Life — November 22, 1923 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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True, this time it leads to Russia, by way of and though we have said that we are thoroughly fed up on German intrigue, of which Oppen- heim is High Priest and Past Grand- Master, we find ourselves looking wistfully backwards for Baron von Pilsener, the dashing Countess Vera, or certain high officials in the High Command. For they had color, snap, ability and improbability, and, above all, élan, whereas Russian politics, as every one knows, is as banal as the thumb of a Bolshevist jailer in a cracked bowl of prison soup, as drab as Eugene O' Il drama. To atone for this realism, perhaps, Oppenheim introduces us to an im- possibly frigid Grand Duchess, who is traveling in France and England under the name of Melle de Poiniere. Somewhat more credible are Gerald Hinterlays (Lord Dombey), and his friend Christopher Bent. Gerald is a bit of a devil-may-care but “ever the Gent,” while Christopher is ever any- thing but. The earlier part of the book keeps us on Oppenheim’s old stamping ground—Monte Carlo. With cold hauteur, Melle de Poiniere lures poor Gerald on in clandestine meetings and cuts him in public. He impoverishes himself in order to obey her wishes, and she sends him off to Russia to rescue her brother —her brother, mark you— from a lingering prison diet. We forget whether they change places, but anyway Gerald gets Brother out of jail and himself lan- guishes in prison amid all sorts of hor- rors. In this milieu, we meet Elsa Francks—a character study, full of lo- cal color, kindheartedness and liquor. She rescues Gerald and gets him back NEW YORK Tea in the Palm Room Dancing in the Supper Room JOHN McE. BOWMAN President Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 8) mined....Enjoined my husband to go with me after dinner to hear some finc musick at a hall, but he looked so dum! and helpless over it, poor wretch, that | left him home to read in H. Van Loon’s The Story of the Bible. November Kate Mitchell in our 17th house ridiculously early. full of mysterious talk about some revelry of the night before. but as she named none of the company I refused to satisfy her by displaying any curiosity. Lord! I know not which people are more irritating, those who actually succeed in keeping their doings secret or those who try to publish them through the probe system....To a mat- inee of the Gr-enwich Village Follies, and I bitterly regret having taken Sam- uel, for when we reached home he did strive to emulate the man who makes the slow leap into the air and succeeded only in breaking the Sévres bowl which holds the bittersweet and also one of his toes. B. L. An Easy Way to Remove Dandruff If you want plenty of thick, beautiful glossy, silky hair, do by all means get rid of dandruff, for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don’t. The best way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it. 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If Mr. Oppenheim feels that he has exhausted Germany and must neces- sarily turn to Russia for complicated writing, let us beg of him to be more sparing of detail than he has been in this story. M.H. THE MOVING STAREWAY E “See anybody you knew in New —London Opinion. York?” “No, but I had some narrow escapes.” WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD COMPANY, NEW YORK, Us. ‘961 E. 24rd St, Dept. 104, comicbooks.com