Judge — January 15, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Young Wife—Sack, I think it’s frightfully mean of you to give me a car and then keep it all for yourself. —Pass Judging the Shows (Continued from page 16) Tt never One or two scenes are thumb its finger at itself. rings true. effective as mere novelty contrives ever to make such scenes effective. but in the main one can detect the playwright in the act of trying to make a dent simply by making faces at the Winchell Smith drar Once again, one speculates as to the manner in which the Theater Guild arrives at its peculiar decisions in the matter of American plays. That its judgment is something more than suspect can no longer be doubted by those of us who recall that it has rejected no less than four very good plays written by Americans and devoted its efforts instead to such inferior things as these two last plays by Mr. Howard. II I “Oh, Please,” one has difficulty in locating anything but Beatrice Lillie. Usually, when reports are wafted in from Philadelphia to the effect that a show is not much good, it is more or less a certainty that on the opening night in New York one will discover it to be very good, but on this occasion Philadelphia's judg- ment was discovered to be strangely La Lillie’s comic gifts are offered a tough battle by the material that has been given her and, as a consequence, one finds that she is any too amusing. No more, how- ever, could Charlie Chaplin be a Little Eyolf.” accurate. wow in ng Show Il AxoTer revival is on, as I write, at the Princess, to Arnold Bennett's “The Great Adventure.” It is anentertaiiing enough conieds, but you'd never suspect the fact from the present performance. FUNNYBOMES “My only regret is that I hare ‘ut one wife to send to the country.” “The trouble with many men,” says a West End tailor, “‘is that they don’t know what to do with their hands.” Our bridge partner is in- variably one of them. —Humorist sae The skin of the human palm is seventy-six times as thick as that of the eyelid. Nevertheless it is so sensitive that the touch of a piece of paper the size of a treasury note will cause a waiter’s hand to clench convulsively. Passing Shou tae One of the elephants at the circus was coughing badly one morning. and the keeper was instructed to give it a bucket of water into which a bottle of whisky had been emptied. “How's Sally?” asked the circus proprietor next morning. “Oh, just the same!” was the re- ply, “but all the other elephants are coughing now.” —Tit-Bits ee Laundry Manager—Morning, sit! Customer—Ah, good morning! I er—don’t want to complain, but [ would like a little more shirt on my cuffs when they come hack next time. —Answers A Good Turn How sweet to waken in the morn, When daylight first begins to creep Across the world, and then to turn Right back again—and go to sleep! Everybody's Weekly Boring Young Man (holding forth to pretty girl)—You know, I'm funny like that—I always throw myself into any job I undertake. Pretty Girl (sweetly) How splendid! Why don't you dig a well? Robey's Annual comicbooks.com