Life — September 9, 1926 — page 8: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Life SUST BETWEEN US GIRLE sses are perfectly AWFUL people, my dear—DRUG fiends and all that sort of thing—but ACTUALLY, my ded I think the THEATRE. is perfectly Y I mean I PLY do! Because I mean I MET this ‘Eman the other day, my dear, who's } ‘y LOVER or something in one of tho: MODERN things about se .CTLY all right because they're so ARTISTIC, sort of, you know. I forget what’ the name of it is but Re’s SIMPLY darling, my dear—I mean IT honestly think he's the MOS , I've ever met, because ‘s ACTUALLY even if he is a man, Im and he says the CLI EST things—he HONE yv dear, because T mean he’s FRIGHTFULLY cultured and knows about BOOKS and ART galleries and everything. 1 mean I'd simply ADORE to be like that, sort of, and I REALLY think so FEW men _ you know CAN talk about that I sort of thing and still be kind of ROMANTIC and sort of LOOK at you as if you were INSPIRING them. AND, my dear, he said I ACTU- ALLY was INSPIRING— isn’t that perfectly SCREAM- ING, my dear? Of course he’s. FRIGHTFULLY un- on the STAGE, we were simply MILES from nowhere in his car and he was a PERFECT gentleman be- cause he said he RE- And LLY, my dear, I al- most wish he HADN'T!” Lloyd Mayer. Justice Done UDGE Priso} Jecupation ? rr: IT compose ongs, Your Honor. ars in the DEMPSEY HAS AG Telegraph Editor: an A. P. p TO Fi THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY City Editor: pores 17 say WHAT CENTURY? Movie Glossary PPOINTMENT—Arrangement with studio execu- tive whereby you wait from three hours to six weeks in his outer office. Artist—Resident of Hollywood perfectly accustomed to insufficient food. Blah—Principal ingredient of most motion-picture storics. Bor O ffice—Deity worshiped by natives of a barbaric village in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Cousin—Remotest degree of blood kinship to a motion- picture producer entitling you to hold down an casy and remunerative studio job. Dub—A person who hopes to achieve success in the motion-picture industry through merit and hard work. Elegant—Production containing a bathtub sunk below the level of the floor. Flop—Picture d the fossilized “hero, Genius and rece! ng with human beings instead of “heavy” and “heroine.” ny person born outside of the United States salary of over a thousand dollars a we A Lucky Strike “T WAS out past the reduction plant. this afternoon, Hoi remarked Ashbel P. Simpson, the well- known realtor, to his son, “I pened to notice some workmen about to begin to strip an old Ford and with you in mind I stopped to look at it. As near as the workmen could tell it was a 1919 model, and one of them said it might be a 1917. I got them to hold it out of the » pile for twenty-four hours and paid them a dollar on it. 1 think from what [ saw of it it is entirely suit- able for college, a car you need not be ashamed of. So if you want to change your mind and go for one semester to please me, I'll go and pay the other three dollars and you can get the car in time to get to college for the open- ing. “If the machine shouldn't be quite dilapidated cnough to give you standing on the campus you can put the fin- ishing touches on it while you're driving through.” McCready Huston. An Owner Now “ FTER all, autoists really have cause to complain about the behavior of pedes- trians.” “What kind of a car did you get?” HE man who holds that progress always means im- provement could never have observed the transition of a college student from fresh- man to sophomore. DISPATCH SAYS THAT T WILLS—IT'LL BE comicbooks.com