Judge — March 27, 1926 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Kate and Mame sAR- Mame: I'm still in’ the chorus, I sheuld be a_ star, there’s no doubt! The censor guys kiock and deplore us, and that’s why the theater’s sold out! My costume’s . = 2 have surely diminished, I’ve just had Ppt Sa some new portraits done, and after - those pictures were finished, the boss took the nakedest one, he stuck it out front, in the lobby, on top of a great shiny stand. Right near it rest loving, cups ‘nobby. and honestly, Mame, it looks grand! Of course all the others are jealous. May clai that it isn’t half bad, while Hilda mits she must tell us, “It looks like a tennis match ad!" The girls are all dishin’ the dirt an’ my Johnny juintiserit nie perfuinie) 1 posed iii'tlie new living. curtain) but sieezed—so Tlost my costume! ‘That real estate guy was demented, he handed poor me a bad check, the land which he ald and he'rented ‘waa. ground that grew right on his neck! Rose mar- ried her wealthy bootlegger, and Gloria's count is a pest, so give me some butter-and-egger, account in the hank is the best! I bought a new dress, and it’s garnet, I met two rich men, just last night, but Mame, they respected me—darn it! I guess this is all Lean write. [have a rehearsal now, honey, the boss said T mustn't he late! Oh, don’t you take any had money, write soon to your girl friend, from Kate. His physical adviser told him to do a little feneing. Nanette Kutner Censored! (In order to be on the safe side I sub- mitted the following poem to the censors of the Post Office Department. This is how it read after they got through with it.) [78 an (expurgate this phrase) And so (expunge) and (cut). ‘The (censured) to and fro (erase), Alas! It was (tut-tut!) entire line must go), 2 (taboo) the (cut this out), Or else (blue pencil) so. (Deleted by the censor) sweet As (canceled); (quash the So (cut) and (change) likewise (de- lete), (From here on is suppressed). A committee of customers finds out at last what it is that the laundry Geo. R. Davies does to the shirts. comicbooks.com