Life — July 5, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Dreams and Gold Dust A Drama of Pugilism CENE: Office of Manager of fy Yh Boxers. Characters: Danny Johnston, a manager; several other managers. Time: Jounston (to the rest): Well, I dunno about how you guys feel about these promoters, but I’m agin’ lettin’ them cop off all th’ dough an’ we git nothin’, We got th’ attraction an’ if them guys can’t get us in there to box where do they come off? I figure you guys let them down too easy. Now you take my boy, Kid Falls. He's a card, that boy is, an’ I'm gon- na git every dime he’s worth when- He packs ’em in at ow. ever he starts, the box office, he does, an’ I ain't If lettin’ no promoter get away cheap when he wants him in there battlin’, | I'll tell th’ world. Murray gits me: th’ other day an’ he wants Kid Falls ; to go in there with Young Marmot. So I says to him, “All right,” I says, “only we want five thousand bucks for our end, an’ nota cent less.” That's th’ way to treat them promoter guys. I don't care if Murray is th’ biggest one uv th’ lot. Five thousand bucks or nothin’, I tells him, an’ that goes. (The telephone rings. He turns and speaks into the transmitter.) Yeh! This is Johnston! Oh, yeh, Mr. Murray. Who? Yeh! That's all right for th’ sixteenth. Great card that'll be—Kid Falls an’ Young Mar- mot. Well, I couldn’t let him go in under five hundred. No! Not less than that. All right, then. Four hundred will go. I won't fight over a few cents. Yeh! I'll be right down an’ sign a contract. You couldn't make it five? Oh, all right. Four hundred is on. (Hangs up receiver.) (Curran) James K. McGuinness. Jazz a la Thesaurus OSCHLLATE, librate, Vacillate, vibrate, Roll, toss, pitch and teeter, up and down. Agitate, spring, bob, Palpitate, swing, throb, Ebb, flow, come and go, from toe to crown. ROD SF: A New York blacksmith left $316,034. But wait till an auto repair- man dies! THE MOUTH ORGAN THE SOUL, TOO, MUST BE FED, Your Own Glorious Fourth (For Release, All Newspapers, July 5th.) HE annual celebration of our country’s independence was yes- terday celebrated in (name of town) in a manner befitting the dignity of the occasion. (Name of main street) Street was early: thronged with townsfolk and visitors bound for (name of town square), where at eleven o'clock the program was opened with a prayer by (name of leading Baptist minister). Mayor (name of mayor) in a few well-chosen words then introduced the Hon. (name of a Icading mer- chant), who delighted his hearers with a spirited reading of the Decla- ration of Independence. The exercises closed with a benediction by (name of leading Presbyterian minister). In the afternoon there was a con- cert by the (name of leading local barber) Italian Band, and the day was brought to a fitting termination with a display of fireworks in the evening. A good time was had by all, and there was unanimous approval of the successful campaign waged by the city fathers against the use of fire- crackers and firearms by youthful celebrants. (Note to make-up man: Run list of those who didn’t know it was loaded, or who thought the fuse had gone out, on another page.) A. C. M. Azoy, Jr. FTER due thought, and consider- ing both sides of the question, we think it would be just as well if the Klansmen kept their masks on, comicbooks.com