The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1182, 26 July 1928, Page 1

The Critic

THIEVES recently stole over 100 wristlet watches. Time must have hung heavily on their hands. I #. * # COUTH AMERICAN- felon escaped from prison m an aeroplane. He will go sky high if he's caught. ..■*.-■ * * DEASTLY weather! Well, it's tjeen raining cats and dogs. # * * "DIGHTS of Authors.' —i3ome of them don't desei've any. #,# . * J7ROM a divorce report, "He took an 1 actress to supper."— His star of eve. ' _. . -

FAITH, Hope: and.. Charity are a poor . trio^to rely upon at a race meeting. * . *•..*■. "OEE me beat that tram," said Shofer v Smith, '■'.-• And he stepped on the gas, with a frown; Then steered for the gap with clanging gears- 1 - - Now he's wearing a*harp and crown! * * * NEWSPAPER report, "The speaker electrified : the 1 ' audience." — Must have been an electrocutionist.. piLM write-up says of the hero, 1 ■ "Conqueror of Women's Hearts and Hated by Men." — Sounds like, a description of a modiste. * ' "# *„."•"' AMERICAN politician rode into a *f* convention on a donkey. * Satirising the fact that the public carries the breed on its back aii the world over? - * .*-''■ * W^HEN callow youths go mad and sigh, "Her cheeks! Her lips! Her bright blue eye!" They get marched off to church, and there Are certified "beyond repair"; Then, with a wardress, off they go , To languish m a bungalow . . . • This is THE CURE; they soon grow sane, But they are NOT let out again! ' -