Life — April 26, 1923 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Canadian National Railways Love and the Modernists Booth Tarkington thinks that the atti- tude of the modern writers toward love and sex questions can best be illustrated by the attitude of various people pass ing a bench in a park whereon a couple are love-making. He and his followers notice, but take another path and hurry on. The moderns stop and watch! *—Boston Transcript. His Severest Critic Avutuor’s Wire: You don’t impress me as much as you do your public. Autuor: It makes no difference, my child—you can’t write criticisms. —Meggendorfer Blatter (Munich). comicbooks.com