Judge — August 29, 1931 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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All I Know Is What I See in the Movies A™'s invariably objects stren- uously to his wife going out and making a living for him while he stays at home and does the housework. It ix usually after a heated argument about women's rights when such an arrangement is agreed upon. A reporter who is a total abstainer, hardworking, has plenty of change in his trousers, and wears a well-blocked hat, is always a highly incompetent reporter. Business executives have elderly maids for confident! secretaries who are geniuses for detail work and can also engineer a deal to much better ad- vantage than their employers. The one reason that keeps them from taking over the firm altogether is their deep but seeret passion for the execut Men who have been deadly enemies all their lives s pick out a polar expedition vis ible or submarine to air their differences. Then, by sheer common need, they commit all kinds of sacrifices for each other and become staunch friends. Nothing like a nice trip to the South Pole, fraught with danger and suffering, to straight- en out things with a person whose company you heartily detest. “Cracky! Thet’s what I call shootin’ !!" Benito Mussolini never faces a camera directly because he is always unaware he is being photographed. A man who is honestly in love with a woman he feels his intellectual supe- rior will always refrain from declar- “Officer, can you direct me to Coney Island?” ing his affections, When a woman is smitten by a man above her culturally she w always make herself appear more stupid than she really is—if only to divert his at- tentions elsewhere. These are among the most poignant situations in the affairs of man. It can only be solved and brought to a happy con- clusion by the fellow going and winning the me of the season anded, or by the girl ay with her the il- te baby and going to night school. —Artiur Erennero Owestar peoples, says a writer, torture them selves for years upon end. “Yes, this Puss-in-Boots costume may look queer, but you see I can’t swim And here we have the instal well and they can always pull me out by the tail.” ment plan. 4 comicbooks.com