Life — December 1, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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See New Orleans | onYourWayto | A Trip Unequalled for Variety of Interest and Picturesque Charm - The Romance of Cotton along the Levees HE atmosphere of old Mississippi steamboat days still hangs over quaint New Orleans. Plan to stop over there on your trip this season to California Via the Palatial | SUNSET LIMITED =. _ SOUTHERN PACIFIC Orrers FOUR GREAT | ROUTES FOR TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRAVEL Visit the old French quarter—sce relics of the Spanish regime—explore busy markets —dine at quaint restaurants —visit the Haunted House and the Duelling Oak, and enjoy a hundred delightful experiences. Arrange your return ‘over the: | Then board the famous Sunset Limited or the Argonaut, leaving New Orleans daily for Los Angeles, San Diego and San Fran- cisco. The route between is a fitting pre- lude to the splendors of the Golden State. Golden State Route: through El Paso, portal | to Old Mexico; via Kansas City, Chicago Overland Route: Along the American River Canyon and across Great Salt Lake to Chicago. Shasta Route: While in the West see the whole Pacific Coast From Mexico to Canada—Metropolitan Cities— Movieland—Chinatown—quaint Spanish Missions, smiling valleys. Southern Pac For information and literature write, phone or call your nearest Southern Pacific representative. via Klamath over Cascade Line — Mr the Shasta, Portland and Pacific Coast. New York: 165 Broad: 33 West Jackson Biv Houston: Southern F Bldg. San Francisco: S y and $31 Fifth Ave. at 44th St. Chicago: jew Orleans: Pan. Am. Bank cific Blig. Los Angeles : hern Pacific Buildin Plays H, I would write a witty play, A bright and sparkling city play, A biting play, exciting play, With epigrams aglow No sweet and dainty childish play, A rather Oscar Wildeish play, A Shavian, Belgravian Sophisticated show. I'd like to write a funny play, A slapstick get-the-money play, A dancing play, entrancing play, With girls all in a row. A badinage and banter play, A kidding, Eddie Cantor play, A who’s-that-dame-I-seen-you-with Wisecracking sort of show. Perhaps I'll try a dreary play, gloomy, eerie play y play, a weepy } Just drenched with grief and woe. A melancholy crying pl: Tubercular-and-dying play ene O'Neill-Norwegian- Psychoanalytic show Or else I'll write a daring play, A naughty, sexy, swearing pl: A bawdy play cks a throw, A wicked and auc a A rather rough s: A. stopped-by-Mr.-Sumne Roach-Straton sort of show. Levy. Santa Claus Gets Smart “TOW, listen, gentlemen — I've *™ been with vou a long time and worked up a pretty good following My name is big enough now for me ct. In fact, r Christmas to demand a new cont I refuse to play anotl under my old contr: I want a straight ary of two thousand a week with a -per-cent ent-in on the gross profits and a guarantee that I work at least forty weeks a year. Furthermore, vou've got to be gin giving me some pub- licity. All this old and chimney bunk isn’t getting to first base any more. I'm willing to split fifty-fifty with you on radio and phonograph record royalties, pro i "task for any split on rette, automobile shaving testimonials. That's a fair proposition, gentlemen. Take it or real reindeer leave it. I don’t want you to think that I'm getting high-hat or any- thing, but business is business—and I've got my family to conside Robert: Lord. DD Similes: As much privacy as a pair of silk stockings comicbooks.com