The CRITIC

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 6

The CRITIC

TT is stated that a Ford factory is to *■ be opened m Russia. The translator will be busy circulating:,.the usual jokes throug-hout the country. • ■■.*' •. • AN American song is titled "But M Why?" This would be an excellent title for all the others, too. ■ .•' ■,■•■■•■.• - '. ;. A ZOOLOGIST: says, giraffes race '**■ among themselves. A win by 'a neck would at least be decisive. # * * 11/IANY judges say that the neyv ■ dances are so difficult that roller skating will come back. This can be mastered m a few sittings, r • " ' * . '*'' :;•.• .-'.*■ CARTHQUAKE moves a big fish, ■ reads a headline. ' The one that got away. • • • CEMININB fashion is felt m many * rtuarters. Summer frocks mean starvation for the moths and plenty to eat for the mosquitoes. THE first post office was opened m A 1635. Most .of .the original pens still don't write. I •...•■* ■ * .-,*..

A. WRITER asks .whether we. would, ** be" happier, if wom,en ruled. The. question really is, "are we? ; ■•■ '„-.. ••■ ■.•;:.■• •-. - •■ • .- .-•■• '■■-■■ . "THE human touch is to be introduced • . into the telegraph service; But that is riot new. People have been wiring home for money for years. ■■•-.•'.• . ■ • • ■♦•■-. •" '•" J/EEP the price of. bacon- down, reads V^ a. headline. The watch on the rhind. ■•■•'■ i , •■#..■.- * '■■■•• : ' # A SLATER is making his name as a ■ poet. " A verse-a-tile fellow. ' • • * ■..; -,■ '.-•-.- TT is amazing the. amount of intqrest women take m bargain sales,' says a writer. More-bid,- more likely. . " V ;'#'•■ • ' ■•' ; pLUBS should be formed for. the pur.pose .of encouragjng conversation, suggests a novelist. But women already have clubs of their own. . ' ■ •:. '* . ' -...* „■ . TT is said that the telephone is made up. .of over two. hundred parts.' The most difficult part m Christchurch is to get the, right number. - ■ . « ■■■ .-. ; . : .# • • ■ •■'..:;•■■ ;, •• ■:- „ .• .. .•• THERE is nothing more to bo said about the Einstein theory, says a writer. So, some person. will go and put it to music. # # . _„ ■ „.».. ...... „-,.,. ■■ A SGHOOLi >is to be converted: into a leather goods factory.-,: To continue the tanning, perhaps. : . '. : ■■ ■■ • •',.;-• ■■-.•■■■• : .- * . ■ '.■•■■• •■ .THE' hat the wife buys. And the hat 1 the husband talks through when/ the bill arrives.