Judge — December 14, 1929 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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MEDITERRANCA ADVENTURE / Frank's Eighth Annual Cruise De Luxe— Cunard S.S. Scythia —Jan. 28, 1930 Africa, Asia, Europe ... a daring resumé of them all, 67 superbly planned days in the world’s most scintillating sea... aboard a cruising liner whose polished elegancies chal- lenge those of the suavest club... a shipboard home that luxuriously links the brilliant and the bizarre in Mediterranean ports... the season's most luxurious adventure in travel. World-wise ports interspersed with intriguing places never before visited by any one cruise... Cattaro, Tunis, Malta, Taormina, Ragusa... in addi- tion to exceptionally long visits in Egypt and the Holy Land. Naturally such a eruise has an irre- sistible appeal to discriminating trav- elers... those who know the pric value of 54 years’ travel experience plus the presence on board of a Mr. Frank to personally supervise the minutest details, Rates from $950... including an elaborate program of shore excur- sions. 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Fenimore Cooper, a gush of | Zane Greymatter, a lot of In tradition, some obscure dry tomes by the learned professors, some unsatis- factory, romantically-cockeyed history nd a greasepaint epic by the Lasky | Sound and Fury Works, there has been no mature attempt to get under the red skin and inspect his inner workings. We have looked at the Indian as halfway between a breech- clouted stoic with a wolf scent and | something that used to shine in lac- quered splendor outside a cigar store. We shouldn't be surprised if most of the past three generations think of | him in terms of Richard Dix, smeared | with red paint and covered with goose feathers! Now we are coming, we believe, to the Indian age of writin look forward to it with pl will be a splendid chance to make a flesh-and-blood conception and clean up a few odd matters. 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