Judge — September 7, 1929 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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JUDGING BOOKS Nor many years ago, during a high tornado, and thru a slight miscalculation, a — Little Madcap, r known ay S. J. Perelman, was born to a family of poverty-stricken whales. What a difference just a few cents make to a wha thought Perelman, and convulsed with laughter over this, his first pun, the tiny tot fled immediately to Americ: where he'd heard there was a cinch market for all such stuff. Directly after his admission here, the alien quota law was passed. But it was too late, and ever since Perelman has been making him- self a nuisance hereabouts, mostly around the offices of Jeuper, where he has a soft snap. He feeds the editor a concoction of chloroform, eggs and. easel oil. and then sells him frightful pieces of stly humor. Let's deport thie d Now, this clownish bounder’s added literary incest to injury by thrusting on an unpro- tected world the funniest book that’s been thrust on it in’ the past, say, ten days. Well, at least since Corey Ford sume discovered Percy Crosby was funnier than Mark Twain, It’s called “Dawn Ginsbergh’s Reveng. The pieces are pleasingly short, and as screamingly coc eyed as an insane asylum on a Roman holiday. Parodies, puns, gags, pictures and giddy bombard you on every. pag the low fellow) rarely fails ring the bell. His clowning never goes over on its nose. He is a gagman, Beerbohin and Groucho Marx rolled into one. If Groucho Marx wrote he'd write like Perel man, and if Perelman acted he'd probably be terrible. Groucho’s said of the book: “From the mo- ment I picked it up until [put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend read ing it.” Anyway it’s a darned funny book, and we're doing our best logrolling for dear old Perelman, | of our cradle days and great ny of Puff that he is. We hope he sells a million copies. Then he could get the diamonds, and gilded mansions he’s desired ill these poverty-stricken years, and maybe he'd pay us back those borrowed quarters and half- dollars. Vyyaryys The telephone grows with the country An Advertisement of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company Tue Bell System = must march a pace ahead of the new civilization on this continent, a civiliza- tion of better opportunity for the average man. The telephone con- tributes to the prosperity of the people and adds to the comfort and convenience of living. Tt is used by the many. The time and money it saves are as important to the small business as to the large. The humblest home depends on it for aid in emergency, to run errands, main- tain friendships. It is the aim of the Bell System to keep telephone service so good and sb cheap that it will be uséd universally to make life richer and better. It secks to Do you know a cy’ Give him Judge! Would you heal his manner mournful ? Give him Judge! For the kicker who is chronic With a temper that’s It's a never-failing tonic Give him Judge! yclonic lead the way in social and business growth. It is rais- ing buildings this year in more than two hundred ities, adding vast mileage to the expanding network of cable, and installing new telephones by the hundreds of thousands. It is spending more than 550 million dollars this year—one and one-half times the cost of the Panama Canal—for new plant and service improvements. This program is part of the tele- phone ideal that anyone, any- where, shall be able to talk quickly and at reasonable cost with anyone, anywhere else. There is no standing still in the Bell System. JUDGE PUBLISHING CO., Ine. 18 East 48th Street, New York, N.Y. Dear the dertor 104 Regular weekly visits (2 ¥ 52 Reguiar seebly visite (1 year) city State ..