Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-05-07

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tential movie queen
you saw was going In N2
for the platinum ef-
feet; and only too fire.
Quently. alas, the eff
feet was that of a
new tin roof on a va 0A
cant attic. Irwin S. Cobb
Now. by the great
gross. the stylish ones are going red,
reddish or redder. Today, within half
a mile, / counted ten redheads, and
not a white horse In sight, to prove
the ancient saying.
Waning Presidential Booms.
WHAT with cyclones and floods
w down south, the daily press some
how failed to record among our spring
casualties the untimely end of the
Governor Talmadge boom. Poor little
thing, 1t passed away at its home in
Atlanta, Ca, just as 1t was learning,
In prattling accents, to lisp papa"
Still the shock did not catch some
VI uo uhuWdlCS. we hdu q ltSiiS AZ
wasn't going to live. The second sun
mer is so frequently fatal to those
incubator babies.
For instance, you take the Ham
Fish boom. Or of you didn't take it,
somebody certainly did, because it
hasn't been seen, or even heard of for
months and months.
Gridiron Club Dinners.
EXCEPT the obituary column, moth
IL ing could be sadder than the news
paper account Of a gridiron club din
ner. Yet gridion club dinners aim to
be satirically amusing and frequently
are.
Turning them out must be a ire
%mendously hard job, because they deal
with the national political scene, and
any producer of farces will tell you
you can't burlesque a burlesque. In
other words, you can't be very funny
on q subject which already is so much
funnier than anything you can think
of-and that's what the fellows at
Washington are up against.
This business of trying to be comic
Is a serious business anyway, especial
ly since all comedy is predicated on
distress. A fat man falling down
makes us laugh because he suffers both
In spirit and flesh. But If he Is a
p%allbearer, say, at a funeral and falls
down on his own high hat and maybe
breaks up the services-well, now then,
you've got something that's really
funny.
A definition of comedy could be /:
Tragedy standing on its head with its
pants torn.
S~elf-chosen Landon Aids.
GOVERNOR LANDON must feel
~ awfully fractional, not to say
badly scattered, what with being levied
on by so many comparative strangers
all at once. Every day or two, with an
altruism rare In this selfish age, some
gallant volunteer elects himself by &C
clamation as the governors eastern
manager or his western manager, or
his rn-by-southwester man.
ager or something. 1t makes no diff
ference that he may never have heard
of these parties before; up to six
months ago, they'd never heard of hin
either.
He's like a previously neglected or
phan child who suddenly comes into
prospects and finds everybody In tow
trying to adopt him. Maybe a better
smile would be that Of a lone Thanks
giving turkey at a tableful Of hungry
boarders, with this one snatchlng thu
drumstick and that one grabbing thu
second joint-and Mr.. w. X. Hears
cllnging, with a grip Of iron, to. thu
wishbone.
Folly OF Parole System.
THE perpetrators of the KIDNAPPING
i case of a few months ago up In tn
state of Washington were both chroni
offenders who, despite their records
had been par0led.
The fiend who recently committe'
the most hldeous child murder tina
> California has known In years was
convict out on parole. The degenerat
who has just confessed to murderin
hat poor d~efenseless gentlewoman /
New York the other day was-yes
you've guessed it-he was a convict 0
parole.
: And all over the Union the work @
turning loose criminals who have nc
completed their terms of punishnen
: indeed, In some cases hardly have bt
u them, goes merrily on.
IRWIN S. COBB