Judge — November 29, 1930 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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AUDGING Wee Kaurer’s “Smart Setback” is a pretty faithful talkic-tome of the luxuriants who make up what is known by society reporters Mr. Kahler has absorbed a cert. amount of gin at parties in smart bathrooms; shared a certain amount of the tender emotion with society pushovers; and learned to know the > p Alcoholic Heart and Financial Brain JY SO of the Drinking Rich. The book, tho INSVA SP little better than elegant trash, takes Bae on an authenticity which it otherwise “What'll you allow me on a used car?” might lack in the hands of a person —Dvesutn Orision who wrote about Park Avenue without having ever been ther The light conversation of its pages isn’t always light but for the most part sounds like the real banality; the emotions dis- nd unimporta ought to be. In other words, we ca think of any reason why you shouldn't read “Smart Setback” any more than an think of a strong one for read- ing it. We think Judge, Jr., might find a good deal to it—but then he is a fellow of lightsome tastes. ASS® Dovetas Senawien’s: “Phi lippa” is a good book as far as lady-novelist novels go—which, of course, is not quite far enough for the = masculine or more brutal side of our SURETY OES oz, ~ EADY nature. Women are good writers, all right, all right—and this miss is one of the best—but there is an all-too- personal quirk that enters into their work, discolors it and throws it just enough off gee to make it dull—for s, at least. This goes for the works 99 out of 1,000,000, too. George Eliot was the 1,000,000th— but she did everything but wear pants, they tell us. And so “Philippa,” which starts out with a perfectly swell premise for a modern novel on the position of the child in a second marriage after a mutual divorce and remarriage on the part of the parents, is fine up to That Certain Point where the Lady Novelist goes haywire. At the Point the old deadening je ne sais quoi steps in and k. 0.’s the story’s in- terest story, presenting an clabo- te and illy disguised set of views by M n Sedgwick on the matter. Jet as we get ourselves all of a stew over the suffragettes, along comes something that nearly makes us eat our words. It is Sarah Levy's “Be- loved (O Mon Goye),” a slim volume “Why don’t you play where there's some ‘ouses, mate?” full: of Maks entertaining reflections by “ RS ASAE Loa irger i : . a Jewess over her pre-nuptial scandal- Oh, I’m just ‘avin’ a bit 0’ practice—I only bought the thing last ki a sok i F ith week? —Passino Show making and subsequent marriage with z a Gentile. The battle between heart ray comicbooks.com