Judge — May 23, 1931 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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WIGH LAT (Continued from page 21) ‘The shop contains sample ipt's chosen from London Pare Vendome, Chels: Brittany and The Tuse by Mons. Mandel (the w They range in rental from 5 to $500 monthly and are perfected in every detail right down to the cock- tail shaker leaving a ring on. the 10, Latticed windows open out onto a most realistic garden with flow- ers, palms, swing, fountains and bot- tles thrown from neighboring win- ra Corners, T ny, all owned Ithy fella). dows, Despite all the brie-i-brac, books ind ash-trays lying around, of the 7,350 people who drifted thru. the shop while I was there, nobody thought of lifting anything except me. I had my eye on a potted palm, but I found they had a special potted-palm Pinkerton to watch it, so I gave up. Literally, however, hundreds of peo- ple with nothing to do sit around the luxurious living-rooms playing — the radios and reading the books. I un- derstand one chap has been there for two weeks and is thinking of senc for his family. So far there is no dis- possessor, but [can see where they're going to need one. And a bouncer. Any minute now some couples are go- to roll the carpets and do a hit of dancing. Anyway, if you have serious business in mind, you choose “your apartment from those on exhibit and sign the old life away for another year. The Parlor Inane I cvuttep this one from the Week- End Book and I recommend it dur- ing that part of the evening when the wet goods and the life of the party have run out and everybody is begin- ning to dislike everybody else. It will provide honest bloodletting and_ is called “Russian Sledges.”” It also will help in getting rid of an objectionable person present, who may be the cause of the pains in the neck all round: Everybody writes down a list of « people present. He then imagines himself and all present racing over the steppes of Russia in the same sled, madly pursued by a pack of ravening wolves. One by one someone must be thrown to the wolves. The idea, then, is to decide whom each player would throw first, whom next, ete, until all are thrown from the sled to be torn to pieces. Accordingly cach player must number off the names on his list in the order he would toss everybody overboard. Needless no one throws himself over. ists are then lected and the numbers after each name are added up and the person who has the small- (Continued on page 27) “LAISSEZ-FAIRE® means “bidin’ my time” —by special invitation of the copyright owners D it means minding your busi- ness and other folks minding theirs, to the end that you (and they) all have a much better time each in his own way —even together. Thatisthe feeling with which most people come back from a holiday in France. The French seem to have a sort of copyright on it. It is a good feeling. It doesn’t square with a Puritan notion that one ought to make everybody else’s business his own, but it is a good feeling, engendered by fifty million Frenchmen. . . It is a feeling which takes more and more Americans to France, to get to know a people strangely unlike themselves, with a lot of ideas about agreeable living which prove strangely like the American idea of paradise. And more and more Americans are discovering that if they cross on ititte, ILE DE FRANCE 1 ‘ setae PARIS watts FRANCE June 17, July 6 LAFAYETTE June 18, July 16 Joly 1, July 18 ecthel, DE GRASSE July 2, July 30 wots ROCHAMBEAU June 27, July 23 French Liners, they get from ten days to two weeks extra of delightful laissez-faire in their holiday. French Liners are France. Passengers are not bossed, ordered, herded. They are organized by experts to have a mar- velous time without feeling organ- ized—each according to his tastes. They are fed bountifully by chefs trained in the great kitchens of France. They are housed and com- forted by staffs trained in the most luxurious hotels. Through the whole fleet, from the thrifty Rochambeau to the magnificent Paris and the Ile de France, each passenger is a true guest of the ablest seagoing hosts afloat. “Laissez-faire” probably has a lot to do with the fact that last year more first-class and cabin passengers crossed in French Liners, ship for ship, than in any others afloat. Those same six superb ships are flashing back and forth now—all ready for your call to the French Line, at 1g State Street, New York—or any authorized French Line agent. comicbooks.com