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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 6

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HREE Caledonians were recently charged with appropriating chairs from a lecture hall. The trouble arose, it seems, when during a slight disturbance the lecturer said: "Keep your seats, please." * x % CCORDING to a military engineer, many of the blockhouses in the Siegfried Line are not very substantial. We're not surprised: after all, they’re only Jerry-built. * * * *T WO sailors were recently married to two girls ; on the Admiralty staff. And after the ceremony, no doubt, the mainbrace was also appropriately spliced. * * * ‘A DRESS expert predicts that when peace comes, the bustle may once again be in the forefront of fashion. Older readers will remember that that’s not where it used to be worn. * * * = "| FIND the tube exits confusing," writes a visitor to London. We have noticed the same thing with our toothpaste. * * * 4 SPENT the first part of my holiday at the Winter Sports Hotel. é And the second half? In plaster of Paris. x * * OOK! There ‘is the husband of the famous filmstar. And what was he before he married? ss a * ASSENGERS on a liner sighted what they took to be a whale, but it turned out to be a mine. Anyway, it was a whale of a mine. gas * % HE most outstanding piece of artistic audacity ' I have come across in many years of cinemagoing appears in a currant film-From a Review. In fact, it takes the bun! * * * N artillery officer has composed a popular song number. It is untrue, however, that he intends to call it "Underneath the Archies." ; i’ * * ROTE a French military observer recently: When we have pierced the Siegfried Line, the Nazis will find that our dogs of war are greyhounds, After Hare Hitler?