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...Freddy Deline, a onetime acrobat and now an aging matinee idol who hopes to squeeze some Diss money out of Katie to back his new show...
Katherine, Marchioness of Diss, once Katie O'Higgins of Washington, D.C., is planning a dinner at her palatial London home. Her list of guests does not include her estranged husband-a dry-as-dust marquess whom she married chiefly for his title. Nor does it include the only man she really loves-her son, the Earl of Hazelhurst, who despises his father, oedipuses his mother, and spends most of his life staying drunk. But Katie's list does include...
...Atheist Lancelot Lawrence-described by a hero-worshiper as "the greatest poet in the world." Everyone knows that Lancelot's greatest poetry and deepest misery have been caused by his unrequited passion for Katie Diss...
...sturries, pomes, end ferry tails vot yu'll gonna reeding onder diss cower" writes Mr. Burbig in a foreword, "vas ritten by mine own hends, s'halp me Goldberg." After one has read a few of the "sturries etc" one begins to wonder. Was Milt Gross name originally Goldberg? If not, why does Mr. Burbig invoke that name? For certainly Milt Gross is the patron saint of this book, the captain under whose banner its writer has drawn his pen and whose exploits he endeavors, insofar as in him lies, to emulate...
Tremont Theatre.- Annie Pixley in M'diss...