Judge — July 23, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Wirr—Don’t you think we should wait down here u a bit calmer? Judging the Shows (Continued from page 19) in turn, can make another dollar or two profit on the deal, with the full and even eager concurrence of the club trade, and the authori- ties put them on the rack for doing exactly what any other good i men would do, the s curl their tails between their legs and t it lying down. As I say, all this strikes me as pretty foolish. The brokers may occasionally swindle the boobs and suckers, but so do the lawyers, osteopaths, restaurant ange-drink venders, correspondence school professors, hair-growing experts and half the shopkeepers of the land. But, more often, the brokers earn their profits. Let us say that you come to New York and h picked out, as the shows you h to see “Rio Rita” and “The Spider, both big successes. You decide that you will have nothing to do with ticket brokers and will try to get your seats at the box-office. You are stopping, let us say, at operators, —Tir-Birs the Vanderbilt Hotel. a taxicab and ride up to the feld Theater, get your tickets, and return to your hotel, With traffic conditions what they are, your taxi bill will in all prob- ability be more than the extra fee a broker would charge you for your seats, and you are out con- siderable time, cussing and en- You take Wire—That reminds me, dear. mother to say we were coming? And it will be the same if you try to penetrate the street jams and are compelled to obey the present roundabout _ traffic regulations that will take your taxicab "w over to Eighth bur way to the Music In addition, you will ex- perience the discomfort of stand- ing in line at the box-office win- dow and the chance that the house is sold out and your trip will have been in vain. The brokers—all save two or three of the open-and- shut yeggmen—will get ergy Avenue on Box. choice locations for you, will save you a lot of time, annoyance and taxi money and will send your tickets around to you so that you will not have to rush your dinner and get to the theater ahead of time in order to claim them. If all that isn’t worth an extra dollar or so, I am a damned bad mathe- matician, Se Lady With Glasses—Our horse must be splendid, dear; they’ve made him give the others a start! —Passine Suow 22s A woman has married a man who returned a lost £10 note to her. And yet there is still a wide- spread belief that honesty is the best policy —Loxpon Opinion I call my sugar waffle, because she's so waffly cute. Judge pays $5 for cach one printed. hits Kang Did you send that wire to —Lonpon Opinion comicbooks.com