Judge — December 14, 1929 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Movies (Continued from page 25) “When something comes along so different that it is likely to be bewil dering,” says the management, “it is only fair to the picture, and to the per- son looking at it, to speak a guiding word in advance... . ‘Arsenal’ is the picture of a soul trying to find its way to knowle and freedom along a lly pitfalled with human ndness. It fails and in, but it keeps on.” The pity of it! K yd Limerique A dear little fellow of Dorset, With innocent yearning to horse it, For seven days runn Oh, wasn't he cunning! Put ants in his grandmother's corset. —Creverann Prain Dearer Wasted Ammunition Our masters of satire are vigorous gents, They devastate folly and shatter pre- tense, And they should have succeeded, by all of the rules, In freeing the country of bumpkins and fools; Their shafts of derision should slay on the spot, But do they, dear Brutus? Apparently not. No satire was ever more clever and keen Than that which is launched at the cinema sereen, And players, producers, press agents and mobs Should, long before this, have been bumped from their jobs. They should have surrendered, or started to fly Hast heard of it, Socrates? Neither have I. Society dowagers, prize-fighting blokes, Have all been assailed by. satirical jokes; The lions that rule the political zoo And the barons of business are sati do you make of it, Watson? By me! —Sroppano Kixe in the Spokane Spokesmen [Pere Yeu CELIEME O17, On request Prof Collier will not furnish proof’ of anything. aN Nick Doornik, the armless bowler of Tenstrike, Utah; bowls withhis feet. Nopcleon Bonaparte was never the Emperor of France He was not born in Corsica. He never commanded. an army, and his name wassit apoleon Bonaparte. 10 wes he? CLOCK invented Hector Useless of G | ton, Pa. It runs backwards, and tells the time of day eight years ago. | | Tie Oofla bird, netive of the Cilly Islands, hatches from the eg¢, of fhe Iffle on Shrove- Tuesday, wearing, a sleeve garter ebout WIS neck, with which it hands itself. GS Doing his Christmas shopping early. comicbooks.com