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HAROLD LLOYD
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"HAUNTED SPODES
£...
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MAB
MOORE MARSH
in
GOLDWYN'S DELIGHTFUL XMAS PLAY
THE CINDERELLA MAN
by George Loane Tucker of "Miracle Man" fame
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24; 1920.
STEEL MARKET TENDENCIES.
Decline in US. Prices and Output.
LONDON'S FUNNY MEN.
Why Little Tich Makes People Laugh.
correspondent,
plays the game. He doesn't claim to be the only serious man in the theatre.
Should a comedian laugh at his To an extent, but to rather a my own laugh at the Palladium own jokes? I think so. I enjoy- limited extent, steel prices are yesterday, but I enjoyed Little' declining, states a Pittsburgh re-Tich's more, writes a Dally Nezs port. It is perfectly plain that price declines fall far short of re- presenting the need of addition- Balika somo Comedians, he al business on the part of many of the independents, for there are few cases in which independents have not reduced their rate of opera- I am grateful to him for that. tion. Among the large independ- So many humourists insist on be- ents, there is only one that is ing serious-even on the stage. operating full, and it is estimated | Little Tich doesn't. He rarely that it will not be able to main-expects you to laugh at anything tain full operation for more than that fails to amuso him. He has about six weeks. This interest fnothing of the haughty detach- | was somewhat more conservativement of the wit
than various others in advancing Apparently he knows that a its prices, hence its order book good laugh is better than any was better filled when the period joke. He rarely
of scarcity of orders came.
makes the mistake of offering you a really
HOW HE DOES IT. Here is a typical example: What is a honeycomb ? The thing people go on when they're married."
In all cases, whether or not | good joke. He knows that you're there have been reductions, more likely to laugh (with his independent prices are above assistantel at a pour one. the Steel Corporation or Industrial Bean level. A fortnight ago one independent be- gan quoting 285 cents a pound on merchant steel bars, the Corpora- tion price, but after a few days it withdrew the price and began qu oting & vents, which is the minimumorists would arcept it as a It is doubtful if a Tribunal of um of other independents. Either joke. In cold print it may be this interest booked enough busi- incapable of producing even ness at the cut to give it a fair opsmile. Bat etation for a few weeks, or it found that even the cut prize did not att- rast enough business to justify
itself.
Et
as said by Little Tich it can make a thousand People laugh and laugh again.
How does he do it?
He has no eyebrows to assist him. His nose is genuine. His that is not abnormal. His cloches might pass in the street. How does he do it?
THE WIDEST DECLINES. The highest prices are the ones that are delining the most rapid- ly. Thus, of all steel products, sheets advanced by the greatest Quite simply. Gravely he proportion. Black sheets, set at puts the question What is a 4.35 cents by the Industrial Board honeycomb?" And he replies in Schedule of March, 1919. sold this way: for some time in mil lois et 3 vents to X rents, while small lots
brought 10 cents and higher. Then lags at the independent market was down 1 631 een, with several sellers at that price.
to
"The thing-(he begins laugh)-that people go on-the continues to laugh when ther
the becomes almost speech- less with laughter)... married- fientirely doubled up with
laughter!
And his laugh infecs
the
Winile now 623 cunts is common quotation, several mills would probably docti cents on s really attractive order. and, it is whole theatre. You lose sight of rumored, probably corectly, that the joke and see nothing but Little Tich. completely over- Verg good Order
one
a mill did 5.70 cents. The Steelcome.
torp cation price of 435 cents BREATHING ON THE HAT. does not count in actual market I doubt if his "littleness has transactions as the eorporation is any share in his success. His aversal i for the present half year first entry causes astonishment and has not opened its orderbooks rather than amusement, and he as yet for the first half of the new has to get rid of the astonish- [year.
ment before he can claim his
The independent steel makers
audience. He succeeds at once
ean be divided into two classes not so much by what he says
as to their price policy. One class adhering quite close former prices for the purpose of protecting contracts |
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as by what he does. He is a master of the mechanism
humour.
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When he polishes a silk haz he on books. Those mille have makes the whole house laugh- enough contract business to make by the sound he makes when that busines more important breathing on the hat. When he than the business that might be drops bis hat, or picks it up, he sdeured by cutting prices, for if has the same success. His boots the mili såld at l-as than contrast (ate an inspiration, prices its cisterners would be
But it is bis laugh for which I disposed to cancel contracts. am most grateful. Why should The other class, which had a man with such a laugh trouble higher prices than the mills to make good jokes? of the tiret
bas leg contract business OR books taken at relatively conservative and the mills in this class are reducing prices Item time to seems to be running fall. The prices. One large independent "He was quite honourable until inn. They say more opportun Steel Corporation, which has be there was a slump in trade."-ity to book business from day to tween 0 and 15 per cent. of the Tout to Jules Cler, at Shore-day by reducing prices gradually entire capacity, is operating as than by making on sweeping fully as physical conditions, in ruz. The object of the individual mill is simply to quote below cluding feel and car supplies, competitors. On the next inquiry the competitors take another step downwards.
WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
Hiten County Ubers.
ta lestion and answer at Bow Custy Colur:-- Can you tead?" No, I've got quite enough to do to earn my own living."
OUTPUT OF MILLS.
permit.
Striking a general average of the entire industry, the rate of operation to-day may be taken as about 75 per cent. against 85 per Rebuke by the West Flam One hears of some independent cent. in August and September. fonte Court clerk to man in the mills that are running at only 50 The rate in those two months was dock-"Don't smile. There is to 60 per cent. against 83 per made by physical conditions, nothing to smile about." The cent. in August of old business limiting output. Now, in the case an indignantly "It is not a secured by cutting prices. Other of practically all the independents, smile! I've always got it on my mills are running at about 70 to the rate is dictated by the state of face."
85 per cent., on old business order-books.
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FOOTBALL SUIT? YOU KNOW I DON'T WANT HIM TO PLAY FOUST BALL!
YOU'RE ALWAYS 50AFRAID HE'LL GET HURT I THOUGHT PD GET HIM SOMETHING TO PLAY IN THAT WOULD
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You know THAT WILL, ONLY BE AN INCENTIVE FOR HIM TO PLAY MORE!
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IF ANY THING HAPPEN&
"TO HIM I'M GOING TO BAAM2
IT ON THAT Sure!
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