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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 I Will Not Imitate Four Hawaiians does not answer the question, instead gives a typical Joe Cook monolog, rapid, irrelevant, just crazy enough to be entertaining. There are many illustrations, none of them has anything whatever to do with the text. The pages are numbered backward. The inside covers are made of two stock certificates of "The Joe Cook Amalgamated Anticipated Radium Mines of North America," with a note: "It is hereby understood that in case by accident I should happen to stumble on a Radium Mine, thereby making this certificate worth something, the purchaser agrees to sell back the said certificate to the company at our own price, which you may rest assured will be very small." Adds Anticipator Cook: "Although these mines have not yet been discovered, they are likely to be any minute now, as I am keeping my eyes open and very little escapes me."

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