Life — December 30, 1926 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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27 Old English A ceNtiemax connected with the Rockefeller Institute discloses that, among hundreds of letters of denuncia- tion received by the institution during the past year, one was from a man in Arkansas who took the view that all this modern education is dangerous and that the new-fangled practice of grounding preachers in Latin and Greek is espe- cially pernicious. They ought to be taught English, and only English, he said, adding in conclusion: “If English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.”—New Yorker. Both Learned Something ‘Tur ex-pants presser who had clicked in the movie production game wanted his ten-year-old boy to shed his dialect, so he communicated with a school that guaranteed curing people of Milt Grossese. The school responded: “Send us your child, but you must pledge that none of his relatives or companions see him for six months.” To which the movie magnate agreed. When the term was up, he called for his child. i “Nu, Meester Profasser!” he beamed. ‘al me somtink. Howz mine leetle fal- low gattink hon?” i “Splandeced !” replied the teacher, “Hizz doong dendy!"—New York Graphic. In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT EAS Glass of Soda with tablespoonful Abbott's Bitters a good tonle and palatable. “Sample Bitters by mail, SSets. in stamps, C, W. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. Hopeless Two gentlemen assigned to report on Dubious Economy the movie chances of a Little Theatre Manxs: Do you take many magazines No Co-operation production were seen quitting the show at your house? in disgust. ‘Three, at a club rate. We get “I never saw anything so terrible,” t I don't want, one my wife declared one. “Why, it ain't even art!” ant and one neither of us wants, -New York Morning Telegraph. 50—Boston Transcript. “1 BESEECIE YOU, MADAM, DO MAKE AN EFFORT TO LOOK some- thing Luxe wiat 1 ax poe!” —L’Intransigeant. all for “I cannot marry you. Shall I re- A counesrosveNt writes to a contem- turn your letters? porary asking which is the better, the | “Deaw Ince has even a gloomy iden “No, I shall have to get up some bet- gramophone or the wireless. The an- of God,” says Lady Astor. Well, didn't ter forms.” swer is in the negative.—Punch, God make him?—Dallas News. —Louisville Courier-Journal. don Office, Rolls House, stributor, The American Montreal, Canada. Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United State: Great Britain, Canada and British sessions. Title registered in U. Patent, Office. $5.00 a year in adva: Additional postage to for The foreign trade supplied from Live’s Lon Breams_ Buildings, London, C. Canadian News Company, Ltd., 386-388 St. James Street, jes in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents. Back No contributtens will be returned ualets ace d by stamped end bers cannot be supplied. addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself ble for the loss or The text and illustrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights "omreturn of unsolicited contributions. z, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Notice of change of address should reach this office two weeks prior to the date of issue to be affected. reat Britain opp! , London, E. C. The Plaza Building, Showing the Pause Beacn Store MA New YoRK Mavisom Avenue con. comicbooks.com