Judge — October 3, 1931 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE O GEORGE J PANORAMA: - old Coal . Okla., Fort line Mal- Fire de- and contents of Ex- ecutive Offices, close to White House Washington, D, C At Amarillo, Tex., 5 persons killed when airplane piloted by Lieut. R. H. Gray crashed. At Paisley, Scotland, 72 children died in fire and panic in movie theatre and more than 100 others rushed to hospitals in grave condition Seat Pleasant, Md.. bomb disguised s Christmas present. killed Mrs. Naomi Bradley and wounded several others, two fatally. ... Disease like measles killed 40 children in refuge camp at Hammerstein, Germany... « Earthquakes killed hundreds on two islands in Aegean Sea.... Frozen body of Peter Trans, Danish deep sea diver, pulled from iey waters of On- trades River Falls, Onts 600 died of sr x in two wes state of Morelos, } Eeplod. ing gas in coal mine lardville, Utah, killed . «+ Collision between auto and train at Kenosha, Wis., killed 11... Boiler in water-pumping sta- tion at Havana, Cuba, blew up, de- stroyed building and killed 10 men. . + Floods in valley of River Tarn in Southern France destroyed 4,000 homes and killed over 500, property and crop loss $40,000,000. ... John (“Dingbat’”) Oberta 54th victim of gang warfare in Chicago. ... Hun- dreds suffered paralysis of legs in Tennessee and Oklahoma, attributed to alcohol poisoning. 104 persons killed in fire at Chinkai naval base in Southern Korea. ...Gen. Primo Ri- Spanish dictator, died of dia- . « Chinese bandits looted vil- lages in Kiangsu province, killing const. and magistrates and kid- naping school children for ransom. . District Attorney Clifton G. Price of Juneau County, Wis., assassinated. plosions in Town c Mine, near killed 59 men... Victoria of Furness - Bermuda sank after collision with Clyde lory liner Algonquin... . stroyed interior les 1, Negro, lynched at . for attacking white in Nashua, N. H., de- houses, 2 churches and > industrial plants, 1,500 made home less, property loss $4,000,- 25 killed in attack by Gandhi rebels on police at Sholapur, India. does lashed tern Minne- nd Western Wisconsin, 6 dead, 60 seriously injured, property dama, more than $1,000,000, . . . Typhoons D, « Cloudburst on Mexican-U. S, bor- der drowned 20 at Nogales... . Heat 30 deaths in British Isles... . Hurricane struck City of Santo Do- ming 000 killed, 6,000 in Steel dropped to 80... . E: pidemic of infantile paralysis killed hundreds in New York.... Mae West's “The Constant Sinner” opened at the Roy- ale Theatre. * 8 * Arter the first act of Mr. Owen Davis’ “Just To Remind You,” Mr. John Peter Toohey, press-agent of the approached me and spoke: “If you have any idea of le: ing now, don't! The last ten minutes of the play are the big thing of the evening! ‘They're important stuff and don’t by any means miss them!" Al- though the first act revealed nothing but some exceptionally stale and tedi- ous gangman melodrama and although, by the time the M. Toohey had finished his prayerful injunction, I was al- ready half way down Forty-fourth Street on my way home, the passion- ate sincerity of the fellow aroused my curiosity and brought me to pause in my flight. Returning to the show- house, I again deposited myself in my and sat through a second act even r than the first. I right!" ted the M. Toohey in the inter- mission, “but don't go. ‘These last ten minutes in the next act will eoPly repay you, I'm a-telling you!" cordingly, I lodged myself in my seat, sat through a third act even worse than the first two, and waited 16 Fire caused show, TIRE NACIHIAN for the final magnificent ten minutes of the M. Toohey’s enthusiasm. They eventually came ‘round. This is what they disclosed: The hero, who had fought against gangster rule, was shot to death by gunmen. As he lay dying in his fiancée’s arms, a judge outside the window delivered) a patriotic Fourth of July harangue. And as the curtain an American fi was raised outside — the » down, tirically window, I have commissioned a certain gun- man of my acquaintance, with an ad- vance honorarium of five dol shoot the M. Toohey at the convenient moment. “ # « Arr & Horktns’ initial production 44 of the season, “The Man on Stilts,” by Edwin and Albert Barker, had not been going on for more than twenty minutes before one of two pos- sible explanations seemed obvious to audience. Either Mr. Hopkins had been overexerting him- self at golf and had lost his mind, or he was indulging himself in a practi- cal joke. At the end of the first act, the odds on the two conjectures were even, But when the second act got under wv and the exhibit proceeded with a perfectly straight face and one didn’t find a torpedo explode when one sat down in one’s chair or confetti filled with tacks descend on one from the ceiling or Arthur himself standing in the back aisle giving the audience the razzberry, it became evident that excessive golf had got in its work and that the M. Hopkins had lost all sense of judgment as to play manuscripts. This “Man on Stilts” is not only the worst play that the hitherto often meritorious Hopkins had produced; it is so thorough] it is well nigh spoof the Ameri spurious magn side-fling at such idiots as flag-pole sitters, marathon dancers and the like, it never gets out of the bone (Continued on page comicbooks.com