Judge — October 31, 1931 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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» to yf n q t. ing and AUDGING™ BOOKS WwW have just finished “A Cartoon- ist's Philosophy” by Perey Cros- and our general reaction is one of aving expected Eddie Cantor to come out on the stage and, instead of running thru his routine, go into a ve- hement reading from The American Mercury. In other words, we have al- ways held the comic artists we h known as hail-fellows well-met in speakeasy without a serious idea or line to their very fine old heads, and so to find Perey Crosby an amateur philosopher of no mean fire, and a fervent fellow terribly serious about a few dozen missions — has left us a little breathless. For Skippy’s pop turns out to have the repressed ambitions of a Minor, the light of Goeth veney but 4 Robert ry for truth and ind a lot of the fer- misguidedness of a Bryan. In leidoscope of opi ions, Platonic dialogs, anecdotes, Ste- vensonian ramblings, free verses, sketches, squibs, cuff notes, formal es- says, letters, nifties, and travelogs— ili held together by a strong ri monism—he spe ks his mind on ncyelopiedia of such top! Prohibition, Atheism, Theosophy, Astronomy, Caponcism, Universal Brotherhood, the Saloon, Christ, Children, Art, Cru- saders, The Church and the Pj. Life, Letters, and Motherhood. Top- ies that most of us tremble to ap- most an 1s Povert Communism, proach without a self-conscious em- harrassment, Perey wades into with hoth fists and all the aplomb of a Don Quixote boasting the mind and the im patience of a Nietzse Honesty, and what we Perey, forbids us so we must admit w thing Perey had to say. Thu felt rather indulgent over his some- what naive reformation from drink- ing, but we think his ideas on rey ing the ridiculous amendment entire sound, We think his opinions on Atheism very freshman and smacking of the rguments they used to have around the intellectual cracker-barrels of the latter 19th Century. We are frankly assed by some of his religious s which sound as tho he had ot religion.” Put that down to our weakness, however. We think his exposé of the way business, the radio nd the press are muzzled by the drys excellent. We think his Art Criti- little egotistical. We think his proposition to duel Capone was very sportsinanlike, and we would like to have had a bet on Capone had it come off. We liked all the illustrations. We think everything Skippy has to know of 1 hackseratehing, didn’t Hi - in the book delightful and, more than once, in some of Percy's more crusading passages wished the whole book had fallen’ fr the mouth of Skippy. We think Skippy's soliloquy wonderful when he says, “When I to be very old I'm goin’ to put iny teeth in a glass an’ stay up all night an’ watch them ache,” We think Skippy ought to keep his pop from getting too serious, T HERE is a le: ing, the glish literature. varwick Deep- low of FE Month after month, r, novels appear under ach bearing the same strict tion of plot. ¢ ter, and “mental overtone.” He is Mr. Zi There is always a noble male (lamed in the war) who keeps niums, is an easy prey for the sufferings caused by the life ma- terial, including nymphomaniacs, the Coarseness of the violators of the British Code, an unhappy wife, or Communism, who smokes a pipe and whimsies away the days dopily till re- ward and happiness come in the form of love for another Noble Person: a Pure, Simple Woman. Y. and musi unchange regiment alike as d's ideas, t the words and orchestration are as as Jimmy Savo. Weep I into the millions, and dly wait till his next imprint will appe: The Lesson, we would hazard, lies being Sincerely Simple. Warwick himself will tell you he believes “in and that after cleverness ing’s pice his public can rubber-stamp simplicities” “peo ple who are out first fail to sce that life is a complex of the great simplicities.” In other words. if you are a sweet old daddums and keep your head empty and your aniums well-watered, do a lot of clean living, believe in’ the nobler things, and write hooks about rsh how the mon rolls in. n Commandments,” by our favorite old bucket of sentimentality, is his latest and brought on the above case of indigestion, It has everything for those with a Decping complex, or will you have your whiskey straight? Murder Row: Ellery n’s “Dutch Shoe Mystery” nd ground plan but a terrible ince detective; H. C. Bai Py's “Mr. Fortune Speaking” is in’ the Sherlock Holmes manner and amus- ingly readable; C. Fitzsimmons’ “70,- 000 Witnesses” is recommended by Virtue of its novel murder on the goal line of a football game; and Ham- mett’s “The Thin Man," soon to ap- pear, is a peach. Ten Suane Faux Pasz® Famous Why there ain't no Ornomorunkuses... He didn't mean to be mean, but Nosh, the firct_ man to ride into @ high place on a wot sue, did the ornomorunkus dirt. Time was 0 no family circle was complete with- out « pet one hitched to the porch rail c gallumping around with the kiddies. But Noah, with all the fuss of g from the dock on time, ting the ork orgot to send ing schedule and the po: d the boat. 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