Show I I II Popularizing What and When and How and Who I 0 WH H I lS Ji 4 OIO N oPPER IN G- G I n 52 It was thus that Ask Me Another inspired the pen of the inimitable Milt Gross A It has suddenly become fashionable fashion fashion- able to ask embarrassing questions Yes the sort your little bo boy Rollo has been asking Such questionnaires we might add are very likely to turn out to tobe tobe be the long lost little brother or of the cross word puzzle Ask Me Another Viking Press the first of these erudition testers to make its appearance seems to prove that the nation Is ready for problems of all sorts so long as prohibition Isn't one of them If you doubt this then consider con con- sider please that copies were copies were disposed of almost before the presses cooled leaving the poor publishers with the problem of tellIng tellIng tell tell- Ing the retailers that no more would be available until a special fifth fifth- or was It a sixth could be turned out The moral of this volume as near as we can figure out Is this Where Ignorance Is bliss fo folly ly to waste a dollar or so on a cop copy Perhaps the vogue can be accounted accounted ac- ac counted for by those insIdious advertisements ad- ad which have been appearIng ap- ap telling of the colossal knowledge of a certain anon anonymous gentleman who steals the Interest ot of the evening by revealing his encyclopedic encyclopedic en- en knowledge on this and that Personally such an Individual would bore us to death and our own experience has been that we became the hit ot of the evening on occasions when we were able able to reveal reveal re- re veal Inside d details of the Peaches Peaches- o rO I W t S- S U- U vorce suit But since the question book threatens to repeat the cross cross word craze perhaps we had best give it serious attention The editors editors- Justin Spafford and Lucien Esty late of tried Amherst each set of fifty questions on some established notable and the mental score of each appears boldly upon every page Thus Anita Loos scored 80 on one set and Heywood Broun was unable unable un- un able to name the most popular type of tractor The erudite Ernest Bo Boyd d scored but 72 In another set whereas where where- as Bill Tilden the tennis shark hit off a good 78 H. H I. I Phillips who writes funny stuff also got SO 80 and James Johnson who sings spirituals achieved a similar av- av Dr Frank Crane got 90 but buthis buthis his questions were easier than some of the others NEA EA Survey |