Jill & Jack

Jill &Jack

JILL--E. M. Delafield--Harper ($2). The unlovely pot to which young Londoners went during and after the War is again warmed up and stirred. Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small.