Show Funniest Person in Utah To Be Crowned in Contest Judged by Marx Brothers Telegram Gives 2 2 for Best Daily Jokes 1 for Second Prize Comedians Offer Tickets to Orpheum Do your gags wow em Do you roll em cm in the aisles aisles' Are you by chance the funniest person in Utah If you are The Telegram and the Marx brothers old maestros of mirth are paging you ou Step right this way way and win The Funniest Person in Utah crown in the funniest contest of the year Theres There's hilarity in these hue hills and gar gargantuan antuan gurgles of mirth in every gulch Snicker-smiths Snicker by the score lurk in the sagebrush Somewhere in Utah hides the uncrowned cachinnation cachinnation- king and were we're going to find him The Thc visit of the Marx brothers to the Orpheum theater for the thc week beginning Saturday offers a golden opportunity for the uncovering of Utah's No 1 comic and The Telegram seized it Who Vho are better qualified to judge among our salty western humorists than the grotesque Groucho the wigged fuzzy harp- harp twanging chasing blond-chasing and the incredible Chico Daily beginning Saturday the thc Marx brothers will choose a champion from among contestants submitting jokes to The Thc Telegram W Winners will receive cash and theater tickets as prizes The sweepstakes winner for the thc entire week will be given givena a box party part for four persons at the Orpheum theater Friday evening April 19 when the funniest person crown will be deposited not roughly on his modest head by the Marx brothers in person The Marx brothers will appear appeal personally at the Orpheum with a company of 40 in the stage laugh riot not A A Night at the thc Opera How would that mirth-crown mirth look on your flaxen curls Try rry ry it before a mirror tonight In the meantime trot out that gag or that most joyous jest Put it on paper and mail it to the FUNNIEST PERSON EDITOR in care of THE SALT LAKE TELEGRAM Here are the rules No joke should be longer than 40 words for brevity is the spice of wit You may enter as many jokes as you wish but only one to a sheet of paper Write plainly on one side of the sheet and dont don't forget to append your name and address of The Salt Lake Tribune- Tribune Telegram and their families are not eligible And here are the prizes Offered daily by The Telegram For Fot the best joke 2 and for the next best 1 Offered daily by the Marx brothers For the five next best jokes a pair of tickets each for A alA Night at the Opera No you'll have to look it up yourself Weve We've decided not to tell you what it means |