Judge — October 24, 1925 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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WF Bie sev las “Waiter, I wish to dine very well to-night, what would you sug- gest?” “The restaurant around the corner, sir.” —Nagels Lustige Welt “T Seen It in the Movies” “Zou have been convicted of murder in the first degree,” thundered the judge. “Have you anything to say before I pass sen- tence upon you?” “Only this,” answered the prisoner. “A month ago to-day I returned from Europe and met Joe Gulch, the mur- dered man. He had been my friend for many years. I started to tell him about my trip. ‘Joe,’ I said, ‘you really should see the palace at Versailles.’ “Oh, you can’t tell me nothing about that,’ he replied. ‘I saw that in the new movie called “The Price of Pleasure” with Martha McMarr.’ ‘Well, then, let me tell you about Westminster Abbey,’ I suggested. Immediately he shouted, ‘I know just what it’s like. I saw it in that movie called “The Britain’s Bride” with Harold Hairoil and Mamie Brakeband. I know just how those places look.’ “I'd have kept still from that point on, but he wanted to hear more about my trip and points of interest I had visited. ‘Tell me more,’ he kept insisting. “So I began to describe Notre Don’t rush this can! JUDGE will poy $5 for each one printed “I would have 5 ‘more money in the bank but adroit out too often.” Dame.” I described the Rock of Gibraltar and he had seen that at a movie the night before. I gave him a word picture of The Louvre, but he had just seen a new movie, ‘Paris By Night,’ and knew all about it. “I was ready to bow before his superior European knowledge gained from American-made movies, but he was insistent. ‘Tell me about more places of interest,’ he begged. I told him about The Pyramids and he had already seen them in a pic- turization of “The Sheik.’ I men- tioned Sherwood Forest and he had seen the forest in the movie version of ‘Robin Hood.’ Every place I tried to tell him about he had seen in some movie. Finally, I thought I had a trump up my sleeve and I said to him, ‘Let me tell you of my secret visit to the most carefully guarded harem in the world.’ “ ‘Hah, hah!’ he smirked. ‘Iknow all about it. Saw it last week on “Hattie of the Harem,” a new super- supersuper five-reel picture with Volga Velotzky.’” “It was too much, your honor. I shot him.” “Sentence suspended,” said the judge. “Also accept my sympathies, young man. I got back from Europe two weeks ago and my wife is a movie fan too.” Dame Cathedral in Paris. ‘Know all about that, too,’ he said. ‘Saw it in that picture with Lon Chaney Bus Driver (kindly)—Now, then, Arnold, ’op off an’ play wiv yer called “The Hunchback of Notre little toy somewhere else, cawn’t yer? —Passing Show (London) =e comicbooks.com