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...GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl. But she marries him next day, and soon enough has a child. Simply this and nothing more-but what more is there...
Author Delmar, 23, Bronx-bred herself, reports with winning sincerity the workaday story of small-town white Harlem. Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality...
...typical case reported by Divorce was that of Mrs. Celia Firestone who saw her husband enter the apartment of another woman in the Bronx. Such items, so common in divorce cases, are dull reading. But Divorce also told how a husband complained in court that his wife had not taken a bath in two years; how a wife complained that her husband had made her sleep in the chicken-coop and sell the hens' eggs to provide herself with necessities; how a husband complained that his wife had been attending strip poker parties when he was away at work...
...Dutch engineer swore that he had seen these monsters. Men disbelieved him. They might not have believed Aviator Cobham. But two years ago William Douglas Burden of Manhattan led out an expedition, found the creatures, killed three, caught two more. The live ones he gave to the Bronx Zoo. They soon died and are now being pickled. The dead three he gave to the American Museum of Natural History, whose experts found them to be gigantic lizards, related to the monitor lizards of Australia...
...inquired after by throngs of distinguished callers, visited daily by the hardworking, wide-smiling, cigar-chewing man whom she kept from becoming an actor 30 years ago when his devotion to her was expressed in nightly trips from the lower East Side to her home in the far-off Bronx...