Judge — December 21, 1929 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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&; “DEAR AUDIENCE: I love you very much. Of course, I do. But when you startto cough I'd like to wring your necks. How can I be funny on the stage to the accompaniment of loud barks?? «+e Task you! “That's why I'd love to see theatre managers handout Smith Brothers’ Cough Drops with the programs. I'll guarantee Smith Brothers’ will keep you quiet and coughless. I'll guaran- tee that with S. B.'s, you will enjoy the show twice as much.” . . Smith Brothers’ Cough Drops are an excellent, pleasant throat protection. They stop coughs. g¢ Tuo kinds § B. (Black) 5 orthe new Menthol. | an all-time Oxford | plying intellec ying SUDGING BOOKS Re Guty speaking, about ten thou- sand books appeared on the pu lishers’ 1929 lists. And, even if t year has been hard on the critic's eyes, it hasn't been so bad for the author, who in more cases than one suddenly found himself on the best-seller lists | and in an Hispano-Suiza. For this, if ever ‘twas, is the Golden Age of the author, if not of writing. ‘Truthfully, looking back over the battleficld, we can say we had a pretty good time if not a terrifically enlightening one. The task in hand is to pick the year’s outstanding works, designed to fit on your Xinas gift list. Remarque’s * vAll Quict on the West- “ront,” Zweig’s equally good; sensitive t r ley; E. Waugh’s “Decline and y-novel ; “Poet and the Lunatics,” Chester- ton back in °F: O'Flaherty’s “Mountain Tavern,” short stories in the Irish fey and es urthy manner; Hammett’s “Red Harvest.’ best of all-time toughi \ “Elizabeth and Essex,” Freud on good Queen Bess; “Peder Victorious,” hard times a gst our pioncer Nordskies; Heyward’s “Mam- ba’s Daughters,” how Mamba her 4 Edmond’s ‘*Rome ’ on the Erie Canal when it had a real trafic problem; | Lardner's “Round Up,” a prize jam- boree of the master’s best short sto- ries; Lovelace’s “Early Candlelight,” crowded, romantic pan 1 of Min- nesota fronticr life; Barr's “Let To- morrow Come prison hell; Hemingw to Arms,” Elinor ered with steel pl Lippman’s “Pre n romance, cov- guts and teeth: ; . to. mod manners; and Corey Ford's Water Taffy,” the year’s best’ bur- lesque of the year’s worst book. Powys’ “Wolf Solent,” the year’s most literate novel, a bible of Dorset country life; Wodehouse’s “Fish Pre- ferred,” the year’s scream of screams; Scott’s “The V toto, done impressionistically ; Glas- gow's “They Stooped to Folly,” kid- ding the clothes off Victorianism, done by a lady in Shaw's pants; Perelman’s “Dawn Ginsberg’s Revenge, or the New York Telephone Directory” Hughes’ “Innocent Voyage,” a subt y of some cutthroat kiddies; Class Reunion,” high school tragedy without Tarkingtonian taffy; W. Greene's “Cora Potts,” the rise of a (Continued on page 32) ther Brown" stride; | hard, true vignettes of | Where Chic and Romance Meet... ALGIERS PIRATE town...the me- (/) tropolis of Africa. ¥ The latest ballet from Paris... desert dancers rippling in layers of rainbow gauze. ¥ The shops of Cannes...and the, jewel- lers’ street where you buy a“Hand of Fatima”. & The newest play- ground of the international set... golden beaches and gorgeous gardens, exotic music, the pea- cocked Mediterranean. & Cities as old as time. & Forty-six smart aN hotels... Moorish RB laces with chefs from France. ‘Join one of the Mediterranean- Moroccan Cruises across the South Adlantic by the S. S.“France”’ January 11.. February 12 March 15.... April 25 Cross “the longest gangplank in the world” to the “Ile de the “ Paris" or the % FIVE days in afloat, to Plymouth, -le Havre and the three-hour boat-train for Paris. r-night to Marseilles... 24 hours across the Mediterra- nean to Algiers by a French Liner. French Line Information from any autho rench Line Agent, or «7 direct to 19 State Street, New York City