Judge — April 23, 1932 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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tatzany Dornewy a “Dm sorry, Miss Lawrence, but you'll have to with the Liabilities.” JUDGING THE JUTTONHOLE several average, or Ham Fish Americans, on the street, ask them bluntly what they know of Trotsky, and ten will get you our hundred this is what you'd learn: That Trotsky is a Russian Jew who operated a pants-pressing shoppe in the ynx until he was thrown out of America for trying to ipset the Republic. He then returned © Russia and overthrew the Czar. That he had something to do with the Wall Street wartime bomb ex- plosion. That while he was here he was an extra in the movie studios vith Theda Bara. That he cannot speak good English or Russian and hat he wrote all his official Russian army communiques in Yiddish, That he never bathed and is as ignorant all pusheart gimbels. Invite him © dinner now and he sits egged because of oldtime That he and Stalin broke a girl. Such is what a good Defence So- jety will do for eputation! We therefore suggest that it be required or every person who calls himself cross habit. up over an intelligent human being to read “The History of the Russian Revolu- tion” by Trotsky himself. Further, let it be required that every intelli- gent person who has read it go out into the streets and beat over the heads with clubs anyone who still harbors any or all of the above opin- ions. (If they're legislators taking public pay let the blows be doubled). “The History of the Russian Revo- lution” is a monumental piece of work by one of the leading military strategists, christian thinkers and intellectual historians of the age. T comes as an agreeable surprise to spike the rumor that movie actors cannot read. Not only does the evidence before us prove this but it looks as if they can write What we have in mind is a novel called “House for Sale” by an eve-filling sweet number of the talkies called ssa Landi. Not only this, but we are given to understand that Miss Landi herself distilled the brew down to the last gurried emo- tion and no Hollywood press agent too, new step over there BOOKS ghost done up in Mis: Landi ing smock did it for her! Well, why not? Writers act; artists draw, and people with athlete's feet needn't have athlete’s brain. writ- The Man Stilts” Landing,” two The Goldfish Bowl" t Jr. deals with a noble, lusty theme:—the general jnanity sur- rounding American hero-worship. young decent fellow becomes an over- night hero and his life transfers over and belongs to the ages. The usual ballyhoo madness swirls over on him and almost engulfs him and his in parades, ticker tape, radio, Rotary meetings, ete. Not that we don't appreciate such stuff but even sé can become a pattern and What tempers our stuffin the piece, however, is the fact that the author's intentions were honor- able; an aim at satire is better than no satire at all; and it is a pleasure to know that such a book can yet published when written. —Tep SHANE on and recent Mary comicbooks.com