The CRITIC

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

The CRITIC

A NOTICE m an American hotel reads: "Have you left anything?" It would be better if it read: "Have y^u anything .left?" : .#,■.* * A 1 DEBATING class for bachelors has ** been started. Nothing like looking ahead. Even bachelors sometimes get married. , * .'■#•*•.,• A MARRIED couple have decided to ** speak to nobody but themselves 'for six years. After that the husband' will probably have his say. ...,:.- •. * * A GERMAN actor has learned English m order to make a 'talkie. We learn that, the Americans are about to do the same thing. • ■;■ .", ..... ■"•* ■ # ■ THE national flower, of England is a ■V rose. Car nation would be more appropriate. N , • !• • ' * ■'.•■- ■ * ' A LARGER golf ball has been adopt- ** cd. Football fans have a louder bawl, too. ■ •■'■'■ ;■•-.*.■ •■*,.■ • . - HTHERE is a big field for chiropodists. * A corn field. ■ « . : ■ * * * •.'..■

THE theme of a new production is a dispute between four women. , It; is rumored that the show finishes m time for last trams. ■': • * •■'• A BURGLAR recently stole a, number of handkerchiefs. .He will lose them when he sends them to the laundry. LJOUSEWJFERY is to be taught m *~* the schools. Reviving the quaint old customs of the past. . . "# .# * . iSISCOVERIES have been made by ■ geologists regarding the thickness of the earth's crust. Golfers did that long ago. • ■ • '•■ '• . • A CENTENARIAN listened m to a Dunedin wireless programme for the first time. He now realises what he hasn't missed. • •'■•■* , ■ * ■'."•• A WITNESS stated recently • ,that ** manicurists did not allow customers to run accounts. All -business on the nail. # . * ' * ' A TENNIS champion says it is pos- **: sible to keep a racquet m good condition for four years.. The po>ver of the Press again! „ • •' •■»'■. • . ■ A MUSIC hall artist swallows coins ** and merely goes red m the face. Like the gas meters. ' ■ THEY- say that Christchurch tele--f phone girls have been fainting lately. Accidentally giving- people right numbers presumably. ;