Life — August 18, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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8 Life “TT 7 The Other End of Week's End A (With Love and Kisses to Dorothy Parker) | = [ THENK 111 ask Dorothy Parker to come down her: for the week-end. She'll h: it, but shell pretend to like it, It’s the place she once told me she loved Not in answer to a questi In answer to a question she'd say yes. Says she can't say no. Maybe it's her hostesses who can't say no. “Please, would you ask me to dinner some time? Please, would you ask me up some Sunday? Please, may [come some week-end = It’s the one place Pd love to go to.” Why don't her hostesses say no, just once? Dorothy isn’t exactly a yesser. She's an agreer, especially if it’s about some thing you don’t like. Hell with both liking the same thing. Old stuff. ‘The loathe in common, that’s her linc “Dean Donorny: All right, then. Come any tim from now on and stay as long as you like. Ten minutes or all summer. ; Love. Agnes.” That onght to make her feel I really want her to come. But suppose it should rain’ one one would be enough—day she was here. She'd PANTS GREEN talk about it in . New York all Engaged Ferdie Speaks winter, She'd say, “That st HY, Ella, you know that isn’t right. I remember : wor forced it perfectly. Don't you know it happened five in- stallments ago? Yes, sir. just five installments after I kissed your ring upon your finger, Laura told us that she and Al were six installments along on their new i furniture. Andy ow they are going to be divoreed with — Covldn’t getaway only ten more installments to meet. Well, as T said, for six weeks . ' they had their first quarrel just six installments after Six weeks? vA it Sweet whatnot! me up to her her- mitageonan islandandI our engagement. TL remember it: perfectly because ' Six years! And ; what a woman to That Three-Mile Limit spend six weeks Ones so you're HACK FROM FRANCE. was the exact day of the third installment on my car, the fifth installment on my radio and the ninth install ment on my dog! K.M. on a desert isl pip THE CUSTOMS OFFICERS HOLD you Sounds Unpleasant ind with! Des- UP WHEN You CAME IN? ert hell!) Desert | The Other: woLn Me ? say, THEY would be velvet. HAD TO CARRY ME! Six weeks of rain, Dat ole debbil rain. I wanted to swimming, but they said it was too cold. My God, what's the worst that could have happened Froze. Just blessed rigor mortis and the narrow house would have looked like a house and lot. ‘That's an idea for a poem—the narrow house and lot. Not so hot. And—" That's what Dorothy would do. Well, it is lonesome up bere, but TI guess Til tear up that invitation Dorothy. ‘Then she'll say I had a place with lots of room and didn't invite her. And that'll be the God's truth, Franklin DP. Adams. O you know anything about Polynesia?” “Not a thing, but I'm sure Listerine will cure it. Sufficient “Wwuat is your objection to prizefightin, “The woman who es and says she lost two Detouring America (Detour to page VV) dollars.” if 4 comicbooks.com