Putnam patriot., 1922-11-03

The House of Mohun; Wherein the
 FIapper Comes Into Her Own
 Blessings on thee. little dame
 Bareback girl. Hith knees the same,
 With thy rolled down silken hose
 And thy short transparent clothes;
 With thy red lips. Eeddened more,
 Smeared with lip-stick from the store {; With thy makeup on thy face,
 With thy bobbed hair a disgrace,
 From my heart l give thee joy:
 Glad that l was born a boy.
 Chicago Tribune.
 The House of Mohun, by George Gibbs. is happer story with all that that implies. Cherry Mohun, the heroine, is supposed to be q typical representative Of the younger genera ton. carefree. seeking only pleasure, selfish. giddy and gay, arch enemy of all conventions highly interest ing. With her bobbed hair and roll cd brim hat, the pretty Cherry pursu- ed her aggressive way-a round of cocktails from teaeups, and cigarettes galore. And always there were ad0r- ing swains Her philosophy is clear and concise: "I don't believe because girls of today aren't kept in lavender seelusion that they are going to the devil. Some Of them may-but that" because they'd have gone there any way-the old people used to run the show and bring ap a lot of smirking little hypocrites who knew a great deal more than they pretended to know. and did on the quiet a lot of l things that we girls of today do open l ly. I'm just putting you straight on this. that the girls of today are no worse-if no better-than the girls used to be. know it. Because I'm one of them.n
 Cherry Mohun is the daughter of a mother with social aspirations and a father with pocket book large enough to gratIfs them. To Cherry life is one perpetual whirl of dance and merrimcut Father always paid the bills Hefeas one case where the man pays, and pays, and pays. To t Dr David SaneHee who has just re- turned from SIS years in the Orient Cherry and her friends prove q puzzle and a trouble. Their indifference to the harder faet= of life. their disregard If ail conventions ail of this he could not understand and get he came Co believe that th.a Was all external, and served merely ta cover something far finer deep hidden below. To Cherry. Dr Sangree was only ffeakish book worm, a relic of dusty past, fit to be dubbed 'Ramezes."
 But n great change was soon to come over the House of Mohun. Caught in a crisis the father was ruined financially With the money gone. the old friends dropped away one by one, and attentions no longer were showered upon the flashing daughter The mother. her aspirations wrecked. could not adjust herself to new conditions. 4 flat on ls0th street did not have the comforts of a Long Island estate. An affair with a social rotter to whom the mother wished to marry Cherry, unnerved the young girl. and in desperation she confided in the doctor It is then that she learns what a real friend he is. Guided by him she takes the Mohun affairs in hand and carries them with a fair
 degree of success. Rameses had been } right: there were better things in Cherry than she herself had ever sus- peeted The shallowness of the for
 mer life gave way to depths unrealiz- , ed. And of course when Dr. Sangree has once more to sail for the Orient, he does not 20 alone.
 As literature the book is nothing,
 but as entertainment it rates much
 higher IL is a sort of literary ice cream soda: it has color, it has a certain sting and snap; it slips down easily-but it's not very substantial, nor highly satisfying. Yet it is safe to predict that it will be one of the most popular of the new books at the Putnam library this winter. And after all it is rather pleasant to have q book that argues in behalf of the much maligned flapper, and sees her for what she is