Judge — January 8, 1921 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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VIES pales The Supreme Test—“I might as well admit it,” remarked Cactus Joe. “Asa cowboy I’m a failure.” “What makes you think so?” “ve never had‘a single offer from a moving - picture studio." —Iashington Star. Nothing Else?—The Censor—About this picture, “Beaches and Peaches,” you call it an educational film. What does it teach? The Movi homan. Producer—Anatomy—Okla- Brains vs. Beauty—Now it is pro- claimed that brains are more essential than beauty in the moving-picture stu- dios. There has been a somewhat general impression that brains were regarded as supertluous.—Boston Transcript. In These Days—‘Where are the merry villagers who used to dance on the village green?” “You can now find them assembled in front of the village screen.” —Film Fun. As Expected—* That kite of yours is acting funny, my boy,” said the old gen tleman passing. “Yes, sir, [ know it; but it’s all right.” “Why is it all right, my son?” “There's a picture of Charlie Chaplin on it.”"—Yonkers Statesman All in the Same Class Chauffeur—Y esterpay I wap Bap Luck. My MoTOR WENT ON STRIKE Ovwner—WeELL, WHY SHOULDN'T IT STRIKE? Blactter (Munich) Ir HAs NO SENSE, ENTHER.—Meggendorfer Short Measure Squatier (who has commissioned a paint a picture of his homestead)—Wuy, DAMMIT, MAN, YOUVE ONLY GIVEN ME FOUR xp ['RuN Two suxer TO THE ACRE! (Australia) Bulletin Bluffed the Crowd—A few nights ago Kill Elmore of Preachersville ate ten quarts of tomatoes at R. D. Conrad’s store, at Rowland, and agreed to eat his entire stock of groceries for $10, but after sceing him gulp down 234 gallons of tomatoes and still look hungry, the crowd was bluffed—Stonford Interior Journal, Accounting for the Groan—" You wrote this report of last night’s banquct, did you?" asked the editor with the copy in his hand. “Yes, sir,” replied the reporter. “And this expression, ‘The banquet table groaned’—do you think that is proper?” “Oh, yes, sir. The funny stories the after-dinner speakers told would make any table groan.”’— Yonkers Statesman. Ask the Editor—A Rochester, N. Y., firm is “going to try and get along with- out money,” according to the news dis- patches. Any country newspaper man can give them pointers.—Barber County ( Kans.) Index. His Name Wasn't Dennis—Elizabeth N. Barr, an editorial writer with the Re tells a story of an Englishman who telephoned to say he had not received his paper. Having difficulty in understanding the name, the editor asked that he spell it. “Ow do you spell it?” the Englishman said. “Spell it with a hoe and a hen and a he and a hi and two hells." —Washing- ton Times. comicbooks.com