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New-York tribune., 1922-04-30
HE'S RIGHT, OF COURSE

EDEAR BURTON: ! congratulate my
self upon the new Tribune. for I
subscribe on my island just received
week Of it. By the way, Crome Yel-
low (sic- Aldous Huxley distinctly
took the h out Of Crome) is perfect
bliss. My God, Your mind was on
your preface. And you as fond of the
Younger Paranoiacs. Well, we'll so
now | can write to critic. ! hope
YOU have read The Chartrouse of Par
ma I'd have a Stendhal boom. |
never read anything but Psycho-an my
self I'm so wholesome that | demand
morbidity. All the younger dumbbells
| have met are afraid of Freud. which
is much worse than being ashamed Of
Jesus. Floyd D's friend DR.. Tannen-
baum is, by virtue of an article in the
Times hereby blackHstcd. Why does
hnopf advertise with a picture of the
author of "Cytherea"? What madness
New-York tribune., 1922-04-30

ana tn" manner Of their serving. and
the delight sequcnt to their consumn.
tlon. 1T would be cmi0nntly unwise IN
apoak III this place, for. without douht
all housewives would feel n audde,
j'''ou"y Mt reading such an account
90 we pass on to less provocative
things
700 p. m.-The author re.enters his
mouse, this t!mc by the front door
mentioning ns he climbs to his studv
that ne is really not at all hungry and
VIII forcgo the formality OF dinner
once in his study he bolts ths door
behind him and kneels befors An
ancient and forbiddng cabinet. In
which are contained many strange and
precious things Ca last years hunting
incense, a corkscrew, twenty-five the
ater ticket stubs, fifteen empty ciyar-
otto boxes and copy of McGufys
'l1alr Culture" among other treasur.s)
FROM the lower drawer Of this cabinet
he extracts book, the book which he
has promised to give Queen Helen that
evening, the book for which she ha.
begged ceaselessly for six lonp month,
An exotic fragrance comes from its
pages; around it is the aura Of the
Absolute; within it is the record of in
evltable unions. 1t is Smith. "First
Arithmetic" This is the on. book
which the author has loved all his life
long, above all other volumes. II he
has ever plagiarized from any other
writer, his victim has been the worthy
Smith. And Helen, above all other
women, is worthy of this gift, this gu
preme tribute, this book which in
structs its readers in tho esoteric
formula that two and two most com
monty make four. The decision to mart
with this book marks the supreme mo-
ment OF the authors life For it moan.
as ne sadly confesses to himself that
ne ls no longer the boy that he once
was: Smith is no longer necessary to
his happiness. And, he reflects. It IS
a meager consolation that man can
hnd in Euclid. So, with the book cla,ped
hrmly to his breast, he goes out
through his open window and acros,
the damp fields to the local cemetery
TO keep his tryst with Queen Helen.
8 p m. - BY the marble tomb Of
Hosklns' Hardware Merchant, Helen
awaits him with impaticnce. Did Won
y
or'ng the 2" she asks. "I did, the
author answers. Then the Queen seize,
the precious volume with an unr.r
New-York tribune., 1922-04-30
The Lay Critic

that his vacillations arc .,tir.,,
and therefore not becoming - ''"aa
"r. Dodd secretly admires hin. 10
'nenseiy, but whenever tis s,.h~ I'M
threatens to get tho bef4a, - ,'asm
steps back and surveys hi, o,.,. ,,n ne
with Light and critical mann. ''''oh
0antering tho readers discerniti'. wen
sire 70 throw brick. This +, ., u
That unfair 70 tho reader. ubo.. ''''s- ''
ings are queilod but never on.,' .FeI-
before they have had ths sati.sa.n' tinn'd'
Of complete uprising. '''''a
Lila does not ft into -. -,
tmo'phere in which 81. "a s,.. s
covered, nor is she meant 70 p.S
the college background is used to I
low entirely diferent She 4. from I' -.
others The theatcr !s b.r na.' '''
habitat and her meter; all lif. s1r..'.
20 her as scenes 10 play. Our w..
pathies are aroused for her IN.
completely won over. We never .re..
with her. Mr.. Dodd seens n fol 49,
FOR Immediately after tho tract, t-|
dent that is supposed 70 bs tss .,,~
he launches into parenthetical 49,.
on the cruelty o. laughter. Witt
would never have been nec.ssarv ,t-
hnd made rs forget ourselves IN h.,
Nor does Thorpe particularly ;.
press one as professor Of Engl,,h,
perhaps, as Mr Dodd frequently ...,.,
because he Is "young-too voury, p.,
the president, Orlando Harold ~.
his seni-invalid daughter Ruth ~.
real. Especially lovable i. Pu.b nv.
her quiet capabilities and her ,,..l-
balanced sense OF humor. Though Il.
hovers too much in the backgron,,
one like, TO hope that, with the .,o,
shaking Of her head that ends III. bsok
her story is only just beginning
The narrative, which wsnders ,,o-
New England to Italy to Paris. do.,
not run smoothly for all It, verbodtv
The parenthetical manner Is at Tina,
maddening and the use Of the "s.,b.
back savors Of the amateur Chi.rv
Mr. Dodd needs to realize TIM. HI,
style, under judicious pruning, would
lose nothing in character by 9ainin,
in simplicity.
ADELE De LEEUw.
1924 Park Avenue, Plainfeld, NJ
New-York tribune., 1922-04-30
Letters TO the Editor

IS TINS? Now can't read it. stir
have bushel Of potatoes and some
beans. Havelock Ellis and Plato and
James B. Elmorc, OF Alamo, Ind. and
summer suit and auditory hypcraes-
thesla. And much to learn. But then
lie is SO long. As ! started to saw. 7
can hardly wait till Sunday now. I'll
trE to borrow an envelope from coast
guard. And nail a passing shin to-
morrow. | long to sec Your review Of
tac next Maurice Hewlett novel. Or
wouldn't you? never come to New
ork, now that Pauline Lords gone 7
hope YOU demonstrated with Mr.. Ham
mond about his scrced on laughter and
anna Christie. OF whom was ono of
which. AS i'll every other matter.
FREUD is the answer-though | always
maintained that Harry Pratt Judson
h%d the really ultimate facts. His an
s"er YOU remember to everything ie.
"Yes-and No"
WILL J. CUPPY.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-30

considered it "little bookshop." Now,
You know, he has cut hole through
the rear wall, found a crevice back
there and added that bit of space to his
room. Recently, when he referred to
his place as little bookshop, he de-
clared with q sweeping gesture that it
WAS not. 1t ia now, he holds, "a large
bookstore" Frank has a most excel
lent dinner Jacket
The sportmanish young man In the
publishing business collided with a
rapidly moving horse at the White
marsh Valley Steeplechase. That IS
Elliot Holt. The horse did not get to
his Office the next day.
Its q curious thing that even people
who knew him personally persist In
pronouncing James Huneker's name
not as he did. Nearly every ono gives
the W in his name the sound AZ in
'you' He gave it the sound as in
gun"
RuBE GOLDBERG and Fontainc Foy
live during working hours in the
tower OF the Times Building. &
Fanny Butchers Airedale is named
Satan. & Dick Charles, formerly
advertising man for "Thc Bookman"
and before that with "The New Re-
public is now connected with the
Cornhill Publishing Company at Bos-
ton. & Lots of people don't know
that Hewitt Hanson Howand's wife is
sister Of Irwin Cobb. & Wilbur
Cortez Abbott, Harvard, was in New
York one day last week First time
for about year. Wilbur is the only
American that We know Of who won
some kind of a scholarship at Oxford
before the founding Of the Rhodes
Scholarship. & Roland Holt has
just returned from the Drama League
convention at Evanston. g. Among
what the newspapers call ocean travel
ers" soon will be Wallace Morgan
& Another Englishman who has not
yet got to the United States is Frank
Swinnerton. He's been declaring everv
time he's written us for several years
: that he was coming soon. & It's
about time that Joseph Collins got
back from Egypt. s. A gentleman
who recently called on George Moore
reports that Mr.. Moore confessed that
he's in love. A Lady som ebody. Mr..
Moore, he says, doesn't know that such
people as Hughie Walpole Arnold Ben
+ nett, Swinnerton and q lot more are
! gong on. 4 Laurence Rising, who
wrote that excellent mystery story
she Who Was Helena Cass," is to have
Out new book this fall & MANY
people don't know that W. G. Brownelrs
VIE was Miss Gertrude Hall. He
writes all OF his letters by hand Most
beautiful copperplate engraving effect
we've ever seen. & When an author
asks Alex Robertson, San Francisco
BOOKSELLER, if he has any Of his books,
MIR, Robertson replies ooh! l guess YOU
! can get them around at Paul Elders"
& A notable book which Putnams
viii publish soon is pathological
study Of Poe by DR.. ]. W. Robertson,
an eminent neurologist Of San Fran
cisco. We read it in copy Of q pri-
vately printed edition. & Arthur
Mason, author of The Flying Bosun,"
is gong out to California this summer
to take several pounds of gold out Of a
NINE he has there. His new book, to
be published this autumn, is the story
Of lis Jack -London-like life. &
Stanley Rinehart has for some time
been endeavoring to call us Peregrinc.
But he has hard time making a 90
OF 1t. Frequently rclapses to Mr..
Pickle. 4 The most beautiful Office
staff in the world is that at "Vanitv
Fair"
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nerly eagerness, and hastily thumb.
its pages. Lighting apparently on the
passage that she seeks, she pause.
abruptly and exclaims, after a mo-
ment's concentrations: "Now | know
what Paris meant" But she vouchsafes
no explanation of this cryptic utter
ance. Then they talk of this and that
for time, the Queen dwelling more
particularly on this, the author stress
ing the delights Of that. And in the
end they come to no definite agree
ment, so. as compromise, each accepts
the others enthusiasm. And the ex-
ercise of their mutual tolerance con-
sumes an incredibly long time. 1t IS
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~ seriously and trying to re-
fleet what they are pleased
to call real life in their writings
it IS pleasant to read such story as
John Marquand has fashioned for his
first novel, The Unspeakable Gentle
man"
Mr.. Marquand must be likable sort
Of fellow. He is surely charming
romancer He has forgotten nothing.
His tale is one of plot and counter
plot, of dastardly villyuns and rescues
IN the nick Of time, all built around a
man of elegance and wit who reads
Rabelais, quotes Marcus Aurclius.
drinks his wine delcately and fire.
quenuy and handles his sword with
a wrist Of iron.
1t is quite evident from the very
beginning, of course. that this un-
speakable gentleman is really very
much misjudged hero. He is seen
through the eyes of his son. whose
mind has been poisoned against his
S"--t-4'N o'AH oDNNitN ldLltT pN lnc RD-
parently upright Uncle Jason. After
many thrilling incidents. resulting
from a plot against Napolcon; after
duels, midnight attacks, marrow
escapes. trcachery and open lighting.
with the unspeakablc gentleman always
holding the Joker. the tale ends with
a satisfactory denouement: the NO
lent death of the wicked uncle and the
promise Of 4 happy marriage.
1t is an entertaining piece Of
romantic fiction and well written. We
ike particularly the way the hero con
sumes large quantities Of pre-Volstead
beverages and never loses his cool
ness, his subtlety, his gay Wit In fact.
the story ends on this note (would
one call IT sad oue?), for the IN
'peakable gentleman in his ever mellif-
)uous voice calls fer che rum decaa-
er. Brutus.' Brutus being his over
faithful retainer, who is always at his
..de with the wine-the pstols-the
andes, or whatever happens to be
ganted.-H. D. J.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-30


midnight before tn. author finds Al %.
portunity to consult hi. engagement.
book unobtrusively. What h. finds
there he scarcely dares admit even to
himself. But he know. -he time hs,
come to bid farewell TO Queen Helen,
and this he doe. in a c-editabl. man.
ner, and with less sadness than he he'd
anticipated. AS for the Queen, tn.
possession Of Smith i, mitigation Of
her sadness.
a. n. to 1888 g. m.-The author
does not sleep.
8 a. m.-The author return. home,
entering the house through hi, open
study window.
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I
"a other day Of an observation that
/ Sadakichi Hartmann, who used
to be around these parts, one
time made, Sadakichi said he didn't
care how poor he was as long as he
lived in luxury.
Last week the printer, or the editor,
caused US to say in this column that:
"News comes from the Pacific Coast
that Joe Hergesheimer has recently
approved highly of some of Pete Kyne's
work" We didn't write anything about
Pete's work. We simply said that Joe
had approved highly of some of Pete's.
We designed that is would be assumed
what.
We also expressed our opinion last
week that it would be a pleasant thing
for John Farrar to wear whisker,.
The idea has met with considerable
response. One friend of Johns sug-
gests that the appropriate style for
him would be very long mustaches
Another inclines to favor an imperial
for him. Our own choice for John
would be that parted kind, like DR..
Egans.
We were doing a little talking about
poetry with Richard lie Galienne the
other night. Richard seems not to like
the work of a poet that we fancy a
good deal. Thinks it very slight ooh,
well,' we said, "of course it wouldn't
move a freight train" "a moonbeam,"
said he, "can move q freight train"
II OBERT NATHAN started the idea
rolling. Looking down the long
table, he said-it was last week, at one
of those highly commendable "Book-
man" luncheons, in a room on the
eighty floor of the Yale Club; ;
he said something like this: "Looking
round at these fellows here you
wouldn't get any idea of what sort of
thing this one or that one writes,
would you?" Bill Benet, across the
board, didn't know exactly about that.
He thought Don Marquis, at the other
end of the line, looked q good deal
! like what he wrote. And x. Y. z.
Weaver, down in that direction, too.
And Sydney Howard. And We
were thinking of q complicated OBJ
servation Tommy Cleland one time
made to US, that, "After all, person
looks very much like what he is; but
the trouble is you've got to be sure
to see him right" Then some one
asked if you wouldn't know exactly
what sort of thing Arnold Bennett
wrote by looking at his picture. Some
one else replied, "No, you wouldn't
suspect The Old Wives Tale" That
was generally agreed to. "But," re-
marked some one, you'd guess The
Pretty Lady," Several mods of
yes" Some one questioned whether
he looked now as he did when he wrote
that. Seemed TO us q foolish idea.
Some one else suggested that he
probably looked worse. Another OBJ
served that you wouldn't hook up
Somerset Maugham's looks with his
book "Of Human Bondago." NO"
it was said round generally, "you
wouldn't" On leaving, we got into
the elevator with Don. He had OH a
soft collar, very much frayed, a de-
cidedly wrinkled suit and pair of
splendid spats. Got into taxi and
said he was going down to the club
and do some work. AS a matter of
fact, we know that it turned out that
his activity took the form of playing
kelly pool.
When Frank Shay started that celc-
so no l.
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LILA CHBNcp5oRTH. BY Le. Wilson
Dodd. Y. T. putt ton B. Co.

\
Dodd. r. ?. Dutton B. Co.
( ( W. EAUTY Is always defeated
~ and never defeated "
H This is the foundation
stone Of Mr.. Dodd's story;
but somehow he stresses it too much.
or this particular reader vas not suf-
ficiently sympathetic, for It seems that
Lila, who WIS Beauty and who
scarched for Beauty, was Just a little
deranged. She took things too hard,
10 put it colloqualy; she was forever
wrought up about something.
Rnther, Mr. Dodd is wrought up for
her. He lashcs himself into wordy
frenzics. hoaxing tho innocent reader
INTO believing that he Is about to como
to terrific climax-only to find that
what follows Is chiefly words. Situa-
ton after situation, that might have
been striking in It's nudity, Is smoth-
cred into nothingness by words. Any
thing thnt survives this must neces-
sarily stand out with undue clarity:
and, to Mr.. Dodds credit, there are
several passages, not essentially dra-
matte, that impress ono with a sense Of
rightness.
Lilia's heritage was, OF course. one
that can be made to account for anv-
thing. She was Of that origin deli
cately described as ambiguous. In this
case it is mado to account for her
talent for acting, her Instructive reau-
zation OF beauty, her super-sensitive-
ness. She is creature Of moods, Of
extreme attractiveness, coupled with an
enticing co,dness that utterly con-
POUNDS, for many pages, the dubious
hero OF the tale, Dunster Thorpe. Lilia's
father, Anson Chenoworth, is the bril-
liant but somewhat off-color dramatist
who has not seen fit to marry Lilia's
mother, and that gorgeous but bedrag-
gled woman, therefore, is pleased, from
motives Of poverty, to cast suspicious
on his status as the girls parent.
THORPE is an English professor in
famous woman's college and
suffers from well-developed ego, a
bunch Of nerves, and a calculating de-
sire to get on in the world. He is an
annoying character-one is conscious
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ay Tribune's News and Reviews of Books and Authors
Three Critical MusAeteers
BY Louis kantor


, vance no fixed definite theory ,f INV
own; advance merely contradictionq
of certain Of the nhnecs Of thoo,;os
held by others. and contradictions arc
ever in the habit Of begettinr contra
dictious." Precisely.
Still, for all of that. Mr.. Natha, is
the first dramatic critic in the land.
some Of the qualifications Of dra,,
attic critic in higher degree than anv
other American contemporary. Hc has
an unrIvaled k1oxvIodco of iro ,,odor,
stage, a thorouch imnationce with sb.,,,
and cant and flasboe so IN b;s h,;oc
note on the artificial n1av of w., n,os.
searching insirbtp
ff Nv xo+ta. b.. 1o.;,.
nerbans u . +his. nnoo
terest and abor, . IT,. .s..,
bo tbo or,,, do..r;.o -
c,.n oo,ah,. -
'NFfo' eng ''se'I
- -.l.S T0'' ''' P'"S i"'eieSV
49,. '.'0 ''"'' ,'0" Aa' mas 'ne drama
ia expressing hlmse!f'
','0 ''"'ei 'aiS oeIofe h'm' intel
s'"'S, e'oq"e"'iF' symmetrlcally,
vi u''y 90 '"uch Tor the criticism
~ '"e orahaNst as an artist. In the
''N0"u p'a0e' "hom does the play in
VeIee'' Does IL interest cultivated and
@'''S'lcaiy sensitive persons?"
'HfRf' Is his finely reasoned chapter
on The Place of the Theater." In
II he argues against the contention of
the "Iittery gents that "t'le drama
as an art may achieve its highest end
re7d by the individual and not acted
II the theater' This. he Gays, as to
h)ld that music as an art may achieve
Its highest end played by but one in
strument and not by an orchestra.
To say that the reading mag
ination Of the average cultured man
IS superior in power of suggestion and
depletion is idiotically to say that the
reading imagination of every average
cultured man is superior in these
powers to the combined theatrical i'm
aginations of Gordon Craig, Max
Reinhardt and Eleanora Dusc oper-
ating jointly upon the same play"
In his discussion of The Place of
Acting Mr.. Nathan maintains that act
ing is not art but that some actors are
artists. But, agreeing with Mr., Nathan
as do am not blind to the fact that
he is a little illogical. For he has
just told us that the actor is necessary
to give life to the written word. and
it is amusing in this connection to
quote Mr.. Walklev on the actor and
Mr.. Nathan's reioindcr thereto.
In the art Of acting as in anv other
art, "writes Mr.. Walklev. "the first
requisite is life. The actors part is
a series of speeches and STAGE diroc-
tions, mere cold print, an inert mass
that has TO be raised somchow from
the dead IF the actor djsannears he
hind it, there is nothing left but q
Golgotha."
oauoro :; ;Js - -
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~sI HE CRITIC AND TIE DRAMA" by
'PAsTICHE AND PREJUDICE" ~ A Il
Weiklev. Alfred = Kuopf
THE DRAMA AND THE STAGE" BY I.uc-
Wig Ge~ishohn. HaCcourt. Brace and CO.
w SHALL not devote much Of my
Il space to scratching the backs Of the
B Nessrs. Walkley and Lewisohn.
Tire hero, so to speak, of this re
view Will 81. George Jean Nathan, the
Peck's bad boy OF American dramatic
c.itcism. However, am not too mar
rov-minded 20 admit that Mr. Walkley
and DR., Lewisohn are not whit loss
heroic than is Mr. Nathan, only they
fcht different" Indeed, ca1dor com
rels me to add that they are, in a
sense. HIS peers. For when they fight
trey are animated by the courage Of
their convictions. while our hero, often,
has bat the convictions of his courage
But l fear that no one of them Is
n constructive critic. They actually
tear down without building up" Mr..
Nathan does not even try to be apollo
gotic. Mr.. Walkley, for example, asks
your leave politely before he touches
of his mellow, though tiny. stick Of
dynamite. DR.. Lewisohn reminds you
solemn.y that it is his ancestral
heritage to see to It that the gods, so
20 say, Of his fathers Dryden, Cole
ridge, LessinG. Goethe-are not made to
asrn about restlessly too often in their
graves. He, too, is 8 gentleman But
ar. Natha-l is not. HIS war cry is:
Sve mo license or give ms death!
liz destructive criticism in their
sneantne," Mr. Nathan writes Of his
reportorial and PROFESSIONAL colleagues.
is criticism which pulls down without
building up il return, -fourths of
the best dramatic criticism written
since the time Of Boileau, fully filing
the definition, is worthless. One can't
cure yellow fever patient by point
ing out to him that he should have
caught the measles. One can't i'm
prove The sanitary condition of
neighborhood merely by giving the out
house different coat Of paint. Tie
100 Cf 4 ~,rg+,,-, c,;ttctr,,
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"i' 1oi All MS 'o"'O throwing IL
seems 10 me that Mr.. Nathan IS, as
ArDofd in b;. ..rb. coc,oA Wood ~
'N'N'
rather "a urODa vanGiSt for criticism
.-"H cii1ic' "ii' Natnah ungentie
-. .o,oi,,, oE .ho ,b,.;o,,e h,hhIo,
rG1tlcaIy blown b. the local liazlitts"
.- their teleTmlncd enc Crt TO advertise
theIr critical novertv js cvcruciatinrIv
7''
irnnE, but IL isn't criticism.
"Arro1d., ,,.,,.a- I,1;o. .e,,.a. 80 ~
''''N- i1''''' was HOV W
cCpiel 50 muCn in establishing a
..:. .
ca. 4'4aIh as IN altdchln5 the unCrltCaI.' ~
$50. too. think Is Nfr No4bo, Not
- A''U
that he leaves YOU in the dark as to
'' ''.' 0'i''e'9"l ne PiAc''ceS'
IN d "-So"S'''n Oh cf''!clsm
'-'0 9''o1'4 eNP'"'H ms point; II
o. '--t ttt'Hii 10 Hli4L dl IT,
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Rapiers and Lace

THE UNsPEAKABLE GENTLEMAN. Bv
!. =. Marquand. Charles Scribner's Sons.
A I A time when most young
"a authors arc taking themselves
seriously and trying to re-
- fleet what theu a,a nleasnA
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The I1lr11stile
By Peregrine Pickle

EONhlNG reminded us the considered it little
the wall found
% be
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When Frank Shay started that celc-
brated hole-in-the-wal place Of his he
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1924 Park Avenue, Plainaeld, n. J.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1922-03-02
HAD THE "THEoDoRA" oDoa
Fancy French Pets Saturated With Un.
welcome Perfume Of Marshal
Foeh's American Mascot.

Fifty thousand francs worth OF pet
dogs were temporarily ruined by Mar
shall Foeh's wild cat on the voyage TO
France. When the marshal, as guest
OF the American Legion, had picked
up Theodore from an admiring friend.
he had little reckoned what devasta.
ton was in store.
Theodore was placed In the kennel
room atop the liner Paris. under care
Of the ships butcher, who acted as
animal valet for the trip. Believing
that the fuzzy Pekinese. and poodles,
and Mexican mattresses that shared
her compartment did not represent,
like herself. the tree red-blooded ri.
oneerlng spirit OF America. Theodore
lay quietly 10 her cell and exuded the
aroma peculiar to wildcats. When the
Paris touched the shores Of France,
the valet handed the pet dogs around
to the group Of daintily-scented mad
amOiselles aud was greetsd with loud
ehrieks.