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...HILL OF HAPPINESS- George N. Bhuster-Appleton ($1.75), The Franciscan monastery of these quaint tales might as well be in Renaissance Perugia as where it is in fact, modern California. Ineredible as it may seem, no modern note steals in, unless a circus, wet concrete or an ichthyosaurus may be called modern. St. Bonaventure's is as little concerned with the outside world as it is with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew...
Until last spring he had played the "father" with the Kahns, circus fat family. He could not be the real father, for some of the Kahns were almost as old as he, 47; and, besides, no one had ever really loved him, for all his fat. The familial relationship was purely commercial, his particular job being to sit with his front spread over his lap as bumpkins paused to wonder and snicker. Once he noted a youngish couple squeeze an impertinent witticism through their clasped fingers. He was sad for days...
...sheetlet the Nation, and the voice therein belonged to one Eugene Lyons. To his editor's delight, Writer Lyons burlesqued the annual spectacle of U. S. newspapers trying to outdo one another in seasonal generosity and solicitude. He pictured Prosperity, "a big, blustering fellow," momentarily obscured in the national circus by sideshows of infirmity and destitution...
...book, his presence broods over the opening scene. A vast, shaggy, Rabelaisian music master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...
...take the letter, I'll let you ride around the block on my tricycle. . . I'll let you ride around twice. . . Think of that! . . You can ride around trice on my twicycle . . I mean twice on my tricycle. . Well, then, I'll let you come to my circus next Saturday free, and its going to be ten pins for everybody else. . . I'll give you half this piece of chewing gum. . . And two of these keys and this, whistle and I'll let you whittle with my knife some day. . . No, you can't have any of my cigarette pictures...