FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 416, 26 July 1928, Page 10

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By

"THE LOOK-OUT MAN.”

SIEELGEETTES OF THE SESSION No. 11: &cys -If’-. Feftcft, be equal, e-ach to cccft. WitMout viuiiie •cerbosisy, I approve of reciprocity.” The AH Blacks won the thirteenth match of their tour. 13 to 6. Another triumph for an unfcrpinaie number! GOOD WITH BAD “What is a little mud?” asked a member of a South Island county council. “I know our roads are bad, but the man who expects to find a country road without mud in winter is altogether too optimistic. There is no need to be frightened of mud.” This latter remark is reassuring. We shall be able to nil our fountain pens at the p-ost oSce with the same abandon as of yore. HARE AND TORTOISE Asked on what he based his assumption that he was a judge of speed, a witness at the Invercargill Police Court said that he drove sheep. Well, of course, the most powerful car in the world can go no faster than the flocks of sheep on the road will let it, so the witness was correct. ENTHUSIASM A safeguard of Auckland's peace is j to refrain from criticising Taranaki’s football, butter, and mountain. People from the dairying province are surprisingly enthusiastic. So it would seem from a Rugby match tzj Taranaki the other day. A spectator found that the team he was supporting was losing badly, so he promptly threw ofl his coat and joined in the tussle. An irate referee and a bewildered policeman had to stop the game. GENE WILL TRY It is good to have Gene Tunney's : assurance that he will “vigorously ‘ attempt” a knock-out in his fight with “Our Tom.” Some people might have thought these boxers were not in earnest, but now suspicion is quieted. NOTHING NEW So clear was the air this morning j by comparison ■with the fogs of yesterday that a Remuera resident became quite excited because, as he explained to fellow tram passengers, he had seen chimneys at Devonport from his home on the slopes of Mount Hobson. Still, he should recollect that houses on the North Shore have been ' fitted with chimneys for many years pash TEMPERAMENT A E It is understood that the directors of the Grand Opera House in Vienna where such temperamental and tempestuous ladies as Madame Jeritza - give of their best) are about to ad- j vertise: “Wanted, a manager to take charge opera house.* and assist pro- • duction. Only those qualified to take i control over prime donne need apply. Lx-lion tamers or ex-managers of wagon loads of monkeys especially invited to apply.”

TO-DAY'F fable As I was ■walking down the street ! to-day I met a man. And, wishing to make pleasant conversation. X said to him: “Who do you think will win?” “Win what?” he asked. Supposing that he was in some doubt as to whether I was referring to the Third Test or not, I said “the big fight.” he replied: “O, theyil never get the Bible in schools.” ■ “No, no, not thati” I cried. “Well, prohibition won’t win either ” ; said he Saving myself from collapsing with . a supreme effort I began “But, voti | misunderstand, my poor friend —” j “Oh, I get you,” he said. “Coates ! will come through all right.” Then I swooned. ‘ the a ge of the stars We refuse to believe that movingpicture “stars” grow old. They are the Peter Pans of America, surely. And yet statistics prove that the tally of years is mounting steadily for most of the popular favourites. Douglas Fairbanks has a son aged 22; Tom Mis is nearly 50 and Adolphe MenJou, J ack XXol.t, Lew Co(iy, ILewis Stone, Conway Tearle and Francis XBushman are all in the region of 40 or well over. The public is not so kindly with women stars. Nazimova lasted until she was about 45, but relied much more on personality than beauty. Miss Xorma Talmadge and Miss Gloria Swanson have passed the 30-year mark, but many of the comparatively young stars have already faded into complete obscurity.