Life — May 31, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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LONDON—The average slender girl of modern ideas will wear only one pound of clothing this summer. This will consist of a georgette coat, 344 02.; dress, 5 02., lingerie, 2 0z.; hat, 2 02.; gloves, % 0z.; hosiery, weighing prac- ucally nothing; and shoes to make up the balance. MLADA, BOLESLAV, Czechoslo- vakia—A husband objected to being divorced by his wife because he said he had footed the wedding bills on the distinct understanding that his wife would pay for the divorce, and now she was trying to wriggle out of it. He won. BERLIN, Germany—The world’s most fantastic banquet and ball was held recently when two thousand beg- gars, wearing ragged clothes and bear- ing placards sat down to linen-covered tables, ate the finest of foods, wines and liquors and were entertained by two jazz bands. No one without a beg- gar’s license was admitted. LONDON, England—A recent in- vestigation of an insurance company showed that the average age reached by drinkers was thirty-Ave, while total abstainers averaged thirty-eight. GLASGOW—An up-to-date dairy farmer has installed a shower bath for his cows. This is in contrast to the old-fashioned type, who reserved it for the milk. LONDON—A spinster recently won a Chiddingfold, Surrey, prize for an essay on “The Ideal Husband.” INNSBRUCK, Austria—Some quite realistic war movies seem to be avail- able. Before the camera Tyrolean peasants fought so effectively that they put thirty-seven men in a hospital. They were demonstrating how their ancestors shed Napoleon's yoke. PARIS—A facetious reporter sent politicians a letter asking for sympathy for one hundred thousand distressed “Poldevians” suffering from capitalist oppression. The compassionate _re- plies of M. Cazals, dean of the Rad- icals, and M. Bouter, Socialist Deputy, were gleefully printed by opposition papers, for the Poldevians are a fic- titious people of the reporter’s own in- vention. LONDON—When June, the former musical comedy actress, now Lady Inverclyde, returns to Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire, with her husband, Lord Inverclyde will carry his bride over the threshold of her new home. He will also break a bannock—round or oval, flattish, home-made loaf—over her head, in accordance with custom. PARIS—The Short Life cocktail is now a favorite at Harry's New York Bar. And there had to be, of course, the “Whoopee” cocktail. That word follows you everywhere. BERLIN—Walter Schuetze, an ar- tist, has been mute for several years. Recently he saw an American movie drama and laughed so violently that he regained his speech. “God bless the American movie,” says Herr Schuetze. PARIS, France—How long is a kiss? Paris police are trying to find whether a kiss on the stage should be as long as a kiss between just ordi- nary mortals, and if so, how long. LONDON—A tobacconist’s shop opened in Bath on Saturday had its walls sprinkled with holy water and the premises dedicated by a Church of England clergyman. PARIS—A public benefactor has thought up a new way of using old neckties. On the Riviera they are making patchwork tennis coats of silk odds and ends, sewing them together in modernistic patterns that would make Joseph’s coat look like a tame affair. wk— squawk -cuttaw! gobble — € 7 -squamish ‘ _ A _ girth Tghummpf_ ZZ “ut Ovdle- @ Migosh, I thought I'd at least gotten away from the sound movies. comicbooks.com