Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)

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340 She has done five television plays — "The Story of Mary Surratt," "It's Spring Again," "The Bishop Misbehaves," "The Magnificent Fake" and "Detour," and has turned down a great many others. She doesn't like what she calls "droopy drawers" roles which are those potty old ladies who sprout like weeds over so much dramatic television drama. Television demands a lot of agility from a lady of fifty-three. A girl has to be prepared to show up on a different Swinf August, mi set in a different costume in a matter of minutes. But Dorothy is still fast on her feet and is also, she explained, held tO' gether entirely by zippers which so far have worked almost too well. Once she stepped behind a bit of scenery, unzipped from head to toe and suddenly found herself staring into the entranced eyes of a lot of people who were on a studio tour. They haven't stopped talking about it in Des Moines to this day. There was a professor of law who said to his students: "When you're fighting a case, if you have the facts on your side, hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side, hammer it into the judge." "But if you have neither the facts nor the law?" asked one of his listeners. "Then hammer on the table," answered the professor. — ^Woodmen. Mrs. Jones was sitting in the breakfast nook shelling peas when she heard a knock at the back door. Thinking it was her young son, she called, "Here I am, darling." Silence. Then a deep voice boomed, "This is not the regular iceman." "I don't understand how you came to marry her," a man remarked to a friend whose marriage had failed. "You admit that you didn't particularly care for her — how then did she get you?" "Well," came the dry rejoinder, "it's not something you can explain very easily, but I suppose it must have been because she wanted me worse than I didn't want her." ▲ Nine times out of ten what a man yelling his head off for justice really wants is revenge. The best way to balance the family budget and avoid financial worries is to have enough money in the bank to pay your bills and a little reserve for emergencies. That's not high financing — that's just day dreaming. He was out with the boys one evening and before he realized it the morning of the next day dawned. He hesitated to call home but finally hit on an idea. He rang his house and when his wife answered the phone, he shouted: "Don't pay the ransom, honey, I escaped." — Sunnen Snooper. — K. J. Wilson 'Don't shout, you'll wake up Mother."