Life in Beverly Hills
During a lavish party in a Beverly Hills home the host guided a group of guests to a huge shelfful of glassware in the trophy room.
“Of course you know about Bruges glass,” he said proudly. “It’s unbreakable. Here, I’ll show you.” He tipped a glass off the shelf. It shattered into fragments.
“That can’t be!” he exclaimed.
He tipped another and it too crashed. He shook his head in utter bafflement and tipped another. Crash.
“I can’t understand it!” he shouted hoarsely, “These glasses have been
in the family for generations! We’ve been the victims of a hoax!”
 IN A FRENZY he swept them off the shelf half a dozen at a time.The guests cowered. His wife, hearing the noise, rushed in and screamed, “Don’t! Don’t! Stop! Stop!” He shouted fiercely, “Stay away from me!” and kept breaking glasses. It was an embarrassing scene and the guests began looking at each other as if it were time to leave. If they haven’t learned it by now, this will inform them that it was a gag perpetrated by the host and his wife. They have some valuable glassware but the glasses he broke were cheap facsimiles. Gosh, don’t people have fun in Beverly Hills? * *
AS A PUBLIC service I herewith nominate for oblivion two At first, addressed to women, is, “What do you think of American men?” The second, addressed to men, is, “What do you think of American women?” If they didn’t ask these silly questions they wouldn’t get those silly answers. * *
FIGHTING WORDS Jehosaphat! * *
QUOTE & UNQUOTE — Wendy Gaster, 3, hearing a siren, said solemnly to her mother, “That ambulance is crying because somebody got hurt” . . . A downtown office worker who was late getting back from lunch explained to his boss, “I was unavoidably detained by an inadvertent Martini” . . . A man in traffic court went into great detail to explain why he shouldn’t have received a citation. “You have overproved your case,” the judge said, “$5 fine.” * *
ONLY IN L.A. — Seymour Glider, a typesetter who works nights near 4th * *
AT RANDOM — Last
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