Critic's Wink

NZ Truth, Issue 1220, 18 April 1929, Page 6

Critic's Wink

THE acme of anticipatory bliss. *" Froth-blowing! * # # PATE crashing is reported to be rampant at London society functions. "Crashing" is not unknown on New Zealand racecourses! ■• • • THEY say that half the world does A not know how the other half lives. But it would give its shirt to know. '.•'.• * CCIENTISTS are much intrigued over the discovery of evidences of the Biblical Flood. The nations are much more interested m schemes for flood prevention. # * * CEVERAL suspected cases of incendiarism have occurred at Thames recently. Somebody is doing their best to set the Thames on fire! • ■ . # ■#..,- A SPIRITUALIST says there are no divorces m heaven. Probably because there is a difficulty m getting lawyers. „ • " * *'" 1P%2.v

IT does not follow that the cream of society will blend with the milk of human kindness. • » * . ■ A FASHION journal says beads are being worn again. Better than nothing. • ■ * *. ALL flesh is grass. For .cutting" that boardinghouse steak, try the lawnmower or a pair of hedge -clippers! THE new American credo: Hoot, A hootch, and Hooyer! # * * "WJEDDINGS of yesterday." The " divorces of to-day. * # '*■.■. NOTHING can beat the coy, elusive banana .peel for making a baseballer slide to his base. «. * * IT is the proud boast of a famous poet that he climbed a thousand steps once to sell a poem. We are wondering how many he missed coming down. ■'•__"■■ # ■ . * ' * " CABLE item: "Mexicans Revolt." Too right; they are a revolting lot. * # * RUSSIAN pianist Jascha Spivakovsky is known v as the "Pocket Hackensmidt." 4 man needs to be a wrestler to master modern piano music. • " '■ » • WELFARE worker advocates abolition of tenements to give slumdwellers free air. Or else build a garage m the slums.