Life — February 23, 1922 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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HIERE is a big difference between the salary of Will Hays and that of any leading movie star. But the biggest difference is that Will gets his. aL We don’t blame the movie people for claiming the Postmaster- Pussyfoot Johnson threatens to estab- lish prohibition in Germany within three years. Ein, zwei, drei! LL Man—take it from any woman—was intended to be a fur-bearing animal. The Lost Chord is the one that used to be tied about the necks of the U.S, Treasury money bags. aL A Bridgeport gentleman, tempera- | mentally upset, is alleged to have thrown the family cat at his General as their leader. It was a scene in some post of- good wife. Now we know what is meant by “making fice that gave them the idea for the slow-motion pictures. aL A kitchenette is no place like home. aL Half of the ground hogs who came out this year to see their shadows found a blind pig occupying their premises when they went back. JIL Direct Cables to Germany Will Be Laid Soon.—Head- line. Hans across the sea! aL Amateur Night is coming back in the burlesque houses. It offers good openings for movie stars out of a job. aL Divorces are making the Social Register an adding machine. Andy Volstead—the best friend the bootleggers ever had. -L No one as yet has predicted the price of ice for next summer, but when it comes Local Gossip D MACOMBER heerd tell’ how all these here boot- leggers wuz makin’ money hand over fist, so Ed fig- ured how he’d better be a bootlegger, comin’ spring an’ all, an’ he gut all ready to begin. no place to go fer his supplies. fellers down to the station, but they wouldn’t let on where he cud git nothin’, so he had “bout decided he’d hey to give up the idee and go to work, but the story gut round and all hands seen how’t wuz, so they turned to and hed him appointed Revenue Officer fer this deestrict. So he’s gittin’ along better now. But, he didn’t know He asked two or three the fur fly.” LL Lenine might stabilize Rus- sian currency by introducing the cigar coupon. LL A Philadelphia woman has asked for a divorce because her husband's excessive con- ceit made living with him impossible. But it probably ‘sn't the first vanity case that’s caused a man’s down- fai. -L Showing the far-reaching ef- fects of business depression, a scientist in New Hamp- shire has found a blue cater- pillar. aL A man was taken to the Jer- sey City hospital last night with a fractured skull. He said he had been at a wed- ding—New York World. Evidently he wasn’t the best man. aL You can deaicoholize somie of the people all of the time. and you can dealcoholize all of the people some of the time, but you can’t dealcoholize all J of the people all of the time. to paying—high or low—the ultimate consumer takes aL Where there’s so much smoke, there must be a ladies’ dressing-room. aL Astrologers predict an event in 1926 that will “shake the world.” Maybe some buyer is going to place an order. the cake. Some plays are born successful; others achieve success, and others have the police bust in upon them. A bill introduced in the Massachusetts legislature proposes to prohibit the sale of candy to children under thirteen years of age. Seeing whether taking candy from a child will be as easy as taking candy from a child, should prove an interesting legislative experiment. aL “Navy blue,” says a fashion note, “was a fashionable color for women’s cloth- ing over 2000 years ago.” It probably started with Mrs. Noah's traveling frock. aL “Prohibition,” says an editorial, “has undermined the democratic form of government.” Turning our nation, undoubtedly, into a Hippocracy. -L The difficulty in most households is not so much to establish a budget system as a Bridget system. LL Sigmund Freud is still hitting on all sex. comicbooks.com