Life — March 31, 1927 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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EY -b) Montague Glass N article headed “Good Shoot- ing” in one of the Continental English newspapers refers not to Mr. Mussolini, the well-known pistol target, but to elephants and rhinoceri in Central Africa. In it, the writer deplores the use of the breech-loading rifle and positively abhors the large-calibre elephant gun. He says that he only uses the former so as to be conventionally armed for the big game, much as he would doubtless pursue a prima bal- lerina in a dress coat, patent-leather pumps and an opera ha Further than this, he says he would prefer to shoot elephants with a m -loader, because if he misses the elephant, then the elephant has an opportunity while his hunter is reloading the muz- zle-loader to charge his annoyer, which, of course, makes elephant hunting a highly sporting pastime. The writer then discusses amending the game laws of British Central Africa and, in effect, creates an open season for clephant hunters instead of for elephants. Here's wishing the elephants the best of luck, with a bag of at least one elephant hunter per elephant, and if a few lion and t hunters can be included, they will never be missed from the pages of popular magazines and brown illus- trated Sunday supplements. se f our most advertised ac- ons in the way of foreign noblemen is determined to show the world that he can work for a living, if necessary, and he he will do anything, including even pl tennis at Cannes, the tennis of the world. In one of Stevenson's storics, a young man tells Prince Florizel of Bohemia, during the Prince’s tenancy of a tobacco shop in London, that he has made up his mind to go to work, and when the Prince asks him what he can do, the young man says he plays a good hand at whist. “Look around you,” says the Prince, pointing to the crowds on the London strects, and gocs on to ex- plain that every third person then in sight plays a good hand at whist. Had the Prince been in Cannes and the young man had said that he played a good game of tennis, the Prince might have looked around him and selected any two out of three persons as good tennis players, so that a young man, noble or other- wise, who expects to earn a living playing tennis in Cannes is running into as much competition as if he proposed to operate a second-hand clothing store on Baxter Street. If, however, tennis is a living in Cannes, in America it is hardly a game. It has, in fact, become a rite. man One acquires merit by playing ten- nis. It symbolizes a certain social position, for tennis demands a large leisure and a good-sized plot of real estate in a country where both leisure and real estate are expensive. Thus tennis becomes what Professor Veb- len would call conspicuous honorific waste. Pool and billiards are not, They occupy the © relation to tennis as shooting craps does to bac- carat, and yet baccarat has a strong resemblance to craps. The banker (Please turn to page 31) GOING ON A FooUs EQRAnd THE MATCH-TO-THE =CAS= TANK VAQIETY “Two CAN LIVE AS CHEADLY 45 ONE? S TwE INNOCENT wa Says FOR seat wean “THERE'S MO FOOL Liké AN OLD FOOL” \ tr PROVING IT THE ONE WHO DIDNT KNOW 17 WAS LOADED Fools’ Paradise comicbooks.com