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R .... 1 ._ to listen to me), \suppose I should \_ Worth Reading - - Continued from Page 2, Col. 5 you, could there possibly be any- thing else to be said that you would] want to know? Well, possibly you!) might want to know of a whole book: on your chosen field; despair not for a list of complete books on thef topic reposes at the end of each didn't help you get a job! If there's anybody in school who! wish she'd step forward so I could | give her the leather medal for Vain| Attempts at Being Different. Ex- cept for the Bible, I never saw so , many copies of the same book. around the dorm rooms. Conse- quently, if you, by some unfore- seen and inexplicable chance, have- n't read it, creep forth silently when shadows will cover your shame and borrow one of the copies. - Good News Department:-Hilton has a new book, which is to come out be- fore Thanksgiving. This is all the book for this time, villains named Broke and Paradise. MAGAZINES This is the week that the maga- zine section is going to be differ ent, because I shall not once men- tion the New Yorker. The truth in the matter is that I went over to the libe a few days ago to look up a recommended article-just the way I hope you all will flood me with recommendations - and a thought flickered across my wander ing mind. “Suppose,” said I to myself (for there was no one else a* read some magazines that I have < never read before? Some maga- zines which are so blank to my con- sciousness that I can only guess at the contents from the name of the mag!\* Well, boys and girls, I did. And these are the shockingly satis- fying results that I got. In the English Journal for Octo- ber-it's not on the rack any more and so you'll have to ask for it, but don't let that stop you-is an article by Theodote Dreiser called Mark the Double Twain. The title is not particularly subtle nor concealing, as Mr. Dreiser goes on to expound the highly original theory that there were two sides to Mark Twain's nature. He chooses to regard Mark Twain as a thwarted genius, who didn't particularly want to be a humotist. Well, if you think it's sensible to take an acknowledged genius and say that he was the|GGshe Girl Problem, and The genius in spite of the fact that he was thwarted from being something. else, then Mr. A gument. It isn't my job to tell you, of coutse, what I think on the sub- ject, but merely to point out to you the article, It gets my hearty re- commendation to al} in general, but I hope you can guess what I think about his conclusions. chapter-on a vocation. Never say I| suggestions as I have been occupy- ing: myself with the magazines and a little wafer of a volume b two « I j _> ' Drelser has? an ar- don t read them. help mentioning that I thought? | wrote about Noel Coward. She! {didn't hire him, but oh my! how | her own good judgmentshowed it- self up as being pitifully absent! So what she writes about the theatre of the moment I take with a grain of salt. For one thing, Miss Isaacs »| seems possessed with the idea that 'the boards are laden with successful plays. but from a close twenty flops this season. as it may, here is her review of the velous magazine there are two filled with tiny, facial expressions. won't mean a thing to {on for a few little pictures. You'll find yourself | howling or weeping with him as you pass from one to another. I 'beg of| you-read Theatre Arts! Did you know that there was a magazine called The Family? 1 never did up until now, but I find. that it's got in it a lot of things that this old sociology-phobe finds good reading, # Try the article called The Psychologist and the Social Work- er that's in the issue of Family cur- rently on the rack. It's good! Did you know what I was talkin about when I said PMLA at the be- | writings ever since I read what shel highly | I may be wrong, | | se following of the| | daily reviews after premieres, I re-|| i.. fBrott ceived the opinion that there has [| } hasn't read Goodbye, Mr. Chips, I[ been about omesuccess to every || in achieving success and dis. Be that] situation. Ashley Dukes, in thel London Scene writes several mar- | pages on foreign actresses in| England. And somewhere in the [| whole pages|| one-inch photos of || It] : PHE OCTAGON Just before the Dartmouth. foot ball squad left for New Haven,| presented every gridster and those| connected with the team with a| white carnation for theit button holes. 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RYLL, Prop. 414 N. Main St., near 3d || Phone 2-1644 ginning of this so long venture? I didn't, until recently. It means Publication of the Modern Lan- guage Association, and if you think that a thing with a title like that couldn't be interesting, then I dare you to go read it am? try to main- tain still \that it isn't interesting. Why, I even read in there an artici on Spanish, of which I know not| one single word, and thought it was riotous with humor. It's called De- Ceptive Doubles, this article, and I know you'll like it. Another article, not funny, but crammed with help- ful information for those who are going to teach, is Realized Realia. It's interestingly crammed, too, be- cause I'm not even going to teach and I thought it was a lovely article! You have full permission to come lynch me if, after sampling one co y of this PMLA, you can truthfully say that there's nothing in it to in- terest you. | The good ole Readers' Digest. One moment more, I beg, and I'll mention nothing but two or three titles of things everyone will be soon discussing. _ Office Wives, The] Cliche Expert Takes the Stand. Never say I didn't warn you if you Nobody asked me to comment on the \moon pitchas\ (\cinema\ | say I, with a deep bow in the direc- tion of my professors), but I can't The Crusades succeeded in being COMPLETE YOUR FORMAL REQUISITES £ Mark Twain Beauty Salon - will - TO MOST MINUTE DETAIL Facial -Formal Make-up Manicures -Formal Polish to Blend with Your Gown Coiffure-Styled and Supervised by Joseph DIAL 6321-6221 6 A COLLEGE ES, a scientist on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin was amazed to find how pens that run out of ink slow down classes, de- moralize thinking, and bring marks that no student wants to write honie about. His observlltions led to the birth of So he invented this sacless Vacumatic, from a single filling-shows when it's running low-tells whento refill! Any good store selling pens will show you how the Parker 'acumatic eliminates. 14 old-time parts, includ- ing. the lever filler and rubber ink sac found in sac-type pens. And due to this,it has Cold , so it suddenly can't go empty ! Go and try writing two different with its Reversible Point-solid combined with precious Plat. inum-skilfully fashioned to write on both sides-slightly turned up at the tip so it cannot scratch or drag, even under pressure! I san. a.: ~ t i Two ways Do this and you won't R only screaming? . funny when it the revolutionary Parker Vacumatic. doublernomforlnk, with- |- ° let an old ben impede 'Then take Theatre Arts, which] Wanted to be impressive. - Well,] This miracle per writes 12,000 words out in sise _ your Isarning another , - &, a : P _. 4 .% * 3 «00+ . & - A 4. wasn't 'one of those new ma azines” that’s lust: one woman S‘oleofl'Z' I . sacless pens contaitii‘rég We! Wflggfeliizy’ Janesville, to me, and certainly-shouldn't be| , P. S. 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