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         "Just a Kid."
   Mrs. John Emerson, better known as Anita Loos, famous
   scenario writer and critic, no doubt secured some
   interesting material for future work in a coupld of
   incidents that occured during her stay in Clyde last
   week. One evening the petite little lady went
   incognito to the Harkness Theater.  The young man at
   the ticket office didn't know her, of course, but
   after noting her very girlish figure and attire,
   bobbed hair and childlike smile he concluded she was
   "just a kid" and sold her a child's ticket for 10
   cents instead of an adult ticket for 20 cents.
   Saturday night Anita went with a party of friend to
   see the Carnival at Harvey's Park, and a young lad
   about 13 years old, noticing her interest in the
   show, sidled up to her and said shyly, "Won't you
   ride with me on the Ferris wheel?"  Anita was afraid
   to risk the Ferris wheel, but it is said she enjoyed
   a ride with the youngster on the "merry-go-round,"
   and the lad doesn't yet know who his fair little
   partner was.


Transcribed by: Marianne Hitchcock Smith
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