Judge — March 1935 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Judge EB. 8 R ned = Timbuktu this morning by airplane. Caught lim- ited to Tanganyika. Service rotten. Had to take upper berth. Feb. 9. Train three minutes late and no redeaps at station. Rooms with baths at Ritz-Ben-Ali, all taken, Got suite with shower at Soudan-Astoria. Near elevator but best I could do. Feb. 10. Arranged for safari and gov- ernment permission to cross desert. En- gaged three trucks and runabout for personal use. Also hired eighty-five porters, three interpreters, a doctor, four electricians, a general manager and a radio announcer. My boy, Alfalfa, will act as my chauffeur and can inake a fourth at bridge. Feb. 11. Expedition got away after light breakfast. Made fifty miles before losing trail. Traffic cop advised that we keep on macadam road until we reached golf course and then detour until we came to third filling station on right. Followed his directions and were cap- tured by Arabs, darn it! Things look bad. Feb. 12. Arab chief polite but belliger- ent-looking. Thought I recognized him and it was T. Appleton Crosby, of Los Angeles, who was making a picture to be called “The Sheik of Southampton.” “Yes, the canary is gone—it sang the day Henry was making out his income tax.” From the Notebook of a Modern Explorer By Warry Grant Dart Good enough joke but we were delayed twenty minutes and I'll bet they'll be out of ice at the next water hole. Feb. 13. Just as I expected. Water hole full of bathing beauties and out- “Miss Abyssiana board motor race on took pity on us and invited us to her penthouse. Too much sugar in the mint juleps but the cocktails weren't bad. Feb. 14. Off at sunrise and came upon some ruir Halted to ex- plore them and found bass drum and two saxophones ives told us it was remains of roadhoufe that had failed in We passed on. a former season. Feb. 15. Heat terrific. Fans out of order. Electrician found boa-constrictor fouled in generator. Fans now working but boa is not. Feb, 16. Again captured by Bedouins —real ones this time and they look dangerous and severe. Allowed chief to beat me at ba mmon and gave him new set of tubes for his radio. Once more on our way. Feb, 17, Reached foot hills and ran into herd of elephants. Found they be- longed to a circus playing at an oasis near-by. Saw some chimpanzees but most of them wore shoes and carried tennis rackets and we didn’t bother to photograph them. Feb. 18. We are now goal, the cannibal count Rhinoceros wandered into camp at 5:30 P.M. Feb, 19. Rhinoceros won't go aw Presented our credentials to cannibal king and lost eight rubbers at bridge with his sixty-fourth wife as my part- ner. Still playing the Vanderbilt con- vention out here. Feb. 20. Rhinoceros still with us. Dined at palace tonight but royal fam- (Page 29, please) aring our comicbooks.com