Life — January 24, 1924 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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: LIFE : ating 2 Jes pi an. ‘Letters. Soe em P een C2EL HY Stephen McKenna should happens after they are marricd is the — pro reading matter that a have handicapped his new novel i art, as more modern novel- of people have been lookin by calling it “Vindication” (Lit- ists are realizing every day. n coll nae et a tle, Brown) isn’t exactly clear. Nam 4 f Which is saying a ng a novel after an abstraction is PRREATHES there the man with ex- go for’ the «authors, who: are had literary business, because it leads perience so limited that he has not Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot, Milton public to expect the Handling of a numbered at least one collector among — Kilgallen and Murgatroyd Elphinstone Theme, which is what, And just wait till you see the in nine cases out of ten, it un- = ations kily gets. When a wri i < h to keep hi <a, - YD < PEAKING of illustr , if any, entirely subor- —_ those which C. B to his tale, houle : has ¢ for Theodore Drei- bit about th ‘ sce a ser’s “The Color of a Great d write “Rich Man, AN ee i, City” (Boni & — Liveright) Poor Man” or “Marriage fo yl l 4) reveal the imagination and in Money” at the ¢ i ul \ s \ Ae -| telligence which he puts into all his work, and it seems hose titles v 2 \ L in view of the book's Mr. MeKenna’s 4 Y and Mr. Falls’ own en perfectly. It is 4 ‘ } aristocratic English < f that they she with two beaux = s printed in flat sepia. Es- One has money and a manor Y a . pecially when color is the ver which } n't born. The Z , , z which is lacking in Mr + has w castle of “ : y s reminiscences. TI Glouces re, all the trad: t N \ 4 however, was Mr. Falls’ bus’ h such Z AN ‘ ness, inasmuch as he ch slender an i z the paper and type must 1 1 = planned the arrangement and n heiress. cover design, and if he nt only Va Me Manager (after the perform 1 LIKE YOUR thought woodcuts were the hasn't but her rak- ORCHESTRA FIRST-RATE, PROFESSOR, BUT YOU'LL HAVE TO CUT proper accompaniment for the ish old father is never more OUT THE JAzz PIECES, MY BILL FOR REPAIRS ON THESE SEATS text, Iam sure he was right than jump ahead of the IS EATING UP THE PROFITS. Mr. Dreiser goes back to uptey co Of course the New York which he first she loves the priggish patrician, That his frie and acquaintances? (A col- — reme rs—the city, as he says, of his makes the plot. But even when, a mo- lector of antiques, let me hasten to add, dreams. His papers deal with certain menta' m of her emotions, she not of overd accounts.) Certainly phases of metropolitan life which are has every intention of marrying him on not. Many a motoring party with gradually disappearing with the city’s nothing r, she lets Freddie, the nothing its mind but making Pitts- growth, ses of a time when our so- rich 3 nder, give her four field in time to dress comfortably for cial contrasts were more vivid and ar diamond st , dinner, has reached its destination long resting and when the city was, he after nightfall ly because one of thinks, m soetic (and leven’ "iors AX? this brings me to the point of its members, tique hound on a — idealistic than it is now. And he, too, saying that Freddie, against whom _ still-hunt for a all the other chara Ik frightfully, on gettin; every farmhouse a is the only pers: ked in the book. asking personal questions of | the He may have been a bad boy, but he mates. Who has not suffered on some I was always on har e psycl - ccasion in his life through the ov cal m t with a n= activity of the famous Collector's Eye? basket and a sensible line of talk Who has not been tiresomely inal is probably right in one of those psyc tests where the victim must voice his immediate mental reactic to any given word or phrase, the inc shouted scemed absurd for Gloria not to listen to look at happiness through another “Carl. Sandburg” at_ me, J should Bristol glass? Echo answers, Promptly answer, “Smoke.” His poetry shody.” And so “The Collector's is, in my mind, so covered with coal Whatnot” (Houghton Mifflin) should (Continued on page 29) comicbooks.com*