Judge — March 2, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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he] JUDGE It's funny, what-ho and no end late when platinum office on fleeting holiday. Mail, for A stack of letters as h wsachat. Pim how things accun leave omy stance. ing to rip Tem And a book, too, open son I read the novel, * Perey Crosby. Befo Skippy unders: Skippy.” by > T go further about I want it distinetly I that Mr. Crosby ad i friend. Tle said so in autographing the book to me And TL admire Me, Crosby, te artist, mires me ts last but not 1 friend, as an and least as oa told a policeman that the po man who once licoman was “just a bunch of seenery hid i behind a lot. of brass buttons.” 2 rey and TE have hummed about town together a deal, We dined one night. in pre wa won days, ata French restaurant It was midwinter. I pretty much and felt rather no end over-ate As a matter of fact. was, personally, bad) weather. ‘hout nine in’ the eve ning Perey sug: that cool, what-ho air might re create my interest. in living He escorted me from the resta rant, led me te the top of the brownstone stoop and sat me on the top step Mind you, it nine in thy sed te come back in half an » He said he had some tele phone cally to make. He bor rowed all my nickels and left. 1 fell asleep. A blizzard stirred it self and swirled all over me. My interest in living an to reere ate itself about four the next morning. [was still on the ste hadn't noticed me on of the snow. [looked like an old hat lying on top of a was evening Perey Passers account NEW YORI l" DIONT MSS ME: drift—no one suspected that I directly under the hat it heard from Perey He sent me a was aovear later, Christmas card | from Vermont, where he'd been | hiding. Liked “Skippy” It is a grand exposé of grand hell in a grand kid. Skippy is the kind of a lad who really should grow up to be president. ‘The novel maintains a steady step of rhythmic whim- sicality, and under the whimsi- cality th lumps ¢ moments when >to my throat—bat 1 ry and swallowed them. — | Perey has a deep intelligence of Skippy's realm. [can think of only two other characters comparable to Skippy and Sooky—Soc being the second fiddle hero of the novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Let's forget this fella Crosby and TIE tell vou how much New York missed me while Twas away, and how T found the town when T got back. w York didn’t miss me. my agents report The first thing that happened to me handed Times Square. were was hu and they are was being a summons for crossing trate in 1 apologized to the policeman and retraced my steps, against the trathie. Twas handed against ther summons ome, come, fellow!" T said to the officer, can't keep up. you know ! I paid four dollars this ind we both laughed and ec? cRosBy LEANES JUNIOR ~~ 6 FALL ASLEEP a ee INA BLIzzaeD! comicbooks.com