AN INTERLUDE

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1929, Page 5

AN INTERLUDE

IMPROVING. “What do you think of our juvenile lead to-night?” , < / < “Excellent! She has not played so well for the last twenty years.” ASLEEP. Lady Visitor in Prison: But bars do not make prison walls and a grating does not shut off true freedom. Convict: Then I must have been hypnotised all this time, ma’am. EARLY AFTERNOON. “What time do you get up in summer?” “As soon as the first rays of the sun comes in at my window.” /, \ “Isn’t that rather early?” “No; my room faces west.” WATCHED. First Girl: I was very much admired at the dance last night. 1 noticed one gentleman who never took his eyes off me the whole evening.” “Did he have a toothbrush moustache?” “Yes. Do you know him?” “Of course. He’s a detective. He was thero to watch the -presents.” OPINIONS DIFFER. A famous actor sometimes shows interest in the lesser lights about him. One day he was conversing with one of his stage hands. “And what, my man, is your vocation?” queried the condescending matinee idol. “I’m a Baptist,” was the reply. “No, no, good fellow, that is your belief. I want to know your vocation. For example, I am an actor.’’ Said the scene shifter: “No, that’s your belief.”