Judge — March 5, 1932 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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dentally is quite an eyeful for a lady paper-destroyer) presents a ravishii voung super-hoyden blessed with vast, unruly magnetism, and, unable to cope with this magnetism, reverses it on herself to bring about her own destruction, In other and more Eng- lish words, she is just a little mean ill wrapped up ina beautiful bod who cannot do right by anyone and has to pay and pay and pay. It sounds a little distasteful to us, this wanton killing off of such a lump of beauty. We like our women toi high-spirited, and willing, but prob- ihly we are all better off in the long run if we marry a girl just like mother © for the fascinating dé- of this sexual free-lance is « the American expatriates in s. Anne (may we call you Anne. Anne?) again group picture of one of those curious hybrid lies that are more respectable American than f and the writing is, as su ising to eve and mind, if, of hay-leaf for Miss Green, boy he see tin | Vite slight soupcon of boredom and ridicule with which he regards most nds him- Still Dane- a tour of Abyss nd_ points by Evelyn Waugh, our favorite hacardi author, as sprightly a trav- log as we've ever read. Thus when he follows an enraptured professor of ethnology up to a holy spring at the waters of the Jordan, he notes the had plumbing with which the sacred juice is being conveyed to rustic shower bath where a native boy is rubbing himself down with as much ido as if he were scrubbing himself in 1 purely secular shower. This may not wow you, and true, a lot of Waugh's humor springs from a sense of personal finickiness and an undue preoceupation with such comforts of civilization as his daily bath and pala- tial cinema, but the chuckles are there. Also there is a good full peep into Abyssinia, a dark, queer, land. We wad every word of “The Brontés Went To Woolworth’s” by one Rachel Ferguson, a nimblewit of Punch, which is also a good comic ne, and liked it. But we also. pite the fine bits of pure British mand comic allusion which made s lau gh, haven't the faintest concep tion of what it was all about, It has v story, and if we had a better grip on the esoteric channels the minds of British lady comics seck | + We might have understood it. As 1 we know is the book made us gh, and we hope it will you, too. \fter all, there is always plot—yes, | heaven knows, there is always plot. | » SHANE tours to $395 europe RECREATION and up all-inclusive rates Here is a gayer, smarter way to see Europe at moderate cost. Included with complete sightseeing by motor are entertainment features to lend spice to your travels. On a RECREATION TOUR you will dine at famous restaurants, bask on fashionable beaches, spend evenings at concerts and the opera, and dance at the haunts of the cosmopolitan world. All these unique amusements are included in our modest | rates. Write for booklet J describing these twenty tours. | CALDWELL TRAVEL SERVICE, INC. 665 fifth avenue new york city