Judge — December 20, 1919 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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FILM FUN A Monthly Reel Of Laughs cen Scrapple.” Start the New Year witha laugh, and keep laughing every month for a year, at the good wholesome humor in the only humorous Moving Picture Magazine. January 1920 FILM FUN offers a fine collection of laughs: “What does that say, Mama?” by Hinton Gilmore. “Love as it looks,” showing a “clinch” as seen by the camera, and as seen from the sidelines. “Movie thrills that are and aren’t,” takes one on a humorous tour of inspection. “Bill’s Mistake,” laugh. \Iso: is a real reel Celluloid Celebrities.” Whim Whams and Wheezes.” “Comments and Criticisms of a Free Lance.” “Flashbacks. And many more equally interesting articles all chock full of “Pep” and “Jazz” combine to make January attractive issue. Surely Thrift Stamps, and pays immediate div $1.50 for twelve months of good humor is the next best investment to dends in the Joy of 1920 FILM FUN a iving. Published Monthly By THE LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY, 225 Fifth Ave., $1.50 a year New York City Continued from pa What now? Why! return them of course; 1 with reports and explan writing) and ENDORSEMENTS !! The company was in rest-billets, but my days of peace and thankfulness were gone. My waking hours were spent in the measurement analysis and minute inquiry into the character heir ow istics of a pair of calegon—I now called them that, having convinced even myself that they were French—and in the preparation of a report—six copies—upon them. last the report—six and the doubly protected by wrapping paper and a wooden box—disappeared into the maws { different Military Channels. I had done my : [had rendered unto Caesar How quiet it all was! Only the explosion of a Boche aero-bomb, or the crash of falling ma copies unsettled by a 210-mm. shell, broke the sy summer Then, out of the sunny sky, whirled off one of the loops of red-tape upon which they had been traveling toward home, the drawers returned and with them was their report—six Each of the copies contained an ev One of the com to us, and a complaint. plaints was that a small black spot plainly visible upon the drawers’ right leg had not been mentioned in the herewith returned report. At last, corrected and further endorsed, the drawers and their report departed again. Up they climbed. Through Regimental, Divi- sional, Army Corps, Army and, finally, to General Headquarters they mounted, collect- ing yrsements to the number of sixty-four on their way. Then, with nothing less than the utmost force of the United States pledged to uM JUDGEF their Frenchship, they were handed gracefully as a token of our esteem, to our gallant Ally The French,” we learn from our school geographie say people, fond of dancing and light w They also have another char acteristic which can be best epitomized in the well-known “They shall not pass!” In the latter spirit they received the drawers; in the former they returned them. The French are tactful. They did not say the drawers were American; they stated simply that they were not French. This they stated upon a blue paper—nothing less than a French endorse ment—and, jauntily, gracefully, la-la-ing with the gesture they flipped them back to us. And so the drawers carry on. In their desper ate efforts to find a home they attack first the French, then the Americans. Each onslaught is strengthened by a fresh endorsement. But alas, when last I heard of them, they were still in No-Man’s Land Perhaps the League of Nations will resolve that drawers may choose with what peoples they will cast their lot—I am not sure. Tam sure, however, that some day some Supreme Council will place upon their Report the tinal endorsement, the endorsement that shall ret them to the land of their birth The Gifts By Mixa Tevenc My wife on other Christmas days Was quite content to get A new and stately limousine, As classy landaulet And daughter Mabel did not feel The least inclined to pout When I presented unto her \ smart red runabout Son Tom was also grateful for \ speedy racing car In which to take his sweetheart Madge dances near and far. But times and tastes, alas! have changed Since Progress took the reins, Maria, Tom and Mabel now Ml three wa lanes. BEST of the NEW RECORDS Disco CG, Selections 7 Parxot or tHe Scouts (F Lows. Itali 2 parts. Pla “Band. Pathe 4019 Folk tunes of Wales made urri by Edward € sprightly Henry VIII h rarevit this Wels! spread on both sides of the disc Rhapsody ii comichooks.coup