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Nostalgic Fitzgerald fans realized that the "lost generation" had died with him. They wondered what he had been racing death to write. Last week they penetrated several wrappings of reticence to find out. Fitzgerald was writing a novel about Hollywood. Its hero was a movie producer. As "a gag title," Fitzgerald called his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon-A Western, expected it to run a little longer than The Great Gatsby (218 pages). He had begun writing it some five months before his death. Though secretive about his progress, he mentioned the novel in letters to Scribner...
When Yale played Virginia at New Haven last October, many a Northern football fan was a little startled to see Virginia rooters waving Confederate flags. It was just a gag. But in Montgomery, Ala. last week, the Stars & Bars waved in earnest...
Last week the New York Financial Writers held their annual dinner and show kidding Wall Street. Best gag: An underwriter, entertaining Jimmy Roosevelt at dinner, says, "Oh, yes, we have a small office down at 120 Broadway." Chimes in his wife: "Twelve floors. And if business gets better, they're going to turn the electricity on again...
...gyrations is now sweeping over the boards in "All In Fun" that Leonard Sillman faces a Herculean jig saw puzzle to fit the pieces into a unified show. Bill Robinson dances and the more you see the more you want. Jerry Lester, who far outdistances Phil Baker as the gag-man of the show, laughs, screams, whistles and ties himself into knots. Imogene Coca is superb in any kind of dance you can think of. And then there is Hope Manning, Red Marshall, Candido, Bothello, Bill Johnson...
Last week the Battle of Britain was three months old. Prime Minister Churchill dug up an old gag to keep British hearts high: "It's a great life if you don't weaken." Out of the continued bombings -London had 300 alarms, and the Midlands got it hard-came two items which said a lot about whether or not Britons were weakening...