Life — April 21, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Life Life and Letters ITHERTO in these columns I would the English jewelers and taj- ] have confessed in both song and lors do if it weren't for the aging \ story toa penchant for reading about | nymphomaniacs? th the extremely rich and to the en- I heartily recommend “Crazy i thusiasm of a servant girl for chron- Pavements.” It is the best thing of icles of the gay Lord This and the _ its kind I have yet x beautiful Lady That, with costumes — scen, and has a de- - 7 th by Molyneux (properly pronounced), cided _ advantage & settings by Duveen and dialogue by over other speci- B the Dadaists, so when I heard — mens of its school a i that Doran was putting out a in that it is writ- ‘ new novel full of fair, loose ten with the by women and cynical drug ad- tongue in the dicts from the peerage and cheek, a circum- written in a style suggesting stance which collaboration between Carl Van makes for real Vechten and Michael Arlen, I humor and lively telephoned Mr, John Farrar at’ dialogue. If you once for confirmation of the go out to dinner rumor and was soon in receipt after a session - of “Crazy Pavements,” by with “Crazy Pave- : Beverley Nichols. It is the ments,” your fel- i hs last word in the doings of that joy, guests are go- ff K a section of smart London Society ing to seem aw- 7 which is trying to go Sodom ¢,)), dull W and Gomorrah two or three . it better, and records the adve THOUGHT at tures of a clean and per- first that “Lore “7p - sonable young man Lies Dreaming,” he amongst —_ sophisticates ec E Foreiter % wre ere tae they play (Bobbs - Merrill), ‘The Constant o “decadent “games WS going to be Dub No. 5 th with bath salts, Something differ- wien pivine, , He comes out ent and refresh- He petieves iN Ss just as pure as ing, beennse it be- autting tur 5 aw when he began, gan with a pa- WATER witi Spring Training and with several thet ly realistic EVERYTHING HE re new suits to the domestic spat over HAs—— i rood. he dismisss t In a Nutshell aa been such pas old Sherwoman. But it soon tr OLF—A two-and-a-half-mile hike cross-country with a prig, he could turned into a recital of the minor a five-pound load, in the attempt to knock a small have had a plat- _ bickerings between an author and his m: ball into eighteen consecutive holes by eighteen fault- inum and gold wife, and as I do not like authors as lessly executed shots. Generally attended by failure. cigarette case as characters in fiction any more than Tennis—A struggle between two players, each equally — well. Judging I like them in real life, and as the te intent on making the opponent drop dead through run- by the — rev wife in this case was the smug little Bi ning to retrieve a bouncing ball forty feet to one side tions of modern pussycat type that I never behold fo of him with no other instrument than a wooden frame books, what (Continued on page 35) enclosing the insides of a cat. ca Wrestling—The application of scientific principles of om wr weight, leverage, and momentum to human relationships, culminating in the successful effort of one mass of beef to induce another mass of beef to assume an uncomfort- able horizontal position on a piece of matting, with the alternative of getting his neck broken. Baseball—A game of chance. N. R. J. a tir Sport Note ae M PATRON (in restaurant): Waiter, this bacon is swim- & Bsa D: ming in grease. Waiter: Yes, sir; that is Bacon a la Ederle. SPOTS BEFORE THE EYES col comicbooks.com