Books: Japer

WHY I WILL NOT IMITATE FOUR HAWAIIANS—Joe Cook—Simon & Schuster—($1).

When vaudeville was a power in the land, Funnyman Joe Cook was in it, of it. Now that vaudeville is on its legs, Funnyman Cook is to be found in girl-glorifying musicomedies. (He is now in Hollywood making a cinema of Rain or Shine.) In odd moments he wrote this book for Publisher Schuster, hoped it would sell as well as Funnyman Sale's The Specialist.

Very short (64 pages), very funny or very silly, according to how you like Joe Cook, Why...

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