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 Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam.