Judge — June 1, 1929 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Love comes to the fishmonger.—Sowxpaasnisse-Strix Judging the Shows (Continued from page 18) fun, In point of fact, on no less than two occasions I have ob- served in the audience gentlemen who bore an unmistakable resem blance to a couple of our most conspicuous and indefatigable dirt-snoopers, and they both seemed to be enjoying themselves hugely—particularly on an old boy of ut fifty-e who pleasured himself by tickling the leg of one of the girls on the runway with a long lemonade After all, the professional moralist who wouldn't dare to dis play himself having a hot time at a gay show uptown can safely and straw, No, dearie, my ‘usband ain't gettin’ on at all with ’is violin, The pawnbroker up the road et ’im go there to prac- —Hemorist secretly let go in this hideaway house and, what's more, he is ap- parently doing it. The burlesque shows them- selves, as T have said, are very poor; burlesque, it s« has gone to the de But, by way of giv- ing the customers a run for their money, the entrepreneurs make up for the shows’ deficiencies with eracks and wheezes so low that you sometimes have to lie down on the floor to see the point. I myself an of eight wars— including one in France—and a fellow who can no longer be brought to blush save plaster simultar a mustard nd a hot-water bottle be usly applied to his cheek—I myself have heard such jocosities at the Irving Place as made me glow like an embarrassed oven, The burlesque folk, however, do not strike me as being honest about their dirt. They seem to be employing it desperately, as if with it to stave off starvation. It is not free and artless, easy and amusing, as it was in the old days; it is strained, mechanical and forced. ven sailors gag at it, as they might ga glass of good old beer with a dead fly in it. Madeline—I know he was talk- ing to you about me. Now, wasn’t he? Dorothy—Well, yes. Madeline—I thought I heard him remark that I had a thick head of hair. Dorothy—Partly correct. He didn’t mention your hair, how- ever. SATIL PRY) | OVER THES GREAT LAIK EE: es between Buflalo and C ed to assist you in pla nin the Great Lakes cot operating kiets containing pictures and de sof many del 1 summer Mackinac The Stout-D. & ats on reeular sched rot, Cleveland and Buffalo during the R-DAY ALL-EXPENSE Detroit, Mich. to Chicaeo, Il, via Ma Island and St . bridge, tea at Making TROIT AND CLEVELAND, over. night service, $3.00.0ne Way: B00 SAL xcept Sundays, ‘One Way DETROIT AND B June 25 to Sept dren Be He McCracken, GP. kane Wayne St., Detroit, Mich DETROIT & CLEVELAND NAVIGATION CO. comicbooks.com