The Archive · 1940

Humour from London

Never forget, lady, that many a man sees a wolf at the door because his misses saw a fox in a window.

As I always say, lady, when a man is courte ing a girl he spoons—but when he marries her he just forks out.

A friend of mine has just come back from making pictures in America.

When I met him yesterday I asked him: "What's new in Hollywood?"

"Oh," he said, "about half the husbands."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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