Transcription of The Literary Review of the Saturday Evening Post Review, November 21, 1925
By Anita Loos. New York: Boni & Liveright. $1.75.
The book is quite intimate, laying bare the “soul” of a high-powered gold digger and her butter and egg man (who happens to be a prominent button manufacturer from the open spaces of Chicago, who furnishes diamonds, fine feathers, shopping tours, trips to Europe and some good humor).
The book is amusing. The thing runs on merrily to a surprise ending. The diary has continuity, that thing which causes Mr. Robert Benchley so many headaches when he views the movies. (Or is it the lack of it that he so strenuously objects to?)
Granting that Miss Loos is a good scenario writer—she is an excellent diarist. She possesses a sense of humor, droll at that. And Ralph Barton's “intimate illustrations” are delightful.
WILLIAM C. KERR