Life — February 24, 1927 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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

JERRY'S HIM FOUR MOTIIERS, AND THEY ALL Apore mim!" “ve MAD MOTHER-IN-LAW TROUBLES PLUS. PATHER HAS GIVES Those Allied Building Trades (The scene is the framework of a new skyscraper. A Riveter and his Boss are having an argument on a girder at what will be the sizty-second floor of the completed building.) : Say! Wot's the big idea leavin’ out Riveter (emphasizing the point with tobacco juice, as in “The Big Parade”): Dat’s to make it easy for de wreckers when dey tear it down. Boss (grudging- ly): Good idea. Huh? Danny, what are you do- ing, learning something? Danny: No,ma’am. I was just lis- HOW TO BE A PAINLESS DENTIST tenin’ to you. February A great sheaf of bills by the first post, very depressing, nor did I open them to find out Ast the exact sums for which I am beholden through fear of becoming so cast down that I could not arise and go about the day’s business, so, dreaming of an invulnerable solvency, I did ask Sam what would be the first thing he would do if he suddenly came into a million, and he responded with no hesitancy soever, “Buy this apartment building and put out the old zany who lives below us,” nor could I think of a more satisfactory thing for him to do, neither, for Lord! the wretch down- stairs complains if our servants do but walk across the floors in our absence and blames us for various noises due to the construction of the building, and if I did not know that he was in the insurance business, I should take him for the run- ner-up in marking the sparrows’ fall. Florence Kimball to luncheon with me, and we made a fine weal off turtle soup, creamed oy sters, cold ham and sale and orang served in grenadine, which God knows I should not have eaten, and Florence did tell about mak- ing a record of Grieg’s “Ei Traum” at the tor factory in Cam- den and “That was certainly rotten!” at the con- clusion of her fourth js trial so that her ver- Pretty Slick dict also reached WHAT ARE THEM THERE the wax and she Pt DURS DOING ON THET SCARE- must needs go . crow 0’ yours, 111? through the whole //iram: tuet’s THE GovERNMENT'S nerve-racking busi- NeW IDEA 0’ YARM RELIEF! nessagain. In speaking of how well Edith Piper had sung the piece from “Herodiade” at her concert last night, I did vouch- safe that in spite of my appreciation of the technical finesse which goes into the proper rendering of a song in a foreign tongue, I am nevertheless glad when a pro- gram reaches the cheap-and-easy group in English, and it is because our own writers get such a kick out of the coming of day or of Spring or of their love that they do seldom write about anything else, thereby giving a soprano a splendid chance to emit a tremendous final whoop, which, if well done, never fails to thrill me. February Very Toth to leave my bed, a most un- ond wonted pain in my stomach awakening the ue suspicion that perhaps I am beginning to break and can no longer stand (Continued on page 30) comicbooks.com