Judge — February 5, 1927 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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irst Constable (to second ditto)—P’raps we'd better pick ’im up and im between us. Reveler—Now, you can’t decheive me, conshtable. there’sh only one of you! Judging the Shows (Continued from page 17) be called the Dostoievski. The one due for a big premiére the Thursday of the same week is to be known as. the Petit Grosses Schauspielhaus. The one announced to be ready for public view on Wednesday of the week r that has not been named definitely as yet, the choice lying at present between the Morris Gest, on the one hand, and the George Jean Nathan on the other, with the odds peculiarly favoring the Prince of Wales. The show on the stage of the com- mendably enterprising and evidently very opulent Messrs. Chanins’ new Royale is one labeled “Piggy,” offer- ing as its leading feature that esti- mable dialect clown of another epoch, the Mons. vuel Bernard. Thad begun to believe that the day of the German comedian was a thing of the past until. this nucl came out again on the Royale platform and let go at the English language with his old Weber and Fields Busy Berthas. The fact is, I discovered, that a good German comec as funny to-day as he ever was, war or no war, beer or no beer. Give one like Bernard some fairly serviceable material and he can still manage to get as loud laughs out of it in the old days. is just The star is ably assisted Shudder” “Shudder be ashamed of her- self.” I know very well —Passing Show on the present occasion by a zany named Eddie Conrad, who does so very well what little is privileged him that one might wish he had a lot more to do. The episode in the first act in which he discusses New York telephone numbers and. street ad- dresses and God knows what with a half-witted foreigner is the high comie point of the evening. ‘The so- called juvenile is Brooke Johns, a typical Broadway night club enter- tainer who gets himself up like the pictures he has scen of college boys and hence believes it’ the frank- furter to advertise and announce himeelf as “a collegian.” Mr. Johns’ contribution to the show is an un- remitting and very proud display of some good teeth, a nobby white waistcoat from London, some very loud noises on a banjo and some in- roads upon the King’s English but slightly less remarkable than Mr. Bernard’s. The chorus does _ its various jobs very well. ery I have no use for lawyers, That I have I won't pretend; I admit, though, one comes handy, When a felon needs a friend. —Boston Transcript wae Old Gent—You cruel boy. F: chasing that poor dog with a big stick. Have you no heart? Butcher's. Boy—No, sir; the dog’s stolen it. Pearson's te Tripe is said to be becoming popu- ular as a breakfast dish. In many households, father always props it against a coffeepot and won’t let anybody else have any. —Humorist That’s in a cigarette ! = that is wh) Marlboros have become famous in One Short Year what counts Marlboro Bridge Score mailed free upon request. oral fo reated by PHILIP MORRIS &C 44 West 18th Street, Dept. B 9, comicbooks.com