Judge — November 7, 1931 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Court! “QORRY, folks”, explains the Court, “but jewelry and such things won't do. The Automo- bile Responsibility Laws of this State distinctly say you must either put up cash or negotiable securities —or show proof that you have ac- ceptable insurance protection. Accep- table means your policy must be written by a Company licensed to do business in this State*.” You as a motorist, never know when you, too,may be held legally re- sponsible for an Automobile accident. What’s more, in some states violation of the traffic laws, such as passing a standing trolley car, may also involve the same penalty ee loss of your right to drive (even to drive your car back -home) —unless you can degally establish your financial re- sponsibility. Etna’s Combination Automobile Policy not only includes every insur- able motoring risk, but is acceptable evidence of your financial respon- sibility in every state in the Union. Canada, too! * 17 states and 3 Canadian Provinces have now enacted Financial Responsibility Laws ALTNA-IZE 25,000 REPRESENTATIVES FROM COAST TO COAST SEE THE ATNA-IZER IN YOUR COMMUNITY— HE IS A MAN WORTH KNOWING ‘The Atna Casualty & Surety Company, The Etna Life Insurance Company, The Auiomo- bile Insurance Company, ‘The Standard Fire Josurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut write practically every form of Insurance Fidelity and Surety Bonds. The Aitna Casualty and Surety Company, Hartford,Conn. Gentlemen: Send me your free booklet— “What Every Motorist Should Know About The New Automobile Financial Responsibility Laws.” Name Address ist Show Volue WE AVG MAIL THIS TODAY | JUDGING“ BOOKS & will have to do a little semi- nathaning in the case of “All Passion Spent” by V. Sackville-West (fem. gender), and not quite agree with the ecstatic hair-tearing-out with which the more literate critics greeted it. We read it with considerable rel- ish, found it charmingly and easily written, liked it enormously but s¢ how thought it just very superior Katherine Mansfield, It is the story of Lady Slane, who, on the death of her husband (surely you remember old Slane, the great dane of No. 10 Downing Street), decides to throw off the self-assumed inferiority enforced by marriage and live for herself. Her family, a dusty collection of stuffed shirts and comfortable quite shocked. But the Dame is quite firm and goes off into one of those whimsy cottages Lon- don Suburbs with names like Ele- phant’s Twiddleham are famous for, where she lives amongst her del- phiniums, memories and a number of lovely old human chippendales like The story of her life is re- what Harry Rapf would call ack method, excepting Harry thinks a flashback is something that lights up the field during night foot ball. But there is, we insist, a qual ity of theatricality to the piece, the idea sounds quaint and invented, and we don’t like the way the author seems to be aching between the lines, for the calm and peace of second childhood when her fires run low. The freshr soms, are and Old at times is our favorite hero. Me months ago we got ourself into a large pile of trouble by sug- gesting that the works of Donald Henderson Clark, who spec melodrama played in underwe a special appeal for the Queens of the Royals and pluggers of the Am Tel & ‘Tel apparatus. We bec popular as a dish of poison our office staff, and presented with a carload of wrong numbers from our telephone girl for months afterwards. As a further rebuke the young cuties, instead of rushing out to lunch (five minutes of Schrafft’s and 55 minutes of Saks’ Fifth Avenue), in, nibble at a piece of Spiss knacke- brod and ble up large chunks of Dostoievski, Déblin or Dreiser—seri- ously and expressly for our benefit. However, our skilled auditor-oper- ators inform us that D. H. Clark's latest is called “Young and Healthy. and tho it hasn't the knock-’em-down and-undress-'em power of some of Mister Clark's others, it will do; it has worn out three presses in keeping the supply up to the demand and is ar, have would stay doing well towards satisfying the (Continued on page 29) comicbooks.com