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This page features a serialized humorous diary entry by "Mrs. Pep" describing her social outings in what appears to be the 1920s. She recounts visits to see the musical *Kid Boots* (starring Eddie Cantor), trips to Southampton, and dinner parties with the Winchell Smiths and Phil Ruxtons. The humor derives from her observations of society figures and their pretensions—particularly a character named T. Cowan whom she finds excessively comical, and her playful skepticism about a host's excessive compliments regarding her writing. The entry ends with a quip from Baird Leonard about manufacturing printer's ink, emphasizing literary life among the leisure class. The page is primarily dominated by period advertisements (Mothersill's seasickness remedy, cigars, hay fever devices, jewelry) and an article titled "How to Tell the Drama at Sight," which satirically categorizes stage plays by their settings—bedrooms mean farce, dining-rooms mean comedy, libraries mean melodrama.

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Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from, page 6) bur Sam leans to the stalled ox, mind- ing not the hatred therewith if the ce is to his taste....We did go after dinner to see Kid Boots again, and when Jobyna Howland told Eddie Cantor he necded ghasses, and Eddie answered, Yes, with beer in them, Sam laughed so heartily that he gave the perform- © some competition for a few moments, To Southampton by train to clugust r ans loth visit the Winchell Smiths. ‘ In the afternoon Winchell © us out in the motor which he sas a child Little red and we stopped to leave at the se of a friend some of the Whole loves. its at bread he bakes in Farmington, we returned and told wie, that we had gone to the wrong .To FE. « fine dinner at the Phil Ruxtons’, ! | could not believe the table deco- ns were real so I reached out and hed them, and they were. Found there a T. Cowan, full of more comickal tics than ever I saw in my life. Sam | Winchell did not like it that € { called him Tommy, so I answered t he was the kind of person who s not have a last name save for ‘I purposes, whereupon Gracie whis- ed, Men are different, but all hus 1 During the evening ng. when asthampton in the evening ids are alike, Ruxton spoke so pleasantly and trequently of my work, which I sus- jected he had not read at all, that I illy demanded the source of such in- turest. I always encourage all young ters, he quoth. I manufacture Baird Leonard. uter’s ink, DO NOT HESITATE TO TAKE THAT TRIP So ed a REMEDY PREVENTS or STOPS SEA, TRAIN and AIR SICKNESS Otherwise Money Refunded Leading Druggists throughout the World 75 cents and $1.50 per box MOTHERSILL REMEDY COMPANY, LIMITED London New York Montreal Paris FOR _g MEN OF BRAINS IGARS "MADE AT KEY WEST— HAY FEVER LOGIC Jurmeces | why net keep pollen out? ‘Tiny Nasal- Bibs Sas, Prem aS comvortable — MALALFILTER OO. Dept Lat Past, Mina, highest standard of quali unsurpassed in design_ DREICERs C° 560 fifth Avenue Newlfork How to Tell the Drama at Sight THe modern drama has been thought- fully divided into rooms, so that as soon as the curtain rises you can tell what you're in for. Thus, if the scene that opens up is a tedroom, and you don't like to blush in public, leave at once. You are in for a farce. A dining-room is inevitably a little comedy of “real life,” most of real life evidently taking place at meal times. A drawing-room is always the seat of high comedy ; comedy sparkling with rare wit (very rare, usually). Murders are inevitably committed in libraries, so when you see bookcases whose doors won't open, know that you're going to get a melodrama. If the scene doesn't resemble any room in particular, but merely looks as if the architect had been drunk—that's an expressionistic play. HE Feminine Number, out next week, will give all women and many of the weaker sex a chance to laugh for, at and with themselves. BIASTOPE SH Pocket Binocular brings distant objects near on land, on sea or in the air. For motoring, nature study, every out- use. }3 and $7 at dealers. By mail add asc. Money- antec. pane ‘Circulars free. WOLLENSAK OPTICAL COMPANY Rocheste: it, N. Yo KOBLER AIR AND WATER PEARL PIPE $9.50. All smokers may ask for free literature. Kebter & Co, tec, $94 26th St, Gettenbery, West New York, I. J. comicbooks.com