Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-02-08 | Page 10 | "The Bad Thing About Radio is That it Keeps You Home," Says Our Friend Higgings

I THE BAD THING ABOUT RADIO IS THAT IT 11 KEEPS YOU HOME SAYS OUR FRIEND HIGGINS I 4 I l oll- oll S 1 a ii I I Is s I I v 9 1 I T J JI I You re cuckoo I tells hInt It ha has already I read where hero the I picture joints lo t a halo balo of jack the night they put the big stare on the air Dy By S SIM S tM t I I see I I to High Dome 1 Finnegan where here a here the mo movie l and show folks folka are aro all worried up over I the he radio Why should they be he comes back boek That a easy sa s a I It U a lad la can stay atey home homo with his dogs against as a fireplace and a highball ball lit at his elbow and hear bims like McCormack It 11 s a a cinch he am ain aln t gonna go Blushing through the th streets and let a a speculator sell him hima a 3 00 ticket tor for 8 S 0 80 0 to hear a third rate barroom tenor lenor or stand standup standup up In movie movle dumps to watch the tho beautiful but dumb do their stuff Youre wrong returns High Hi Ui h Dome The Tho radio ain alII t gonna hurt nobody MOVIES LOSE E OUT You re cuckoo I tills tells him It I hu 1155 already I read where here the isic- isic pic Ilc picture ture Joints lost loat a II bale balo of or Jack the tho night they put the tho big stars stara on the tho theaIr theair aIr I Mil Mabo bo they did admits Finnel tan Finne-tan gan but but that i a only ot of the tho novelty no elty and the fuels facts that It was a bad bod night I don t know Vo whether hether lou aou ou remembers or not nol but when hon the tho films started flickering about 16 15 years ago they wis w 30 theatres on Broadway How many do you think they I is now Enough says I I It If 66 65 is enough replies high Dome they they has enough but axa as asa a matter mattor of ot fact facts they Is ts buildIng new ones every week eok around forties and flighty lIilI's s sAnd BAnd And you OU should have hn heard the holler hollor from the theatre tolk folks when the movies got going good The were betting belling ten to toone toone toone one that the legit would be business s In five years Instead they Is double as s strong as they used to be ba Dont Don't that answer the radio scare tor for you T 1 HEW lIEan IT AT HOME No said I r It It don t As Aa far as I coughing up the tha jack is la conc concerned they alit ain t no Ito great difference bo- bo be bo between I tween the movies and tho the talk Ins You got to pay almost as rou Inu much h nowadays odas to see aee a screen feature as a regular performance On the tho radio you ou get the best bost they thoy Is la for nothing without stepping the house That remarks remark Finnegan ts nIts B Its weak point