Show W what d f thinks about The Thc Big Book Craze SANTA ANTA MONICA CALIF Were We're promised a historical historical historical cal novel longer than any yet say say half a million words o or so Of course the author probably uses some words at least twice but that wont won't reduce reduce reduce re re- re- re duce the gro gross s tonnage unless unless unless un un- less they're very short words I cant can't take It While still convalescent convalescent convalescent con con- from Anthony Adverse I was stricken down by Gone With the m Wind and had such sucha a n rel relapse that even now I barely can j hold on my stomach such comparatively r f light and trifling stuff as volume VET VETto to ZYM of the en en- cyclopedia When reading this modern bulk literature literature literature litera litera- ture it upsets me to Irvin s S. S Cobb find my legs going to sleep before I do And the constant constant constant con con- stant pressure makes on my second m mezzanine landing I r admit these mass production books serve nicely as door stoppers and for pressing wild flowers I also heard of a chap who detected a prowler under his window and dropped a frothy little work of fiction fiction fiction fic fic- fic- fic tion weighing slightly less than nine pounds on the back of the fellows fellow's neck dislocating three vertebrae At last accounts the surgeons were still picking long jagged chapters out of his spine In my present mood what I crave is the romantic stuff sniff of olden days in which our sainted Aunt Sophie was wont to inscribe Alas how sad or Only too true I In pale violet ink on the margins What h happened to all the Aunt anyhow An Actors Actor's Temperament WEVE WE'VE EVE all been waiting for something to top it but the best wheeze of the month remains the one that was emitted not by a paid gagster but by a simple stagehand stagehand stagehand stage stage- hand at one of the studios when Mr 11 Leslie Leslee i Howard refused to go on making maling a picture until a group of distinguished vis visitors tors Including Mr Charles Norris the novelist had been shooed off orr the setHe setHe setHe set He aint sore at you gents stated stated stated stat stat- ed the stage-hand stage to the ousted parties parties parties par par- ties but hes he's been Hamlet Hamlet Hamlet Ham let on the regular stage and he aint used to havin a crowd him while hes he's If Mr 11 Norris and his friends wanted wanted wanted want want- want want- ed to see some really great acting they should have patronized the thc pro professional pro pro- wrestling matches That's where they put on the heavy dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic stuff stuff beautifully beautifully rehearsed perfectly done Childrens Children's Education I LIKE the way the wealthy classes in England rear their children Little Rosemary doesn't recite for the company after dinner and if Master Jones Minor Minor Minor Mi Mi- nor gets uppity at school he gets thrashed Many l a rich American has known how sharper than a serpents serpent's tooth it t is to see his daughter grow up a wanton and his boy turn out a waster wast wast- er Yet with a few exceptions so so few v that the newspapers comment on them them them-it it never seems to occur to these fond fathers that less of coddling and pampering and spoiling spoiling spoiling spoil spoil- spoil spoil- ing in adolescence and more of wholesome discipline might produce a higher a average grade of heirs What set me to thinking along this line was being lother night at a n party where a poor little year four-year- old having already the pitiable assurance assurance assurance as as- of a veteran prima donna was fetched in n to give She never again could impersonate impersonate impersonate imper imper- natural babyhood though mores more's the pity And her pert small brother was encouraged to dominate dominate domi domi- nate the talk Mark my word for it that kid is going to come to no good end not end not even a well spanked end which would help Mr Pincus' Pincus Coup IN TN N THESE topsy times lib lib- minded cral-minded patriots who are striving to steer a middle course between wing left ers elS and ultraconservative rightists might do well methinks to follow the example set by Mr Pincus Mr Pincus had opened a clothing store Immediately on one side of him was the clothing store of Mr Ginsberg and immediately on the theother theother other side was the clothing store of Mr Dreifus and three clothing stores in a row were too many even for Essex street So the adjacent competitors framed a plot to put the newcomer out of business Next morning their rival coming down to open up found round over Mr Dreifus' Dreifus establishment establish ment a flaming legend to wit BANKRUPT SALE And above Mr Ginsberg's door was this equally prominent announcement an an- ment CLOSING OUT SALE Within an hour heur smeared across across- the entire front of Mr 11 Pincus' Pincus store exactly in iii between the other two appeared a huge sign reading a as af follows MAIN l ENTRANCE IRVIN s S. 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