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Raymond Paige & His Orchestra. (From the Film "Gift of Cab.")

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REJOICE

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MOUSE THAT MADE A MAN

By TANGYE LEAN

The Very Idea!

BRIDGE FIENDS ·

BEWARE!

In Budapest, fifty-four hus bands have divorced their wives owing to the latters' addiction to- bridge. Bridge in just a paátime; bridge Not to overdo it must be your

is just a game;

modest alm

Learn this little motto: "Modera-

tion's best."

Aml reflect on what's occurred at

Budapest.... Fifty-four divorcék

decrees-

-

Afty-four

Fifty-four wild women, mad on

evap and ruft- Fifty-four peor chaps who've had

enough..

There will be rejoicings in the mining towns of Wales and South- west Scotiand to-day and jubilation In Lancashire, for the Win

TXTALT DISNEY is thirty-two. | medium. Theorists might have these pitifully depressed areas will W

People will toll you

that pointed out that here was the shortly be given contracts for an additional 1,000,000 tons of coal a Mickey Mouse was born nearly a supreme chance for a man who year, according to the arrangement quarter of a century later, but could create an art within an art. reached between the Governments their calculation is too superficial For every branch of art has so

much.

When far given rise to an "escape art" of Great Britain and Irish Free to be worth very

Comca to be within itself a world where the State. The people of these dis- Disney's blography tressed areas will thank God that written the fact will emerge that ugly daughter becomes the benut the negotiations, carried on quietly he was born with his characters ful princess and the villain in between Englisit and Irish otlicials, and grew up with them, like every treated according to his merits. were not tied up and made abortive other great artist in history.

Such things scarcely ever hap by stupid antagonisme which

In the early days of his child-pen in the real world, and If they might have been anticipated as out-hood his family deserted the roar-sometimes happen in novels and growths of the land annuities die Ing city of Chiengo, which had plays there a reason to suspect pute and its repercussions. The failed to bless them with riches, that they are bad. But the fairy National Government may have and retired to a farm in Missouri. tale and the ballet are thinga blundered.

cows and apart. There the universe would All Governments. There were pigs and blunder, in some of the matters it rabbits on the farm: it was over-crack if the villain came out en has dealt with during its lifetime, run by ants and rats and grass-top or the heroine lived as miser- such as Lottery and Sedition Bits, hoppers,

ally in eternity as she did in the but in a matter of such importance

Sometimes a skunk came crawl-beginning. as this one, politics never were ing furtively round the barn, in Perhaps the theorists said all allowed to pass the closed doors of search of mice. Young Disney this at the time; but Disney, be- the conference. Mr. Walter Runci- pursued it in fury. The amell cause he was an artist, and be man, Mr. Walter Elliott and Mr. Was a horror, and for obscure cause his whole life had been H. Thomas, men of affairs and reasons he disapproved quite as formed by Providence for this men of vision, and whoever their strongly of its passion for con-moment, put it into practice,

Luck still avolded him. Against Irish confreres were, have surelyuming mice. achieved a compromise which will He grew out of childhood at the heavy financial odds he had already reflect Insting credit to their age of nine-he was forced out of succeeded in making several decrees-

Nor is it solely for it artificially by the necessity of silent cartoons. But they were the fact that they have won an earning his own living. He wont failures, and it was not until 1929 outlet for British coal and given back to the city. His parents had that Mickey Mouse, articulate a the Irish cattleinen a market that worked and failed; they were last, won the enthusiasm of the the Governments of the two atates entitled to their escape. But for, world. are to be congratulated, but that him the grim and pattorniens fight Six years have passed, and in they have broken the ice of their with reality was to come.

that time Mickey Mouse has sour- enmity and pushed towards open water where there will be more chance of amicable settlement of all the difficulties in the way of

Anglo-Irish rapproche.

Governmenta.

complete

ment.

SAAR PROSPECTS

212 advertising

train

Bridge is just a pastime; bridge

is just a joke;

Learn to slp ita plensures; don't '

attempt to soak;

Few indeed the husbands who can

pans the test of bridge R it's played in

Budapest.... Fifty-four divorces Fifty-four poor "dummies"

longer at their ense—

fifty-four

TLE

Fifty-four fair gamblers, worried

and in debt- Fifty-four hopeful contracta "set,”

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES There're So Few Of Us

Yours truly

(Signed) Mrs. Tony Z

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He sold newspapers In Kanansed to fame on a scale that history City, getting out of bed at half-has never known before. Hitler past three in the morning.. ile is a nonentity' compared to him. Mr. Gerald L. Kaufman, Architect.

receives nearly tried the variety stage and con- He

ព million 416 Lexington Ave.. Juring, and falled at both. He letters every year. Statues have New York City worked as a Post Office messenger been erected to him, and his por Dear Sir:

1 saw a picture of a house you, in the daytime and a pillar box trait hangs in one of the most collector at night. He sold sweets famous art galleries of America. made and would like to know and magazines and apples to What is the secret of his po-price you charge to draw one for people travelling by

to pularity 7 Partly, no doubt, that me. My husband Tony manages Chicago. For a year he drove an he is brilliantly drawn and even the slate works here so we can get Although there have been erup- ambulance in Flanders,

more brilliantly accompanied by a roof for nothing. We want u tions of feeling in the Saar, clashes

sound effects ranging trom zi nice solid house, very fancy, with TOWARDS PEACE

of a minor port between Com.

All thin time something wus thunderous orchestral erescendo ornaments different from the com- munists and Nazis, and Socialists pushing him on to spend every to the villainous ping of a mos- mon people around. Our family If.. M seems probable, the and Nazis, and Catholles and spare moment at drawing. Itquito. What struck critics from is small, just Tony and me and Franco-Italian negotiations re. Nazia. the international military may have been the creative inthe very beginning was that be the children. Our boy John is sult' In the conclusion of a territory has not yet been called been an

force at present in bivoune in Saar | pulse of the artist, or it may have cruse synchronisation Wax so ten, Mary is 12, and the twins are ineradicable desire to perfect and the visible movements 13 but one of them is lamo, Mother multilateral pact to secure the upon to set in keeping the peace force, his ugly life into the pattern of the characters cut down to lives with us but she is quiet and peace of Central Europe, a great before the plebiscite. The police, and colour which had gone from their essentials, a sense of reality doesn't take up much room. Also In spite of accusations of partisanit with childhood. Perhaps, for greater even than the ordinary big John and his wife, that's step forward will have been re-ship, have been able to keep order. that matter, the two things are talkie could be obtained. Mickey Tony's brother who works also to gistered in the direction of com- There should be no real danger of the same.

Mouse is rhythm triumphant, the slate works. We thought posing the tension which has conillet in the Saur until January His luck was bad. He got a job There is infinitely more “kick" fn, maybe a nice house with parlor company piano solo played by him than and kitchen and a couple of bed- for so long been the cause of, the date of the plebiscite. But with anxiety to the major lowers. Complexion after that, the whole which specialised la farm work, In the performance of the most rooms upstairs would be just of the position may be and was happy drawing cows and skilful jazz planist in the world. right. Also maybe a bath bub if Indications at the moment are changed to an extent which may jelly farmers at £10 a month." But

that isn't too dear. The house make violence almost inevitable. he was fired and had to go hack to| But there are deeper reasons don't have to be so big you nee that France and Italy will re- Everyone knows, by now, the aller- the Post Office rounds.

for our love of Mickey Mouse there's so few of us but we want state in emphatic terms their natives of the plebiscite; either Eventually he was granted a han mere admiration of the lots of style to it which is why 1 A newspaper drawing and music. ile performs write you. Maybe you send draw- respect for Austria's independ-the Saur goes to France, to Ger- precarious job in

nuany or remains under the control office, and

there an important the very important function of ings by next mafi and if I keep ence and integrity, and that the of the League of Nations Govern- thing happened to him.

fulfilling our private wishes.

them I pay for them only not more next development will be an Ing Commission. France hopes One night as he sat working at For he holds the unique position than $3, its such a small house.

that the status que may be pre-his desk, be heard a faint scratch in the world of being both physi- agreement between Italy, Yugo-served, for she has inng ago given ing sound and a high-pitched cally and intellectually perfect. Slavia, Czecho-Slavia and Hun-up any idea of pressing the Saar- squeak. Ie ahuffled his foot, and He can jump over a mountain as gary not to interfere with the landers that they should embrace everything WRA quiet. But in jessity as we ourselves can in ū

The Blondes internal affairs of Austria-or and fraternity.-

the tri-colour of liberty, equality that moment memories of the dream, or he can plan batlle Judge Sir Alfred Tobin gave his

farm at Missouri with its skunks campaign with a strategic per views recently on women's, hair- each other, or to initiate any

and mice came flooding over him. fection which would have been the during the hearing of a CIAO aggressive action. There

In an effort to recapture them envy of Napoleon, He may make against a hairdresser. are THE POUND OF FLESH

more permanently, he act about an occasional mistake, but you "We always heard of grey hairs even possibilities of Britain and

catching those mice, and soon had can rely on him coming out vle- being treated with respect," he Germany, amongst other, na

a minor zoo imprisoned in his in-torious in the end.

Anid. tions, being invited to join in the claim upon the Saar.

Nevertheless, France still has averted wastepaper-basket. For Pluto, his dog, plays the role of When counsel commented that The coal daya and weeks he used to watch an ordinary human being by his women did not seem to like it, the new agreement, although so für mines of that territory were hand- their antica.

aide, and what a show-up of the judge said: "The most beautiful as Britain is concerned recent over to France by way of com- It would be foallah to Try to ordinary human being it is, what thing a woman can have is beauti- indications have been that whitstensation for losses in the mining analyse the birth of Disney's idea a display of bright ideas that are ful white hair."

areas of Northern France during in any detail. He had always, really stupid and of blind fidelitics Later he inquired why peroxide she may not feel disposed to the War, it will be recalled. Al-been attracted by the cinema, and that wrap him up in trouble, was used on hair, and counsel re- join in the pact she would made good, Germuns, according to the particular line along which and whistles his

though these losses have been there was nothing surprising in Mickey. the superman, smiles plied: "I think it to make strongly support it in principle. the French claim, should repur- his thoughts were to run.

through platinum blonde. There was A life. Pluto, who stands for you indy known as the Platinum Blonde Balkan tension has long been the chase the mines from France.

and me, crawls grovelling behind. on the flims." Oddly enough, Germany has not About that time Al Jolson was As we watch we join in Mickey's cause of much concern to Europe argued this point, and has appar-howling his plaintive notes at a laughter, and, forgetting,

Judge Tobin: No; sho WAK as a whole, and in the excite-ently agreed to

our known In this court. Her hair, I JL compromise world whose critical faculties relationship to his companion, we think, beenme Cambridge blue, ment following the Marseilles arrangement whereby she will pay were momentarily struck dumb by, are for a few minutes released murders there seemed for them. If then, the Saar goes back

for the mines in coal produced in the novelty of a brand new (Continued on next rulumu) time every possibility of serious to Germany, all will be well.

But. repercussions developing. Yugo-unaltered by the plebiscite, there by any chance the afatus quo' is Slavia's outburst against Hun-are bound to be heart-burnings and gary and Italy's inclination to resentments which will stir Ap stand by the latter country suspect Germany of under-handed trouble. There is no reason to. appeared to shutter any likeli-dealings in the matter. It is hood of political accord being imply that the preponderantly German population of the Sar it- attained between Rome and the self will be outraged if they cannot Little Entente. There were, regain their place within the Ger however, suggestions that Italy man fabric. And they have de might be prepared to modify ambition. It is in the Saar itself, clared that they will fight for this her diplomacy were Yugo-Slavia then, that the danger Jurks; and and France to make the path those troublesome "minority" mat- the problem may become another of easier for her. Since then, tera. However, if the plebiscite is thanks to the negotiations which favourable to Germany, and that is have been taking place between Europe will be able to breathe more the way the atraws are blowing, Paris and Rome, the situation easily, for another menace to its has undergone a marked change Pence will have been avoided.

for the better, and now the pro

spect is opened up of a compre-counter-alliances, which in turn hensive understanding which,

aggravate matters and pave the should in large measure guar-way to fresh discord. A far antee peace in the trouble spot better way is to be found in of Europe. The changed out plans for comprehensive friend- look comes as a great relief after ship and co-operation, in the recent fears that some of the spirit on which the League of European nations were revert Nations was brought into being. ing to the old system of align-In the promise of a new order ments which in the past led to in the Balkana we ace some pro the most disastrous consequen-spect of that spirit being given ces. There can be no question- freer rein. No better start for ing the point that hard and fast the New Year could be wished Jalliances only serve to provoke

for.

why

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Gentlemen:

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You may be interested to know that this Curling Iron was nover, used on a live one. My customer, undertaker, usca it in his

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(signed),

Fifteen Years

Model Brassiere Company, Empire State Building. New York City. Dear Mr. Proaldont

I am sorry that I caused you so much trouble. The fact is, while might have waited fifteen years before I could write a choque for · $10,000, I wrote the cheque first and am taking the fifteen years. afterward.

Yours truly, Lawrence M

(signed).

from our imperfections and at one with the gods.

A shilling or two is a Amali price to pay for a privilege which Is hard to comè by `nt-a time when opium le banned and drunkenneRA unrespectable.

The fact is that it would be highly surprising if Mickey Mouse had failed to muke Walt Disney famous;