Judge — October 3, 1931 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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ASUDGING™ BOOKS (Continued from page 2) money, consents to crack hi ing no place to leave , it with him on the job. The re- © very funny. You get plenty citement, shooting and melo—but you don’t get underworld nausea, as in the screen antics of a George Ban croft. Most of the other stories are equally slick, with * y Honorable Gu almost everything: The f our hero is that he suffers a little from the ute senti- men y so chronic with men, and where it is obvious in the book things go lousy. Another weak- ness is that the style they are written in and the slang used will only remain fresh and novel as long as they're young. But why worry about what hasn't happened yet? Br kK in 1840 little Susan Spray ‘Susan Spray,” by Sheila Kaye Smith) got es aught j in a thunderstorm, and her fear, bred of the Great Hun- ger (what a depression that was). farm- drudgery and a lot of bore her a tremendous religious vision in which God ap- peared, red, awesome and dictatorial. He told her to go home and not be afraid of her parents’ wrath at her leaving her weed-pulling. They would not beat her. And they didn’t. But Susie went further. She cashed in on the vision and, showing a mod ern psychology you wouldn't expect of her, turned nst the normal life forever, sublimating her repressions until she became a great religioso and leader. She set up a sect of her own, developed angels and a gift for sacro- sanct press-agenti acquired estate, plenty of pitiful disciples three husbands with whom she raised merry hell, She became, in just so many words, another Aimee Semple MacPherson, and we fully expecte on any page to find her quarreling with her mother over radio engineers and the profits of selling God to | dopes, excepting her mother was dead. In any case, Susie was a mean, and disagreeable, scheming hussy, foistering a mean, twisted and a > set of “high religious principles” on poor moronic imbeciles, and frankly we could get little kick out of her sublimated rapscalliousness. There is a quality of mountainous mo- notony to her story, and the people who surround her seem unreal, with destinies that somehow don’t concern us. Which may be the fault in the | writing. The story of an Aimee may be trite, but it can’t be so terribly dull. —Tev Suane oe: hope In ysl going To ¢, see Weigh ey OY and tr ig all, i) dh When brovery is required, chew WRIGLEY'S. It's the best way to meet a crisis. It's about the only thing you can do in some cases. And it ot least helps teeth, gums and digestion. INEXPENSIVE + SATISFYING [sPeienin; KE PE T BE = 2 T USED TO RING YouR BELL FOR FUN. NO MORE THOUGH! ‘CAUSE I'M OUT TO SELL MY FATHER'S BOOK—A CARTOONISTS PHILOSOPHY. YA SEE, PUBLISHERS WOULON'T PRINT IT UNLESS CHANGES WERE MADE ,BUT MY FATHER SAYS PERCY CROSBY. PUBLISHER. M¢ LEAN ,VA- Please send me your book — enclosed find $222= Nome Address comicbooks.com