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...doldrum days between World Wars I & II, Louis Slobodkin, then a broth of a boy, now a ranking U.S. sculptor, decided to ship as a deckhand on the tramp freighter S.S. Hermanita, plying between the Port of New York and Latin America. Fo'castle Waltz is his 352-page total recall of this nautical episode...
Oldtime Vaudevillian Joe Frisco, still wearing his tramp clothes but without his stutter, caps the funniest of the nonsensical interludes. When the young people (Ginny Simms and Robert Paige) settle themselves on a park bench for what promises to be a familiar lovers' scene, up pops Frisco from behind the bench with an expression of terrible pain on his face. He proceeds to kid the cooing with a disrespect for the romantic routine that should make this scene worth the price of admission to moviegoers who are weary of screen mush...
...with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...
...nearly midnight in London. Sentry-boxed Downing Street lay quiet save for the tramp of guards. Inside No. 10 a taut secretary hurried to the Prime Minister's door, knocked impatiently, turned the glass knob. Winston Churchill stood beside his desk, reading a sheaf of reports. The secretary handed him a note. "Sir," he quavered, "President Roosevelt died a short time ago." The Prime Minister's face paled. He sat down, motionless for five full minutes. Then he lifted his head, with the heaviness of a man who is suddenly very lonely. He whispered: "Get me the Palace...
...ones for clichés, which they usually get just a little wrong," are never caricatures. O'Hara's virtue, says Gibbs, is that he is thoroughly at home an the varied worlds between 52nd Street and Hollywood Boulevard, in one of which "every lady is a tramp and every man an enemy," and in another, "it is possible to be bored to death or to break your heart in the most exclusive surroundings." Readers may agree with him, and yet conclude that Author O'Hara deserves higher marks for technical facility than for deportment...