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...result is satire that reflects not only or chiefly on Topsy but on the things she writes about. Her adventures, like those of all such week-to-week women-of-straw, are as varied as they are improbable. First engaged,'then married to a Mr. Haddock, who has lost his seat in Parliament but still takes himself seriously, Topsy stands in his stead, is elected hands down. As an M.P. she drafts many a portentous Bill aimed at the discomfiture of Puritans and the increase of gaiety. But motherhood, as it may to any married woman, comes to Topsy...
...underline, but she is not otherwise Victorian. An example of her style may remind you of Anita's Loos's famed blonde, but Topsy's fooling is not so sharp. "Only my dear don't think I don't utterly adore Americans because I merely do, and of course Haddock knows some perfectly blossomy ones, but that's the staggering thing about them, my dear you meet them in London and they seem quite lambs and then they go home to America and gun at each other, well anyhow...
Finn and Hattie (Paramount). This is a loose improvisation based on some incidents in Donald Ogden Stewart's Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad. It is not as funny as it ought to be partly because it follows the hackneyed formula of a naïve U. S. couple seeing Europe for the first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface...
Atlantic Coast Fisheries, Inc., made Harden Franklin Taylor its president. Long a vice president, Mr. Taylor invented the Taylor Process for quick-freezing, concentrated production on "Nordic Fillet of Haddock," responsible for Atlantic's recent success (FORTUNE...
...Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. His monograph on Mike may be considered the acme of obital biography, fit to rank with his monumental Coptic History of Elijah the Tish- bite. No more awful authority could be found for the statement that Mike "preferred sole to whiting, and whiting to haddock, and sardines to herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated him as a man and a brother.'' One may assume that only the excessive modesty of Sir Wallis Budge-a sort...