Judge — October 24, 1931 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A GAME ey GEORGE 8. PARKER A New Kind of Fun— A New Pleasure in Life Do notdelay the enjoy me tof this new pleasure, the Fun is in Playing it! Great is the thrill where victory or defeat hangs on the next few moves. For the most in= teresting situations fr actual play we offer $1000 in Prizes First Prize, $200; two Prizes of $100; eight of $25; twenty of $10; forty of $5 melot you will always hat should our name and ad Salem, M ntwo weeks after » Camelot Editor, CASTLE SET The New 85 Set with lvoroid Pieces The Red and W : Ivoroid Pieces are a delight to handle, and double the fun of playing Un- ul now, they have nable only in S100 and higher priced sets. This is the set smart hostesses are using at parties. Ask for the new Five Dollar Set with Ivoroid Pieces Price, $5.00 TOURNAMENT Edition Large Weighted been obt Felted Bound POPULAR Edition Red Bo 5 Other Editions, $1 to $50. Send for complete lise At DEALERS’ or by mail What Experts Say of Camelot Sidney S. Lenz says—*The more you play Camelot the better you like it. [think it’s a Milton C. Work says—“It is a brilliant game of extraordinary fascination. Cam is one of the few really great gam: Other Famous PARKER GAMES: Pegity, Ping-Pong, Rook, Pit, Touring, Lindy, Haima, Five Wise Birds, Derby-Day, time Picture Puzzles, etc. “The Standard of Excellence in Games" PARKER BROTHER Six NDON | writing he has. JUDGING BOOKS Poucuen heavily as he is with gen- ius, Upton Sinclair might to the Greatest Living Writer except that he is equally touched with the fanaticism of the professional re former. to him; to us it is unholy. nearly nullifies every power of tre- mendous realism and compassionate He is an artist with He is like William Jen nings Bryan, only less asinine, a fine mind that has sold itself to a blood less, often Methodistie code. Not that he is always wrong, but he ruins al abi nose, | most everything he does with interpo lations from tracts you'd expect to get handed you from Bernarr Macfadd lecturing on a street-corner. In fact. he is a kind of human Bernarr Mac fadden. A book by him is like a mar velous painting of some religious sub- ject, let’s say, with an editorial from the Christian Herald plastered on it by the artist. He is our Greatest Pity. w from his prolific, gifted. stunt ed pen comes “The Wet Parade.” It is probably the most ludicrous, well ineaning, nauseating work on Prohibi tion yet. Worked into a fury by the Terrible Havoc Booth has had on our country, Upton has produced a kind of Horatio Alger, Jr. novel on the matter, written for the W. C T. UL. with all the open-mindedness ind from the viewpoint of a Boy Scout Troop Master. Kip Tarleton is the hero and son of old Powhatan ‘Tarleton, suh, a Vir- ginian gentleman who has drunk him- self wnat heel. So much does "Pow" love his bottle-bending there | is nothing he won't stoop to to get a snort. Finally. stricken with paraly- sis. the old gent is about to cash in | his cheeks All he wants is a drink | to send him off into Never-neverland painlessly. Such is the humanity and disgust for liquor the old man's booz | ing has instilled in Kip, he is refused drink by that young Rover Boy and | passes away sober, Kip leaves the deathbed a bitter person and enlists in the Great Army of the Drys. ht pri he becomes a profession: Always an upr Snooper, an Ella Boole with hair on the chest. He refuses bribes and plays cute little pranks like laying traps not only for | misguided drinkers but also for mis- ided fellow workers with itchier palms than consciences. Love comes to our appealing hero in the shape of little Maggie May | Chileote, a girl Louisa M. Alcott would have understood. 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