The Archive · 1925

Jack and the Beanstalk

We would give much to know what. Euphrosyne is saying to her companions and are pondering this what we construc to be a wink from her redirects our attention to the dancers, Jack is threading the mazes of the. waltz with the Beanstalk. The orchestra, in reminiscent mood, is playing Meet me tonight in Dreamland and Jack, whose crown reaches barely beyond where Nature placed his partner's waist, risks cervical, dislocation by gazing far, far above, Jat her lips. She is much too busy, however, intercepting a wireless from Los Angeles to be aware of his Yonging. With her, too, the express sion, "There is more than meets the aye," does not hold.

Again we turn to the Graces and are lost in contemplation of their symmetry. We discover that Thi the minx, has not hidden her face completely as we had thought and—do we dream? she nudges Euphrosyne and suggests, him look more?" quiescing, we witness ike Jurgen of Poictesme, would deal justly by them. however, presupposes powers of the Whisker High Justice, the Middle and the Low. The males may be dismissed 3 willing victims of standardization. The ladies merit a more comprehensive assay. We listen to edly torque, three-point motor engineer speaking learn-

suspension, assembly of chassis and shock absorbers. Pertinent indeed; yet not quite adequate. A nearby mother chatters of the reduction of a passee frock to fit little Gladys. Our problem, however, is the extension of little Gladys' frock to fit a passee mother. We are of Jcourse, aware that we view the Grecian mode as interpreted by! Min. Aloysius Feuerstein trading a3 "An Nom de Cid." It is a far ery, to the Acropolis, But this leads tus nowhere. The verdict rests with the Three. We must fathom what, Euphrosyne is saying.

Transported Through the Ages Concentrating on this anew, we! succumb to glamour wherein we are transported back through the ages, to the studio of Praxiteles, arriving just as he puts the finishing touches, to a novel Hermes—torso in white, Jnether limbs in black. With derisive laugh, he demolishes the head and substitutes that of a bull. Athena acclaims the Holstein Minotaur. The scene shifts. Venus, enters the shop of Delphia and, after rejecting this and scorning that, seizes upon a nightie intended for" seven—year-old-Chise and. departs in triumph, the proprietress encouraging with "Ah, Modern. ITo think of Modern's toot ensemble jon the Olympus Roof!" An interval; and we are aanded a copy'

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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