Judge — May 31, 1930 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUDGING BOOKS the field of litry burlesque in this country the; days to do what the boys with.” John Riddell, who wr Vanity Fair, and Christopher Ward. who writes now and then (his Wm, Lyons Phelps in nt New Yorker wis swello) only at the job we kno: good two lads, they cith other aspirants to the noble ir seq | brewing Beerbohm or may just dog days in the humor racket. Our little blurb) now being over with and nicely spoken, too, we would now like to introduce a new lampooner to the gentlemen of this clu It is none other than our little pal Billy Vt any aspirants, these being |) Hanemann, who hacks between the |) Guilford on Forty-sixth Street and |) the Jever office, and he has done it | all with his little litry hatehet in’ a grand and glorious book of burlesque known, rly we're afraid. |) as “The Fa And it being a hard and fast rule of this dep't never to analyze jokes, we leave you with Mons. Hanemann and his book, feeling that we've done enough in put- | ting you wise to it. Not having broken out into any rash |) of adjectivitis recently—well, not | since last week, when we used. only forty-four variations on the word “swell” —we hold the right to indulge here and now in a little high blood pressure. It seems that the shouting’ il about Trotsky’s “My Life.” sir, this bein amily’ Ma azine American Legion standby to the | trarynotwithstanding, it is | book by one who will loom mor | more important as a figure of this | when the reckoning is done. } And now we will quit stalin: | tell you that it is primarily. the of a fighter, one whose life has be mmed with struggle, adversity, ile, almost-Messiah-like triumphs and, as witness now, terrible disappoint- ment. It is difficult to get over this f but after all Trotsky’s life is pretty nearly the most dramatie since Napoleon's, since it is symbolic (along with Lenin’s, of course) of one of the most sweeping changes in economic history of the world. Even no in exile, Lenin dead, after years of boyhood povert be exile, European pariahhood, brief taste of power after the revolution that made the Reign of Terror look like slaughtering a chicken for Sunday dinner, the Revolutionist looks for. ia » alone I those i3 comicbooks.com