Judge — January 1939 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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¢ the age of six are familiar with the gags used. 8:00 Johnny Presents (Philip Morris Ciga- rettes) CBS. Russ Morgan, mixed. voices, and drama mixed up with lots of Horatio Alger stuff. J p/Sirstmes Night Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra CBS. ‘The first Carnegie Hall concert in five years with music by Ameri- D can composers especially written for the occasion. Plans for featured artists include Art Shaw, Raymond Scott & Quintette, and lots of others. Listen to this regardless of how many relatives happen to drop in. boolis Afterthoug'its on the U.S.S.R, hy Andre Gide. (Dial, $1.50) Big time scribbler writes the TRUTH about Rusia with a broken heart: it was not what he thought it was. But even if his friends insult him, he still loves them, / Benjamin Franklin, by (Wiking, $3.75). C.V.D. proves that Ben was more than a thrift advocate and stooge for the banks. He was a genius, too, and Poor Richard's Almanac is more than a guidebook for shareholders. Charles Laughton and I, by Elsa La (Harcourt, Brace, $3.50). 1. G ‘one look at Elsa and ssid A blows a whistle.” She sings, dances, paints, photo- graphs, and acts, too. Much of the infor- mation is interesting, but did she have to write, also? 7 Tis on Cloudia Crogge, by Q. Patrick (Morrow, $2.25). The complete dowier on Claudia Cragge who is murdered at a scance. Just a fine mystery; no dopey flat: foot, no academic harangwes on ancient Egypt, no amateur pests, no idiot dick, nd (thank heaven!) no love. / Villian Wald, Neighbor ond Crusader, by VY RL. Duffus. (Macmillan, $3.50). Biogra- phy of a modern Nightingale. The founder of the Henry Street Settlement did more for chiklren than the legislatures of all 8 States who couldn't get together on one child-abor amendment, Living in @ Great Big Woy, the Life Stary of Kate Smith, (BlucR bon Books. $98). Rit dio’s full moe Carl Van Doren. nchester. Wells took coming over the mountain, shines down on the nple souls and cracks down on the shysters It’s all whipped crea and ic ickel from a bull's eve. USA. by Boake Carter. (Dodge, $1.75). Carter's right eye doesn’t know this left eye sees. “Since when did riches make people happy?” / Mr. Dooley ot His Best, by Finley Peter ¥ Dunne. (Scribner's, $250). “The Irisher discoorses on Tiddy Rosenfelt, taxes and the coorts. Still one of the classics of dialect humor. Reading the Price Tags of Life, by M. K. Wischart. (Halcyon House). Another success evangelist is clapping his hands and moaning for faith in Santa Claus. Shadows Around the Lote, by Guy de Portales. (Knopf, $3). French prize novel about the disintegration of an aristocratic Genevan family, Well write worth reading, but de Portales’ people are still tying to creep to happiness through the eye of the needle. Sociolism on the Defensive, by Norman Thomas. (Harper's, $3).\ The Fascists may like people but nobody likes what they do to them, ‘The Socialist leader swats the Communists for becoming the Conservative wing of the Democratic party. He has no intention of trading his Socialism for the tail of a second-hand donkey. Teles of @ Wayward Inn, by Frank Case. T c AOL (Stokes, $3). To be praised with faint damns. Praised, as an absorbing account of Mr. Case's stewardship of the cross 4/ {2288 of the literary and theatrical worlds Faintly damned because mere listing of great names tends toward tediousness Still, at lunch the other day, this review sat within a few fect of Fannie Hurst, Gertrude Atherton, Charles Hanson Towne, William C. Lengel, Don Wharton well, you see what we mean, ns of Mister Westbrook Battling Peg- day except hh drunk fairly ound the ring he staggers a like a monkey on a bicycle. / The Story of the Winged-S, by Igor I. Si- V korsky. (Dodd, Mead, $3). A remarkable story of luck, pluck and skill in the pi neering days of aviation, For the same money you get twenty p: ing of life, plus a little red-baiting. = v ell The Trouble With Tigers, by William Saroy- an. (Harcourt, Brace, $2.50). Saroyan has become so tame that he has been let out of his cage and now he goes around making friends with everybody. He loves. himself, the city, the country, the world. The King Wos in His Counting Hou 1, by Branch Cabell. (Farrar & Rineh: ). A story about the never-never-land of Melphe. This strange country suffers from too many currents of hot air. The Silver For, hy Rene Hansard. (Morrow, $2.50). Art with an axe. The theory that man is reborn and Maria Stuart is alive contemporary Germany. A Nazi heads- man sharpens the axe. The writing is skillful and in the style of Ambrose Bierce. To Remember ot Midnight, by Michact Foster, (Morrow, $2.50). A mushmouth tale of the rise of an actress and a direc- tor. Set for the best-seller lists and Holly- wood. Too bad. ty: Second Series, by Paul Valery reourt, Brace, $2.50). Literary essays by a French critic written in impeccable style. His opinions may be conservative but one is never in doubt what those opinions are. Young Doctor Gelohad, by Elizabeth Seifert. (Dodd, Mead, $2.50). Medico MeNeill comes to small-town hospi hony ries to reform medical practices. Written in a manner as clumsy as an elephant in opera pumps. by Dana Doten, (Far. Mr. Doten seeks bed circa 1770 to prove th. was ats in hed car, proving (1 that hum Woo ny WOO circa 1938, and succeeds ve you heard this befor ire hasn't changed a bit Contents for January drawings by Court Colendor ; 38 “Just @ Moment, Pleose”—George £. Duro hint Aldo. Foble-in-Law—irving Shore ‘ 8 ‘Chon Doy 8. Kirchhoimer Lis Smort Set—Eorlon Broley* 9 Jeff Keato os, Bs Brown Tote Stiing, Now—R. S. Conway i) Aldo Hol Adams Mrs, Claus Regrets—Eve Rober!” ' Stonley Stomoty em Slaw Rearety-Se Bott 5‘ MA. Wick Oyer, Oyer, Oyer 2 Borni Soles E.G. Margo A Confidential Letter From o Spy—Petor Murphy “4 Gene Coe Polities—The Senotor-otLorge Is Wien cant The Judge on the Bench—Horry Nowmon 16 C. 8. Colby The High Hot Aword 7 W. Averbach-Levy R.A. Horshborger Around ond About—Judno Jr Morvin. Townson Mor. Tewouend Sense—C. F. Kettering* 19 Williom Willioms eh Tate Me Out to the Bowl Gome—Dow Richordson*...... 21 ‘edney Thomson Alon Hindmarch Music for Christmos 23 C. Boots: Oviatt Listen, Crities—John Cleveland - 4 Pat Deone Bud Blake Ortrstywe Xfgfyrtrygest Weupeurt—Iichool Coates’. 2 Aral Grover Are You Sure? % Cover by Cow in One—Alec uncon fea Bd Ofso Lowell © Double in Spoder—Goorge Coffin a Con | Help You?—Dor Rove* ‘i 3 The Crossword Purzles 30-31 In Witness Whereof—Lottors to the Editor 2 ‘called (o the fact ihat every arti THE JUDGE FOR JANUARY Pees. 18 Rast 8th &&.. New York. N. * HAVE YOU MET.......? George E. Duro... White House cor respondent for International News (whieh native-born that 1 have Washin cver enjoyed the privilege of \o1 1 the tax col- i visits me regul He watched Wikon go out, traveled with Hard covered his nt spots with, ious Hoover to and from . Since the New Deal movest he’s lived in a trunk it may seem, however, he eis at dispatches out under the trunk, “Evie” Robert... one of the brightest lights in the new sorerity of the press, She writes a column, “Eve's y Herald-Times, fall of and Tittle noises of Washi Har Lawrence the Her Robert Jr National Co Sccretity of the ‘Treasury. Dow Richord son... at gentleman from Ind sill lives there, in Gre you thought Hoesiers were now in New York ments writ of the fact th 1890, Unlike came t came to America, like all En; comment on the error of our he is an American citizen by natur on, matrimony and the pa twelve (12) young Amer (12). 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