Judge — July 24, 1920 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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a Digest Inducement—Husband and wife were at the movie show. During a love scene she nudged hubby and inquired: Why is it you never made love to me like that? “Because,” he responded prosaically, “I didn’t get paid to do it, like that Millions Trying—‘ Millions of peo- ple,” we quote from the motion-picture advertising, “can write stories and photo. plays and don’t know it.” We have no wish to quarrel with the assertion, We merely suggest that those responsible for you? ota bit of it; the motion pictures get hold of some of — (Paris). ing is largely imaginary,” remarked the them. Our contention being that those obdurate optimist. now writing for the motion-picture drama Optimistic—“I like him—he’s so op- “Itis,” replicd Miss Cayenne. “Every cannot do it.—Philadelphia Public timistic.”” profiteer imagines that everybody else Ledger. ? has unlimited supplies of money.— “Yeah. Every time he ses a meal Off Duty—A movie vampire, you — served in the mov “But she is modestly clothed and her conduct is quite proper.” “The poor girl is having a few hours to herself. No stern-voiced director is driving her into sensuous poses and semi- nudity.”—Birmingham Age- Herald. Free Press. tax.—Film Fun. 1! 4 write for that lying revolutionary “ve been converted to radicalism, put it's the onl, will publish any’ of my and tips the usher a quarter.”"—Detroit Effective—Studio Manager—How did you manage to get the star to register “T don’t understand.” anguish so masterfully? Director—1 reminded her of her income W orld’s IIIf ty y The Happy Medium—“Are the spurs in comfortable circumstances?” “Yes, indeed.” “They are not rich?” “Oh, no, and they have sense enough not to pretend to be.”—Birmingham Age- Herald. A Fair Question—" Money isn’t ev thing.” “No. But have you succeeded in b ing a beefsteak with anything else?” Detroit Fre Press. paper that copy."—Le Rire Imagination—‘“‘The high cost of liv- Washington Star. he picks his teeth Another Victim rived this morning. “What's his trouble?” “Overconfidenc “A new patient ar- “A ouija board told him he was rich and he began to scatter checks around.”— Birmingham Age-Herald. port to you. To the rest of who haven’t been the favorites of the divine choice, there is a certain melan- choly interest attached to contemplating what it costs the Prohibitionists to indulge in their favorite outdoor and indoor sport. Last year the Prohibitionists’ League New York State spent $348,049. Mind you, this was in New York alone. It makes no account of the expenditure in all the rest of the coun- try nor of the vast sums poured out by the government to hire commissioners, superintendents, sleuths, searchers, prosecutors and automobiles, and to provide temptation money to help Heaven to enforce Prohibition. Not often do we get a chance to enjoy such figures. Particu- larly pleasant is it to see that 127 of the promoters of righteous- ness in New York State drew salaries amounting to $142,762 and that, for traveling expenses and hotel bills to sustain the inner man, the we must h: pent $48.3 Prohibition comes high, but it—whether we want it or not. t, though, until the divine-missioners get after my Then you'll see some spending that is spending. comicbooks.com