungarees, belts and army o. d. shirts. You always can use plenty of heavy shirts and blouses. They keep out the burning western sun which blazes away in the high altitudes even when the air itself feels cool. A hat that won't blow off easily but with a good wide brim to shield you from the sun is necessary, and a light slicker which can be rolled up and strapped to the back of the saddle is a great comfort in the sudden brief showers of the high trails. Smoked glasses for open country riding help, too. As for clothes about the ranch, most men spend their time in golf things and the women wear simple sports dresses, even at the informal dances. With the usual things for swimming, fish ing, tennis, etc., you're all set for a vacation that drives the tendcrest ten derfoot wild, simply wild with ecstasy. A few snaps of life on several ranches arc shown on page 30 hut the whole thing can't be adequately cov ered in this department, which is practically a book already. However, both my sleeves arc full of ranch in formation and if you want to know more about specific ranches or need any other suggestions I'll tell you all in a letter. The address is Travel Department, The Chicagoan, 407 S. Dearborn Street. FASHIONS For Brides (Begin on page 37) were getting enough information elsewhere. We were going to be original and not even mention the word in this article. But there was a suit at Milgrim's which was such a perfect wedding trip confection that the bars are let down, just this once. It is in that Smart Chicagoans will see the South Shore Country Club Horse Show June 7th to 11th The Horse Show is open to the public. It is an interesting, excit ing event that everyone should see. Blue Ribbon winners from the finest stables all over the country compete. General Admission is only $1.00. Box Seat prices include Gen eral Admission. Reserved Box Seats, $1.50-$2.00- $2.50, per seat per performance. Reserved Box Seats for the sea son (9 performances), $6.00-$7.50- $8.0O-$10.00 per seat. Entire Boxes (Six Seats) for any one performance $7.5O-$10.O0- $12.50 per box. Entire Boxes (Six Seats) for season (9 performances) $50.00- $75.0O-$100.00. 2:15 P. M. Wednesday, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday. 8:15 P. M. Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday. 9:30 A. M. Saturday. Phone Mr. Wilder, Hyde Park 8000. South Shore Country Club. Grace and Comfort Go Hand in Hand You can free your fig ure, comfortably and privately, of contours sustained in a winter of fashionably cong-e- nial diet and relative physical inactivity. Our specialists in Swedish Massage, Cabinet and Sulphur Baths, achieve reduction by the latest and most scientific methods. No pinching or squeezing. Ann's Ladies Bath Salon Ladies Exclusively 1 1 0 E. Oak Street Del. 8876 Couthoui For Tickets 52 The Chicagoan The Daily Fee Course With A Private Club Atmosphere Along the Sauk Indian Trail, where the spell of old Indian legends still lingers among the virgin oaks and elms — lies Indian Wood, picturesque, beautiful — inviting you to golf — tennis — swimmng. Complete Facilities for Play and Rest Here are two attractive courses, 18-holes and 9-holes, gently rolling in character and partly wooded. The Flossmoor bent greens are of interesting contour and well trapped. Two most attractive clubhouses — one exclusively for men, offer all the facilities of a modern country club including lockers, showers, lounges with large open fireplaces, card rooms, driving nets and ping pong tables. A beautiful outdoor swimming pool, 45x105 ft., filled with crystal pure water for the enjoyment of the beginner as well as the expert. INDIAN WOOD GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB Western Avenue and Sauk Trail Two Miles South of Lincoln Highway I. C. Electric to Flossmoor, 36 minutes from the Loop May, 1932 Heaven's Peak, Glacier Park You can't help feeling carefree in Glacier Park! Out here in Glacier Park you'll get a new sensation — that easy-going freedom of frontier days. You do what you like — and like it! Ride at dawn or hike or go golfing, search for adventure and sun- tan and health, sleep in rustic chalets or modern hotels! Remember, too, low summer fares from Chicago will be in effect. Write, phone or visit Great Northern Travel Offices, 113 South Clark Street, Chicago. Telephone RANdolph 6700. J to Glacier Park, the Northwest, and California 53 AWAKEN YOUR BEAUTY! Helena rubinstein author of The Art of Feminine Beauty" Get the spirit of spring into your face! Signs of stress or strain make you look old, worn — out of tune with the times. Best to revitalize and youthify your face immediately with one of the famous Helena Rubinstein Youth Facials. In dividualized to your own precise skin — whether young or mature — lined, dry, oily, blemished, sallow or merely dull and depressed. Furthermore, every face treatment now includes hormone twin youthifiers — Mme. Rubinstein's sensational cre ators of new youth and beauty ! Be good to yourself this spring. A superb facial treatment, with professional advice on daily home care — to keep you in beautiful trim — will be planned for you individually — to suit your income! • Always feel perfectly welcome to call at Helena Rubinstein's salon for timely advice on your facial needs. Consultation is without charge. Analysis of your individual skin and expert advice on daily home care or make-up may be had entirely without obligation ! 670 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO LONDON NEW YORK Telephone Whitehall 4841 PARI 5 *G Suit Styles for Gentlemen $50 Individually cut and tailored in the most exacting fashion, these suits are superior in style y fabric and pattern to garments iv e sold last year at $6$ .OO. LONDON DETROIT ,__ CHICAGO MINNEAPOLIS OUTFITTERS TO GENTLEMEN 100 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE heavenly Olympic blue and of that fashionable ostrich cloth, with the skirt buttoned high over a deeper blue silk blouse and an extremely brief ostrich cloth jacket, just the right sort of youthfully sophisticated thing that brides dote on and which makes them dotable. A little sports piece at Milgrim had that same en gaging youthfulness, and was par ticularly interesting because of its fab ric. Yellow Piaponge — a sort of ribbed-knubbly cotton knit — made the skirt and short jacket, short-sleeved, over a lemon colored dimity shirt buttoned up to a high round neck. You simply can't go anywhere in the smart sports displays without bumping smack into Schiaparelli at every turn. The contact is always pleasant for she is doing the most en trancing things with fabrics and de signs this year. The country suit shown from Saks-Fifth Avenue is in her original material, a nubbly knit, and in her colors, a lovely symphony of tones. The skirt is brown, the jacket a pale rosy peach, and the blouse in brown crepe dotted in white, with the scarf of the blouse tied outside of the jacket. The brown of the blouse has a rosy cast which blends beautifully with the rose of the coat. Tiny gold buttons add a bright touch on the pointed pocket flaps. Another Schiaparelli creation attracted attention in the showing of Abercrombie Fitch clothes by Von Lengerke and Antoine. In white Bil- lowee crepe, a silk with a very faint crinkle, this introduces the Empire feeling into sportswear and makes it feel perfectly at home too. The dress is sleeveless with the molded line ending in a scalloped seam under the bust and a red and white leather belt at the natural waistline. The lit tle knit kitten's ear jacket is in one of Schiaparelli's whimsical moods — extremely short like a bolero and you put it on backwards, for the straight high-necked side is the front and the open back is tied on in a large bow like a child's pinafore. You'll find it amusing and original. JNo active sports wardrobe should be without several of the classic Von Lengerke and An toine golf dresses. The one illus trated is in a putty colored washable silk serge which is deliciously cool on a hot day but has a nice rich weight to keep it from flying about annoyingly in the wind. From the correct length of the short sleeves to the pleat down the back and beauti fully fitting shoulders this is perfectly designed for the perfect swing, and the interesting silver buckle on the red leather belt, as well as the slide fastener on the blouse, are smart new features. There are ever so many other things you shouldn't miss in the V. L. 6? A. collection. Look at the crisp white pique suits with their young- looking round-necked and belted jack ets brightened by blue buttons and dotted scarves; at an interesting com bination of green and white striped linen sashed and scarved in green and white dotted linen; at their swagger plaid shirts in melting tones of reds and white, yellows and white, greens, etc.; at the smart collection of silk serges and at dresses of very heavy Brittany silk which is lovely to look at and ¦washes something beautiful; at tennis dresses of silk doeskin, which has an exquisite sheen on its soft surface. And do acquire some of their white crepe dresses to knock about in all summer. One of these 311 MEDINAH ATHLETIC • CLUB • — Invites You — to make this splendid Masonic Qub your Chi cago home: Famous all over the country for its architectural beauty and rich furnishings. 500 rooms now available for permanent or transient guests. Every conven ience and service. Members, their families and guests have access also to swimming pool, gym, handball courts, luxurious lounges, etc. When it costs you no more to have use of all this, why live where you get any less? Rates Moderate Outside single rooms. $60.00 a month and up. Transient. $3.00 a day and up. single; $5.00 and up, double. Also charming two room suites as low as $120.00 a month. See Mr. Phillips or telephone him. (Whitehall 4100.) 505 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE • CHICAGO* Artcraft Awnings and Canopies discriminating buyers PHONE US FOR ESTIMATE ©YD s \r OULD Telephone Wtntworth 2450 581 3-1 5 W.ntworth Ave. Chicago, III. The Chicagoan SERVICE by DAVIES THERE is a Davies ¦*• cleaning service for your home furnishings as well as for the things you wear. Among the furnishings that can be restored to newness by Davies are: UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE RUGS DRAPERIES TAPESTRIES LAMP SHADES In addition to making furnish ings look their best, Davies offers the convenience and se curity of having all your things cleaned under One Contract One Quality One Responsibility DAVIES LAUNDRY COMPANY 2347-57 Cottage Grove Ave. CALUMET 1977 Camp Rockne Northern Wis consin. A real boys' Camp. Catholic aus pices. Resident Chaplain, phy- sician and nurse. Horse back riding, all land and water sports. Tutor ing, if desired. ^*. Rate $20.00 per week Booklet Rev. John J. O'Boyle M. A. Pio Nono St. Francis, Wis. is sleeveless, with the shoulder cut to produce a slight epau!et effect, and the high bateau neck radiates a series of little fin-like tucks. The sash of this is in blue dotted with white. Blue and white is a favorite again in a pale blue crepe dress which is tied in little bows on the shoulders and encircled by a wide crushed belt of soft white and ultramarine blue leather. A very gay note in the sports field is the return of the jumper dress and jumper suits. Leschin shows some delightful ones in vivid colors such as a red closely knit skirt and bolero-like jumper worn over a knit blouse in blue and white checks, and another in a terra cotta tone of fine wool worn over a linen blouse of red and white candy stripes. The blouses have tiny puffed sleeves and to keep it all from being too quaint there are outdoor notes like wide leather punch-hole belts and altogether they are pretty swagger af fairs. There's a gorgeous suit here which can be switched about to make any one of several costumes. The jacket is faintly Norfolk in line with the pockets vertical slits buttoned down in nicely tailored fashion, of deep navy blue. Then there is a dark gray, faintly striped flannel skirt and a French blue linen blouse. This makes one version and another is pro duced by the fourth piece — a skirt of the same linen which makes the blouse. With this the skirt and blouse may be -worn separately as a linen dress or with the coat as a country suit. Splendid for week-end wardrobes. There is much hue and cry about silk jersey which sounds terrible but is really grand for sports clothes. It isn't stretchy or sleazy at all, but a nice firm weave and ought to be aw fully slick and cool. It's particularly good-looking in the dashing striped dress observed at Leschin's with its braided brown leather belt and white pique scarf on brown and white jersey. The good old windbreaker has stepped up into high fashion and into new fabrics. Peck and Peck have some unusual chamois blouses which break the wind per fectly but are beautifully soft and fit slimly as any fabric blouse. In white with a dark blue knit band about the high round neck and at the cuffs, with a "freedom" pleat down the back, they are splendid for windy golf courses and many other sports — and they wash. Then there are some extremely brief little chamois jackets in many colors and whimsical little chamois berets to wear with them. If you like the classic cardigan or Nor folk jacket they have these in a lovely soft Faunskin. Look at them in the deep fire red and at some in other colors buttoned high at the neck with metal clips. Their active sports and spectator dresses have that perfect sports air with many new touches that mark them distinguished. You must have at least one Angora suit or dress and you can't do better than the one shown at Peck and Peck in an ex quisite turquoise; you'll need lots of white silk frocks and ought to con sider their cool Rajah silk ones, with notes like a contrasting yoke of tiny red and white stripes. VjvSSOF FAsi BOOTS AND SADDLES Comment on the Sport of Kings (Begin on page 17) earlier races, then these two important stakes will serve further to clarify a three-year- old situation that will likely have be come well-muddled by that time. As to the prospects for a season that will be long and hard financially, there has never been such an abundance of handwriting upon the wall since the abandonment of plain white plaster mural effects in railway station smoking rooms. Of the winter tracks only Oriental Park at Havana is reported as having man aged to break even, but the presence beneath its grandstand of a very long bar equipped with very fast bar tenders makes this track useless for comparative purposes. The harrow ing details of the sordid poverty in the other racing centers — Miami, New Orleans, and Agua Caliente — are just now being revealed by returning travellers so close to the top of the profession that they consider a deck of cards a sort of simplified file case in which whatever is desired can be found instantly, and who can hold five dice of different properties in the hand while the eye sees but two. One and all they tell tales that make the blood run cold — of dealing blackjack to the stiff-shirt and bare-arm trade for dimes and quarters, of sitting in solitude practicing percentage rolls in southern palaces of pleasures which once provided the nocturnal specu lative opportunities which the race courses furnished by day. Chicago tracks are not tourist- supported, of course, and there will doubtless be a number of rank and file customers out daily with their $14 of investing money. But the pres ence of many more liberal speculators will be necessary to lift the average to the usual $30 per customer per day. And the speculators who in other years were addicted to setting it in, as the phrase goes, such as the horsemen, and the speculators en gaged in the beer-hauling, or in the vote-getting businesses, are this sea son notoriously short of scratch. There is, true, always the smart set, but speculators who have given this angle a lot of study claim that the smart set concentrates its shoving of folding money at the change win dow instead of at the big window where it 'would do some good. They also claim that a good many of the smart set are just out for the air and to bump into people who will invite them places or can later on be sold things like automobiles or bonds. Of course a speculator cannot understand why a man who is a millionaire does not carry a piece of that, two hundred thousand, say, snapped together with a rubber band in his inside pocket so as to be in a position to get action wherever he goes, so it may be that the speculators who have made a study of this angle are doing the smart set an injustice. Anyway their point is that you cannot make a speculator out of a man by giving him a pair of white trousers; all that does is to make him careful about sitting down in grass. "-% |_ ~f <.'."*" __^-> $^ ¦*^B^!iSN ^ m" ' ^£H> 1932 IN PURPOSE . . . 1732 IN PATTERN Nothing is smarter at the start of a luncheon or a dinner than an iced- appetizer (tomato-juice cocktail, fruit cocktail, clam-juice cocktail, cold shrimps, etc.). And nothing is quite so perfect to serve it in as this Fostoria iced-appetizer set, consisting of an ice-bowl and 3 containers of different shapes and sizes that fit into the bowl. The set illustrated is in the lovely, old "Hermitage" pattern and comes in 6 colors. A TOUCH OF COLOR This quaint Fos toria vase, con taining a few old-fashioned flowers, lends just the accent of color needed in so many rooms. Beautiful in itself, it adds beauty to the flowers it holds. In green, crystal, ebony and topaz. Surprisingly inexpensive. A GIFT SET Whether you're dry, damp, or thor oughly wet, here is a Fostoria drink ing set that will delight you. It con sists of 6 highball glasses, 6 "old- fashion" cocktail glasses, and 6 "ponies" that you may use at your discretion. Packed in an attractive gift box, this set comes in any one of 8 colors, or a rainbow combination of all. To get the smartest and latest information on table settings, both formal and informal, write for the interesting booklet, ' ' The Glass of Fash ion" . . Fostoria Glass Company, Deft. C-5, Moundsville, W. Va. 55 ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE SHOWINGS OF FINE CUSTOM FURNITURE IN THE MIDDLE WEST Beautiful period adaptations, accurate reproductions of authentic antiques and traditional pieces, smart original creations for the living room, library, dining room and bedroom, comprise this large display. Created by America's foremost designing staff and executed by skilled craftsmen, this array of fine furniture is suited to the richest and most distinguished homes . . . These factory wholesale showrooms are maintained for dealers and their customers, and while in no sense a retail store, the public is invited at all times. Pur chases may be arranged through any legitimate retail outlet. ROBERT W. IRWIN COMPANY COOPER-WILLIAMS, INC. AFFILIATED mr 608 S. MICHIGAN AVE. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MAN AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC.. RE QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CON GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912. Martin J. Quigley. 407 So. Dearborn Street. That the known bondholders, mortgagees. other security holders owning or holding 1 cent or more of total amount of bonds, lOrtsages. or other securities are: (If there and State of Illinois, 1 County of Cook, J l None. Before me. a Notary Public, in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared E. S. Clifford, who. having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Business Manager of THE CHICAGOAN. and that the following is. to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a d-iily paper, the circulation), etc.. of the aforesaid publica tion fc- -he date shown in the «bov "option. reauired by the Act of August 24, 1912, em- bouied in section 411. Postal Ijavvs and Itegu- lations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and busi ness managers are: Publisher. The Chicagoan Publishing Com pany. 407 So. Dearborn Street. Editor, Wm. R. Weaver, 407 So. Dearborn Street. 2. That the owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning cr holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corpora tion, the names and addresses of the individ ual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated con cern, its name and address, as well as those of each individual member, must be given. ) The Chicagoan Publishing Company. 407 So. Dearborn Street. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giv ing the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if aav. contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or se curity holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corpora tion for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and condi tions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and se curities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe tliat any other person, asso ciation, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or dis tributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is (This informa tion is reauired from daily publications only.) K. S. CLIFFORD. (Business Manager.) ilhscribed before me this 28th 32. BKItNTCTB C. WKRNBB. expires Sept. 12. 1932.) Sworn to an day of March, f SKAT.] (My commis: SOCIETY Personal Intelligence (Begin on page 3 5) house-hunting. He picked out a comfortable place with a resident caretaker, a pretty garden and a sizeable garage. In quiring of the agent as to the rent, he was told it was three thousand dollars for the season. "Send the owner a wire at my ex pense and offer him two hundred," the young man instructed the agent. Unwillingly and much against his better judgment, the agent did so, and in a few hours back came a wire from New York (sent collect) with the single word message, "Okay." Another canny midwestern busi ness man selected a house he thought he would like to occupy for the sea son — also in Palm Beach — looked up the taxes for the year, and offered the owner the exact amount. The offer was accepted with alacrity, al though the price was several thousand dollars less than the listed rent. 1 he annual chorus of drills, hammers and swishing paint brushes has certainly diminished this spring, but it is by no means silent. Out in Lake Forest, for instance, the handsome new addition to the Owen B. Jones' attractive house is nearing completion. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, and their fine young son, David Owen Jones (David for his paternal grandfather, the late David Jones, and Owen for his proud papa) are established there for the summer. The Jones family, by the way, has found no end of entertainment from the broadcasting station which they set up in their Lake Forest abode early last winter. It took several weeks of experimenting to perfect, but they and their friends derive all sorts of amusement from it now that it is in working order. Out at Pal-Waukee — the snappy and efficient airport owned by Mr. Jones and run by two of his closest friends, Duncan Hodges and Lathrop Moss — there's a new decoration that attracts the interested attention of all visitors. It's a photograph taken this spring of the plane used by Ralph Isham and Johnny Porter on one of their frequent cross country runs to Lake Geneva — they are two of the many well known young Chicago men who fly from Pal-Waukee — and it's literally banked in snow. They set forth on a nice bright day for a weekend there and ran into the last of the season's blizzards — slightly dis concerting to even the most experi enced flyers but perfectly grand for unusual photography. This picture and a splendid set of etchings of air planes, lent to Mr. Jones by another Pal-Waukee aviator, Burt Martens, are delightful "trimmings" to the at tractive little clubhouse at the airport. A recent visitor from London (where all swanky riding clothes bloom in the spring, tra la!) says that absolutely the latest thing in riding shirts (feminine) is made of fine French flannel gayly checked in red and black and white — or blue and black and white — with a tic of the same material and checks. Wonder which of our many gallant equestri ennes will be the first to try it — And another thing, for comforting depression reading, try getting out your little volume of Emerson's es says and re-reading his work on Com pensation. It's a grand antidote for the blue. Los Angeles ihis summer — a very good reason for going to California on your vacation. Grand Canyon on the way with out change of Pullmans, another reason . . . and Indian-detours still another reason . . . The cool Colorado Rockies, too Santa Fe summer Xpursions Cut^Cost You will be amazed how far you can go and how much you can see even in two weeks. • • • Santa Fe "Olympic Games" folder contains many interesting pictures and an excellent map of the United States. Mail coupon for free copy. I All-expense Tours on cer tain days this summer. If you live on The Pacific Coast, Santa Fe "Back East" Xcursions solve the vacation problem. ] MA I L_CO UPON ' W. J. BLACK, Pass. Traf. Mgr., Santa Fe Sys. Lines 1087 Railway Exchange, Chicago, III. Check those wanted: ? California ? Olympic Games n Grand Canyon ? The Indian-detours D Colorado ? All-expense Tours 56 The Chicagoan KELVINATOR Start your ^^^st is fully automatic Kelvinator has four different, constant tem peratures, each automatically controlled. Q Food Preservation Temperature ^% Below Freezing Temperature ^^ Fast Freezing Temperature Q World's Record Fast Freezing COMMOHTWEALTH JE » I S © »I ELECTRIC SHOPS 72 W. Adams Street and Branches .CJ4ICAGOAN 407 South Dearborn street Chicago, Illinois GENTLEMEN: Kindly send my copy of THE CHICAGOAN to the address given below during the months of - (Signature) - — - — (~Njew address) (Old address) - 77 East Jackson Blvd. These men of Southern Pacific know the West . — • for they represent the West's pioneer railroad. A railroad that enters California over Four Great Routes and serves more of the Pacific Coast than any other. They will be pleased to show you how to see the whole Pacific Coast at no added fare. How, when you go West one route, return another ¦ — you double the enjoyment of your trip. The famous "San Francisco Overland Limited," direct to San Francisco, and "Golden State Limited," direct to Los Angeles, daily from Chicago will carry "air-conditioned," cooled dining cars after June 1. Southern Pacific TICKET OFFICE: 77 East Jackson Blvd. Phone WEbster 2244. J. H. Desherow, General Agent, Passenger Dept. ROCOCO HOUSE 161 E. Ohio St. Smorgasbord — Special Sunday Dinner 1 to 9 o'clock Dinner Every Day — 5 to 9:30 Distinctive Swedish Foods Tel. Delaware 3688 COUTHOUI FOR TICKETS Anne Heathcote Studio Creators of T^jxtural Looking Permanent Wanes $7.50 $10.00 $12.50 $15.00 209 South State Street 608 Republic Building CHICAGO Telephones — Harrison 9060, Webster 7112 May, 1932 57 YAMANAKA & COMPANY 846 No. Michigan Ave. Chicago GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR BRIDES Artistic Lamps Unique Flower Bowls Smoking Sets Color Prints Antique Brocades Table Covers • MERCATINO, INC. Announces the opening of their newly enlarged shop of ITALIAN IMPORTATIONS The unusual in wedding and commencement gifts Ruth Hypes Muriel Hypes 1618 Chicago Ave. EVANSTON Catering by Gaper Provides the utmost in ex cellence of cuisine, dis tinguished appointments and flawless service. Gaper's delicious ice creams, pastries and other delicacies are always available to the dis criminating Hostess. Your order will be accurately filled and promptly delivered. John B. Gaper Catering Co. 161 E. Chicago Ave. Superior 8736 A CONTRAST OF NATURAL AND CONVENTIONALIZED FLOWER ARRANGE MENT. THE CENTER PIECE IS OF PORCELAIN ROOKWOOD FLOWERS WITH ROOKWOOD CA.NDLE STICK AND FIGURINE. FROM MARSHALL FIELD. THE CHINESE EVERGREEN IN A BRONZE LOTUS BOWL IS FROM YAMANAKA TAKING THE AISLE Weddings Gifts Entertainments (Begin on page 38) Institute, and other American and European Mu seums, and the pitcher illustrated has been shown in many exhibitions. The hot water or tea-pot is in the ex quisite Blossom design, one of the most famous of Jensen's creations. From the tiny feet and fluted ivory handle to the beautiful lid with its seed pod dropping a cascade of silver seeds this expresses the deep feeling for natural beauty which inspires Jensen's art. Whether you choose an inexpensive sugar tong or one of the larger pieces it's a gift that will have a unique place no matter how many other things are showered on the gal. This feeling for nature is also ex pressed in nearly all the work of Ja panese artists. There isn't anything lovelier than the graceful bronze lotus bowls which flower from a wreathed stem and leaves into exquisite shapes, shown by Yamanaka. This is a grand browsing spot for the gift hunter and a very tempting one for those who are susceptible to anything Oriental. From little carnelian ducks and hares to antique Chinese bro cades; bowls in bronze, in Peking glass, in porcelains; lamp bases made of antique crackleware and Ming vases; precious jades, and ivory; fine Japanese prints, as well as intriguing inexpensive novelties — oh, take Hours off to dip into this place. And now how about gaining these hours for pleas ant browsing? No bridal family needs to get terribly wrought up about wedding preparations if the arrangements are placed in the hands of really expert caterers, no matter how huge the affair is to be. Joseph H. Biggs has been handling notable affairs of all kinds for fifty years or so and does splendidly by either the very elaborate thing or the extremely simple home wedding. They handle all the details of catering and service and have a very fine supply of sup plementary linens and silver to han dle parties of any size. Even if you don't require a com plete catering service their wedding cakes are actually things to dream on — and dream beautifully though you'll probably want to nibble in stead. Both the bride cakes and groom cakes (rich English fruit cake) are beautifully done. Their wedding cakes have fragile sugar work in del icate deisgns of white rosebuds, lov er's knots, lilies of the valley, orange blossoms and things like that — not the inane, gushy things that so many delirious if well meaning bakers per petrate. But before caterer or gift, there's that long list of invitations, those announcement engravings, and all the other cards and notes that must be considered. For advice in select ing papers and engraving styles I've found nothing so complete as the handsome little booklet issued by the Linweave people which you can probably get at any of the shops which carry Linweave papers. All the suggestions are eminently correct as the wedding, no matter how in formal, must have the dignity of proper invitations and announce ments, but they cover every modern contingency from beautiful papers and engraving to what to do with divorced parents and forms for recall ing invitations should the whole idea go up in smoke. Linweave, inci dentally has involved a delightful new form of stationery which the bride might as well order while she is selecting her wedding stationery. These are notcpapers folded for a brief note inside and engraved on the outer flap from your regular visiting card plate. They're a splendid way to start the new household off with dash and distinction at the same time. They call them "Informals" at your stationer's. For free Recipe Book, address Mouquin, Inc., 217 East Illi nois Street. Chicago. Suiwrior 2615. 3Tt,ouquln i W. ^^^ NON- %- ALCOHOLIC ^J Verrocmtfo- English Dry English Dry <Gln) Triple Strength and Distilled. The same old gin with the alco hol omitted. The finishing touch to the perfect cocktail ! French and Italian styles of Vermouth. At good dealers everywhere. Established 1882 JOSEPH H, BIGGS Caterer 50 East Huron St. We gladly offer our sug gestions and services for the large church wedding or the small intimate home wedding. Telephones SUPerior 0900-0901 j^sh-reiih* W cK Indispensable to good mixing. Flavor —Appetizer — Tonic. 50c bottle for 25c Address Dept. C-l, P. O. Box 44 Baltimore, Md. ,«arUlii MIXES AFTER. GOLF beasts iA-ruRAL \0TT0 SCHMIDT PRODUCTS CO. ¦ 1229 S. WABASH AVE. CALUME1 CHICAGO 58 The Chicagoan TOWN HOUSES AND COUNTRY ESTATES / Junham /^oods /^states Wayne, Illinois Two of the Homesites for sale NO those desiring the advantages and comforts of a country place combined with city conveniences— _ ' Dunham Woods offers unparalleled attractions. Dunham Woods is real country, a large, ex clusive, restricted area of 2,000 acres 35 miles West of Chicago, easily accessible by electric or steam transportation and by the North Avenue Super- Highway No. 64. Virgin forest homesites of from five to several hundred acres are available. Schools, churches, golf and riding clubs are conveniently adjacent. IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE A modern, New England home designed by Frazicr &? Raftery, Inc., Architects. Large Living-room, four master bedrooms, three baths, maid's room and bath. FOR SALE OR RENT A modernized New England farm house built in 1837 — immediately available. For Information Telephone Fran\lin 2467, Chicago or Bartlett 30-M-2 Write Dunham Woods Estates, Wayne, 111. Dunham Woods Riding Club. For Sale or Long Term Rental ONE OF CHICAGO'S MOST ATTRACTIVE TOWN HOUSES with ample garden, located in restricted residential district just North of Lincoln Park — between Lake Shore Drive and Sheridan Road. Inquiries: McMenemy &. Martin, Inc. FRANK F. OVERLOOK 410 N. Michigan Avenue Whitehall 6880 30 CEDAR STREET SUNNY, ENGLISH BASEMENT HOUSE OFF THE LAKE SHORE DRIVE CANVASSED AND PANELLED THROUGHOUT Drawing room, library, dining room, three large master bedrooms with dressing rooms and baths; three servants' rooms and bath. Re ception hall, powder room, bar, refrigeration room, and laundry on first floor. Silent automatic oilburner, Turbine hot water heater, large enclosed yard. Size of lot 29.6 x 145.6. Write for full par ticulars as to decorating, sound proofing, terms, etc. SUDLER & COMPANY 75 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois State 6622 come up to oiler s Daraaise . . . goner s p tariff The Most Exciting golf course in the world . . in a setting that holds you spellbound Choose your tee — one for professionals, "aver agers," beginners. Yes, you feel like a million in that alpine air so )^ou tackle a pro's shot. First drive is over the Spray river, and if you under stand the language of running rivers, you know it's calling for your ball! But over you go — and down the hill you swing for the greatest adven turing in the game. Valley-green fairways, perfectly manicured. Mountain "dog-legs." Velvet greens of bent grass. That thriller over Devil's Caldron. The Papoose and inevitable remarks about adding machines. You never saw such magnet-like traps! $450,000 worth of labor and materials — and worth it all! Look up at those shadows on the snow covered mountains. Enchanting? And see that crown-jewel effect of the sun on that mass of mineral and cop per in those rocky slopes! Now look back down the Bow valley — another world isn't it? No, those deer can't butt the fence down . . . Ahead? That's the castle. Banff Springs Hotel. It does look like something an artist might draw to illustrate a castle in wonderland. But this is real. $9,000,000 of sheer grandeur and comfort. And now let's turn left for the nineteenth hole . . . Don't worry about that whetted appetite. The cuisine is world famed. Come on up and see it all — know the thrill of a mile-high game. You'll want to stay for the whole summer. Besides exalted golf there are so many other exciting new things to see and do. Days are brimful of adventuring (thrilling motor ing, climbing with Swiss guides, trail riding, fast tennis, exploring in the wilds). Evenings are for romance with gay parties, dancing to magic music — mountain moonlight. May we send you a booklet beautifully illus trated in colors? It tells the whole fascinating story, outlines the season's social and sporting events. It is the perfect answer to your vaca tion problem — especially this year, for rates and green fees are scaled in keeping with the times. A CANADIAN PACIFIC HOTEL IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES Two Amateur Championships to test you. July 18-2.3 — a handicap event — the Willingdon Cup, presented by the Viceroy of India and former Governor General of Canada; August 15-2.0 — the Prince of Wales Trophy. Enter for both! Lake Louise with its charming Chateau is only 40 miles away and there are new low American Flan rates in effect this season . . . For further economies in the Canadian Rockies we call your attention to six comfortable Chalet-Bungalow Camps where you may enjoy the privacy of your own log cabin and the friendship of congenial people in the central Chalets . . . Ask also about All-Expense Conducted Tours — Going: Grand Canyon and California — or Yellowstone and Columbia Highway — or Glacier and Mt. Rainier — also Alaska. Returning : Lake Louise and Banff. Reduced summer rail fares . . . For booklets, information, and reservations, write or telephone: THOS. J. WALL, General Agent, 71 East Jackson Blvd., Straus Bldg., CHICAGO Telephone: Wabash 1904