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Show SAY IT AGAIN By Herb Price Shortcut Bill Shake s p e a r e probably wouldn't approve and Jerry Ken probably hasn't heard about it either, but with eellltcb kids, yeu eant expect the fall treatment ... yeu Just gotta , expeet shortcuts. j And that's the only reason we can see why theye abbreviated the U.'s summer festivsl which will feature "Showboat" and "Midsummer "Mid-summer Night'a Dream" to a one-'ord one-'ord designation, name'.y: "DREAMBOAT." 1 Slew Down This might have happened at - the recent national guard encampment en-campment but it didn't the boys didnt have time fur such horseplay. However, Capt. Robert Rob-ert E. tells ts it did happen during dur-ing the war and that'4 good enuf for us . . . Seems a Gee Eye had tolrt off one if his sergeants, and the company com-pany commander called the 'ad into h.s office, where he sternly demanded: "Pvt. James, did you call the sergeant a liar?" "Yes, sir. I did." "Well, did you also ge on to describe de-scribe him as a pop-eyed, kn x-k-kneed, good-for-nothing louse?" The private hesitated. Then, with a regretful tone of voice, he reported re-ported honestly: "No, sir, I forgot that." New See Here And that'll teach us to make up our own cliches in the future and never use somebody else's . . . We refer, of course, to our recent re-cent "Folo the Ads" item in' which we quoted a "personals" advertisement advertise-ment which said: "Do you hear inner voices? Won't you help by telling about it?" And we, in a weak moment, referred re-ferred to this ad thusly: "For two cents we'd write these people Just to see what ether people's Inner voices' are telling them." Then we promptly forgot about the affair until Just the other day when a letter arrived from Aline Stiles. lSt7-llth East. Aline started her letter nicely, noting that "I like to read your column very much . . . it's interesting and very amusing." And then the two penniss fell on the floor . . . and we read on: "Enclosed find the two cents you wanted. Since you would have te mail your letter I nlso am enclosing a S-cent samp. Good lucky in' your letter writing." writ-ing." So this is to inform Aline that we've gone and done it . . and we'll keep you-all posted on our "inner voices" project. Cross your fingers? Folo the Ads "High-priced baby sittin. ay-net?" ay-net?" asks Billy Anderson. BM Iceland Ice-land ave, as he enclosed this recent re-cent want ad: "RELIABLE girl It, exp, de- j sired tend children, light hswk, days, two weeks eld, cost 1I5." I I |