CLASS OF 1926
SHUBERTS CAN'T "CLUB" NEW CHICAGO CRITIC
Chicago, Dec. 3.
In the latest Shubert squabble with news- papers, Gail Borden, critic of the "Times" tabloid, does not know whether he has been barred from their houses yet.
Borden roasted "Night in Venice" and Ted Healy. McCutcheon-Gerson publicity office, representing the Shuberts, went over his head to R. J. Finnegan, managing editor, and asked for a better notice. To date it has not been given.
Borden, the newest play reviewer in the city, knows the Shubert rep for "clubbing" critics and managing editors. He told Finne gan he could arrange to quit ahead of receiving a blue ticket.
"I didn't hire you to fire you!" Finnegan exploded.
Healy threatened to punch Borden's nose when the two met, but both shook hands at a party by Ernest Byfield, the hotel man, without warfare.
Borden has panned more plays this season than any other critic in the city. He is getting a rep among his contemporaries for writing what he believes, Shubert ads or no ads. Borden has a scholarly reputation earned by two years of teaching drama and English at the University of Chicago.
Acknowledgment is made of letters from: Jim Sullivan Deck Wilbar Douglas Everett George Champion Steve Millard Tony Gleason Bob Goss George Algar Bob McConnaughey
And for news: It appears that after Tony Gleason got his Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton he taught for two years and then looked for a job. So there he is at the Bayway Refinery of the Standard Oil Co. of N. J., boiling up ethyl gas and samples of Flit.
We learn that Herm Trefethen still manages the S. H. Kress & Co. store in Huntington Park, Calif. Trefethen sends clever Christmas cards.
Gone technical representative for the General Dyestuff Corp. has Gob DesMarais and he lives at 216 Walnut St., Clinton, Mass. What about all this general dye stuff, Gob, my son?
Ernest Brown is announced as student at Columbia but what of is a mystery to all of us.
Just in case we don't forget Fred Hurd is at Gates Hall, Chicago University.
Thomas Colt is down thar in the barracks at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola.
Jo Eaton be an engineer at 11 West 42nd St., N. Y.
Down in the sales division of Stein, Hall & Co., we have a very likely boy in Harold M. (Happy) Johnston.
Brief pause can be made for the following gentry who successfully passed Massachusetts bar exams: Richard Nichols, James Sullivan, Carl Schipper, Joe Donohue, Osmer Fitts, Walter Tomlinson, Stew Orr, Randall Cox, Steve Weston, Don Mackay.
Modest Jim Sullivan says that a meagre 30% of those taking the exam passed. Ah, the mentalities of our brighter friends.
Let's have another pause, said the monkey to the large cat, and I will tell you about a wedding or in other words the marriage of Miss Ruth S. Tracy of West Hartford, Conn., and Stephen H. Millard of Brooklyn. Among ushers we discover Edward Cole, famed Pawtucket Barrymore, and Russ Clark of Boston who according to the press were classmates of the groom at Dartmouth College.
It is very sad to learn that Ken Weeks lost his father and mother in an automobile accident recently. I am sure we all appreciate what a terrible blow this was to Ken and he has our most sincere sympathy.
Charlie Wallis is a structural draughtsman for F. H. McGraw & Co., 51 E. 42nd St., IST. Y.
George Champion has taken a new position With the Equitable Trust Co.
Poor, decrepit, old Everett is back at his old berth on the Boston University Club hockey team. They say the old veteran doesn't look a day over ninety and can sweep up a real big scoop full of snow between periods.
Had a nice letter from Deck Wilbar. He has had a year off from Harvard Law, occasioned by an appendix operation and illness. His father made him office boy during his recuperation and he is finishing up at Harvard as soon as possible. And his girl . . . but that's something else again and I don't know anything about it.
But what I do know is that Hank Merrystepped right up to Deck Wilbar's sister, Miss Lois Ann, and asked her him to wed. She did. Mr. Merry is a buyer of men's underwear at Macy's. Which, apparently, is something for those of us who buy a section at a time according to necessity.
Now George Algar writes a good letter when he sets himself down to it. He is in the "Shell game" with by actual count fifteen other Dartmouth men. One of them is Rip Pillsbury working out of Boston. George, it seems, will give jobs to any of us who need them and he is an Assistant District Mgr. and I guess this Shell business has progressed considerably from the old circus days.
Ward Benton went back to Illinois U. for graduate work.
Mary Lathrop Goss IV is by now about the five months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Goss out there in Hollywood, Ill. Bob as you know is with the C. H. Weaver & Co., makers of rancy creamery butter in Chicago.
Ed Farnum and Ed Emerson are still with the N. E. T. & T.
Sid Lenke is an interne at St. Luke's Hospital, N. Y.
Those of you who remember Skook Alexander will be glad to know that he has a job where he can hire and fire people with the Vanderbilt Mills, N. Y. C.
Senator Mackay of Quincy, Mass., has taken his son Donald into his office where the boy, we hope, is hard at work licking stamps.
Fred Gurney, since his father's death, is in charge at Gurney's, Brockton's leading jewelers.
Ed McClintock got thrown out or his car and tossed into a vacant lot and had a slight concussion and several broken ribs and a severe shaking up. In the hospital five or six weeks and it doesn't sound like much fun.
George Yaffe has joined, I'm told, the ranks of the married and with his brother manages the Union Furniture Co., at Brockton.
I learn, too, that Charlie Abbey teaches yet at the U. of California.
It's about time I gave our Detroit men a good write-up and I think at this point on a Sunday afternoon in the hills of Orion you will find Chaffin, Dinty Moore, John Heavenrich and Webster engaged in trying to keep a glider in the air longer than one second. Moore on his most recent flight of half a second made a splendid nose dive, Chaffin executed a series of unexpected landings and take-offs all in one hop, and Webster managed a beautiful stall ten feet from the ground. We haven't got John off the ground yet but it's only a matter of time. Dick Brown, Dick Eberline both of '29 are also among the fliers. And sometimes some skiing is thrown in. Anyway we are all veterans of maybe a minute in the air and we hope you all try it.
That's the plot for this month, boys and girls, and I want to thank you all for the wonderful letters you have written and I hope it's a happy new year for you all.
P. S. Aw nuts!
Secretary, c/o Air Reduction Sales Co., 7991 Hartwick St., Detroit, Mich. "What's the blurb for February, Harry?" Well, get this hot from the Chicago press.
