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...this implausible way, Estes collected more than $30 million in mortgages on imaginary tanks. He used the bogus mortgages as collateral to borrow roughly $22 million from commercial finance companies in New York, Chicago and other cities. To get the finance companies to accept the mortgages, Estes and his henchmen had to fake a lot of documents relating to the farmers' personal finances. One Estes secretary later admitted to typing five phony documents on five typewriters...
Mixing mild parody with whirlwind farce, O'Brien quickly has Manus (referred to simply as "The Brother") escape to England and there grow rich by founding a bogus correspondence academy. Sample subjects: Egyptology, Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...
...little wearing. Portions of his play are difficult to follow, and some of the scenes where Midas is allowed to philosophize and act the tragic hero actually become serious. Fortunately Midas (George Larson) is a fine comic actor, and for the most he plays his role with a bogus sincerity that is just right...
Five years later, another adventure: the hero is roosting in a colony of homosexuals on a Greek island, posing as the archest of fallen angels. Under the erratic leadership of Ambrose, a bogus decadent out of Dorian Gray, he takes up a life of wine sipping, and feebly attempts a diary. Eventually Isherwood decides that chaos is not his cup of tea. Later, safe in England, he muses, "I didn't belong on his island. But now I know I don't belong here, either." Lugubriously he adds, "Or anywhere." The reader is tempted to interject that...
Someone from Assisi confronts St. Francis with a woman he had known carnally in his prevocational days. She is now as whirling mad as he is gently pious. The whole episode has the air of bogus revelation, as if it had been excerpted from a TV show called "Francis-This is Your Life...