Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 113

THE SUNDAY , STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—DECEMBER 12, By W. E. HILL (Copyright 1926 by the Chicago Tribune Syndieate ) 1926: SALESMANSHIP PLUS The committec chairman. Mrs. St. Killen Paws is head of the committee to further the little theater movement. This is the second season of the “Grab Bag Plavers.” and Mrs. Paws, who is public spirited to a fault, is delivering a little sales talk to gain new subseribers. “Next to the public census.” says Mrs. P, “no national move- ment has had a more far ing influence e A AR e e The visitor from abroad. “Oh, your wonderful, wonderful country! It is so big! Hur- on the people of the United States. There ried, perhaps, but big and wonderful. And the American men They are so big—and : ; 4 are now 18,000,000 subscribers to the com- vital and wonderful. I had heard that Americans were cold, heartless, but I have found B Y 4 f & A o Bivied little theater movement throughout them big and vital and warm-hearted—and very wonderful. Please say to th";‘uflf(‘al Ameri- . ks b the country. By 1927 we expect to swell can public for me that I think Americans are a ‘wow,’ as you say over here! the ranks to 70000.000. Let us do our share Ex-Grand Duchess Draga of Droas is selling her grand ducal personality to the report- as an integral Pi;fl of this great e ers and is going over big. This is her highness” first day in the land of the free and, of ment.” Mrs. P. has a big heart Biitids not course. the public is wild with curiosity. good at figures. j The antique dealer. Mrs. Haggerty is the genteel properitress of Ye Olde Ship-Shape Shoppe. where, if you do not mind the expense, you can pur- chase hook rugs, pressed glass and unauthentic early maple, Mrs. Hag- The pross agent. Meet Sonny Delyle (right). star of the Nonesuch Picture Corpora- Hotye s ol sl el e ot tion. and his busy press representative, Joe Glimmer. Joe's little job is selling Sonny to the ¢ st eolleciins for ihe Tatk obiit big film public. Joe is a good booster. “Look,” he will exclaim as he hands the Sunday S iineL oserhing o i U editor a big photo of Sonny, “look at that sex appeal! as a favor, if she likes you The insurance talk. The boy who sells life insurance ! little chat now and then. “I really thin he remarks pl . have more insurance, Mr. Blotts. O last week a client of mine w a pulicy like your present one was perfectly well one day ad the next! His poor wife is going to have to take lodgers Even the hcalthiest looking may be the one who will die soonest.” > by for a ou should CTETICCCICTY 7, B VAT ENCTCT YT T A CTNEECC (atatacaatalalalalal ~(30s ~Salalala ] Intelligence office sales talk. Mrs. Fred Gaberdine and her little girl June e in from the suburbs this Monday morning, hoping to entice a cook back with them on the Mrs Gaberdine is be- ng interviewed by Miss Delia Donohue. who believes in selling her services dearly if at all. “"What kind of a car have you™ asks De “Does your little girl leave sticky things around the kitchen?™ N The door-to-door sales talk. “l am_ getting subscriptions for *‘The Woman's House- The bond salesman. Harry. the engaging bond boy. is - hold Complaint.”” says Mrs. a very personable young man.” He is pals with everybody ] % et 3 | Merks at the door, “and and has learned to regard even the ice man as a prospec- g 4 h i W LD I G L TS tive customer. Today he is doing 18 holes with an old college friend. They are talking over old days and old friends and Harry is laughing heartily at a joke that has whiskers on it. The old college iriend hasn’t even the price of a baby bond., but Harry doesn’t know that yet He's going to lead up to a swell proposition having to do with 7 per cent 20-vear sinking fund debenture bond B SIS = scribers on my list I get as premium my choice of a lawn mower or a set of jelly molds W on't you take a year's sub- scription?”