Judge — May 2, 1931 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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

sxe QMIDGINGEE BOOKS cusnee y Manuel Kom- TT'wo Titteves,” Pes. ~The s ve story of the lif two who were crucified with Christ, very well told, nicely researched and read- able. “Andree’s Story"—We're awfully late with this one, but what of it? It will last long as a touching, dramatic bsorbing story of the one who adventurously and coura- in the Far North. Taken from diaries, letters, ete. i Baum's “Grand Hotel’—We haven't seen the play, but we class it and the book with ‘s sul erman films as "V f ; s melo- dramatic, in nt t hokum. » Hell with Hol- Ivwood"—A- quict little thing written it the top of his voice by what seems to be a self-engrossed sorchead. A very decided ple literature’s ne Very ry Moss’ ttle Green Ap- Something about one of fashioned heroes: the little and very sour Witness,” by John Doe—The publishers mysteriously hint Van Dine, Dashiell Hammett, Tiffany Thayer or Edgar Wallace may have written this. not-so-shocking shocker ibout some leaders who don't like each other. Who cares? Agnes Repplier’s “Mére Marie of the Ursulines"—A painstaking biog- raphy of one of the world’s most saintly women: the great nun who brought merey to C. back in the seventeenth century. It cuts away at the supernatural memory of this lovely spirit and supplies a flesh-and-blood figure, thereby canonizing her in a materialistic sense. H. T. Webster's “The Timid Soul” (a Pictorial Account of the Life and Times of Caspar Milquetoast)—A collection of Webster's drawings, fea- turing that pathetic figure so hen- ked by Life, who obeys all the > Off the Grass” and “This Means You” signs. Very, very heart- string-twanging and chuckle-making. Ricare ALDINGTON’s Glory"—Brief sketches, short sto- rics, vignettes and opinions on the war whose only virtue lics in the snarling but lively style of the author. McClintock’s “We Take to Bed”— The story of the consumptives at Saranac told with a little too much y detail for our sensitivities. Thorne Smith’s “The Night Life of the Gods”’—Despite the ravings over Thorne’s so-called donning the mantle of Rabelais, his delicious mas- tery of nonsenseCand (his easy use of “Roads to | fantasy, we have always found him hard to swallow. This one is about a bachelor who can turn people back and forth into inarble, and his tesque, goofy adventures. It is all too mad for our cool brain. Warwick Deeping’s “Bridge of De- sire"—One of those things in which a husband plays around a bit, but finds out that the Little Woman wait- ing patiently at home is best after all. Aturnton’s “The So- ates"—In which a beauti ful Woman's Home Companion hero- ine may or may not have murdered Julius Abbey. Oh, well! (Get a load of the sophisticated title. Sophisti- RTRUDE phisti G. Shaw's “The Road to A well-balanced, clear-cut od things in life, charming style by a New 1 who certainly knows onions @ la Marguery.” guide about the written in York epicu his “ Albany, New York East of Amityville, L. I. Babylon, Long Island Boston, Mass, Chicago, Ilinois Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Detroit, Michigan Galveston, Texas Hartford, Connecticut M. Detariero’s “Houseparty Just the thing to give Auntie to read on the train. The efforts of an English family to throw off the yoke Mama who holds. the purs« strings. The tempo is soporific and very British. E. Phillips Oppenheim's “The Lad- der of Gold”"—The mystery maestro takes a mythical W. R. Hearst raises him to the heights of tua. It takes him several chapters to get back to his old Riviera stampi grounds, but he gets there and how! Good travel trash. Messrs. Seller & Yeatman’s “1066 and All That”—A collection of his- torical parodies, rather precious in spots but quite funny in others. “Boners” and “More Boners”—Dr. Seuss (Log roller! Log roller!) ap- propriately illustrates a collection of Joe Miller jokes out of the mouths of school kids studying to be morons. —Tep Suane Q.C.f motor cruisers are sold by the following distributors: LR. Mack, Inc. Harold's Yacht Basin ‘Wayne Frost Adantic Radio and Marine Co. Ward A. Robinson Ohio River Motor Boat Co. N. J. Shea Leonard H. Thomson, Inc. Robert Sealy F. W. Williams, Inc. Huntington, Long Island Chas. A. Gould, 2nd Newark, New Jersey Newport News, Virginia New York, 217 W. 57th St. Philadelphia, Pa. Griggs Sales Company C.P. Amory G.C.f Marine Salon Harris, LeRoy & Clark San Francisco, Calif. John G. Rapp Corporation Syracuse, N.Y. Washington, D.C. |AMERICAN CAR anpvd jeag WEST 17 S7TH STREET « Syracuse Motor Marine Corp. Stanley H. Horner, Inc. FOUNDRY COMPANY NEW YORK CITY comicbooks.com