Judge — February 6, 1932 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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V netier Mr, Alec Waugh sat the Great Garbo for his portrait of Faith Sweden in his “That American Woman” we wouldn't know, Bat it savors strongly as if he did, and we wouldn't put it past him te. He's a eat one, that lad, for the women— always. tryi to | { them up in hooks i somethi mysterious, snaky, brilliant and eniginatic, He's That's what he is Anyway, we would know that while reading “American perienced a number of thoughts. sen- and little with young. Woman” we ex- sations, aches. we usually associate witnessing a Garbo squawkie. non-sequiturs can rushing up like “What's it all about? and “The Yanks ought to come next year—ther've got Ruth, ¢ Crossetti, ete. ete The sensations ynsisted of parts Tiny thru nez, various ving to sleep, necessitating rubbing while the located to be furious dwelt upon ina family Don’t feel bad, say we didn’t like Garbo, We didn't and we don't however. say we don’t like Me. Wangh's piece. We just hold them to be tnarvelously charming and obvious enigmas. As the movies have attempted to build up a super-woman, a cross between the great Mary M ene, Conrad's dream-woman, and the stone-faced Sphinx, so Waugh has tried to con- 1 Park jure up out of his good prose Avenue hussy that can knock ‘em in the aisles. The only trouble is that, like Thal berg, Waugh is ne chologist. great feminine psy- AM he can do is produce the beauty and her background pretty faithfully, and throw her around in a “Sophisticated” potboiler. What he cannot do and what he obviously wants to do is sweep the reader into 1 state of cataleptic a plain hoyden. Besides, Park Avenue has become a dull, windswept, empty and. its more or less 0 Otherwise, an.” if you called this y telly of the place, hussies were always srrated ice packs. hat American Wom- must know, might be ur’s Society Special. It e of Gordon unhappy Carruthers, a young British feller writer for the aforesaid be-butlered. he-lucred Faith Sweden. This love is all the w modern, Avenue woman, the rarely bumps. pampered, jittery—a very busy Faith is strictly shallow, Park lovely swank of doing nothing in social manner. She and Gordon get together and their efforts to do so are so much good travelogue. For, as far we could see, the book is laid in New York, London and the SUDGING “BOOKS Riviera, to tip the wink to the author's wide travel experience. ‘The ending is a bit a will probably — read American Woman” you any B's Amrs Wittiams, having these few years back written for Money, has attempted a half-turn and with his newest novel, “Honeytlow,” is writing to include Art. Such arc his wifts he may succeed, For, matter how dull we have found a great number of Mr. Williams’ nickel installinenters, we always been We believes in’ those and enjoy it, but it won't do have impressed by his utter honesty. believe he carbon-copy super-Rover Boy stories, sincerely never averaged a half to cach and even if we have than ap: Amesian boo! more and cannot be denied. The point is that. from “Honeytlow” is all we the can gather, story of a woman who puts her a lot of sacri- T around to gain her cherished There is the usual log cabin to the and we are sure that we don’t quite see Mr. Ames being cabled the 1 Prize in advane but then we don’t intend finishing it cither. Fexice Cuaris's City: Girl" is ~ pretty cheap light reading; that is, it costs two frog-skins and should really be paper-backed; the will pay what they call money for it. anda few million will eat it up in one form or other. So why should Miss Chapin worry hersel y that we don’t even care about it I (rep Pastey has turned out another admirable re-write underworld job in “Muscling In,” the inside story of the rackets that everybody who reads his newspapers faithfully cannot help but knowin Tho Mr. Pasley’s in- dignation against the Capones is pretty 1, we think hard times he ought to have cut his bitter resentment (in the name of the Amer ican people) about 107. For, think of the poor racketcer. We suppose business isn’t bad for him fore everything, doing fici Amesian and maple writing, career. Vermont honesty syrup coming Not eytlow, movies justifi as well as everybody else? We suppose he hasn't taken it on the chin? Is that being American to criticise at such a time, Mr, Pasley? Cimstornee Mortey has another load of whimsey around called Manhattan,” —Tep Smane Family such intensity of mind | GREATLY REDUCED RATES WEST INDIES AND SO. 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