AFTER YOU'RE HOME-I'LL GIT DUGAN'S KID TO HOLLER" EXTRA” UNDER- YOUR WINDOW AN' THEN I'LL ‘CALL UP AN' PRETEND I'M BARÓN,
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INVITE YOU TO THE CLUB-
THE CHINA MAIL.
Bringing
Up Father
WITH THIS SCHEME PLAYED RIGHTS I'LL
·BE SURE TO GIT: OUT TO-NIGHT-
WHAT ARE YOU SO RESTLESS ABOUT? DON'T THINK FÖR A MOMENT THAT “YOU ARE GOING OUT TONIGHT.
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I'M GOING TO. PRACTISE MY SINGING - SEE THAT YOU DON'T TRY TO SNEAK
OUT-
I'LL SIT RIGHT HERE NEAR THE WINDOW 50 PEOPLE CAN SEE ME-THEN THEY WON'T THINK I'M
BEATIN' YOU-
EXTRA!ALL ABOUT MALONEY'S POOL' PARLOR AN' BOWLIN' ALLEY BURNIN',
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(WELL THAT'S GOOD | NEWS-THATS THE ¿PLACE I'VE ALWAYS
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MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN HANGING OUT|
THERE SO MUCH",
LATELY.
VERY WELL CONRAD- I'LL TELL HIM-
HURRY UP- DON'T KEEP THE BARON WAITINGS
(JUST WHEN I MADE
UP ME MIND TO
STAY:IN You CHASE ME OUT-
BARON UPWELL? 1. THOUGHT YOU WERE AT THE LOTOS CLUB- YOUR SECRETARY PHONED FOR MY HUSBAND TO MEET YOU THERE-
MY SECRETARY'S 1 HAVE NO SECRETARY-
I NEVER PHONED
MUST BE SOME MISTAKE- MOTHER-
RECEIVED
BARON UPWELL'S SECRETARY JUST PHONED "ANO WANTS MR:| JIGGS TO MEET THE BARON AT THE LOTOS CLUB AT EIGHT-
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REMARKABLE ADVENTURES.
["Britmis," by Major Phelps
Hodges; Jonathan Cape, Lon- don, 12/6 nel;" with two mape and sixteen illustrations.] "Britmis" is the story of one of the most remarkable adventures of the War period, giving an account of the Allied Intervention in Siberia.
Immediately after the Armistice; the author joined the British Military Mission, in Siboria (Brit ala) as an artillery instructor with the White Army, and describes In breezy fashion his experiences in the different p parts of wild Siberis. Involved In a retreat which led him deeper and deeper into the desolate black stoppes north of Lake Balkhash, he finds himself completely cut off from communt- cation with the outside world, with out money or supplies and hemmed
in on three sides by enemies.
Together with a few companions of various nationalities he traverses the lonely Kirghez Steppe In the dead of Winter. The trials-misfort unes and experiences
his long
Lover, the Chi
provides
seven montha" journey, the author's .comment on the warring factions, bandits and weak authority is worth relating here.jpg
Sentimentality is spread thickly over this absurd story which may be recommended to those who enjoy the feuilletons in the mora fatuous women's papera.
PLEASANT COMEDY.
[The Expensive Halo";" by Gordon
Daviot; Benn, 7/8.1.
"Soma day, when the Chinese masses face the truth, that all their-ills do not come from the few thousand foreigners scatter- ed along the coast or from the concessions obtained long ago by these same foreigners, they will turn on these officials, military This is a pleasantly written governors, and bandit chiefs and comedy, with just, that hint of pay them back a little of what is tragedy beneath the surface which owed them ......for there is no saves it from triviality. Mr. Daviot people to-day so exploited by has a happy gift of charac their own as the Chinese, and theterisation and his portraits of the reckoning will be one well de-family in Camden Town with their served."
fanatically Puritan father and the mother whose whole life is lived in"} and for her children are as happy as those of the "Bright Young.
A SILLY GIRL.
“One Man Girl” by Malsie Grelg; Things" and their families in May-
Benn, 7/6.1
fair with whom Gareth and Sara are so unexpectedly brought into
The story of a silly girl who felt contact.
in love at sight with a "he-man" The plot is concerned with married him (against his will) to the fortunes of this brother and save him from a dishonest "vamp" sister, Gareth a musical genius, found that she had wrecked her Sare a rare and beautiful person- fo, and, finally, by a kindly provid- allty, and their relations with Lord ence, was freed from the hated bond Chitterne, a gay young man about and mar the man she had "real town and his afster Ursula who in
Without kni
les8 spite of har modernity and hard repeat-
Brillance loves Gareth but wiba by her sacrifice the shalo" which gives terisa the book its titler Bara and Chit
Mics
iter: und their, happiness and s0 reth-though he too must
non-as got to ba
cha
sketches of the
ctors are excellent, and ilogue sády and amusing.. AL-
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