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NANCY

SLUGGO IS SO

CONCEITED SINCE

HIS PICTURE

IS ALL

OVER

TOWN!

REAL KIDS

LIKE

"BIFFO" -for BREAKFAST

REAL KIDS LIKE

BIFTO

For BREAKFAST

HE BURNS

ME UP!

Saturday,

REAL KIDS: LIKE.

'BREAKFAST"

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REAL KID

LIKE

BIFFC

for BREAKFA

April 12, 1941:

By Ernie Bushmiller

I GUESS

I'LL GO

TO THE NEWS REEL

·THEATRE !

REAL KIDS

IM

{{BELANDAST

"I'M TIRED" OF LOOKING

AT THAT PICTURE

Are you a good

companion?

J

Answer these questions and find out if you're the kind of person people like to

have around.

(a) Gravitate towards mem- (in the plural), boys! That's

bers of your own sex?

(b) Or to the opposite sex?

our advice.

QUESTION Í This one 7.--Your ex-boy-friend (or rather depends on whether there girl-friend) suddenly arrives at are a lot of people you and your the party with his new girl- ex- know. If so, and you're Friend (or boy-friend). Do you: unattached, (b) is the kindest,

(a) Ignoro them completely solution. and go on as if they weren't there?

In any case, if you answer yes to (a) you're going to be a bit

(b) Go home as soon as you artificially gay, or else gloomy, decently can'?

you know, and that doesn't make for a happy party.

8. You like the people who QUESTION 8. If you've

are giving the party. But you spent a bit longer answering

also know there'll hardly be any this one than the others, we can

FEB-21-

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

CHARACTER SEQUENCES

A situation such as this makes a fine starting point for a "charactor sequence." Each picturo should be a close-up, to show your actor's expression.

one else there whom you know. tell you right away that you TS SOMEBODY in your family a perhaps a mallet and chisel,

Do you:

ought to have said yes to (b).

►

camera.

or

ending, let Johnny good actor? Maybe someone is sledge. As an (a) Go to the party forthwith And that means that you have but you haven't discovered it yet. open it for him with a mere tap.

Then here's a snapshot idea that will "The pictures are, of course, mount- without qualma?

to snap out of yourself. The help you find out and will provide ed in the album in proper sequence. (b) Think twice, and more Good Companion welcomes interesting winter activity for your A clever title helps, and sometimes you can borrow one from a well- than twice, about not going at chance to meet new people, all?

The idea is, simply-make char known book, song, or bit of current ** 辽

acter sequences. Just snapshots in slang. Another way is to pick a title DEDUCTIONS

Sum it all up this way.

n series-three, four, or a half-doz- first, and build the story or sequence Jen-showing your actor in some kind around it. QUESTION 1-If you've an-

Toy puzzles-Buch 05 Д More than four (a's) make of situation. And, of course, show-

Chinese APS you are one of PERHAR

wood block puzzle, or metal link those people who take swered yes to (a), be careful, you a doubtfully-welcome guest. ing how he comes out.

It tends to indicate that you're You either talk too much, too These pictures should be close-ups puzzle are always good for an ex- parties or ordinary invita- in the habit of gushing out your selfishly, or not enough.

Parlour magic pressive sequence. -emphasizing your subject's face tricks are good too-just show your tions in your stride.

personal affairs to all and sun-

trick Six of them, and you'd better and his expression-50, get out your subject performing a

portrait attachment. If you haven't doesn't come out right. Or, have But perhaps your friends dry, and think they're your in- do something about yourself.

one, this is

a good time to obtain one him in the kitchen, compiling one- are kind, and so you never timate friends. That almost But if you can knock up three-they're simple, useful, and belong of the skyscraper sandwiches know what a pain in the makes you a bore,

(b's), you're not doing so badly. in every camera kit. Indoors, of the comic strips have raade famous Three or four really intimate You-can-brealt ice, be tactful, course, you take these abots by __and then trying to figure out neck you can be.

friends are about the most one and make things pleasant for high speed flim-using any kind of

means of amateur photo bulbs and how to eat it.

A good method. Is to outline sey- We're not so kind as your can hope for.

people,

eral of these amusing sequences- friends. We're going to get Even one friend doesn't neces- Four (b's). well, you Topics for sequences?—They're le- easy ones and then make one each you to tell yourself whether sarily make you a stick in the mayn't be getting all the sleep sion. You might try the picture evening that you take other indoor

above as

spice you should have but it's a grand Ject attack the obstinate walnut with and humour to the snapshot album.

starter. Have your sub- snaps. You'll find they add you are, or are not, the sort

lifel

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of Advice

A Word

that

Don't take "care

that

QUESTION 2.-A yes to (n) is, again, alightly dangerous. On the whole, it does show that] Here are eight questions. you aren't shy. (and any people Read them, be honest with can hold up a party dreadfully), yourself and put down hon- but even if you like breaking the est replics. You might fool ice, there's no need to turn it

THE Lad from the Elephant provided he's approved, and can pass "Yes, I thought that would get the world but not yourself. into hot water. . . .

you. There, a lecture is not an op- Tan Led from the Elephant provided he's If (b) is your yes, atir your hut like a madman, and says:

"What d'you mean, approved?" portunity to catch a litle sleep. self a bit. You're liable to get "Stone me blind. I'm going to sergeant, "you fill in a form, giving

"Well, to be an officer," says the You listen, and you learn.

"You learn all kinda of things, landed with the party bore all

be a norficer !"

particulars of your education and so from Tactics upwards. and down- When the whistles, catcalls, on, and get a Certificate of Moral wards, You get a basinful of all kinda of dry information, and you remem- groans, and other abusive noises Character"

"(That washes you out, my_fre- ber_sí.

"You get the contents of great big, have died away, he says: "Go yund," says the Tall Bay from Sun-

fat books by heart, and learn how on, laugh."

derland.)

to put them into practice. Sec?

An Officer in the Making

*

·

1. How many REALLY in-

timate friends have you?

(a) More than eight?

(b) Less than eight?

2. Do you like.

(a) Starting a conversation, or joining in'as soon as you can? (b)_Or would you rather just liston ?

the time.

Listening's all very well, but say something now and again, even if only to show you're still alive.

+

+++ QUESTION 3.-On the whole, the better company. Trankness

We laugh. "Wot's funny?" demands the Lad from the Elephant. "Ain't

n yes to (a) shows you to be good enough to be a norficer?

3--Somebody tells a joke is all very well, but should not chap like me. Napoleon."

which you've heard before .or be tried out on strangers at par- don't think funny. Do you:

(a) Laugh, even if you have

tics.

Being A Further Instalment Of

Private Life

of A Private

Look at whasiname: 'e was ‘`a An Intelligent-locking sergeant who lives in our but says: "All right, Napoleon. Start by dig- QUESTION 4.-Here again, a ging out your pouches, because (b) Say either that you've yes to (a) shows a sense of self. I don't mind telling you they're The diary of a journalist heard it, or don't think it funny? preservation. But what if the in tripe."

bore seizes on some ahy, word-| less person.

to force yourself to?

4.-At a particular gathering

of a guy you are.

and the circumstances are really ex-

"And then, after you pass all sorts ot slift exams and get through more brainwork than you might think possible, then you may become a Second Lieutenant to start with.

"That means you get a pretty unl- form, and one plp, and a good deal of responsibility, and about as much chasing as a recrull gols, and not the reasonable much money, and probability of an early decease. turned soldier.

But it, Napoleon, you survive, and are

are a good boy, then you may "and in due course you go to become a First Lieutenant; and then London and are interviewed by a If you can do it without shout- "You an officer!" says the Kid Brigadier General and a couple of a, Captain; and then a Major,

"And then, promotion vory or party, there is one of those ing the place down, (b) shows from Windes. "You silly git! Colonels, so that they can see what swift and you are very remarkable, conversation-monopolising bores. that you have the welfare of why, you couldn't even grow at doesn't matter where you come traordinary, and your luck is some- Do you:

your fellow-guests more at moustache." (a) Let him talk on and got heart, and that makes you a

from, or where you went to school. thing miraculous, you may got "Wot's a tash got to do wiv But they've got to feel that you'd to be some kind of a Colonel. away as soon as you can?

Better Companion.

it?"

make a good leader. (b)Try to shut him up, and

* get other people into the con-

QUESTION 6.-If you answor "I bet you a million pounds "They've got to see what kind of yes to (a), chances are you won't most officers have tashes, says you're the kind of man soldiers weary to care, and will look back personality you put across-whether "By that time, you will be too versation?

got naked again."

the Kid.

would feel confident in following with yearning upon the grand old 5.--At this same gathering Even if he or she IS the heart- And Buttery says: "Don't all that kind of thing.

days when you came into the hut there are sundry unattached throb you've been looking for all talk so soft, you silly cow, or I'll

full of the joy of youth, and said you men (or girls). Do you: your life, you can always fix a smash you. Look at Bunker.

Wanted to be an officer, and your

said to you: (a) Try to impress one par- date and then spread the old He's got the pipa up-a Lien- "People think you have to havo

NAPOLEON: IF ticular person with your charm charm around on others who tenant. And no more moo-stoah money, or a noble family or some- and auch physical beautios as may bo in need of it... than the palm of my hand. And thing to be an officer. Nothing of THOSE POUCHES AREN'T SPOT FOR THE C.O.. - PARADE you may possess?

TO-MORROW YOU'LL GO IN THE (b) Do you try to spread a

6. Nothing very nice officer, too."

"Sarnt." says the Lad from "You,' need to be pretty capable."COOLER go in for a couple o'

WITHOUT OPTION!” ray of chear on the unattached spells the doom of a party more

surely than groups of sombre the Elephant, la there any ron- and fairly prepossessing, and to have generally?

says the Lad from the Ele- men and chattering women on son why a feller like me shouldn't right kind of self-confidence.

if they approve of you, you plant, laying out his pouches and go to an Officers'. Training Unit, vt reaching for a Un of the vilo mub-. 6-At a party where there opposite sides of the room, bo a norficer?"

#I don't know," says the surgeant. "You do not idle, skivo, and loof klanco described on the label na aren't a lot of people you know. Go for the boys (in the "Technically, no. There's no reason around in N.A.A.F.I.'s and Y.M.C.A.'s, "Khaki Renovator" but known to all Do yout

plural), girls, and for the girls why anybody shouldn't be an officer. You study.

men as Blanco;

QUESTION

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