Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1937, Page 92

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.—GRAVURE SECTION—JULY 25, 1937. BLIND DATES By W. E. Hill Copyright, 1987, by Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate, Inc “How tall is he? Does he really ;-‘ = \ w A i Joe had been telling Mary what a grand I dance well or just so-so? Has he a guy his friend Bert was. So Mary said, “Fine, bring him along and I'll ask Dottie / car? Where will we go for dinner ?” Py to meet him.” And here’s Bert. Mary, who! ;‘" _ Showing girl who has been fooled y4Ad wonders how friend Dottie will take to’y . too often, getting the low-down. him, is hoping that he has lots of money or— social position, or something, to offset lack Their dancing date was arranged by mutual friends. They said he .was a regular Fred Astaire on a’ dance floor. And he was led to expect a second Ginger Rogers— only with more pep and charm. They’re both making the best of ,h ! 4 it, though the same thought is running through their minds, “Can this possibly be the person I've heard so much about?” The blind date following a phone flirtation. “I'll meet you at the storef entrance,” she said. “I'm wearing black, with a little black hat and a short j face veil.” And he said he would be wearing a white carnation. He’s right on hand with the white carnation, but it seems as though every girl in the city had stepped out in a little black hat with a_short veil. [ [ VISR % P =il Mabel is very nervous, for this is i “‘I'm your old friend Bill’s col- lege roommate, and he asked me to look you up as soon as ‘1 got to town,” etc., etc. Show- ing man in phone booth trying R hard to convince a girl friend ¥of his pal’'s that they have mutual friends. boy friend’s name and can’t intro- duce him. Which is awkward because ¥ afraid I would steal her beau, she wouldn’t in- troduce me!” She was his day nurse at the hospital and " when, later, he called . her on the phone and i asked her to meet . him for dinner, she This is Harry's sister’s accepted. She’s won- % dering if they will roommate at college and . sister arranged a blind ;. recognize each other. date for her to attend ', Because she never saw him except in junior prom with Hany.\.’"@ 4 e i % “You'll simply be mad “ pajamas, and he only Oh, yeah? Well, how was about Elsa” wrofe hish < Saw her in her cap I tol dkml)): that he}‘ 5(‘:;3", d sister. “So sparkling and /¥ and uniform. Street wou mouse-faced ? so clever.” Elsa is special- [, == clothes make a dif- (Just the usqal post-mortem § ] r izing in biology, zoology /1 ference. ?Et:r l:in bslimtd d?te v:;;:; 23 and such, and will talk shop. So Harry, who = l;okp Th sf‘?r% asg A has a weak stomach, has to hear all about er. The Iriend suspects Rivesg " the reflexes of the frog they cut up in “lab” trickery.) = d last week.