The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
by A. ID. jacobson.


LOVE IN A HURRY: By Gelett Burgess Indian.
apolis-The Bohbs-Merril Company. Price, Nz
net
The time covered by the story is as
brief as the movement is swift and the
air iaunty. Within the short space oil
thirteen hours, fifty-nine minutes ana
fifty-nine seconds the entire action trans
pires. 1t is not given 30 many men, as
the author says, to have several hancees
at once, with the ''simon-pure-girI' walt
ing ir the background, but such was the
case with Hall RonistelIe, society photo
=rnpher, and the hero of Love In Hur-
y" Hall properly might be the Veri'
Lnole definition of "lady-killer."
He was good looking, but il was his
only asset. But il seems that Hall was
possessed OF an uncle who knew Just
when to die and what to do with his vast
fortune For on tho day before his
tHTenty-eighth birthday, Hall learned that
this old uncle had left him four mil
lions. But there was provision-one of
those gigantic IFS" and it was that Hall
should get the money provided that he
should may before he was twenty
eight An6 at midnight tina; very night
ne would he rwenty-elght.
Hall had not contemplated marriage,
He proposed to ~ a langaIshing widow,
model, al! in the space Of half an hour.
They all took il under advisement," and
about tho time they all decided 10 &C
Cept. Hall realized thai he was really IN
lore with Flodie, his typist- Then he
haG 20 hustle.
The characters are true to life. FIodie
Fisher, little. whimsical and odd. with
her crinkly colorless hair, her hazel eyes,
and fine teeth, wins the reader. From
her costume, which was careless, to her
gestars, which was queer, Flodie is an
original. Mrs. Royalton, the widow, is
a typical New York aristocrat She is
q pinnacle in the social structure and
her clothes are always three months
ahead Of the season" Eosamund, the
model, with her grace and beauty, care
tul about her reputation, is certainly a
familiar figure. And the janitor, with
pale blue eyes, a large Roman nose. wide
open ears, quivering mouth, chin like a
lizard sloping back weakly to a promi-
uent Adams apple-he is as typical as
he rest.
ALADDIN FROM BROADWAY: By Frederic S.
Isham. indianapolis The BobbS Merrill Com
pany. Price. SIS net.
Aladdin from Broadway" had to
have the one setting-Damascus What
other city imaginable is so shaped
for the uses of the spinner of ro-
mances? Nothing Is lacking in the
way of stage effects. Environment.
color, customs, practices the very at
mOsphere, need no retouching. They
exist in the most romantic, most fan
tastiC. most eccentric condition.
Crooked streets, blind alleys, mysteri-
ously echoing mosques. lattiCed win
dows where peering eyes are visible,
the river gate in the garden wall lead
ing TO the swift stream. bIooded, fiery
horses: dark shapes, hasheesh. bolted
chambers rich with jewels and car
peted with rugs OF rare beauty, moon
light and scimitars-a city fashioned
Eor no end of romance. The Street
Called Straight" dervish smiles
into the eyes of passing beauty.
She smiles in return. Her veil drops.
No watch has been invented that can
lime the movements of the daredevil
zero on a wager. Jack Stanton. Ameri-
ran Aladdin from Broadway. From the
moment when the hour smiles upon
him as he crouches disguised as a
'crvish, a holy pilgrim from Mecca,