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Show vfft.Ph;Pr MOVIE PRICE CEILINGS Elmer Twitchell is behind Chester Bowles to some extent in his demand for ceilings on admissions to the movie houses, but, on the other hand, he says the 38 per cent rise cited by Chester isn't so high. "'Think of all the food you see in the movies these days!" he exclaims. "When you see for so little dough all that meat, poultry, fish, and so forth In the big dinner scenes In so many piotures today," he continued, contin-ued, "you're getting a bargain." We agree with Mr. Twitchell. Only yesterday we saw a movie In which there was a big dining room scene where 30 people sat down and had a 15-course dinner. We never saw so many sides of roast beef, loins of pork, whole hams and entire suckling suck-ling pigs being lugged back and forth by waiters. We told Elmer about it. "I saw that one, too," he declared. "They had pitchers of cream and even butter. The butter, mind you, was In technicolor. And no points!" "I hadn't had a square meal In days," he went on, "but I came away from that picture with a feeling feel-ing I had put on about ten pounds. I even had a touch of Indigestion. I think the picture cost me ninety cents to get in, but I saw at least a thousand dollars' worth of meat." Mr. Twitchell had one complaint. He said he thought that in movie houses where banquet scenes are being be-ing shown, the management should provide the customers with napkins. Mr. Twitchell said that In all the big eating scenes be had noticed this season he had never yet heard any character mention points, either. .."Of course," he added, "in the case of movies without dinner scenes something should be done to lower prices. I think a customer has a right to ask at the box office whether wheth-er any food is shown In the feature picture, and if so how much. If none is shown or it's just a breakfast scene he should be let In for 25 per cent less." Mr. Bowles also wants regular theater prices cut. He has something some-thing there. To see a Broadway ahow yon now have to pay as much as yen would have to pay for the down payment on a pair of shoes, 50 loaves of bread, a week's room rent or a half Interest In a steak. "At present theater prices," said Elmer, "the theater should throw In a package of cigarettes, a club sandwich sand-wich and a chance on a turkey." (Note: You already get the chance on the turkey.) ' Elmer Twitchell says he is willing to tighten his belt but can't get the necessary points to get a belt. Marshal Goering is reported to have lost his mind in worrying over his great loot of jewels and paintings. paint-ings. He is also afraid they will take away his funnies. NEIGHBORHOOD SIGNS Spring is here Here's how I know: I cannot find That borrowed hoe. But still it is An even break; He doesn't know I have HIS rake. NO POET LAUREATE LL Gov. Wilbert Snow of Connecticut, Connecti-cut, among the nominees for the post, has urged the legislature not to name a poet laureate for the Nutmeg Nut-meg state. He says all state poets are flops. This, we assume, constitutes consti-tutes a rejection of the author of the deathless tribute. Connecticut's the state for me; Its people love it ardently; They sing of it with fervor great While living in some other state! Connecticut's where I was born For it I loudly toot my horn; Oh, hoar the praises loudly flow From those who left It long ago! ' Personally we do love Connecticut and can't keep away. We spend most of our time there and are a pushover for the spell of its elms, its brooks (hey, how about putting in a coupla trout?) its Niantic river striped bass run, its 5-cent cigars (now 15), its horse auctions, its retention re-tention of a full-sized glass of beer (here and there), and that rare specimen spec-imen of a Nutmegger who is neither looking for political office or working work-ing for or against somebody who is. Driver, take me to Essex, and don't spare the horses! CHAOS OUT OF ORDER Skillets in the bedroom. Bikes in the bath. Eloquently testify To Junior's zigzag path. And though my tender pleading Should melt a heart of stone He's bent on devastating Each room except his own. "Yanks Take Worms." Headline. "Does that mean Hitler, Goeriny and Himmler are really captuieJ?" pks Ima Dodo. |