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Radio Record, 5 August 1938, Page 63

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SYDNEY, 740 k.c. 405.4 m.

(National Station) See 3AR, Melbourne, ay The artist who is painting a portrait of President Roosevelt has been in the habit of entering ‘the White House by the front door of the executive offices. where the guards know him. One day recently he decided on a short cut through the side entrance. A guard halted him. "What's in that package you've got?" he asked. "Just an easel." said the artst. "Well, we don’t allow animals in the White House," snapped the guard. * ™ x "That little dances isn’t 2 gold-digger any longer." "Oh, has she altered her "ways?" "No, she’s heard about platinum.’ Fs m "My, what beautiful hands you've got! Tell me, after you've eut your nails, do you file them?’ asked a. chorus girl. "Oh, no," replied her typist friend, ‘I throw them away." * at . "Please, ma’am,’ said the "vou know Crown Derby jug you’re so fond of?’ "Oh, Mary, what has happened now ?" asked her employer. "Well, I’ve broken the set Ahat goes with it." . % tt om ' "You are sentenced to one year’s imprisonment," said the ‘judge, sternly. "lave you any_thing to say?’ "Would you send them word at home that T shall not be home to dinner until 1939?’ requested the prisoner. . ES % A- woman was ‘bemoaning the "facet that her husband had left her for the sixth time. "Neyer mind," sympathised hey neighhour, "he'll come back again?’ "Not this time," she sobbed. ‘"He’s taken his dart board."