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...sending you this note in case the thousands of captious critics who love to point out small errors in TIME mention this one. Forewarned...
...want to be captious but arithmetic is arithmetic. Twenty percent of $2,000 is $400. One broadcast a week for a year, at that miserably low figure, is $20,000 per year, and that is only from one radio engagement. If he is really a top-notch band leader, and he must be, to command that salary, he is doubling in a large hotel or night club at God knows what figure; he will undoubtedly play in picture houses: make a movie short or appear in a full-length picture; and his his value as a cigaret or camera endorser...
...quantity, Author James Boyd has always given his readers their money's worth. Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt were all lengthy historical romances in which many a reader took great stock; some captious critics found the stock somewhat watered, but Author Boyd has established his reputation as a popularizer of U. S. legend. No mere praiser of times past, and not willing to go on forever writing melodramas of an earlier day, in Roll River he has come to grips with...
...club develop an April hankering that is the reverse of Mr. Browning's-Oh, to be in Italy! For a few pounds they can rent a fabulous little castle on the Mediterranean. There is a thrifty counting of shillings, and at length an ecstatic leavetaking of foggy streets and captious husbands. Two noble ladies have been corralled to join them at the castle and share expenses. When the eager housewives arrive, the gentry are already firmly ensconced in the most desirable rooms. Jessie Ralph, as the determined old dowager, keeps a watchful grip on the teapot of hospitality, so that...
...welcoming chin. Many a critical reader of Chapters for the Orthodox will get no farther than Author Marquis's prefacing remarks, in which he dedicates his book to wambling Christopher Morley (because "I think you write better than anyone else writing in the English-speaking world today"). Less captious searchers will find something to hit their fancy in the twelve rambling tales that follow. Some of them...