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...Three cheers for our queer old dean...
Britain's Gandhite. Suddenly, Congressman Snell and every one else in the chamber beheld an ascetic looking Laborite with high cheekbones and owlish glasses leap up from his bench and, pulling a queer white cap from his pocket, clap it on his head. What did that mean...
CONFESSIONS OF ZENO-Italo Svevo-Knopf ($3). Few authors would dare inflict on their readers such a queer bird as Zeno. Unclassifiable in any pigeonhole of good citizenry or good character, he is an eccentric fellow altogether, disliked even by his psychoanalyst. The plan of the book is simple but ingenious: Zeno's doctor persuades him to write his auto-biography as an exercise in analysis: when Zeno breaks with him before the treatment is complete, the doctor, in revenge, publishes Zeno's confessions...
...French Premier waited two hours for Mr. Mills to arrive, only to learn that he had already departed for Monte Carlo. The Mills household was amazed, for Mr. Mills had been waiting, it said, to hear from M. Tardieu! Said a U. S. Embassy official: "There are many queer incidents around Mr. Mills's visit and we are unable to explain this engagement with M. Tardieu...
...QUEER PEOPLE-Carroll & Garrett Graham-Vanguard ($2). Theodore Anthony White is a picaresque rascal, a newspaperman. He lands in Los Angeles about as broke as usual, gets a job on a morning paper, is taken drunk, loses his job, wakes up next morning entangled in Hollywood. Successively, never too successfully, he is scenario writer, press agent, blackmailer, entertainer in a bawdy house. To a friend who asks him if he likes the last job better than being in a studio, Hero White replies: "Well, you work with a better class of people...