Life — May 19, 1927 — page 42: what you’re looking at

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40 Life e fo 6 California at Summer rates Vig Havana and — Round Trips one way WATER Largest and fastest ships in Coast-to-Coast service Reduced,summer round trip rates; one way by water, one way by rail. $350 includes First Class berth and meals on steamer and fare across the Continent from main line point nearest your home. Also “Golden Tour” specially conducted round trip leaving westward early July. One way water $250 First Class. PANAMA PACIFIC LINE International Mercantile Marine Company) No. 1L Broadway, New York City, our offices elsewhere or steamship and railroad agents. California via the Scenic Way West "SQ CENIC JIMITED Thru the surpassing wonder- lands of Colorado, Royal Gorge and Utah. Stopover anywhere en route. Low round trip summer fares effective May 15. Write for new illustrated Cal- ifornia booklet. \. D, Bell Pass, Traf. Mgr., Mo. Pac, R. R. Co. Ry. Exch. Bldg., St. Louis, Mo, Please send illustrated literature to Name Address City and State. Life and Letters (Continued from page 2+) had allowed themselves to reac The jacket says that it is dedicated to the proposition that life is to be taken with a befitting lack of seri- ousness, and that its characters are “a group of modern Americans who flit back and forth between Paris and Park Avenue just as if it really mattered where the Well, I don’t take life any more seri- ously than the next one—in fact, I take it less so, because the next one has written several letters about my gaiety to Douglas Elliman & Co. But when the exigencies of my profession require me to read about people whom the publisher admits to be in- consequential, I insist that what they do and say shall be at least diverting. were. a | QYLVIA cD WAR- NER as the academic critics tell us, a peculiar talent. There are moments when, for s almost too peculiar, and yet anaged to get through “Mr. For- tune’s Maggot” (Viking Press), which is more than I could do for her popular “Lolly Willowes” of last year, and to pull several smiles over TOWN has_ indee more the vagaries of its hero, a missionary who rated one convert in three years on a South Sea Island, and then found that even that one was doing ng what the Bible about the worship of God and Mammon. This revelation of how the Polynesians came near to turning the their well-wisher is a pol- ished piece of grotesque, and it con- tains a perfectly lovely definition of an umbrella. But for the author to follow the current custom of an- nouncing on the fly-leaf that the and characters of her story are entirely imaginary is going al- most too far, e in the interest of left-handed humor. | scenes Baird Leonard. THE ADVANCE NUMBER will be out next Tuesday, and the COMMENCE- MENT NUMBER the T day after that. read Life regularly Speaking of Night Clubs GNoneof the best night clubs in New York, APOLLINARIS water will be found adorning the pet tables. A little further removed from the center of gaiety, the tables are set with a cheaper mineral water. In the far corners, you will find one still cheaper, First place is automatically given to ar ni Apollin aris Telephone your dealer for a case Sole Importers: Apollinaris Agency Co., Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. New Yori Goin: Strone, 6, EVERY week!) Extremely Mild BUSA TURWINAL PRINTING CORPORATION, BROOKLYN NEW YORK comicbooks.com