The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1174, 31 May 1928, Page 1

The Critic

(\A.ROL preferred brunette to coronet. * * # "DIGAMIST tracked to Picton." Ought to have picked-on somewhere else. '* * } * £)EAN INGE says: "Don't have motors at the expense of children." Prefers kids to skids. • • # TAPS chip China. J • * * MOW that the- Prince of Wales has; taken to the. air,_ spills are:barrea; '■■=■ „...-.■ • ■■" '• ........ ■• ■• ■ ....

"THE motor-car opens out a new * life," says a motor journal. Too right it does — for the pedestrian. # * * DRISONER m the Supreme Court * yawned as he was sentenced. Court supplied the stretch. «* # . DISHOP-ELECT of Melanesia has had £40 stolen from his suit-case. White rook beat "black" bishop. * * * "THE modern woman, m her sensible *■ short skirt," says an eminent doctor, "is a most pleasing view." Or, more correctly perhaps, "pleasing panorama." # # * LJISTORIAN says that a thin woman *^ never set the world on fire. When a pullet is plump, she is tinder. I ' * • MUSSOLINI'S message to King of *■ Italy after recent attempted assassination: "The nation, with deep devotion, draws but closer to Tour Majesty." Safe bet that the King would feel easier if his beloved nation would draw off a bit. * * * THE rear-admiral's bark on the Royal Oak was certainly tough. # * # TRANS-OCEANIC flights are often : a grave matter. • ■ ♦ # AMERICA has just voted £55,000,000 for naval programme. Having claimed: "We won the war," Yankeeland apparently wants to defend the title. • ♦ ♦ MUSSOLINI has been a total abr * stainer for ten years, says Lord Rothermere. He's the sort of man who simply hates Boohs. • • •

COME say: Beer up m the face of adversity. # * • PRINCE CAROL of Rue-mania, #." # ♦ PIRL.S will go to great lengths nowadays, says a writer. But not skirtlengths, we observe. « -# ■ • pAINSBOROUGH'S famous "Harvest Waggon" has been purchased for £72,000. Its proper name is "The Coveted Waggon." # • • WHY blame councils? Many a road " is all right — as a hole. # • • PUNTER: A man of no account. * * * TT isn't necessary to own a motor-car •*• to run down one's neighbors. #. # * r\LYING is one of the sports m which you must start at the bottom. # * . # MUSSOLINI is barracking for a *■"*■ higher birth-rate. Must be wanting to unload his castor-oil reserves. # # ■ • I met a young damsel, or girl, With her head m a dither, or whirl; She'd her shingle, she said, From an old river-bed, And her permanent wave from Curl