Judge — October 1935 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Pity the Poor Reporter 66@O YOU'RE a reporter, huh? Say, I could give you the real lowdown on a lot of these crooked poli- ans—.” “Be careful what you say, girls. Joe, here, is a re- porter.” “Maybe you could write up something on the funniest thing you ever heard. Listen, my four-year-old young- ster said this morning .. .” HOT _Disues “Oh, are you a real, honest-to-goodness reporter? I'm so thrilled! I've always wanted to meet a real reporter. Tell me, do you ever fight with the managing editor and cceees ” “Hold up a minute, everybody. I want you all to meet our local Brisbane... ." “Hey, somebody steer Joe away from that punch bowl. You know how these reporters drink...” “Well, well, if it isn’t Richard Harding Davis in the flesh! What's the news-hound doing this morning, chas- ing patrol wagons?” gons? “Now, whatever you do, don’t start out by telling me some day you're going to write the great) American novel.” 1 “Of course, I don't believe all this movie stuff about | . newspaper men, but do you ever have any battles with 7 gangsters? I mean, do the underworld leaders ever send | : “Guess we’re going to have company.” thugs out to get you, or anything 7” - | “Oh, boy, when the wife finds out it's a newspaper y reporter I'm bringing home for supper! Just watch her % Par ace ell her—.” | with some guts to it.” He cradled face; when’ T tell her an ima » Tommy gun and sud- denly pointed it at his mother. “Tat- , a-tat-tat-a : “Harvey, please,” said Mrs. Cole, I shrinki . “That's enough of that,” said Mr. " Cole. “Get your hats. We're going to see one whale of a picture. Frank Buck, the Man Who Brings "Em Back | . Alive. A “We want to see George Raft,” t growled Lewis. s “Yeah,” said Harvey, swinging the Tommy gun at Hilda. t-a-tat-tat. He brings ‘em back dead—stiff like a herring.” Mrs. Cole cast a “Now, you see?” nce at Mr. Cole. He said, “Come on, both of you. And if I hear of you tying up any more little girls there'll be s is no more movies at all. Understand?” “We gave her the snatch, that I dame,” said Lewis, with relish. “Put the ole finger on her.” nodded Harvey. “Tat-a-tat-tat. Tat-tat.” Mrs. Cole closed her eyes and mo- tioned them to leave. expedition returned, she asked Mr. Cole how things had gone. s 1ge 28, please) “Believe it or not, dear, I fell off the water wagon!” 21 comicbooks.com