SOME AMUSING STORIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

SOME AMUSING STORIES

Slight Exaggeration! The fellow had just got back from Hollywood. He had been dazzled by the display of glamour and bigness in the movie colony. “Everything is done on a tremendous scale,” he related to friends. ‘ attended dinner at a movie prodr er’s home one evening and, instead of using finger bowls at the end oi the meal, all the guests took showers!” A Long Line Aspiring Film Actor: I came from a long line of actors. Actress: Yes, I know. Outside the casting office! Too Loud The conductor was rehearsing a new musical play. “That’s far too loud,” interrupted the producer. “I can’t help it,” returned the conductor. “It calls for forte.” “Never mind that,” answered the producer. “Make it thirty-five.” He Refrained The amateur band practice was being held, but something had gone wrong in the number which had just been tried. The conductor glared at the cornet player. “Why on earth,” he yelled, “did you leave off playing just as we got to the chorus?” “Well,” said the cornet player, a raw recruit, “on my music it said ‘Refrain,’ so I did.” “Sweet and Low” A Welsh regimental choir was singing outside the officers’ mess after dinner. The colonel, sitting over his port, called the unmusical sergeant-major. “Go,” he said, “and tell the choir to sing ‘Sweet and Low’.” The sergeant-major went out and bawled to the leader: “If you blokes can’t make less noise the colonel says you’re to clear off!”