Judge — October 5, 1929 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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\AIG IU Bath Towel, Good Bye! Hotel guests seem to have a all-consumi assion for steal- ing things that don’t belong to them, For instance, 1 know a very respectable old married couple, named Mrs. Langley, who checks into the MeAlpin Hotel whenever she comes to town, throws half a dozen bath towels into her satchel and checks right out. If her husband is along he tends to the blankets and sta- tionery. But the Me. Alpin is not the only hotel in New York t s bothered with lootin They tell me that the Astor has to replace the girls in their lobby on an average of once every 22 minutes, and, in the St. Regis the management is at its wit’s end over the daily loss of Major Gray's Chutney and pillow- cases. Plainclothesmen are stationed thro the dining-room and under the beds, yet chutney and pillow-slips disappear at an astonishing rate, 1 1 can under- weakness for ammed knives and spoons, but what anybody would do with a pocketful’ of chutney stumped. The Vanderbilt has recently been missing Western Union blanks and bell captains by the score. Apparently the guilty guest, whoever he is, thinks these items are his for the taki but Tet me say in be- half,of Mr. Marshall, the manager, that he wouldn't come into your home and steal a bell captain, It’s bad enough to wipe wet razor-blades and clean your shoes with them, but to deliberately stuff one into your bag is unforgivable. most fl t example of kleptomania that Mae and I have come oss is the stealing of butter balls from the Ritz-Carlton. Some pcople just can’t scem to resist souvenir hunting, so when a waiter places a nice butter ball, marked “R-C,” in (Continued on page 28) without a trace. guest's has me lo QUES BALLS GAR THE Riz comicbooks.com