TROPICAL TOPICS

NZ Truth, Issue 1290, 28 August 1930, Page 4

TROPICAL TOPICS

-♦— ■ ■. „."■■■ An Odds-Fellow THE refusal of an hotel'- chef to~ pay out after laying the odds led to his? victim reporting.- him Jto the police. This appears to he a clear-cut case of a "Rookery Cook!" * .# ,' * ■' "Age Cannot Wither V " '•/^LWAYS, do your utmost to preserve links with the past,.' said an English archaeologist m a^ lecture to his students. Well, you've only got to glance at the periodicals m your dentist's waiting-room , to see that dentists loyally support this, axiom ! ■ ■;."' * *.. ■■' #• »"What Every Schoolboy Knows" A NEW talkie, "Tanned Legs," -is re- . •^ commended for- adult audiences only. Quite right; .most schoolboys have rather painful recollections of tanned legs! '■ . ■ , ' #■-.#■ ■ ■■#' ' ' "Nightly At Eight" TT is reported that one passenger on ' the "Tahiti", shook like a jelly 'when the vessel dropped her propeller. This is not really very remarkable. The [.trouble on the Limited Express would 'be to find a passenger, who didn'tshake like a jelly! ' ' • •' *■ " ■'■••■■■'. : A Sttlnning Affair.

pAPTION from an American newspaper: — . ' • . , PROMINENT WRESTLER THROWS HECTIC PARTY . ■ OVER 200 HILARIOUS GUESTS Yes, but look at the practice m throwing parties these wrestlers get! MDARLEY m Prison," /states news heading. A somewhat guarded, .statement we should imagine. .•' ■ * .' | # A Few Mat Necessities, . "WRESTLER, boxer; baseballer and hockey player," is how a contemporary .!, describes wrestler Walter Logan, who. has just landed m this country from the U.S.A. On past exr hibitions of mat artists m this country, the newcomer will certainly need all these qualifications. . • * * ' • #. ' A CCORDING to . a cable message from, Sydney, thousands of people had very little- sleep listening-in to the wireless' broadcast of the last, cricket test. ■'• .' .;_. -'" •. / ■„ " . Once when with, lusty infant lung, - His hopeful son and?heir gave tongue, Father rose arid paced the floor, Thought bitter thoughts and- darkly swore; • • \ ' ■ That he would never stick it. But now he takes his son and heir, And seeks his cosiest armchair, Hushes th.c fretful infant's cry, ;' Croons a gentle lullaby, ' And listens m to cricket. v