Judge — August 9, 1930 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Books (Continued from page 24) Ectoplasm oozed all over the place; he brought out all the Ills) in’ the World, mumbled over them and tried to exorcise some kind | of Utopia in which these Ils become Wells (pun not intended). But some Hocus-Pocus thing he pened, and for the first time books Mr. Wells didn’t con full-sized Utopia, He con cocted an absurd farce of a war meant to establish a Utopia. But the Utopia didn’t quite come off, even if the war in sever. coct a was a real Wellsian, Fantastic Future Holocaust. What we're getting at is this, Mr. Wells ought to stop being so Utopian. He's years and he ht to stop ¢ Hew ¢ Beerian fora time. P fact he didn't this book is old clay is falterin been Utopian now for many nd give t try haps the else a chance. va wh Utopia in Perhaps the in the old hands. For there We hope so is probably no one who can write such fine satiric yarns as the master, and we need a lot of that sort of th with Wells, the Man with a Missi and Long Live Wells, the Writer without a thought in his head Down, then, Literar. —but a good yarn, | V Jr: could not work up a calorie of | the heat engendered in numerous pals, critics and André Birabeau’s “Rev It seemed a cheap piece of sensationalism, stupid to the core, which will be gobbled up, bones and all, by a certain type of heathen who goes for anything that has to do with sex perversion, And is their meat: the story of a mother who, discovering her boy is what the Freuds of Broadway call a “fairy,” goes out to kill the lover— only to fail to do so when her mother’s heart realizes that someone who loved her boy. to pe blurbs for io here here is Love, transcended All—even Perversion! Well, if my doddering Aunt Agathy | doesn’t recognize this ay elaptrap y, I'll eat her copy of Freud by page. It's the old Mother- | e Weeper disguised with Perver | sion! First, it's psychologically un sound, Secondly, the story is trumped up: a stock situation of all cheap theatrical hokum, (Supply a glorified mother of the "90s, a son in love with an actress or a prostitute or | a married woman, and you hav number of plays cirea-1900-10.) And skipping a few hundred places, in the the thing is written in such y style the sing-song sniffing makes you want to pick it up and wring its neck. —Tro Suane KEEPS | TEETH White WHITE teeth bring a thrilling brightness into your smile — a charm that quickly wins its way into the hearts of others. Never neglect your teeth. Chew delicious Dentyne every day — the quality gum especially made to keep teeth gleaming white. ENTYNE Stay inside the three-mile limit and drink... PICKWICK ALE <2 STOUT THE TANG OF GOOD OLD ALE At the better clubs, hotels and restaurants. HAFFENREFFER & CO., Boston, Mass. Bottled only at the brewery of comicbooks.com