Life — January 26, 1928 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Solomon: pip you cer sry crEQue, 1ss¥? Issy: ves—twice. —Tatler (London), The Events Leading Up, Etc. “Who wrote the poem beginning ‘When you come to the end of a perfect day'?” —From a newspaper query column. “Waitat do you make of this, Holmes? said Watson, passing the clipping to his friend. “Elemental, my dear Watson,” re- sponded the great detective. “The corre- spondent has a radio and the police would do well to take precautions at once to forestall the murderer.” —New York Evening Post. Proper Delivery A pRAMATIC school in Paris offers a course in shoulder shrugging and hand waving. It's hard to see where it would be any use to the French themselves, but it might be a good finishing course for the French-in-ten-easy-lessons alumni from American correspondence schools. —Arkansas Gazette. PEDESTOTAN 3 OVER A CAR PULL OF Prorte, —George Washington Gh ost, Some of our great men have been im- moralized in biography.—Post-Dispatch. “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” The Remus Precedent “Verma West, th’ table-leg leopardess who battered her hus- band into an unrecognizable mass, ‘ll ask for acquittal on th’ ground of ‘obey that impulse,’ and Mrs. Ike Lark's niece, who killed her hus- band with an anvil, hopes t’ git away with ‘Eventually, why not when I did?” —Abe Martin, in Indianapolis News. Block That Pun! Faro Brock went into the Fri- ars Club recently and ordered a fried egg. When it was delivered he looked at it and smiled. Then, making sure all about him could hear, he said: “Out of the frying-pan, into the Friar!” —New York Evening World. Camere On tHe Brack Sea ‘OH, CAPTAIN! JUST A MINUTE WHILE 1 FILL MY FOUNTAIN PEN!” —Gutiérrez (Madrid). Not in His Line “Do you think Hamlet was mad?” some one asked John Barrymore. “I am an actor, not an alienist,” was Barrymore's reply.—Boston Transcript. A ort. may close her eyes when she is being kissed but she doesn't when any one else is—Ohio State Journal. Positions Reversep Tre CeNnTENARIAN “1's REALLY MARVELOUS THAT YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO REACH SUCH AN ace!” “om, YOU KNOW, WITIL A LITTLE PATIENCE ONE CAN GET ANYWHERE.” —Le Petit Bleu (Paris). When the Ghost Walks Aw actor who had gone in for manage- ment was asked by an inquisitive old lady what was the difference between an actor and an actor-manager. “Well,” was the reply, “the only difference I have discovered is this. As an ordinary actor I used to look forward to Fridays; now I don’t.” —Sporting and Dramatic News. Prolonged Agony Lawyer (for the auto accident vic- tim): Gentlemen of the Jury, the driver of the car stated he was go- ing only four miles an hour. Think of it! The long agony of my poor unfor- tunate client, the victim, as the car drove so slowly over his body! —American Mutu- al Magazine. Hurry Call A ScorsMan rang up a doctor in a state of great agitation. “Come at once,” he said; “ma wee bairn has swallowed a saxpence.” “How old is it?” asked the doctor. Tit-Bits (London). —Fliegende Blatter (Munich). acer reese falle Si our thin arov reve comicbooks.com