Judge — August 3, 1929 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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| OUDGING*" BOOKS “A Man Seans His Past,” by M. Constantin-Weyer is a Freneh- man’s simple but interesting ac count of the Northwest, where sunsets are sunsets and life's a wolf, pardner. Cunning traders, Indians, villainous ice and snow, starvation, a nasty home-wrecker and a million and one wild but unwoolly expericnees throng. its | pages, yet there isn’t a tinge of | Rex T Now, | Rex B | help us) | Frenchman, ach to. the pie yer is a genuine 1 Weyer have done a truer picture of Rexie’s own happy hunting grounds than Rex ever has? And the answer | rolls back from the hills. “You can bet your back teeth he has.” The book received the Goncourt prize. | “Hunky,” by Thames William- son, is a provocative, disturbin, good yet not great, study of dumb, mastodonic Jencic, alien bohunk and close relative of the dawn-man. —Jencic. slings flour barrels ina bakery, content in an byss of placid, bear-like animal- till a machine and a. skirt knock life into” his sluggish brains. Like something in the primeval slime he gropes for the sun, Ignorance clutches at his heels; his slow reflexes trip him; a slick sharpshooter socks at his chin. Eventually his blond curls capture a sunt after a terrif am. Sense comes 5: He shows it by marrying a chippie left in at y by the sharp one. Williamson has written a sort of “Hairy Ape’ with a Happy Ending. He tries to glorify the Hunky’s advantages in Industrial America. We see no cause for such pollyanimation. We prefer O'Neill to the Ameri- n Magazine. Still the book's a swell slow-motion picture of a hunky mind. It is very Emil Jannings. You know—strong, primitive and suffering. The best bit of parody we've read recently is Joan Lowell's statement of her Simple Credo and defiance of the Critics, in the July 13th issue of the Sat. Eve. Post. Were it not such an enjoy- able kid on itself it might entitle her to one free membership to | the Bum Sports Club. —Trp Suane s an American (Lord | Mack truck of a man; the vague, | | THE “ANNIE OAKLEY” TICKET | Annie Oakley would have scared any gangster, With a gun in either hand or either foot, she could hit anything. One of her tricks was to shoot holes in pasteboard ticket stubs, aiming over her shoulder with the aid of a mirror. Hence the nickname “Annie Oakley”, applied | to complimentary tickets, which are usually punched to show they Now, as in the days of Annie Oakley, a Melachrino means “two on | the aisle down front” to any usher. For people who smoke Mela- | chrinos are people who enjoy the best things in life. Once you be- come acquainted with the refinement and mildness of their Turkish tobacco, you'll know why Melachrinos have been making more and | more friends for fifty years. METACHRINO CIGARETTES i 1879-1929 — 50 YEARS A LEADER QUALITY STANDS THE TEST OF TIME Ask Your Dealer About Melachrino’s Golden Jubilee-Gift Package STRAW TIPS CORK TIPS PLAIN ENDS 10 for 15¢ Large Size We Do You Play Bridge? Then Clip This Coupon | The Union Tobacco Company : 511 Fifth Ave., New York City C8329 Gentlemen: Please send me your Melachrino-Bridge offer of (1) 60 Melachrino Cigarettes—Cork tips, Straw tips and Plain ends, (2) the score pad with the latest rules of contract bridge, (3) two packs of the famous gilt-edge Congress Cards, free of any advertising, bearing my monogram, $4.75 value, for which I enclose my check for $2.50, | Initials, Name | Address. ——. | City Soe State... Orme union 25