Life — February 10, 1927 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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WII0'S BEEN MAKING A CONCERTINA OF MY NEW IAT? 2 YOU, DEAR, The Cauld Blast Tue winter season's here, I know; But not because of sleet or snow Or trees with mournful barren branches Oppressed by glacial avalanches; ‘The testimony’s clear, I think, By just observing Orange Drink. It's ‘sold indoors instead of out Which proves the point without a doubt. —"Marne,” in New York World. Add Embarrassing Moments Ma. J. M. Kernioay, the actor, reports that a friend of his given up drink- ing Because of its embarrassing conse- quences—he was always apologizing the next day for things he had meant to say. —New Yorker. “Px a power in dis community. T kin ywheres on my fac nda looks like you been doi —Hareard Lampoon. Tue street car lost in Ch turn up as a tank in the bandit army, —Indianapolis News. “quick! on, quick! pisanmament!” —Le Rire (Paris). YOU CAME MOME PLAYING IT Last NiGItT, —London Opinion. Attention, Nomenclaturists! Frox the Lang (W. Va.) Recorder— “John Fracus was arrested on Tuesday on a charge of disorderly conduct.” —Buffalo Express. Howse ANsiOD. —Passing Show (London). Having the Law on 'Em “Two Poucestex Meio Ur."—Headline, “Wirt do vou think we'd better do?” asked the first. policeman after those bandits had robbed them of their shields, guns and ready cash. His companion — hesi- tated. ‘Then came his de- cision in’ a hard, cold voice: “I othink we'd better notify the poli Sux is the kind of woman, we said in our intolerant way, who really must be going now but doesn't. —Ohio State Journal. Svocestep penalty for these radio pirates: make them walk the aerial. —Punch, The Fundamentalist Ox a morning daily there is a film critic of immense authority, whose im- patient pronouncements on pictures stir the producers to homicide. There was a time, however, when provincialisin, ed a pro. rather than authority, affe ducer the same way. Fresh from the Middle Westem steppes and weighted with a deep Puri- tanism, the youth arrived in New York and landed in the paper's drama depart- ment. One of his early assignments was “Liliom,” by the then unknown Molnar, Next morning glowing notices appeared in all the dailies save that employing the pious newcomer. He wrote substantially as follows: ‘ot content with blaspheming sacred earthly customs, the author has the ap- palling ill taste to caricature Heaven— a caricature, it need hardly be added, both shocking and inaccural New York Graphic. Exit Nonchalantly A cone student arose from his table in a fashionable dining-room and walked toward the door. He was passing the house detective at the entrance when a silver sugar-bow! dropped from his bulging coat. The guest glanced calmly at the officer, then turned with an expression of polite annoyance toward the occupants of the room. Ruffians !" he said. “Who threw that?"—Stanford Chaparral. A Startled Kansan “Turse youths startle me,” said an Atchison man, “The other day I over- heard a young boy tell my daughter, : week old to-day, becaus didn’t begin to live until T met —Kansas City Sta HARD LAHOR FOR “cos! aT LEAST, YOUR HONOR, WILL YOU ALLOW ME TO SIT DOWN YOR FIVE MINUTES BEFORE STARTING MY SENTENCE?” —Le Petit Bleu (Paris). comicbooks.com n