| Show what co b b chyi t the big book craze ANTA MONICA CALIF S SANTA were promised a historical novel longer than any yet say half a million fordsor words or so of course the author probably uses some words at least twice but that wont reduce e the gross tonnage unless very short words W I 1 cant take it while still convalescent vale scent from anthony adverse I 1 was stricken down by gone with the wind and had such 14 a relapse that even now I 1 barely can hold on my stomach such comparatively N light and trifling zita stuff as volume volu me VET 41 to ZYM of the encyclopedia when IN han reading this modern bulk literature it upsets me to irvin S cobb find my legs going to sleep before I 1 do and the constant pressure makes calloused cal louses on my second mezzanine landing I 1 admit these mass production books serve nicely as door stoppers and for pressing wild flowers I 1 also heard of a chap who detected a prowler under his window and dropped a frothy little work of fiction weighing slightly less than nine pounds on the back of the fellows neck dislocating three vertebrae at last accounts the surgeons we were re still picking long jagged chapters out of his spine in my present mood what I 1 crave is the romantic stuff of 01 olden den days in which our sainted aunt sophie was wont to inscribe alas how sad or only too true in pale violet ink on the margins what happened to all the aunt Sop hies anyhow 4 0 0 an actors temperament X 7 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 bagster gag ster but by a simple stagehand at one of the studios when mr leslie howard refused to go on making a picture until a group of distinguished visitors including mr charles norris the novelist had been shooed off the set he aint sore at you gents stated the stagehand stage hand liand to the ousted parties but hes been hamlet on the regular stage and he aint used to havin a crowd batchin wat chin him while he hes a 1 if mr no norris and his friends want ed to see some really great acting they should have patronized the professional fess ional wrestling matches where they put on the heavy dramatic stuff beautifully rehearsed perfectly done a 0 childrens education I 1 T LIKE the way the we wealthy althy classes in england rear their children little rosemary fio recite for the company after dinner and if master jones minor gets uppity at school he gets thrashed many a rich american has known how sharper than a serpents tooth it is to see his daughter grow up a wanton and his boy turn out a wast er yet with few exceptions so few that the newspapers comment on thern them it never seems to occur mccu r to these fond fathers that less of coddling and pampering and spoiling in in a adolescence doles cence and more of wholesome discipline might produce a higher average grade of heirs what set me to thinking along this line was being cother night at a party where a poor little four year old having already the pitiable assurance of a veteran prima donna was fetched in to give impersonations she never again could impersonate natural babyhood though mores the pity and her pert small brother was encouraged to dominate the talk mark my word for it that kid is going to come to io no good end not even a well spanked end which aou would id help mr air pin pincus cu sl coup I 1 TN N THESE topsy times lib 1 eral minded patriots who are striving to steer a middle course between left wing ers and ultraconservative ve rightists might do well methinks to follow the example set by mr pincus mr pincus had opened a clochin clothing 9 store immediately on one side of him was the clothing store of mr ginsberg and immediately on tile the 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 tile the newcomer out of business next morning their rival coming down to lo open up found over mr dreifus establishment a naming flaming legend to wit BANKRUPT SALE and above mr ginsburgs Gins bergs door was this equally prominent announcement no CLOSING OUT SALE within an hour the entire front of mr pincus pincu store exactly in between the other two imp eared a huge sign reading as jellows lol jol lows lows r MAIN ENTRANCE f IRVIN VIN s coca f t C service |
