Judge — June 25, 1921 — page 31: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

\ Technical Success By Grorce | YURING the first two acts of Rufus *" Peters’s latest play, the wife of the ro had been “carrying on” with the lain. Openly, brazenly, the two had en conspiring to steal from the hero- isband the papers containing complete igrams of his invention of a new kind of urber-pole. In the middle of the second t the husband had found one of the vil- in’s handkerchiefs. Then the truth burst son him. Ina great specch to his butler, 1 hero swore a horrible revenge upon the erpetrator of his misfortunes. During all this action the desire of the adience for a happy ending to the play 1 ending that would teach a moral lesson S Sinperc Drawn by Pace Remy 5, Rueumatic Battap ‘THERE 18 AN OD MAN OF Topaco, A) Wuo nores ruat nts niteumattz May co, ir But EVERYTHING HINGES Ox He's avout To Be BLE SOME RECENT TWINGES, ssep with LumBaco. as well, had been skillfully aroused by Peters. And the audience knew that this desire would be satisfied by Peters. In is thirty-five years of playwriting Peters had never once disappointed his audi ence. And it was rumored that the meting out of the playwright’s justice in “The aby C.T DERSON TH YeLtowstone Park, Groxce! “Lknew | Scarlet Payment” would be done by a de: vice that cast into the shade everything Peters had ever before done in that line. With bosoms bulged by unhealthy excitement, the awaited this climax. The great moment came. On the stage the villain was crushing the barber-pok audience papers and the hero's wife in his arms. Suddenly the hero-husband appeared in an upper the theatre, Carefully aiming a revolver at the villain, he pulled box of the trigger. The audience gasped at his aim. And then it appeared that someone, probably the villain’s understudy, had put real bullets in) the automatic The hero merely riddled the scenery considerably, however. He also killed a man sitting in the front It proved to be Rufus Peters himself The audience dispersed well satisfied. It was unanimously agreed that Peters had overwhelmingly proved his consummate mastery of his art. For two acts he had skillfully aroused the desires of his audience for a happy ending and one that dealt out strict justi In his dénouement row. as well. he had satisfied these desires in an un- expected but legitimate way. Everyone was loud in admiration of Peters’s technic. Enigma By N. B. Facts “CAN cherry lips and deep brown eyes Come with a heart of stone?” I fling my query at the skies And wait and weep and moan, But only she alone Could lull my undulating cries: “Can cherry lips and deep brown eyes Come with a heart of stone?” My love before her bleeding lies, At hersmall feet I groan; While she her gaudy ribbon ties And says I might have known: “Can cherry lips and deep brown eyes Come with a heart of stone?” Dron by ROB, Pours Stout Gentleman—W wat ] WENT BATHING WERE IN 1GN? “Tuere’d pe WOULD HAPPEN IF DEFIANCE OF THAT A TIDE IN TH’ POND.” As Is Parson—Do you take this man for bet- ter or worse? Mandy—He can't get they is no hopes of his gettin’ any better, so I takes him as he is. no worse, and The Stir of Passion He—When did you really feel that you were in love with me? She—When I found myself beginning to resent it if others called you an idiot. Drawn by Joux Her, Ju+G. M. | “T wish You WOULD TELL ME, “Mr? NARCISSE DEAR, WHAT MAKES YOU SO SUCCESSFUL WITH MEN?” FLATTER ME!” Tue Basy Vamp Acatin. Successrut? You “Way [HAVEN'T BROKEN MOR THAN FIFTY HEARTS THIS YEAR. “F, HAVEN'T years.” a year? Way BROKEN one in /