Passing Show

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 6

Passing Show

A GIRL m the back seat is worth two m the front. ' * #..#...' WHY do politicians always . speak from the floor of the House? Aren't they able to stand? : *. m m pESSIMIST— he feels better when he's worse. ..-;*'■" * # .'-..- --,^HITE is white and black is black— • until your wife thinks otherwise! * . * . • A CTORS ought to make good billiard , players. They're usually pretty sure of their cues. *#. * . DAD singers ought not to grumble at : being rejected from a show. Anyway, they've no voice, m the matter * # # • WHAT'S a bottle of fizz between friends?' A few shillings apiece. *. # * QERMANY'S plaint: A watch on the wrist is worth two on the Rhine. » »' • .. TF Pavlova danced without clothes we would call it art. If anyone else tried it, we would call the ,police. ■'..*.. * N # TT isn't true that a baker's life is one - 1 big loaf. ' * * ■*.'■•. MONEY doesn't go far, but 'it certainly is fast m transit. . . * .# •■■•■* DADIO and woman appear akin— rarely do you get what 'you want, when you want it. * , * * WHEN we saw a little girl weep t>6- - cause she won a prize at the musicai competition, we realized for the first time what is meant by "a howling success." .'.' -

THE two portraits are of the sama gentleman. Left: At Dame Nellie, Melba's positively final performance. Right: s at' Melba's absopositively final. - * # •'-.#' LIE who commits bigamy is a fool. Man may not serve two masters, said the Scriptures. * .-. '■' ' * * ENGINEERS should know every vice. -'•.,*' * ' * ■ MOST complexions are like new bungalows — the paint is quite fresh. • • . :- * # * WHEN one observes the vacant faces of some folk; one -realizes the strange places to which thoughts may sometimes stray. \ * * *''--- T IQUOR may be procured m America . through a doctor's prescription. Wouldn't that make- you sick? « # .-..'#■ POLFER'S handicap: Wife and eight • children. '* * ... * _t AEROPLANE sky-signwriters should f* find but little difficulty m scrawling their names on the heavenly register. J OVE triangles often become wreck - tangles.- --..-"■*-.'* * THE man who runs the bowser certainly knows his oil. -■■..-.# #.-.■#•■ A KAtO-ED boxer may be able •to *"*■ stand up for his rights, but not to, his opponent's.- '• . ■ *. ■ * * ; CHOULD she feel like it, a chorus girl can easily kick herself. ; . ;- * *• • * DEOPLE who have such good opinions of themselves are often poor judges -of human- nature. * .*■..",*-. TO co-respondents, indiscretion seems 1 to be the better part. '■■■■* #-...■■*• CWIMMERS will soon be cutting up the water with their • scissor-kicks. * # .-•■*■ THE most difficult question on money 1 is: "How do you make it?"

SHND-HEARTED criminal, concerned **" at the number of unsolved mysteries, leave's a little clue for the C.1.8. #' # * THE most certain thing about frying is premature death. * # #■ QLD flames leave one with precious little money to burn. * *•■ ■* MOST revue shows are leg-acies. *.* * ■ THE stock exchange sees many "bulls" 1 .and "bears" — and a, far greater number of donkeys. _■.*.. # * A MAN took the wrong medicine by ™ mistake. That was his funeral. *. * * THE world's eighth wonder: "I wonder when that cheque will come?" *# . * MOST flappers have nice, bright colors and— they're guaranteed fast. * ■*.*.- TJENTISTS should be equal to almost any occasion. They're , always ready with a gag. #-^ # * /CONVERSATION between conceited V people is largely a matter of an I for an I. * # ■•#-.- MAN owes much to his forebears ancl .. still more to his fellow- (trades)men. ■ * # .# . ■ TT seems rather ironical that fiction magazines should be the medium chosen by correspondence schools, who say they can increase your salary a few thousand per cent, m twenty-four hours. *.• # * TALKING, films are to be brought to • New Zealand. Nice rest for the fans who read out the sub-titles. » ■'.-■* *. MAYOR of- Huatla, Mexico, was shot by the military pn telegraphed instructions that afterwards turned out to be bogus. • Now everyone's remarking what a fortunate thing that it only happened to a politician. ■* * * THE modern Miss is really a big Hit A with most of us. < ■-•■#.;• * * MOST startling thing about the rescue of Polish airman Idzikowski is that they ever got his name over the #irL; 1 V " , . x t