Judge — September 1, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE ’ Can you imagine a girl reading a thing like that!" . . . and that’s what you'll prob- ably say when I tell you that I've been readi “Confessions of a Rum Runner y James Barbi n, and getting a great kick out of it! . . . Jimmy is an Englishman, and I'll bet he’s a good-looking devil, too, who, although to the manor born, decides to take a fling at rum running, even if it isn’t con- sidered cricket. And how James slams the dear United States and their experiment, noble in. pur- pose! According to his figures, and I imagine they are very true, fifty million dollars worth of liquor is shipped into this arid country yearly and_ five million of that goes for graft! But I suppose its unladylike enough to read the darn book without o start an argument on prohibition! ~ ad After rum runners, “Will-o'-the-Wis, ricia. Wentworth, seemed very tame indeed! — It's one of those romantic mysteries and the little tlirt’s name in it is Folly March! Now, L ask you! How- ever, it is well written, vy Pat- ~ aS ver I run across a book like “John Brown's by Stephen Vincent Benct, I know I'll never make a good book reviewer! Here is a narrative poem, and hysterically, I mean historically, narra- tive too, and it stirred me about as much as Marion Harland’s Cook Book would! I have three weak- nesses—one is that my tastes are very low-brow (in literature), the other is that I'm not amed of it and the last is that I’m too darned honest! It would be so easy to read some of the other very flossy reviews, use the best features of each in my and fool you completely! But that portrait of George Washington that hung in my bedroom for so many years had a terrible effect upon me! I simply couldn't get all hot and bothered over “John Brown's Body,” even if it was good! = Things I remember of the reause I was so bor Fields was on the stage) cause it was so bad , The Front Page” (1 hate to agree with the critics, but this is the best 5 I've seen in my entire life!) ... the greyhound r: (I'm getting so I like them!) .. . swimming at the Park Central . . . dinner at Arrowhead . . . the Philharmonic at the Lewisohn stadium. ast week—The Vani 1, except when Mr. Elmer Gantry” (be- Ixteteretva Lapy—IWhat do you think of She many metaphors. LPM ought to git ley? My opinion is that he employs too Manx—Decidedly, Madam—he American workmen a chance first. “Yes, each seed has its trap and any chicken touching it is out of luck.” Kio—dre you the dog-catcher? “N-n-no—migawd no! professor out after butterfi T’'m just a college comicbooks.com