Judge — April 28, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Judge’s Fifty-Fifty Contest No. 5 Evetyx—IVhy doesn’t George believe in companionate marriage? GwendoLyN— ......--6-- UDGE will award a prize of $25 for the cleverest second line in the above conversation. Study the situation, the characters, and their expressions, and then write the fun- niest, snappiest line you can think of. In case two or more persons submit the same winning line, $25 will be awarded to each. Any reader of JUDGE may compete. Any number of lines may be submitted, but each one MUST be submitted on a POSTCARD, or a sheet of paper the size of a Postcard, OR IT WILL NOT BE CON- SIDERED. No answers will be returned. Contest No. 5 closes May 10, 1928. The winning answer will appear in the June 9th issue of Jupce. Check will be mailed to the winner on that date. In the meantime Fifty-Fifty Contest No. 6 will appear next week. Send your answers to the Fifty-Fifty Editor of Jupcr, 627 West 43rd St., New York City. Mark the number of the Contest on the front of your envelope. Moturn—Archibald, what is the meaning of this? I told you to do your piano practice. : Puvtocnat’s Son—Hang it all, mater, what does one keep servants for? —Passtne Siow Judging the Shows (Continued from page 18) of reviving plays that no more call for revival than Carrie Na- tion, and so add to the troubles of the box-office and the depres- sion of everybody in general. More than half of the p! re- vived during the present season offered no earthly reason for re- vival, and the staging and acting thed to them offered con- ly less. A revival pretty ally betokens a lazy or cow- ardly manager, a fellow either without enough enterprise to find a worthy new manuscript or one who is afraid to gamble on a play that has not previously been demonst values, have said, i s exception, It is an amusing affs But the re- vival that Mr. Wagner has given it is so beautifully incompetent that the poor play is now prob- ably killed for at least fifty years. All Dressed Up Sea Captain—Bit of a swell today, sir. Visitor—Nice of you to say so —but, then, you ought to see me on Sundays. —Leaton Wrexry Panto Stage Hand (to man- ager)—Shall I lower the curtain, guv-nor? One of the living statues has the hiccups. —Axswens “Doris thought she would marry her hero until she heard much he spent at the tailor’s. “Well?” “Then she decided to marry the tailor.” —Kanixateren, Osto Poet—What do you think of eret™ > 5 You ought to have it to yourself. —Passina Siow The rest of one’s days often depends on the rest of one’s nights. —Everysopy’s Wrekry Se 5 Erskine” “What's this? m Erskine yuh” EUWAND LANGER PRINTING CO., INC. JaMalCa, 3. T. comicbooks.com