Judge — June 1938 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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ation in what we had always thought were fairly stable retail prices. We know it only by report; somehow tickers have lost their old glamor for us. But we can picture the scene as the pale soulless tape slides by: “. . . 22-inch frying pans formerly 89c.now 79c . . . rubber garden hose down 2c to 17c foot . etaoin shrdlu . . . aspirin up 1c dozen mezzanine floor... buy for cash ...a bargain . . . bicarb soda was 29¢ now 26c Ib... . We can see frantic arms shooting sky- ward, hoarse voices crying, “Buy 200 aspirin at 27. Sell 40 frying pans at 74.” Wizened old men, shoe clerks, barbers —the old tipsters there again—here the mad gleam of optimism burning—there a haggard man muttering “My Gawd! Wiped out!" Junior Contends That you will enjoy yourself at: The Terrace Room in the Hotel New Yorker, seeing old-time movies where the villain never gets his man for keeps. Peering into the trick focus mirrors at the Croydon Bar on 86th Street. Listening to Xavier Cugat directing both an American and a rhumba-tango : orchestra on the recently-opened Star- “ANY OLD TOMAHAWKS—PEACE PIPES?” light Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria for dinner dancing, while Mischa Bort thing . ... Has been in Canada, Mexico and Cuba, but that isn’t enough . . . Her suppressed desire is to travel all over the world and peer around at stuff and things.” “Her favourite color is blue, but if you want her to like you, send her or- chids .. . Has no favorite foods particu- larly, but she can cook and often does .... Turns up her dainty nose at prize fights. But she is a real athlete indoors when she unfolds the bridge table and starts to shuffle cards. Collects first edi- tions of her favorite modern authors. Also enjoys the books of Voltaire, Donn Byrne, Heinrick, Van Loon, Stephen Zweig, and all of Shakespeare's plays.” Over the Counter R. H. Macy & Company, not content with impressing on our citizens the im- portance of thrift, has decided to make them all comparison shoppers. Aping the Trans-Lux theatres, they have in- stalled a ticker tape, projected on a screen, There the bargain-hunting cus- tomer can follow every slightest fluctu- “RUN OUTSIDE AND PLAY, ROVER—IT'S DAYLIGHT NOW!” 12 The Judge comicbooks.com