SENSATIONS
THE YANKS ARE COMING. A novel by John A. Lee. T. Werner Laurie Litd., London. |F you begin this book you will finish it, and not waste much time on the way. But if you do begin it, by which I mean begin it seriously — read, say, two or three chapters-you write yourself down a follower of Deadwood Dick, and justify Mr. Lee’s assumption that there is at least one of us born every hour. Two of us are born every hour, perhaps three, or how would pedlars of sensations live? And how, Mr. Lee no doubt would answer, would anybody endure the silly, dull, disgraceful record of fact if the romancers did not periodically snatch us away from it? The Yanks do come; but so much has happened in the meantime that the arrival of a warship out of nowhere just when everything is lost, seems as natural as the fact that the hero has passed from adventure to incredible adventure without losing one little hair of his famous footballer’s head and the heroine shared all these dangers and had one or two specials of her own without losing even her capacity to blush. But if the arrival of the ship is not enough to make you shout out as you read, it will make all the boys in the film audience stamp their feet and cheer when the Yanks arrive by celluloid, as you feel they some day will.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 11
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242SENSATIONS New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 11
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