Life — February 28, 1924 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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HARRY a glutton discomfort in His latest book published by FRANCK for M*« seems to Ix travel the Century misery in China and Manchuria, where Mexico, Central and South America and the West fered acutely from blisters on his poor Company tells of his as in Spain, Indies, he suf intercostal rheumatism, the heel, lumbago, hunger, thirst venality LIFE Broadcastings By Montague Glass than a th might tereostal rheumatism days’ railroad journey and in my opinion there is no part of Mexico City which remotely resembles the East Side. The I. Madero, formerly San F or Toledo in Naples Avenida Francesco the street called ancisco, looks like the Via Roma There are other parts of the city which remind you of see the mural paintings of the Mex ican modernists; if you enjoy the gar dens of Coyoacan and San Angel, you could stay in Mexico City a year and bored. Nor in my biased opin cultivated being Nordic or pure Three of them played not be ion do the Mexicans suffer from not even Mediterranean, a Mendelssohn trio in the Globo rest exhibiting the rant without of ignorant officials and par- ticularly the lack of st heat, hi water and comforts of his native All of Mr bo« to am and cold running modern Mich Franck’s other igan. heart recommended as unfaili ces of consolation if you are tied down to a job and can't get away to enjoy f cign travel culated to lucky to mobility They are cal make you feel lost evertheless, it is have your hardly fair to such countries Mexico, Brazil and the Argentine Republic that we should see them through Mr ranck’s eye, which, to mix a metaphor, is jaundiced by feet and intercostal It may well be rheumatism that accurate country by traveling on fo« more one receives a impression of a 1 road: over muddy stayin at country inns and eating messes of the but 1 put it to you, as they say in the British law that you wouldn't be able to tell New York if it ji were described to you by a Chat the horrible poorest inhabitants courts, much about K Binks on man who lodged ANYTHING NEW IN THE PAPER THIS NO, THE SAME BROKEN EVENING TEN COMMANDMENTS traits of venality, treachery and political ineptitude Mr. Franck which and the newspapers us to be lieve typical of Mexican hali-breeds, and the ‘cellist of this ensemble not only was half-Indian but, unless other Indiar My therefore, that 1 miss my guess, tl half conclusion is, was too. you ean't do justice to Mex ico City as a writer unless nd and And sour tastes are wsthetic your feet anesthetic this bars Mr. Franck. sae AMUEL BUTLER, in his “The Way « All Flesh,” says that the rector of a certain church would have been as much surprised to see any of his parishion- ers not professing the prin ciples of Christianity as he would have been shocked to find out that they practiced them. A_ friend of who was the organist of a mine London church says that one he and the recte church to decide week-day visited the upon some which to be made to the or gan, and the rector suddenly discovered that intruder repairs were an ham Square, ate at Saint coffee stands stantly being to explain seedy appearance to desk the downtown precinct station houses For example, Mr. Franck’s boc about Mexico dismissed Mexico City in a few brief He said it was like the lower East Side of New York. Last year I there ina Pullman from El Paso with a fair knowledge of East Side, rea- sonably painless feet and no more in- Andrew and was con obliged his sergeants in contemptuous syllables arrived Rome, or even of Los An geles, unless Harry Franck little appreciation of heauty in music and architecture to be- gin with, and that little quite destroyed hy painful feet, y will find enough to interest and amuse you superficially in Mexico City for at least a m If, however, you are on the at fe cighteenth mar the Paris, or and with you are a nth century ironwork wrought lanterns, and if you would velously metal decoration of doors had entered and was on his pew with buried in his hands in silent prayer The the disturber of the ecclesiastical peace and tapped him on the shoulder “You can't knees in a rear his face rector immediately went up to “L say!” he said sharply do that sort of thing heah, you know Tuesday.” see This is He every was being explained to Mr nochstein that at the end of (Continued on page 31) comicbooks.com