Life — October 19, 1928 — page 25: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

& Riis sehRE IT Cor: Where are you going with that bottle of hooch? GENTLEMAN: I’m taking it back to that naughty speakeasy to reprimand them for selling it to me. out, Blanding Sloan and Ralph Chesse Have taken their marionettes up to the Fairmont Hotel which usually keeps an extra bulb or two on hod: Chet Johnson. NEW YORK Exection Day is pretty imminent. & Mr. Groucho Marx and his bros. are rning in Philad’a at this writing. ***Rube Goldberg has purchased a 10-acre . tract on Sylvan St., Westport, Conn, Dave Lardner is spending the winter . his three brothers being away at in- of learning in New England. Bayard Veiller of Darien, Conn., has a new dog which he says never barks. That is where the expression comes from ‘Silent as a Peke in Darien." ***It seems the Anarchists in Russia are going to build a maternity home, and if they doo’t call it the Red Lying In, we don't care a opeck. & Mrs. Nancy Fay has rented her sum- mer mansion for the frigid term (*Winter™") and is ensconced in a snug 2-room ap't. on gth St, N.Y. ***Our Spokane correspondent Stoddard King has got out another book of poetry. It is just so much black art to see how Stod does it. We couldn't make a rhyme to save our life, we often ***Miss Elizabeth Roome will be intro- duced to society on Nov. 16. Ye ed. was in- toduced to human society on Nov. 15, but it was a good many years ago, although we are tot ashamed of being so old. **°One word by Don Stewart is leading %© another by Bob Benchley these days. Don 1s a son of Eli, while Bob swears allegiance to the crimson, When the boys talk football you ought to see the “fur fly." F. P. A. Still Another Notification (The losing candidates are notified shortly after Election Day by the magazine editor that their efforts did not quite make the grade.) Dear Canoipate: We regret that the enclosed can- didacy does not fit in with all the needs of the people of the United States at the moment. We feel sure, however, where so many applications are constantly being made for the Presidency of these United States, that the candidate will make due allowances. Please be assured that we are always glad to consider your candidacy for President in any election year and are ready to give your ballots a careful count. Sincerely yours, Tue Unirep States. OVERE RD IN THE STANDS Tue Girt (at football game): That's Harry — number six—oh, no, that’s number nine; I read him when he was upside down! Tue Arkansas House Chaplain said as he resigned: “This is the first time I ever heard of a legislative body secking to dictate to a minister how he should vote.” The ex-Chaplain evidently does not believe that turn about is fair play. “John, dear, I've a surprise for you!” “Don't tell me that the new Ford has come!” comicbooks.com