| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 13 9 1931 FEW JOTS AND TITTLE JUST Those Characters I Have Met Bits Here and There By o o mcintyre -- I remember: CHARACTERS who walked “Silly town through stuttering observations often embarrassing Fleet White— the negro hotel porter who sang opera -- VrVXfe y t x v-i- f h 5 45'! arias Monk Welch— the livery stable hostler who kept a quid of tobacco in each cheek Baz Cliff— the river float foreman who went barefoot 3 winter and summer Bob Mitchell— the drayman who Jogged through town whistling religious tunes for Klppy— who worked nothing for years In the sporting room of a New York newspaper because he loved ' sports Jimmy Wldmeyer-Clncln-n- it iM life f '4 - 1 fe -- 4 ii atl’s millionaire newsboy Baby Dave— the Dayton who conOhio bootblack murfessed to a half-dozders Just to get his picture In en the paper Roe — the black boy In who had Plattsburg Mo never been out of town but was always just “returning from the Rocky mountains” as a circus performer who Zuke— the professed to be a flying trape-zibill-pass- ‘ er st Tony and his bear— who came to the small town every m R spring -- Slim the tall thin waiter In Houston Texas who can slide dishes down a long counter exactly to yotir place The fiercely moustached at the Mexican doof-start- er casino at Agua Callente The blind man and his fox terrier on Michigan boulevard In Chicago The legless newsboy at 42nd street apd Broadway sketch The artist on the rue de Rlvoll caBeggars about the HAS BEEN A PAINTER PRINTER pharmacist artist AUTHOR Composer musician Scoutmaster ( £)cm Sdufer-- fkiyog) DRAW i The two chattering French hat check girls at Irish Dlnty 25 PIMTS EACH NIGHT Moore’ For instruments)-publi- c school teacher Sunday school teacher pUKt eft lEGNlT- Z- thedral at Rouen The grinning Senegamblan who opens taxis In front of mechanic RAPERHANGCR FITTER Of WINE LAYEROUT TEMPLATE 32 YEARS MAKER ELECTRIC WELDER RADIO EXPERT Blind George— who begin conversation with “I see by the papers" The midget Salvationist 22 (Pl&ys one-finger- ed Reuben’ Putnam 4 Columbus & Electrician Blacksmith DIED FROM AN la Columbus Circle MEAT CUTTER OVERDOSE OF MILK Book agent Philatelist Preacher vocalist humorist Ed Wvnn says his parrot Is one of the Parrots of Wlmpole street Ewing Galloway tells of the famous banyan tree In Calcutta with 1000 trunks covering an acre of ground A squirrel hid a nut In it one day recent ' ly and next day went cuckoo looking for It SOLDIER SAiLOft Lord orserey married a statue fair And ROSAlYN BERGER WAS BORN WrTH LONG A HARe ft A RABBrr AND a rabbit a hare AND THERE ft A WEIL THAT INHALES AIR Chicago Tribune headline: “Wets Press Hoover for Beer" Press where you tease! farmer Grocer HAIR NURSE 6Hd COOK TAILLESS CHICKENS ARE RAISED IN JAPAN AND NAPOLEON WAS A MOHAMMEDAN A TRUNK Ernest Hemlnway’s favorite haunt In Paris Is the Cafe des Flores on the Left Bank a quiet sanctuary where he Is able to dodge tourist handshakers He used to hang out at the Rotonde until he was discovered by autograph hounds Sl&NATuGt CEDOLAN OF RIVER ft KNOWN TO SING Christina of Sweden was crowned a king AN AMERICAN phiWklpWR Billy BOEHfA ICEBERGS ARE BLACK AT NIGHT AND ARE SAID TO Be HOT AND THIS IS AUL BttlEVE IT OR NOT' A SIGN IN ol Tulsfli') (jjhweuty not cartoons Composed from Believe it or o An&CortcSW&sh ENTERED The Mayor Jimmy Walker predicts two more years of depression It may look that way to some at that GAml The stage term "stooge" comes from "stoogent” a comedy word used to describe the hopeful aspirant or student among tha troupers of the old —ML in and came yl ouT AND made SIDES BUT HAS NO SCALES PISH HAS THREE A HINDU BOY RIDES ON A SEAT OF NAILS 3 Touchdowns Buffalo ! Tmhm Gretf tmdn rich 1931 tW SoDttfrt gy FRitNDS 3 minutes' bJ IROBERT W GINNETT TALKED 1931 V Kmf “PADDlE GRAVESTONE in PRITCHETT Bouldav ill n-- n -- CEMETERy SHOP A TAILOR’S Can ny y4tw lg HARTMANN St P6ulMmrv TOUCH HER HEAD T& FLOOR -- WlTHotfT THE bending her knces days There are rumors the highbrow magazines selling for more than a quarter and ofstuff fering only are taking It on the chin Humor magazines are In heavThe world la iest demand trying to laugh Short shavings: Movie Director Merven Le Roy Introduced Estelle Taylor to Jack Russell SherDempsey the mayor's “missing agent” was the type who went to highbrow lectures Burns Mantle for a lark quit smoking after 25 years of excessive Indulgence Rambova was once Wlnified OShaughne&sy Ring Lardner signs personal Noel letters “Mr Lardner" Coward's spectacle play Is London’s biggest And may result In a hit knighthood for Coward wood Na-tac- ha “Cal-vacad- e” Barbara Bennett Is Three of a dress shop n Broadway blondes Norma are now brunettes Shearer's picture was first tern In New Yoik as a tire part-own- EXPLANATION OF LAST SUNDAY’S CARTOON Urn which hounded him even after he paid his debt to sociity he devised a scheme as simple as it TIIE MAS WHO MADE THE WORLD LAIC11— Twenty-fiv- e years ago Wilhelm Voigt a cobbler of Beilin hi came a world figure for ha vim made a lasting contribution to the mirth of nations lie had seri ed a m ft nx of ynns in a was tffeetive Having ohiaini d a second - hand captain’s uniform he fravtled to the town of Koepenit I? when lit trt d a squad of soldiers passing in the street At their head' he marched into the city hall where after “in eom-mtm- li- 1 Prussian penitentiary for a trivial offense in his youth To get even with the Prussian police sys- - tlt specting’’ and “confiscating’’ the contents of the city In usury he j ducal the astounded burgomas-ti- r and the treasurer of the town under arnst Then he acted as head of the town for a day and dismissal tin stddurs with a small tip The whole woild in- cluding civilian German! roared in laughter at the discomfitul Prussian mil- - ilai ism and the haiscr hdd this hoax more harmful to militarism than a lost battle Nowhere else in the woild xc(pt Prussia with its “aidavagi-hoisam- " ohidi-- ( (minhid net ) it mild the’ mi pi nj hi oh i mdoii ii this muni e o u viet have passu! nii ludti ugi d But Hu I’ mission unino form matin' hum fiimq and winihled pm - cludid detection After serving a surprisingly short sentence for his hoax Voigt went But to live in Belgium once more Prussian jus-ti- a caught up with him dining the German occupation of Belgium in the And this Wmtd Wav time' it is said Prussia hotindid him to dy di a th (Cop) right 1911 King Inc FtiiLiirtt ) er well-know- poster girl rthel B irrv-rnor- es son John Dieu Colt Tamshows stage promt a many has a lot of pale fares s And mm h talk In se (I In will pi i Him e B l toil ually In si p son at lis Office The Rav Longs have Ls u I the Rupert been visiting Los m Angel'S Hugheses and the Charles C Nor-- rl es near S m Franrls-c- o Uni bo Invests all her money In Sweden Uenipe Jessil wlsIks he had Just one t tililivi who mild earn a II ury II unmond quaiui Ball ls publicizing the cause of Philippine Independent Then there ts the fellow Ills stocks and who turned all bonds Into rash and deposited It In the Bank of the United States a month before the Still he would have crash lmt eMher way Hugh Walpole s‘ Judith Paris’ is worth iDouble-day-Duia- ni an entire Owen Owen ls a evening Earl Car-ro- ll lawyer In Tulsa recently dellveied a lecture before the Illuminating E n g n e e r Soi li'ty Idla 1 Lee Is Tahiti Hies at the recuperating In Claire Lut e Tlovd GibHotel Marguery bons always tempeiate Incomes a tcctoler for three months every ytar Kitty Oordon runs a gown shop on Madioiin avenue Lynne Ovciman is returning to stai-dom In muslials Dllhnglnm wiais i Cliailis brocn di rby now and tin n j i it i n u d show nf lie Pesin li a tei rifle pinning as ter Arnos ’Hue Cornea tho ! 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