Judge — December 1, 1928 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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1840 °E1CHTY- EICHT-YEARS-OF-SERVICE- 1928 H The Aquitania... Not Only A Ship, But A Habit... | Cross once on the Aquitania, and you will i find trans-Atlantic commutation on her 1 becoming a habit. People who have | | crossed on her wait two weeks, three | weeks, just to live the six days of the v age in her lovely rooms .. . in the special atmosphere of extraordinary charm and extraordinary comfort that is hers. There | is something about her...a sort | maritime “It. i] Breakfast charmingly served in your room a workout in the gym un profes. 1 i in the pool } in sea water as green as Creme de Menthe, as translucent as diamonds... a pause in the Long Gallery before lunch... a present and a soufflé... a walk on the roat deck a game of contract. Dinner; caviar—of course... And in the evening dancing... in a garden set ) in glass on “A” Deck ... full of flowers: gayer than any" ht club... full drising-looking people, as, always, Aquitania loyalists seem to be. If you want to wr tranquillity and delight from the trip England or France, book your next pas- sage on the Aquitania. | | CUNARD | | LINE See Your Local Agent CUNARD WINTER CRUISES... WES MEDITERRANEAN INDIES, FEKLY TO HAVANA | A NEW CUNARD SERVICE...’ Judging the Shows (Continued from page 18) A sketch called “Where Ignor- ance Is Bliss” then revives the stale one about the modest bridal couple of 1890 and the flaming youth couple of 1928. “A Room With a View,” a gooey musical number, follows, the leading scenic feature of which consists in pulling up two window blinds and disclosing the vista of rose gardens and skyscrapers. After a song by Miss Lillie, entitled “I Can't. Think,” and relating a supposedly humorous encounter between an eager female and a drunk, we have the finale, “Teach Me to Dance Like G Standby of a hundred and one American college shows, in which the players dressed in old- ioned dt the ash- costumes perform a ma- zurka and polka. The applause of the audience here on the opening night was reserved for the team of Moss and been dancing in Fontana who have New York cab- arets for the last three years. The second section of the enter- nment gets under way with The Lido Beach,” in which the actors in bathing and sport attire indulge in some heavy lyrics; this ing followed by “The English Beach,” in which a lot of yokels are assembled at a snide British se resort, think they >a whale and are informed that it is only another Channel swim- mer. Miss Lillie _ thereupon enters in a red flannel bathing dress with lo ntalettes and sings a pale copy of her suce ful Charlot) Revue number, on this oe n called) “Britannia Rules the Waves.” Mr. Coward now comes on, after the curtains folded, and narrates the story of a ballet to follow in the serio-comic manner familiar to revue patrons for the last twenty ballet is then gone through, made up of all the awkward gestures and gro- tesque posturing featured in scores of similar burlesques, par- ticularly those of Jimmy Watts in the old “Greenwich Village Follie: The humor of Miss Lillie’s subsequent number — a song called “World Weary pends upon the use of a goddam. A burlesque of Barrie, Lonsdale and the French farce writers is next on tap. The first consists in a woman with a Scotch accent sentimentalizing a baby’s toes; the second in the stereotyped s- have years. The burlesque Lenz Solution to | Bridge Prob. 23, Series 2 | As it appeared in the November 3rd issue of Judge | It is No Trumps. Seath has the lead. hand South m win three of the the two Kings but must lose North wins ar n deve a Heart + a certain squeeze, mild be returned, East v and returning last Spade ning Heart lead has South in dis- e to original - similar _Diamond nd play the last the fifth trick, South ulties a Heart, East's Prize Winners, Prob. 22, Series 2 As it appeared in the Oct. 27th issue Ist P. St. John A. Lawton, Charleston, 5. C. 2nd Prize: M. B. Clark, San Bernardino, Calif. 3rd Prize: Albert V. Blum, New York, N.Y. Special Andrew G, Sutherland, | Prise: Flushing, N.Y comicbooks.com