+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 110w
WITWER, HARRY CHARLES. There’s no base like home. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday
20–9784
A combination of baseball and the movies. Ed Harmon, “the undisputed monarch of the diamond,” continues the series of letters to his friend Joe, and tells what happened after he brought his French wife, Jeanne, to New York. Jeanne not only learns English, she undertakes to teach that language to her husband. She also goes into the movies, and drags her reluctant husband with her. Jeanne’s relatives come from France to pay a surprise visit, but as suddenly return, inspiring their son-in-law to give three cheers for prohibition. The stories are: There’s no base like home; She supes to conquer: A fool there wasn’t; So this is Cincinnati!; The merchant of Venus; The freedom of the shes; A word to the wives; The nights of Colombus; The league of relations.
Booklist 17:76 N ’20
“Abounding in picturesque slang, unusual figures of speech and shrewd comment on present-day tendencies and foibles.”
+ Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 70w
“In a certain way, Witwer’s stories remind one of Keystone comedies, although, of course, they are not quite so far-fetched in their incongruous situations. This kind of patter is handled with skill by Mr Witwer, who hardly ever descends to a too-obvious cheapness.”
+ N Y Times 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w + Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 11 ’20 200w