Life — April 21, 1927 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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Life = One on the House “Canary” Murdered “pote Bae Masical Comedy Star, Night-Club Favorite, Found Strangled in Her Apartment — Link It to Underworld War new kind of Detective Story in four instalments The startling murder of “‘The Ca- nary” was a sensation even in thrill- ridden night life of New York. All or- dinary methods failed to disclose a clue. Read this New Kind of Detective Story in four big instalments, beginning in the May Scripyer’s Magazine. The solver of the mystery and his methods will mean to this age what Sherlock Holmes meant to his. Philo Vance has already joined the ranks of great fiction detectives by “The Bensoi Murder Case.” = Now in Scnupsen’s Magazine read the compl baie plete new : we he ‘Canary’ Murder Case,” tS yan Dine. ‘This story marks the be- sinning of a bigger Scripner’s Mac- ayer pages, more illustrations. _ Athrilling murder mystery story that is literature, filled with the glamour of Broadway and the lure of a seemingly insolvable puzzle. It will begin in tte May Scripner’s and continue in three subsequent numbers. The magazine has been increased in size in order to give you this additional feature. Als in the May Scrryrr’s Macaziw: M in the Day's Ridin’ vill ‘A Hero for Russia,” by W. C. White Many other features and va begins in May No local news journal is mentioned more than a certain evening tabloid. On Mimost every vaudeville program some act comments on the pink picture paper, but the most amusing nifty of them all is employed by a big-time sketch. The scene is a boudoir set and the hus- band shoots his wife. Before the echo of the shot dies away there is a knock on the door. “Who's there?” growls the husband, “A reporter from the Graphic!” is the reply. “You're too late!” thunders the killer. “The murder’s been committed !” —New York Graphic. After the Party Lrg Jioy had just returned from his first birthday party. “Jimmy,” his mother asked, “did you have a good time, and did you dance with the girls?” “No, Mother, I didn’t dance once, and there were lots of empty girls, too.” —Chicago Tribune. Noisy Sovr-Ismimer (in restaurant, as neighbor (urns around): Whatcher look- in’ at? Tue Orure: Sorry—thought you'd fallen in.—Sketch (London), Scribner’s Get your Scribner’s for May at the nearest news-stand A Law Without Teeth ct Frequentry in restaurants and other that T see about me? ally being ignored, we are reminded of an incident related by @ friend of ours. While wintering in Spain he lunched at the monastery of the Benedictines. After | lunch he took out his cigar case. Vocational here?” he said to the white-robed monk | bas 90 nen _ | the cigar and cigarette stubs come from “From gentlemen who didn’t ask about ’ i le is continu- places where a certain Tree continu- | 6 jaw,” the monk replied, mildly. —Boston Transcript. Frost an “Answers to Correspondents”: wen, Mormer.’—Could any of your readers Hie is able to re- “I don't supp’ da object to smoking | advise me of a career for a youth aged 18 who attendant. “Yes, sir, we do,” was the prompt | even to the most insignificant detail.” in the refectory.” “Then where,” said our friend, “do all reply. “There’s a law against smoking Provincial Paper. | He should write Memoirs, of pia —Punch. call happenings which have occurred years ARO» | Gnd to describe them with perfect accuracy, comicbooks.com