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Keywords: costume party

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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Do you think you'll be warm enough tonight, Bill?
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: I'll be with you just as soon as I shrink this rented tux!
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Honest, mum, I never scrubbed a woman's back in all me life!
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Synopsis: Two men fire pistols at each other while having their shoes shined.

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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Aw, come on, Mabel!
Genre: humor

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First Line of Dialogue or Text: You don't take me any place any more!
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: C-R-I-P-E-S! B-A-B-Y is throwing things at me again, D-A-M-N it!
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Is the lady of the house in?
Genre: humor

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First Line of Dialogue or Text: You're a dreamer, Mr. Feitlebaum, and we're selling church seats.
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Boy, this wooden leg sure had 'em fooled!
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Adolph Chakowski will be our guest conductor this afternoon.
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Sometimes I wish the wife didn't play the game quite so well.
Genre: humor

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First Line of Dialogue or Text: He's a crying jag, so we got a baby chair for him.
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Indexer Notes

Comparing a previous text feature in Ballyhoo to an article that subsequently appeared in Vanity Fair.

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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Where have you been all my life?
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Would you mind letting Bessie off at the Bronx Zoo?
Genre: humor

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Satirical advertisement.

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
1. Are You Going All to Pieces?
2. Is There a Doctor in the Agency?
3. The New Jig-Saw Hat
4. Look What Happened - When They Look at All Three
5. Pants for Women!
6. [Roosevelt and Jigsaw Puzzle]
7. ["Neck if ya wanna!"]
8. ["Well, I bet you can't do it!"]
9. ["We need another saxophone player, Mama!"]
10. ["My wife!"]
11. ["With a stein on the tabu-l-l."]
12. ["Madam, I've come to measure you for a new back porch."]
13. The Pre-Jigsaw Era
14. ["Hundred bucks for the jig-saw rights!"]
15. Ballyhoo's Super Jig-saw Puzzle
16. ["I look forward to seeing her blossom into womanhood."]
17. ["Do you think it has a chance, doctor?"]
18. [Missing Pages]
19. ["You'll think me silly, but I can't help feeling that for tonight we're back in King Arthur's Court or somewhere."]
20. ["What a breakfast!"]
21. The Burpington of Burp
22. ["Don't you like cut-out puzzles, Mr. Weed?"]
23. [Burglars Sign Initials]
24. ["Aw, the hell with it!"]
25. The Jig-Saw Fiend Builds a House.
26. ["Dorothy! Doesn't that young man know how to say good-night?"]
27. ["I don't see how you men ever buttoned up these things."]
28. ["Do you think you'll be warm enough tonight, Bill?"]
29. ["Just listen to me imitate a dog barking."]
30. ["That will do, Miss Forrest, now in the next scene you are wandering around..."]
31. ["Follow that car!"]
32. Zilch's Soliloquy
33. ["Dammit! Keep your arm out of my jig-saw puzzle."]
34. Jig-Sawitis
35. ["I'll be with you just as soon as I shrink this rented tux!"]
36. ["Honest, mum, I never scrubbed a woman's back in all me life!"]
37. [Shoeshine Shootout]
38. ["Humph! If he's got money to buy licker - why don't he pay his rent?"]
39. ["Aw, come on, Mabel!"]
40. The Jig's Up!
41. ["You don't take me any place any more!"]
42. ["C-R-I-P-E-S! B-A-B-Y is throwing things at me again, D-A-M-N it!"]
43. ["I feel tired - I guess I'll rest!"]
44. ["Is the lady of the house in?"]
45. Rose of the Underworld
46. Once More Ballyhoo Crashes Through!
47. ["To put it concisely, my dear, I would call this a wow!"]
48. ["Have you got a dog that bites people?"]
49. ["You're a dreamer, Mr. Feitlebaum, and we're selling church seats."]
50. ["Boy, this wooden leg sure had 'em fooled!"]
51. ["Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Adolph Chakowski will be our guest conductor this afternoon."]
52. ["Sometimes I wish the wife didn't play the game quite so well."]
53. ["He's a crying jag, so we got a baby chair for him."]
54. The Dairyman Who Used to Be in the Garage Business.
55. The March of Time!
56. Manhattan
57. ["Where have you been all my life?"]
58. ["Would you mind letting Bessie off at the Bronx Zoo?"]
59. Visher No-Draft Ventilation Ends This Discomfort!
60. Ballyhoo's Jig-saw Puzzles!
61. 24 Glorious Hours at Sea

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Are You Going All to Pieces? (Table of Contents: 1)

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Is There a Doctor in the Agency? (Table of Contents: 2)

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The New Jig-Saw Hat (Table of Contents: 3)

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Look What Happened - When They Look at All Three (Table of Contents: 4)

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Pants for Women! (Table of Contents: 5)

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(May 1933)