Life — July 12, 1929 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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Play the SILVER KING now only Bob? And still the world’s finest dollar ball With “The King O’ Them All” now selling at 85c— $10 the dozen—no man need deny his game the boon of the best in 1929! It has always been good psychology to play the best, and now with this new low price for the King it’s good economy too. The Silvertown Company, London John Wanamaker NEW YORK Sole United States Distributors Life Life in Washington (Continued from Page 7) poachers on the stream of Tariff re- vision. The drollest side-show in all the Tariff circus, incidentally, is the spec- tacle of fifteen insurgent Senators pledging themselves to stay in Wash- ington through the hot weather and learn all about the Tariff in the eight weeks before the Senate reassembles to formulate its bill. It will be the first time on record that the Senate has taken the trouble to study, out of Committee, the laws which it enacts. Is it the Senate’s fault or is there something amiss with our form of gov- ernment when we expect ninety-six pol- iticians and lawyers to legislate on in- tricate, technical economic subjects? Now that Dawes and MacDonald have laid the basis for Anglo-Ameri- can naval agreement, the Secretaries of War and Navy do not despair of inducing West Point and Annapolis to resume diplomatic relations in foot- ball. But why, after Yale wins every single boat-race at New London, should Mr. Hoover retain a Harvard man as Secretary of the Navy? It probably means that we are going in for slower and weaker navies all around. Speak- ing of Yale, the Eli graduates at re- union staged a burlesque of prohibi tion enforcement under the eyes of Stimson, Mellon and Mitchell. As an amateur effort it was admirable but it is believed that the officials respon- sible for the international, administra tive and judicial sides of Volsteadism, didn’t find it nearly as funny as the. real thing. —l. F. Movies (Continued from Page 28) some reason or other you may also miss it. “The Parlor Pest” There have been so few interesting short talkies released recently that when one does come to light it de- serves special mention. The one this department has chosen for commenda- tion is “The Parlor Pest,” produced by Columbia Pictures and featuring Boyce Combe. Mr. Combe does two recitations to music that are as neatly executed bits of comedy as we have seen on the articulate screen. The one accom: panied by sneezes left the audience in stitches. If you see “The Parlor Pest” ad. vertised, don’t miss it. Glass Ginger Ale with tablespoonful Abbott's Bitters delightful tonic and palatable. Sample Bitters by mail, 25 ets. in stamps. C. W, Abbott & Co,, Baltimore, Md: In these Champagneless Days ya is the gayest bubbly drink with which to grace your table “The Queen of Table Waters” Sole Importers: Apollinaris Agency Co. Fifth Avenve at 42nd Street, New York An American is said to have lost his fortune through drink. We un- derstand it took half his fortune to get drunk and the other half to pay the fine. —Everybody’s Weekly. “Can the ‘Talkies’ compete success- fully with the theatres?” asks a writer. What the “Talkies” really have to com- pete with is the audience. —Humorist. “What's this big volume?” “Oh, that’s ‘Songs the Soldiers and Sailors Sing.’ ” “And what's this little pamphlet?” “That's the expurgated edition.” —American Legion Monthly. Air Conscious, comicbooks.com