The Archive · 1938

N PARENTHESIS

Historical Note For two or three days, before a New York employee. pointed out the anomaly, "Marie Antoinette," at the Astor, bore the conventional Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Foreword, which includes the phrase, "Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."

Bieyeles Also Tur reciter at the village concert was applauded for his rendering of "The Village Blacksmith," specially by an old mn in the front row "Do it again!" he cried. The reciter obliged.

"Now, just once more!" the old man said, "And this time tell em I mends bicycles, too."

Exasperated Tur plumber was a mild sort of man, but he could get away from "he fact that his assistant was terribly lazy.

For a long time he said nothing, but at last he could contain his exasperation no longer.

"Bill you get on my nerves standing there with both hands in your pockets! For Heaven's sake, take one of them out!"

At Fault Aw American visitor was taken to Trafalgar Square, where his eagle eye soon spotted the Nelson Column.

"Who is that guy at the top?" he asked. "Thats Nelson," replied his English companion.

"Who the dickens is he, anyway?"

"Oh!" the Englishman answered, proudly, "he's the man who made England what she is."

"Too bad," said the other, sadly. "Too bad to blame it all on one man."

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

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