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...Jean Cocteau's cinema. Le Sang d'un Poete (1933), will occasionally recognize in I Am Your Brother the same technique of mad imperturbability-as in the scene in which car after car drives up to the house where Julian is going to dinner; the doorman respectfully opens each door, no one emerges, the car drives on. No one says anything, no one is surprised. Oldsters may object that if this is surrealism, so is Alice in Wonderland. Surrealists may retort that in Alice there is nothing fishy...
Last week Miss McGraw had a new pair of twins to display-Florie and Margie, 15 months old, born by caesarean section two months prematurely to a onetime domestic servant and an apartment house doorman. Like Jimmy, Margie has received only a child's ordinary training. As a result she is afraid to climb and jump, cannot yet walk or use a kiddy car. A double mastoid operation, from which she last week was recovering, has not noticeably impeded her development. Florie climbs and jumps as readily as Johnny used to. She has temporarily abandoned her kiddy...
Immediately Publisher Marshall set out to make the Times a fit background for himself. He installed a gold-braided doorman with "Times" across his visor, put all the art staff in smocks with "Times" across the fronts, had the building painted pale grey outside, white-&-tan within, had large gilt eagles painted on all doors...
...curtain had just fallen, and I was rushing to my dressing room, shedding intimate feminine apparel in all directions when the doorman came up to me and said, "Miss Tamara, a young man wishes...
...told the doorman to bring him in and was more than gratified to see the post charming man, whom I recognized at once as a Lampoon man from the expression on his face. I opened the interview as follows...