Judge — February 12, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Learn to Play JAZ: by Ear in 90 Days Be a master of jazz, syncopation, melody. It 4s easy to learn at home in your spare time. Wonderful Niagara Method shows you how. By R. C. JAMES How I used to wish that I could sit down at the piano and pour out the golden syncopation of American melody, like the jazz piano players I had heard. How I used to wish that I could be the popular one in every crowd. But I could not play a note, I did not know a thing bout music. Niagara Method Shows The Way Then somewhere—just as you are reading this—I read of the Niagara Method which makes piano playing Fonderfully simple. | L sent for Director Wright's books The Niagara Secret.” I read the book, and I knew it was right. I followed Director Wright's principles, and in no time Mbad caught on to his ideas. Simple—Easy—Delightful And the best part of it all is that there is nothing hard gbout the Niagara Method. In a short time, by follow- ing Director Wright's principles and by devoting a part of my spare time to the practical application of his course, Ton learned to play. No tiresome scales—no arpeggios to learn—no weary hours of practice—no do-re-mi—no meaningless exercises. Af you know the Niagara Method, you can sit down and 1 off any popular song which the high-priced orchestra Kesders play in the cabarets, clubs, hotels, dance halle, or theaters. Decide to Begin Now If you have never played a note, or if you do play— fo matter how well—you too may ‘become a master of jazz and melody by learning the simple, wonderful d ra Method, Don’t wait another day. Send the coupon now for the “Niagara Se- ” This book is yoursabsolutely E. If 10 (coin or stamps) is enclosed you alsg receive wonderful booklet*How to Entertainat Piano,” Ronald G: Wright, Director Niagara School of Music, 111 Niagara School Bldg., Niagara Falls, N.Y. — CLIP THIS COUPON NOW! NIAGARA SCHOOL OF MUSIC Dept. 111,NiagaraFalls,N.Y. Without obligation mail me your book'*The Niagara Se- eret.’* I enclose 10¢ for book’‘How to Entertain at Piano” Name et City __ BLOTCHY SKIN need annoy Pimples black- heads, ete: are quickly diopelled by Resinol INSIST UPON KEMP'S BALSAM FOR THAT COUGH! Wife—Oh, George! Husband—My Wha ears, dear! Judging the Shows (Continued from page 17) him, if he applies himself to it, likely field for his talents. “The Barker,” as I have hinted, is crude stuff saved by its several photographic studies of charac- ters off the carnival lots. The de- tail is at all times superior to the meat. The latter is little better than the sort of thing Willard Mack grinds out, but the flashes of authentic character light up the scene. The company is headed by Walter Huston in the réle of a carnival ballyhoo. He plays it as if Robert B. Mantell were dying in the wings, without a touch of ease or lightne grimly, sedately, almost Shak spearianly. Claudette Colbert is the girl who exercises her sex ap- peal against the ballyhoo’s young son and duly convinced all the critics including Mr. J. Ranken Towse, who couldn’t get to the opening but who sent down a wire sing he could feel the appeal way up in Mount Vernon. Good performances are also contributed by John Irwin and Norman Fos- ter. III When produced originally in England, the play on view at the Prine s I write, was known as “Three Birds.” By way of try- ing to lure the smut-loving suckers into the theater over here, they have rechristened it “The Virgin Man.” But it is to be feared that the suckers will not bite this time, as the goods are prodigiously boresome. What is more, the Wy ww NING t have you been up to? —Humorist play, for all the implications of its new label, is not dirty. One might as well try to hornswoggle the boobs by changing the title of “Behind the Horizon” to “Going the Limit,” or that of ‘Hamlet’ to “Dirty Mama.” Unless I am greatly mistaken, the theatergoing mush-heads can be fooled no longer with relatively innocent plays set forth under titillating titles. After six months of being bamboozled by such Couldn't Say No,” “Kept” and the like, the mush-heads are on. things as “She SAS “Teddy Jones says you got him blotto the other night.” “Blotto! Why, I got him so shot that it took a cabbie and two hall porters to get me to bed.” —Sydney Bulletin RLM Kind Old Lady— So you are the sole survivor of a shipwreck ! Tell me how you came to be sav Wayfarer— Well, you se changed me mind on sailin’ day —Answers SAS One morning Brown looked over his garden wall and said to his neighbor: “Look here, what are you bury- ing in that hole?” “Oh,” he said, “I’m just re- planting some of my seeds, that’s all.” “Seeds!” grily shouted Brown an- “It looks more like one of The seeds are inside.” —Pearson’s Weekly comicbooks.com ca ns sii snes eae Pr rae us