Show 01 11 I rIn oLL about Honoring Amos n Andy ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA Because Amos n Andy paid a mythical visit to this community ty the grateful populace will dedicate dedicate dedi dedi- cate a bronze tablet in Palisades Palisade park which is not only a beautiful beautiful ful park but is regarded by some enthusiastic citizens as being practically practically practically the main entrance to the Pacific ocean That's California pride for you you you- the kind that inspires us to pass resolutions endorsing endorsing endorsing endors endors- ing the sunsets Well Tell I dont don't believe believe believe be be- lieve theres there's a small city in this country that has finer sunsets sunsets sun sun-s sun sun- sets than Santa Monica And when better ones are available for towns of this size Santa Monica will have them Our boosters' boosters clubs will attend to Irvin Cobb that What That Im I'm getting at though is that any fellows who've given as much joy to the world as Amos n nAndy nAndy nAndy Andy deserve a whole set of plaques If they do don't dont it wear out thinking up their stuff until I get tired of hearing it they'll go on forever Hello Kingfish C a e i Vocal Contortionists HY must tenors make such WHY I funny faces when they sing And why must a lady vocalist clutch both hands to her turn-turn turn when she reaches after a high note as asI I though shed she'd just felt the first pangs of cholera And why must mustI I there ever be any professional pianist pianist pian pian- i who also is a professional dan dan- I druff fancier and looks as though I he should be gone over with one a of f I these sand-blasting sand machines that they use to clean off office build build- I ings Just ordinary soap and water wate r I wouldn't do I And oh why does a basso in insist insist mI m- m I on singing at great length of o othe f the joys of life at the bottom of a coal mine and for an encore ro ro- hock me in the hadle cra-hadle of the da da- heep until Im I'm as seasick as a cow Hasn't anybody since Rutherford B. B B Hayes was President thought u up A a i 1 new song for bassos And nd isn't anybody anybody any any- anybody body g going ing to do so before the sands sand s 1 of the desert grow cold It looks look s like years and years to wait i Frances France's Diplomatic Game WHILE HILE France was asking us t tenter to o I enter into a neutrality pact i as regards Spain it would appear r 1 she even then was extending very i I material sympathies to the he loy- loy 1 I alist side Anyhow Italy thinks so I and Germany too And now Portugal Portugal I gal sprouts unrest and Great Brit- Brit I ain am r issues threats i Since we already were neutral neutral- i and if we have any sense will keep on being as neutral as a stop and I go signal signal America America didn't need to enter any pacts And if we continue minding our own business well we'll I have neither a sick headache nor a afresh afresh afresh fresh batch of foreign I loans when the present mess is over The point is that France seemingly seem seem- has been caught playing a double diplomatic game a e I Wholesale Mercy i I WHO HO killed Cock Robin Who Thu cares Dead isn't he His I I widow and orphans can go on relief cant can't they But how about pretty Boy Sparrow Theres There's the one to I think about about so so young and so g gifted ted and ambitious i i i The Women's Aid Society for the I Freeing of Criminals How Criminals How soon 1 can we get that poor lad out into the sunshine once more He takes j I aim so much better in the sun- sun I shine Must we the wait until he breaks out i The state parole board Not board Not atall at I all l ladies dies not at all Just be pai patient pa- pa i tient a little while then leave it to us i I I t Gov Mu Mushy shy J. J Sapp But Sapp-But But why wait When I think of that bleak I Alcatraz and that hard he hearted hard sited UnI Uncle Uncle Un- Un UnI I I cle Sam Im I'm proud to have some someI I 1 wholesome sentiment in my soul 1 I Pass me that pardon blank i Pretty Boy SparroW Well Sparrow Well happy ha II days are here again Say I never did like that canary much either I Wheres Where's my tommy gun I a e a I IThe The Wisdom i of Frogs A A A LADY naturalist at the Smithsonian SmithA Smithsonian Smith- Smith j soman in Washington has been 0 nuo f experimenting rt j i. i and she says that frogs not only listen to political I speeches on the radio but by their croaks at the finish indicate a d deep cep appreciation of same This helps I to confirm an opinion Ive I've had all along that the only end of which should a afro frog d command my entire approval is is the end the legs grow row on especially on-especially especially when fried in n crack er crumbs On second thought though be the maybe may may- frog has more brains than Im I'm giving him credit for When you applaud at the end of a br broadcast broad broad- oad cast theres there's no chance for an en en- core IRVIN S. S CO COBB B. B 5 w d C U Service 5 |