The Press: Parlor Game

There is an old-fashioned parlor game in which one person starts a story, another carries it on to a certain point, a third, fourth, fifth, et cetera, continues it, and the last ends it.

Collier's Weekly has adapted the simple-minded pleasures of this game to literature by beginning in its Jan. 10 number a serial entitled Bobbed Hair, a novel by 20 authors.

The novel, which is about a certain auburn-haired Connemara, was begun by Carolyn Wells, continued by Alexander Woollcott, carried on by Louis Bromfield, sustained by Elsie Janis. On Jan. 17, Ed...

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