Judge — July 1, 1922 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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As We Were Saying By ARTHUR H. Fotwett Nature Stupigs By W. E. Hii Lo, the Poor Flapper! HENAS in silk the flapper goes, All radiant in her flapper clothes, Comparison at once I draw With maid of humbler station. That sleeveless cape with edge of fringe, The way she wears it, bears a tinge Of likeness to an Indian squaw Upon the reservation. Remove the hat upon her head; Daub on her cheeks a bit more red; Stick in her hair a feather; And she will be a ringer dead For squaw and brave together. That sleeveless cape with edge of fringe pressing illustrations of the way so of diamonds continue to keep them, Unjustly convicted movie hero languish- ing and dreaming of “the girl” Crime and the Movies A DEPARTMENT of justice stat- istician says that seventy per cent. of those who commit crime are under twenty-one, for which he holds moving pictures _ responsible. “He thought,” to quote a newspaper report, “that films showing convicts at hard labor in prison would have a deterring effect on young despérados.””. Certainly, something should be shown if these figures are accurate, but movies are largely a matter of “footage,” so it is doubtful if the makers of films who need their prison scenes for other purposes than preventing crime could stand the additional expense. A picture showing punishment for crime is not nearly so excitmg as one showing the commission of the crime itself, and movie makers judge these things by box office stand- ards, They are not in business to pre- vent crime; they are in business to fill theaters. And besides, if many feet of film were used up in warnings, in de- of the transgressor, what would become of the really essential prison scenes of the movies? That prison scenes are essen- tial every movie fan knows. The unjustly convicted hero must have a cell in which to languish and dream of “the girl.” The thrilling escape episode must have a prison as its starting place. And—good Lord!—what would the rollicking movie comedy be without its prison sets? The striped suits, the comic lock-step, the gay wag of a comedian who hands the prison guard a swift, sly kick between the bars of the cell door—we must have these; they are vital clements to, our happiness. Prison scenes? Yes; but to. show them as the gentleman from the department of justice proposes would be to deprive the prison of both its romance and its high good humor. PIs LAWYERS to show how crime wave may be stopped is the stimulating hint in a headline. Well—and with no desire to butt in—how would it do to de- clare an embargo on lawyers for about ten years? That might help. PIs Safe Deposit Parties At THE rate gems are being stolen— scarcely a day passes but a robbery of at least $20,000 worth is reported— it is queer that people who own a peck or 19 more or less insecurely, in their homes. If common sense could once get the upper hand over vanity, gems would be kept in safe deposit vaults, the same as stocks and bonds, or any negotiable paper. The enterprising safe deposit company will encourage this idea by providing at some expense a vault large enough for parties, dinner dances and so forth at which subscribers to boxes may wear their sparklers, pendants and stomachers for an evening without fear of loss and where, the last shimmy having been wiggled, they may place their crystallized carbon back in the company’s care be- fore motoring home, with nothing on but their clothes. In STATING that the twenty-one inch waistline is but a memory, a Boston corset manufacturer adds: “Women have grown stouter around the waist since they discarded corsets, and the same thing is true of men who changed from belts to suspenders.” Yes, yes; but men, let it be understood right now, never made a practice of discarding or checking their belts at a dance. Red RTY ROOMS in the Land Office building at Washington have been set aside for the use of the Attorney General’s staff in the prosecution of the war graft cases. Ali Baba Daugherty and the Forty Thieves, as the Arabian Nights might chronicle it. comicbooks.com