Judge — January 2, 1932 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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spades (mistaking his clubs for spades) and Mac protested, sa the bid was impossible. Frank de this hotly, saying it was in accordance with his system: the Mussolini Fore- ing System. The blond lady passed, and Oswald Jacoby ordered another steak. At this point Mac stopped the play and said, “TM give three to one on the Athaletics next vear winning the American League pennant.” “Taken,” said Oswald Jacoby and ordered another steak. ordered the policeman referee, wak- ing up. “Nine diamonds,” responded Mac, not giving me a chance to bid, and when Frank redoubled Mac got mad and went to another table on the other side of the room and sulked, A i gray fedora sat down in nd ordered “One Mar- ! as taken out by a man in a double-breasted suit. Mac sent a waiter over with his lead, the Ace of des. Frank tore it up and played his own Ace of Clubs, still thin it the Ace of Spades. I put down the Ten of Spades, which Frank picked up and cried “Rummy! At this point we all gave up. Mac went off with the blond to try out a d Oswald Jacoby or- ng RecapituLation (Figures at id of First Half of First Hand) Alibis on hand..........--4+ Alibis used..... Alibis left... Cost of blonc ‘ Steaks for Jacoby — 23 for Worcestershire asnratotorail Begins at home A WAITER FiNALY Wok THE PicliRes ITH A WOME Movie CAMERA — JUDGE Nineteen Thirty-One nd you and you may, as you 1932 and chuck tear 0} the old calendar, wash your hands ind say relievedly, “Well, that’s that.” Not Ju ~Jr To met took 365 days to ality, its share of sunshine and, as usual, America didn't get back the Davis Cup. In fact, looking back, I find 1931, tho a little black around the edges, a pretty exciting old year as years go, and ye psc. had person- ering these phenomena: ne night club as an_ institution of entertainment finally dwindled into a place where Heywood Broun and a few racketeers sat yawning. . . . Gin went to 90¢ per bot. ... The racketeer movie reached its peak and then was snutfed out... . The N.Y. U. football team fulfilled all my prophecies. .... Notre Dame showed its Achilles li had an overcoat winter s rained in October in Californ Bond salesmen found they had to go to work, and the word “live-wire” crept out of daily usage... . Tallulah Bankhead came home love than ever. ... There was a water shortage and everyone learned how to pro- nounce “Drought.” . . . Harold Ross, the editor of the New Yorker, used a around «++ Florida pn, and it A WATER OR AW WIS LEAD, “WHE Ace OF SPADES — kink remover on his hair... FL PLA. sometimes himself known ay “Whom the Magnificent,” continued to find fault with the way streets were swept ++» Eddie Cantor made a fortune out of the Depression by collecting « tattered jokes on the subject ing them for a dollar... . The Stock Brokers all went home to their wives. The New York World folded up just about three months before it would have become valuable. ... Mrs. Coolidge christened some- thing or other with a bo of distilled water. . . wine brick was inve but Edison died... . American Mayors distin- guished themselves in) Eu- rope... . Laval called and made intelligent speeches in French that nobody under stood. ... A Brooklyn mi torist bawled out a traffic cop and was forgiven... . Gloria Swanson and Connic Bennett tried it in, Walter Winche was) rue mored to be Walter Lip- schitz. . . . Jeff Machamer, on hearing of the birth of the Tunney baby, immedi- ately challenged it to a fight... . Free wheeling came to Scotland... . George Jean) Nathan was reported ged, but H. L. Mencken had cours tonaveL ARLEN wrote a 402 book and nobody read it... . A stunning satire on Hollywood was written. by two playwrights who had (Continued on page 28) comicbooks.com