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...first few months, the show's armchair guests (at $25-$50 a case) were dilettanti like Princess Kropotkin, Gelett Burgess, Deems Taylor, Lillian Hellman, Margaret Bourke-White. They were given to sniffing up recondite alleys: Lillian Hellman was the only one to show on-the-scent results, solving the mystery of Napoleon's razor in a nick. This month the show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery...
Recited Author Gelett ("Purple Cow") Burgess to the Gourmet Society at a dinner in The Bronx...
...Press, on the other hand, decided it was shameless, stupid or funny. Miss Nethersole, a onetime governess, was tried in Manhattan on a charge of committing a public nuisance, was easily acquitted. Comedians Weber & Fields put on a burlesque of the stair-mounting scene called Sapolio. Gelett Burgess wrote a doggerel...
...CLOCK COURAGE-Gelett Burgess-Bobbs-Merrill...
...like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George Ade's Fables in Slang were funnier than real slang. Gene Buck, who, Mr. Funk said last week, had once told him he "was responsible for 100 words that are now current...