Judge — January 2, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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A Couple of Other Fellows by Don Herold OR some reason or other, the evening vaudeville performan could not. start. was twenty minutes late. ence We tting fidgety. Mr. Albee was tearing his hair. Stage hands were dispatched north, south, east and west. B. F. Keith was rotating in his grave. The performers were in a panic. Practically everybody was asking, “What's the matter?” The orchestra leader had played the overture a dozen times. Finally, he slipped backstage to learn what the trouble was. “For Pete's sak he asked the ch “Our easel has disappea plied the property man. has swiped our easel. We in The audi- The cur! what is it, Bill?” of property man. red,” re- mmeboc ant have a performance without an easel.”” It was almost as serious as if some- body had swiped the piano lamp. I don’t know just how the above situation came out. Why do you embarrass me by asking? Art must alw: leave a lot of loose ends. I have given you all that is vital of the above story. I made a point, made a joke, and it would merely be an anticlimax to explain that one of the property men broke a show window in Finklebloom’s Furniture Store three blocks away and secured an easel and rushed back and set everything right. -% AT VAUDEVILLE He—Don't lool: at your program. Sue—Why not? “Heavens! You don’t want to know what comes next, do you?” Is it possible you are one of those people who anticlimax. their lives from start to finish by thinking about things more than God intended. You must take the gist of things and ask no questions. Never say, “And then Don't demand anything sonable in this world. Take what you can get and don’t try to be too neat about wherefores and conclu- Don't be an anticlimaxer. ** * sions. Most vaudeville grand pianos look as if they needed another coat of stove blacking. ee * Scant dress was denounced recently by the convention of the Union of Jewish Orthodox Congregations. It is not so much a matter of scant as won't. And most girls these days look as if they had made-up in a bakery. * oe A swell new apartment house opened in our neighborhood recently and they had an elegant, uniformed doorman before anybody had moved into the apartment This seemed to me presumptuous. How did the apartment house know it was going to have that much class before it had filled itself up with tenants and studied them carefully for a year or so? It seems to me that a doorman of an apartment house house. hould be an excrescence of the tenants, a natural manifestation of the breeding of the people inhabiting that house. But that is the way we do thing: We flash our class beforewe have an; We display wealth and then ta’ the chance of getting it. We hire a doorman and then build in under him. Seventy-five per cent. of the automo- biles you see are only 25 per cent. paid for. Married men live longer than single men. Or at least they complain more about it. In order to get atmosphere into “La Bohéme,” King Vidor, the dire tor, has seen to it that all the techni- cal foree—electricians and so on wear French artists’ smocks. Vidor himself wears one of these garments. Also, all members of the cast are re- quired to speak French during work- ing hours. This helps explain how directors make moving pictures so good. SEE TO-MORROW’S PAPERS “That Old Sweetheart of Mine.” comicbooks.com