Judge — January 3, 1931 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Song of Songs ue sculptured heads of Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner and Mozart scemed to gaze down approvingly from the tall book cases as the young composer toiled patiently at his grand piano. Mighty, majestic chords flooded the studio, chords that scemed to please the plaster masters of other d The young maestro at his instrument had a dazed, far- away expression in his ey thoven wandering through the forests must have looked like that when he captured his a most clfin fragments of song. Mozart and Tschaikowsky and Wagner and Bach must have looked like that when they enrichened the world with their deathless melodies. But now the time had come when the young composer was baffled. He had arrived at the point in every er effort that cither demands the fire of inspiration or p plodding toil. Chord after chord he sounded, hoping to | find the right theme, the elusive motif that would conclude his masterpiece. The great musicians gazed at him sympathetically, for they, too, had known troubled moments when genius had been absent, when inspiration had not come. Soon the = afternoon sun slid below the horizon and gentle dusk “Yes, ma'am, I used to get pretty tired of water, trickled into the huge studio. And then suddenly the com- eeinow P wceer towck ail poser’s aimlessly wandering hands struck a mighty chord of magic music—the right chord, the final cherd The young man dashed from his piano and hastened to the hall to shout the great tidings to his wife. “T've got it, darling!" he called. “I've got it—my great radio theme song for the Steinberg Soap Suds Syncopa tors.” —Hven Woon And Dangerous To ride in a rumble Seat now is absurd, Unless you are dressed Like Admiral Byrd. The girl who said she was going to study domestic science. West Pointer, Please Copy In the next Navy conference the admirals ought to insist on more ade- quate off-tackle defense. The new Chinese national legisla- tive body has passed 6,000 new laws in two years. Well, they may have Congress beat for quantity produc- tion, but we'll bet our laws are sillier. And the present Congress ought to appropriate about two dollars to pur- 2 chase an alarm clock for the Wicker- sham Committee. “It back-fired.” 2 comicbooks.com