Judge — October 1934 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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JUDGING THE BOOKS Clinical Chart AME. of in Name of John O'Hara. ‘ype of Operation: Dissection of Cadillac country club set in prosperous American town of the 19% operating Name of Disease: Dittitus Vulgaris. Americanus Bab- Causes of Disease: Too much drink- ing, coveting and nouveau riche living Symptoms: Characters complain of hangovers; act richly vulgar; talk like Dash Hammett letchers. Notes on Opera’ Dr. O'Hara en- tered operation room on page 1 in high- ly morbid mood. Began subjecting pa- tient to the knife immediately, kept him on operating table till very end. The nt didn’t have a chance. The op- eration may have been a success but the patient died. Consultants in Operation: Dr. Hem- ingway, called in, gave the incisiveness Dr. Dorothy Parker, the style. Dr, Sin- clair Lewis, the subject matter. More- over Dr. O'Hara, having previou studied the methods of these eminent could hardly fail, having refined their experiences to utter neatness, and bril- liant imitativeness, Even the good doc: tor’s commas are a mnt care- Tho the doctor may only be imitative, he at least is brilliantly so. iseptic, beir ine. fully dipped in Remarks: Very clever depre: case history. Should be studied fully by all those interested in the dis- ease but not by those who hate the blues Dr. O'Hara, by the way, should recover, given plenty of sunshine and fresh air and eggs. He has recently departed for the West Coast where, under the sunny influence of the Paramount Studio San- itarium for Sad Crushed Writers, he ought to do well. HO Mr. Charles Brackett tells us nothing new about the Woollcott Group in his new lightie “Entirely Sur- rounded” he manages to put out an hour or two of sparkling entertainment. Any one who knew the Algonquin Literary Indians back when they were rediscov- ering croquet, anagrams, backgammon and Dorothy Parker’s curious habits, will merely turn the pages of the novel as they would those of a well thumbed photographic album. “Entirely Sur- rounded” might have been a book to stand up alongside of Boswell’s “John- son,” Evelyn Waugh, or A. J. Maedon- nell, but either the characters therein lacked the stature or Mr. Brackett did. We're tempted to think it was the latter. The people seem either to awe the auth- or or swamp him, (Next page, please) | SGALD you" LITTLE THINGS THAT ADD TO YOUR COMFORT AND SAFETY ARE IMPORTANT TO STATLER HOTELS Probably not one person ina thousand has everbeen badly scalded in a bath. Butagainst even that thousand to one chance you are protected ata Statler Hotel. Out of our long experience, we realize there might be a danger, however slight so we guard you against it by automatic con- trol of hot water temperature. 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