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...reader. Can't you just picture the exciting days and nights spent in these colorful cities. And, by the way, if you're planning to go travelling, and wish to visit these lands of your dreams, don't fail, absolutely, to read Incredible Land by that picturesque writer, Basil Woon (Liveright, $2.50). As a guide book it is excellent, but it is no less a very readable volume for an evening at home on the magic carpet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Browsing | 12/16/1933 | See Source »

...like an old fool, this shows how a clever wife handles an aging husband's infatuation with a younger woman. No new twist is given the theatrical stencil except the inept title which, proclaiming the denouement, effectively checkmates suspense. On the stage it was Misdeal, a play by Basil Woon. Belle Bennett and John Halliday are in it. Best sequence: Miss Bennett teasing the husband who wants to come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 25, 1930 | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Author. Men, Marriage and Me was evidently "ghosted" (in large part), but the ghost has been kept in the background by Peggy Joyce's publishers, who deny that Journalist Basil Woon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lorelei | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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