Judge — November 8, 1919 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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as Subtitles, such thrill- ing lines as: AND WILEN NIGHT, LIKE A GANTIC ETHIOPIAN CHICKEN THTEF, HAD CAST ITS DARK DANK BLANKET OF OBSCURITY OVER THE CITY, SNORING IN PEACEFUL OVER- TONES, FATE oOR- DAINED THAT ONE MAGENTA SOUL SHOULD WRITITE UNSLUM BERING, TRAVAILING IN EX- QUISITE ANGUISH. Some subtitles are, Post Carp Pronto, scene showing Lloyd George, as the keeper of a nd dance hall in Arizona, dancing with Mary Pickford (disguised as Charlie Chaplin) and shoot- ing off one of her curls for a keepsake. The prize-winner and other answers to this Prob- loid will be published in the issue of JUDGE for December 13, 1919. | No. 1 A subtitle of not over thirty words, for a movie RULES All answers must be written in ink or typewritten upon Post Cards, the long way of the Card Cards must be addressed to Gelett Burgess, care of JUDGE, Fifth Avenue, New York. Every answer must be accompanied by the Name and Ad- dress of the Competitor Any Competitor may send as many Answers as desired, pro- lady of the house anx- iously noted Helen’s act. Helen rubbed her hand over the smooth surface of the record, and grinned at the lady of the house. Helen's mother, in serene mono- tone, talked on. Helen placed the rec- ord on its edge upon the table, and rolled it back and forth. The hostess slid a little nearer the edge of the chair, star- ing fixedly at Helen. Helen's mother, in even tones, talked on. Helen then balanced the record upon her head. “Oh! Umph!” gasped indeed, more optimistic, esp ly in) Western Pictures, when the cow- bov hero with the mar- celled hair announces per screen: Cards to be consider the Office of JUDGE is made. The Answer whic Best, will receive “A Heiress, is she? 7. Every other Answer published in JUDGE will receive a ayment of One Dollar Answers will be published and Prizes awarded in the fourth issue of JUDGE after that containing the Announcement Wal, I'll be plumb locoed if I don't aim to stampede her of the Probloid little heart and drive her crazy about me before the fifth reel!” Other tragic films, like those of Mr. Sennett’s dire disasters, have such sweetly solemn thoughts as this: “Tonas Hopbottom was so. stingy he wouldn’t buy a pair of shoes for shis pet Centipede.” Can you, dear Reader, write Subtitles without yor glasses? It is far more difficult, now we have Pro- hibition. But I need one—need it written quick, badly I was at a movie, last night, where I saw Pickford (dressed as Charley Chaplin) dancing with Lloyd George, one of those Goose Comedies, of course. And, just before the Premier (who was running bad Faro Dance Hall in Goshdarnit Gulch) play- fully shot off cne of Mary's curls for a keepsake, there appeared a wonderful Subtitle upon the screen, describing the incident. The lines thrilled me But I have forgotten that Subtitle, though it con- tained less than thirty words. What WAS it? That is the Probloid. Childe Helen By E. H. Porter "THE lady of the house sat on the edge of her chair, eyeing Helen. Helen, age seven, child of the visitor, stood beside the library table whereon rested a number of new phonograph records. Helen's mother, features serene, sat near her hostess, placidly talking. Casually Helen picked up one of the records. The vided each is written upon n date of the Issue in whi Announcement of the Probloid in the opinion of Gelett Burgess, is the Prize of Five Dollars. a separate Post Card. ntest must he received at Ten Days after the the lady of the house. Helen took the record from her hand, and be- gan wheeling it around her neck “Oh! Umph!” gasped the lady of the house. Helen then placed the record on the tip of her forefinger and, with the other hand, started it spinning. The lady of the house fell back in her chair and braced herself for the expected crash. Faster and yet faster spun the record until, all of a sudden,—Helen slowed it down, laid it back upon the table, and sauntered out of the room. The heart of the hostess resumed its beating. The mother of Helen, in serene monotone, talked on. Egg View News-Note Ry Lesur Van Every Tink Nitz has an inside vest-pocket to trade for anything useful. ’ * 2 8 Experience has taught Tink Nitz that among strangers is the best place to raise a loan, or a first moustache. es 2 3 Having in mind the bone-dry situation, Sherm Spoor reckons that a lot of hair tonics might as well be taken internally, anyw: se Chet Lumley has thought up a new rule which threatens to revolutionize the whole world of base- ball. If, when the third out is called against a team, there are any players left on bases, upon that team’s coming to bat again, those players are to return to said bases, and thus be enabled to go ahead with whatever they had planned in the preceding inning