The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-19

his reputation. It certainly does not occur to him to seek damages when ever criticism "gets under his skin," however much he may wince and con- fide in sympathetic friends.
 As a rule dramatic critics are fair and judge a players work strictly on it's merits, but there are a few here and there who endeavor to be smart and humorous at the expense of theat- rical people who are not in a position to protect themselves from biting sar- casm and witty sallies. The critic of this kind is not sincere and reflects no credit on his profession.
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 A Kansas wife issued invitations to her wedding anniversary celebration and hastily recalled them when she remem- bered that it was the anniversary of her first marriage that she was about to celebrate Shouldn't wonder if her present husband were doing some deep thinking.
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 Colorado woman seized a large pistol of the +horse'' variety, held up her hus. band and six other men with whom he was playing poker and took all their money. More wives might try something of that sort if they could only locate the game.
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 Now comes the story that near-sighted Quentin Roosevelt was taunted into fighting an air battle by ''chair-warm- ing officer If any officer did that, he must have been of the "chair- warming variety
 Strange as it may seem, there are men who are more interested just now'in the measurements of Dempsey and Willard than they are in the physical propor- tions of the prize-winner at beauty show.
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 Will the English artist who is going to paint the portrait of President Will son at the peace conference show him in an academic mood or wearing the smile he wore on public occasions? x x # Congress is asked to relieve the Eslli- mos who have been battling with the flu" Where is the old-fashioned person who believed that an Eskimo never caught cold?
 Frau Ebert is having the dickens of a time with fashionbie miliners modistes and tradespeople seeking her patronage. Obscurity is not without it's compensa- tions.
 It must be true that the average Ger l1nan has little or no sense of humor else | Herr Erzberger would not protest against ! the Polish appetite for conquest" * # # | During the war more than one jazz band proudly exhibited a service flag. Yet what calls for more courage than service in a jazz band? # < i: ! The Germans have promised not to wage var on Poland, but France con tinues to greet German promises with a characteristic shrug. 1 # x < 1 One never knows when a comedian is ir earnest Therefore Raymond Hitchcock may pronounce it ''ar -mistice" with | malice aforethought
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 Birmingham druggists will be permitted to sell sovereign remedy which is a light in the east * # *
 The Houston Post advises Alabama t( put up the cash if it wants to drive ou illiteracy '.Money is a good soldier, sir and will on
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 Even an allowance of six months pay would not enable discharged soldiers to hire taxicabs while seeking jobs.
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 Our attitude toward the transatlantic flight is this: You may start whel ready, gentlemen * # #
 Soapbox oratory in America is not wha it used to be.
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 Secretary Baker admits that there is lot of mud at Brest That's something anyway.
 THE SOFT PEDAL ON From the Washington Star.
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