Judge — October 3, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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rent. cruciatingly comic affair I am told it is, somebody must have dropped | me when I was a child. The story | concerns the efforts of a group of | yokels to cultivate charming per- sonalities by following a guide-book. VI | “ Aut Dressep Up,” by Arthur Richman, is a disappoint- ment. The author’s antecedent plays promised something better. | All we get here is a revamping of the | bewhiskered fable of persons who drink a magic potion and thereafter are made to tell the truth, the whole truth, etc. Sometimes the truth- telling beer takes the form of a tree under which the persons sit, or a ring which they wear, or a wager, but the subsequent antics are generally much | the same. The hero of Richman’s play, after he has taken a swig of the truth beverage (announced to be the discovery of a great scientist), Promptly proceeds to a passionate osculation of the fair heroine. Science or no science, it remains that the average man is influenced in the same way by two gins. The play- wright has tried to give his old materials a fillip of novelty by build- ing them up into a defense of hypoc- tisy. But his play remains a dull VII “(C\aprams Jinks” is a musical _~ comedy founded on Clyde Fitch’s comedy of the same title. It is a likeable show, with some good tunes, some humorous lines, some adroit hoofing and some fetching costumes. The most entertaining member of the troupe is the Mlle. Friend—What does your lodger do? Landlady—He’s one of the greatest inventors of the age. “Really? What has he invented?” “Well, every month he invents another reason why he can’t pay his —Humorist Marion Sunshine. The comedians, Arthur West and Joe Brown, are nothing to burst out laughing at, and the leading lady, Louise Brown, offers little but an extremely agree- able speaking voice. A Pregnant Phrase While it is not known positively, the suspicion is strong that the phrase “Untold Wealth” was coined immedi- ately after the first income tax law | was written. —Kamloops Sentinel. Pere Magistrate—You say the officer arrested you while you were quietly minding your own business? Prisoner—Yes, your worship. “You were quietly attending to your own business, making no noise or disturbance of any kind?” “None whatever, sir.” “Tt seems very strange. What is your business? “T’m a burglar.” Rad Chemistry Professor—Name three articles containing starch. Student—Two cuffs and a collar. —The Epworth Herald —Tit-Bits be a 627 West 43d Street, New York, N. Y. Herewith find $5.00 (check, cash, money-order) for one year's subscription to JUDGE. les F : Bes ge a a Se Catalog of Things You Want Sent Free | BOYS & BE FIRST GIRLS Earn $2.00 IN YOUR TOWN WRITE NOW _ for 50 Sets Christmas Seals. Sell for 10¢ a set. When sold send us $3.00 and keep $2.00. Trust You till Xmas. Neubecker Bros., 961 E. 23d St., Dept. 182, Brooklyn, N. Y. UES for our free Guide Books and “RECORD OF INVENTION BLANK” before disclosing inven- fond. | Send Model or sketch and description of your invetition for our Inspection ond Instructions Free. Highest References. Reasonable s. 01 : VICTOR J, EVANS & CO., 813 Ninth, Washington, D. C. UDGE for YOURSELF Herewith is $1.00 (check, cash, stamps, money-order) for 10 weeks of JUDGE. ~ USE THIS “DOITNOW" COUPON NOW % > comicbooks.com