Judge — August 16, 1930 — page 20: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUDGE AUDGING “IT Lived This ne the title on the > contest) is just an- other coll el. It is obviously written under the influence of Bernard (Vodeo-do) De Voto (a latter-day Perey Marks), not to mention the “Rover Boys’ Seri It is, more closely, Stover at Yale in orchid step- ins. It contains the us: al learned dis course on petting, fussing, "LUE BIRD ' BOOK, sparking, necking, nd clip- pir its only advance in this di- rection over other college novels is that there are seductions which are implied. And yes! one child is born at a sorority house. Adultery, too. rears its love! hhe plot for ld include i tual seductions with blueprints and photos to be considered a still further advance.) Also it contains the usual story of the Girl from Sapville, who, filled with romantic slush about dear old collitch, enters to become intelli- vent, make “ass: and get experic iations that count” Thus in’ this noble pursuit she makes the best so- rority, meets the right sort of men, makes wahoo, falls under the influence of the rebel prof, discovers “Life” thereby, finds out the sisters at the “club” are but hollow gourds for the sounding of dance music, throws her sorority pin into the beloved sisters’ faces, rebels some more and marries out to the crude all y whom she thought so jong. It all proves nothing zirls are gradually begin- ning to boast of their ability to be simultancously Phi Beta Kappas and Beta Phis (a hybrid type of who goes to cl never studies but duates summa cum laude); that growing as effem women; ly or men are us colleg writers are hard- nd that po Mr. A. B. See may be right about ‘every- thing. And yet, by virtue of “a straightforward reporting style, “I Lived This Story” is readable and is recommended. CCatiamxe Bropy’s “West of Fifth” pleases us as a piece of gossip in which char: as the face under wwe never ir nos parency in our little life, and shiver slightly ig that it really isn’t done, you k For, without The man who thought he had seen the last of trucks and truckmen. mentioning names, it tells every itsy- 18 comicbooks.com