Judge — December 27, 1930 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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“EBOOKS plus too much English blood in the noble veins made a younger son who was sent to India either the hero of a ham Pinero meller, a silly ass, a hounder, a dope-taker, or a gouty old He rarely wrote books and was often the hero of horrid one: Here, however, is a man who give lie to all these credos. The exposure doesn’t affect his brain other than to make it an interesting medium for the cencoction of a fascinating book. Like Kent, this man can write with that power of selection that makes for crispiness, raciness, power and mi ing. Both a tive Ishmaels are no mean philosophers and inquir- ers into What's It All About Brown has been bit by the bug of Yogi, and amongst the ‘st serie ture that is India he puts down is probably every white man’s awe before the ancient mysteries that lie hidden away in Indian philosophy. It is a profound thing this marvel ¢ Yeats-Brown's part and the taste Yogi he gives us whets the intellec- tual app s. He fails to break the veil of Yogi, but the start is there for those of you who want to learn how to stick knives thru your arms painlessly and stay buried for nine days, nice Oriental parlor tricks, W'« haven't the heart to take a rap at A. P. Herbert's (the English humorist) “Water Gypsies.” It is just that it’s one of those sweet old things 1 loves his Dickens and means no harm, a sweet old humorist who being merely an old bringer of sweet- ness and it to the London slums, and we're more the sour-belly type. ne, the heroine, lives a life of fan- and has a brave little heart and ut little cheerer-up and is baf- fled by that great big thing called life but somehow comes thru with her eyes filled with tears and her heart high, Or something like that, for we couldn’t wade thru the sugar-water of the close-set type or clse we'd have drowned in it. The tempo of the piece is set by the rather candid blurb on the book flap. ‘Ain't life slow?” it says. S we read her “Babe Gordon,” we tried to get and keep that tongue- in-cheek, snickering attitude towards West, adopted by the drama- for her plays, but the further we read the worse it offended. —Tep Suane JUDGE “Jones, you're goin’ U get U play in th’ N Year's game—the regular clarinet has laryngitis!” Bie Moment in tuk Lire or tie Man Wio Herp Down tie Same Jon ror Firry Years His grateful employers present him with an Ingersoll watch. comicbooks.com