LOVE!
Among those who have bought h quarter of an hour of air for advertising over the U.S.A. radio is a Mr. Rubin, a Brooklyn marriage broker ("The New Yorker" tells us).
Mr. Rubin opens his programme with a little selling talk on the general idea of marriage, and then retires in favor of an orchestra, which plays "Deep in the Arms of Love." Immediately following the conclusion of this, while the hearers are still under its emotional influence, Mr. Rubin's voice cuts in hurriedly.
"You, too," he declares, "can be deep in the arms of love. Just communicate with A. Rubins, 1556, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn."
A naval chaplain believed in music as a means to interest men in religion. One day he arranged a lecture. > which was illustrated by lantern slides. He told off one seaman, the happy possessor of a gramophone, to play appropriate music as each picture was shown. Everything went well until a picture of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was thrown upon the screen. The sailor was nonplussed, and ran through his list of tunes. . "Go on," pleaded the chaplain, "play something."
The seaman had a happy inspiration, and a moment later the gramophone burst Into the first bars of that once-popular ditty, "If you were the only girl in the worfd, and I was the only boy."
Vicar: "How did you get that black eye, Mrs. York?" Mrs. York: "Well, sir, me 'usband came out of prison last Toosday, which was 'is birthday, and I wished 'im many 'appy returns!"
Molly: "And what did your poet do when you turned him down?" Dolly: "Oh, he threw himself into the waste-paper backet."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3159, 20 April 1931, Page 2
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280LOVE! Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3159, 20 April 1931, Page 2
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