Judge — October 1934 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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HIGH HAT (Continued from page 11) Id by the G Sth Street, the Me Runyon’s “Blue Plate Spee Far from the Best Be rt Hoover's k of the Month “The Challenge of (Printed partially int ad it has nothing gazine competition.) Swell New Portable—The Remington Noiseless. Liberty.” urday Even Pe to do with It’s so quiet you can write “pin” on it and hear it drop. Dumbest Recent [nvention—The noiseless grasscutter. Takes all the joy out of lying abed Sunday morning hearing someone working. Dandy Advance in Rai Bar car on the N.Y.N.H. Banker’s 5:30 pip 'em Special. Time your empties by the wheel clix on the trax. Funniest Unprintable Parlor Story— The one about the girl who wanted to be weighed and why. Best for the Price Florist’s in New York—Bloomingdale’s. (You can al- s tell her they came from Stumpp, if you're stumpped for money.) Best Ties—Macy’s Spitalfields. Best Motor Car Radio—There is none, they all need improving. Best Accent & Lousiest Radio Jokes— George Givot. I’m all washed up on “funny” cafeteria nes. They erp me. Stupidest Radio Advertising — The glee chorus of answer stooges on that stale jokes coffee hour. Good Cheap Razor double edgers, improved. Good Gasoline Advertising — The Three Little Spearminty men and their roboty actions Most Luscious Blonde—That callipy- gean dame of the billboard who shows you what Wonder Bread has done for her in the best f Excellent Tweed Shop— The Irish Homespun Shop up at 780 Lexington Ave. Best Retort of the Month—Lady As- quith’s to Jean Harlow : “Life 8:40" at the Winter G on. Queerest Name fi Roadhouse— rhe Big Bad W ituée up on Cen- tral Park Avenue, near Bronxville. Blade—Macy’s Begins at Sign— EAT HER HOME. Armonk, N.Y., sp Good G: Conger’s DIE st Iget of the Month—Lewis & Way Ice Cream Freezer For your electric icebox. It churns as it freezes, b’cheeses! Goofy Swell Game — Macy’s Goofy Pingpong, played with a leaded ball and a set of screwy pingpong bats. bby Orkesters—Eddy Reisman’s ; d Himber, Du- chin’s; Loma; Ric asa Best Classical Whoozis—Leopold Sto- kowski playing Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance” No. 1, the one your gypsy an- cestors did the ezardas to. Best Steppers—Eddy Duchin’s “I Only Have Eyes For You” & “Try to See It My Way"; Duchin’s “Rolling In Love” & ames”; Bestor’s You for a Lovely Evening”; Cab Callo- “Moon Glow” & the warmish “Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz”; Peggy John- son's “Miss Otis Regrets”; Isham Jones’ “For All We Know” & It”; White- man's “Beach Boy” & “There's Nothing Else To Do In Ma-La-Ka-Mo-Ka-Lu"; & Himber’s “You're a Builder Upper.” All Victors. Answers to What Do You Know About N.Y. 1.In front of Grand Central Station. Sth Avenue & 110th St. 2. Pearl Street. 3. It’s over the bar of the Racquet & Tennis Club. Because members can't bring in guests who live within a radius of 50 miles of New York. Chrys hattan, hattan Rail 4. Empire State: William; Bank of M 5. Hudson & Ma 6. If the Yanks | red pei hung over the stadium, Win 7. 116th St. & Bway: it belo: Columbia U. instein, 1 & Manhattan Railway Co. all have parks in umed after them, —Jvner, Jr. Around the Shops With Babs S, I found the QUAINTEST op yesterday! It was in one of zaint little old-world alleys off rect and the quaintest old man in just the quaintest smock in the world charged me eight times what I would have paid in Mimbel’s basement. Jun- jor, take the knishes off the stove; Mam- ma is busy writing an article for the turks out in the tall celery. This week, as you know, girls, is the one hundred and twelfth anniversary of the birth of A. A. Milne, the good, gray poet, whose memory is ever green on account of his synopsis of “Thanatop- sis,” died in Harness, L. I. I went to Harness recently and I must say I was shocked at some of the events that took place there. The first event was a ten- (Page 24, please) 23 “Thank | New | THROUGH recent trying years there has been no letting down in the quality of Bell telephone service. On the contrary, im- provement has gone steadily on. On long distance and toll calls, the percentage of calls completed is now higher than ever before. The average time required for | making these connections has been reduced from 2.8 minutes in 1929 to 1.5 minutes. Since 1929, mistakes by operators have been reduced one-third and more than 99% of all telephone calls are now | . handled without error. Good times and bad have proved the wisdom of one policy one system and universal servi comicbooks.com