Judge — April 4, 1931 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Books (Continued from page 2) Bort John Held, Jes “Women Are ecessary” and Joseph Van Ra te’s “Vice Squad" are variations on that old favorite, “The Woman Al ways Pays.” Both are equally senti but while Held) knows his backwards and hides a n Raalte Hemingy soft heart behind hardness, V is content to go the way of t , Mark Hellinger, : nd At some time or other, we gather, someone evidently praised Mr. Held for the grimness of his “Grim Youth,” ind the ambition seems to have come te him to become the grimmest man in the world. This story, then, is about little girl whom he is terribly grim shout. She is grimly deflowered at a traveling sales- enceinte a year or nd pol age b: man; grimly made so later by then, after several grim love affairs, comes toa grim end. She sticks her head in a gas oven and grimly turns on the gas. ‘Vice Squad” starts frankly with this line: “Lucky Warren was a pros- titute.”” Then it goes on to expatiate on one of the world’s most misunder- stood women, who is at once lovely and a lulu at her work. She is con- stantly harassed by Donahan of the Vice Squad, everything she does being high-sel age mee noble, everything he does being me- phitic. She does nothing but run around helping the poor while he 's her money to fatten his foul purse. Gracefully the author height- ens her nobility by keeping her in her kimono between the lines, so don’t look for anything flaming in it. High- ly colored and impossible tho it all is und dully sensational tho it be, it does carry a kind of mess The author has a bone to pick for the case of the prostitute and he picks it successfully. ‘Thus, as a novel it is rotten but as a tract good, suggesting intelligently that since prostitutes seem to be a nec- essary evil, they ought to be registered and protected. Otherwise there is little in. cither hook. Jicur Chen Jimmy Durante (kibitzed by Jack Kofoed), shows the long-nosed clown in the ill- fitting robes of Philosopher. Opening the book at random, we culled the fol- lowing pearls of wisdom: “Night clubs aren't the only places you can find broken live: id broken romances. You can dig them up just as easily on Park Avenue, in the Bronx or Union City, N. J."—"The hearts that beat under corsets were as hot with youth as those that hammer under bras- sitres."—"Broadway has time only for a winner."—"“When you go at sob- | LOCAL TELEPHONE SERVICE ONCE COST ‘240 A YEAR In 1879, the New York telephone directory was a card listing 252 names. There were no telephone numbers, nor any need for them. When you telephoned, you gave the operator the name of the person you wanted. Serv ce was slow, inadequate and limited principally to people of wealth. The cost of a single telephone was as high as $240 a year. Today, you can talk to any one of hundreds of thousands of telephone users for a fraction of what it then cost for connection with less than three hundred. installation increases the scope and value of the telephones in your home or office. Every new Twenty-four hours of every day, the telephone stands ready to serve you in the ordinary affairs of life and in emergencies. In the dead of night, it will summon a physician to the bedside of a sick child. Men transact at part of their business over it. ag Women use it constantly to save steps and time in social and household duties, In an increasing number of ways, it helps to make this a united, more active, more efficient nation. Simply by lifting the receiver you become part of a nation-wide communication system that uses 80,000,000 miles of wire, and rep- resents an investment of more than $4,000,000,000. Yet the cost of local service is only a few cents a day. Subscribers who look back over the month and consider what the tele- phone has meant to them in con- venience, security and achievement are quick to appreciate its indispen- sable value and reasonable pri Frequently you hear it said— “The telephone gives you a lot for your money. * ‘Broadway,’ something happens to your soul or your heart or your con- science that makes you pretty decent.” —The people who played the caba- ts in those (old) days were more ature than the present-day whoopee akers.”"—"Seckers of joy have al- ways found the night club best suited to their quest, for darkness is at once a breeder of romance and a curtain for in."—" ‘Dog eat dog’ is the idea along Bright-light Alley, and every- body is a cannibal.”—"Those who wear dance sets don't get far along 27 the rosy path without finding what all about.”"—"The basis of all is wine, women and song.” digger.” —"Virtue and common sense are not so uncommon on Broadway as people would have you belie There are good girls in night clubs and bad ones in church choirs.” The price for the complete load of the above profundities is $3.75. Which makes it a clear $3.75 you're paying for cover charge -Tep Suane comicbooks.com