Word: waif
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...uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta, the orphan waif brought up by Flik, enters the office. A vacation, strolling through the nearby countryside, is decided upon then and there by the three, and Luigi's latest adventure in love has begun...
...hours in childish winsomeness, even when it is faintly selfconscious, and still long to kiss "the little darling" goodnight before she scampers upstairs to her supper, Captain January was just made for you. The story, which flourished during Elsie Dinsmore's palmy days, is of a sea-tossed waif, rescued and reared by a hungry hearted lighthouse-keeper. Stock villainy and fairy godmotherhood (both well cast) complete the plot. Take the children...
...currently concerned with the adventures of a vagabond street singer in old Seville. The waif evolves into a countess and falls in love with George Walsh. There is much deep purple atmosphere toward the conclusion, with Holbrook Blinn doing a capable King of Spain...
...lynched. The form and style of the book should prove of great interest to students of the most recent literary tendencies. THE MYSTERY ROAD-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little Brown ($2.00). Monte Carlo-mysterious ladies of the highest rank who refuse to reveal their identities-a little French country girl-waif, sheltered by two young British aristocrats-England -Russia-Bolshevik prisons. ... In other words, Mr. Oppenheim's second book of the current year, displays his usual deft talent for spectacular plot and thrilling incident, though a confirmed Oppenheimer sadly misses the customary criminal secret society with its grips and passwords...
...long jump from the little Hoover waif to Tom Hood's ideas on the ballet, but possibly the impending presence in town of Fokine and Fokina may give point to the remarks. Excerpts from lengthy autograph letters as reprinted in Magge's latest catalogue make the founder of "Hood's Magazino" say to his editor...