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...SUCCESS???Lion Feuchtwanger?Viking...
...next few years he served as night clerk in a Florida hotel, acted in a Denver stock company, reported for newspapers, punched cows, mastered the traveling man's profession. He sailed to England on a cattleship, batting around at many an odd job and alwayssto this he attributes his success???always keeping "well-dressed and well-groomed." Satisfied finally that he had "seen life," he settled in Chicago, married,' began practising...
Somehow there always seems to be a plot. In this instance, it is concerned with the progress of an orphan girl to the ultimate in feminine success???for-tune and a husband. The presence of a few execrable jokes may be condoned owing to the profusion of legitimate risibility. A prospective song hit, Going Rowing, completes the entirely satisfactory exhibit...
...path crossed his again, as it always seemed to do when he was most hopeless. She had always been in love with him?and now he fell in love with her. They were married, and for a month, at least, knew enchantment. Then?Squads Right About had been a success???Jeffrey settled down with Joan in a colonial house in the Connecticut hills, apparently happily-spoused and ready to simply tear the epidermis off literature...
...Mountebank. Andrew Lackaday was a bilingual clown in small-time French Vaudeville. He hoped for higher things and read books on military tactics on the side. The war found him a music hall success???thanks partly to the assistant he had rescued from starvation?a young French lady named Elodie whose husband had left her. Andrew liked Elodie (though, of course, their relationship was just one of those hygienic affairs), but she hated fresh air and left her lingerie around the flat too much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel...