HAREM SCARE'M

by Rosemary Taylor ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 26, 1950

The gal with the feather touch pen takes off into more personal reminiscences -- this time of a very callow, post- graduate episode of the mid'20's. Even Cornelia Otis Skinner couldn't make more of innocence, broad on the A, and in foreign lands, than does Our Author, who not only toots off from a college companion, meets Floyd Gibbons, but turns up a wide- eyed, accredited war correspondent (for the Tucson Citizen) in the Riff war. Dreaming of being a dean of women, Rosemary pays Gibbons' way to Africa; acquires the nickname of ""Wild Bill""; travels with John O'Brien, Clarence Streit; wangles herself some silk (instead of lisle) stockings; totters from French to Spanish Morocco; gets inside a harem; besides latching on to newspaper standing winds up with a typewriter; is caught without her glasses in a brothel; sees the Legionnaires and Moorish women as people rather than symbols; rides a Spanish Navy troopship; is sea- car- and train-sick; falls in love with an employee of the British Bank of West Africa; gets jaundice; dreams up a romantic story -- and lands back in the U.S. with her best story sold for $5.00....Even Floyd Gibbons said it was worth six. Early Careerism, with gullible, young appeal, this has certain riotous moments.

Pub Date: Feb. 26, 1950

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Crowell

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1950

Categories: NONFICTION