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This flawless (because meaningless) fragment of prose is offered as a parody of the once-famed gibberish of Gertrude Stein, and is the work of an unknown writer, Arthur Flegenheimer. It is one of the more recondite items in this anthology of Dwight Macdonald, critic, polemicist and New Yorker staff writer. To see just how recondite it is, the reader must not miss the footnote, in which it is disclosed that the obscure Flegenheimer is Mobster Dutch Schultz, and that the Stein "parody" is a police stenographer's transcript of his dying delirium. Such thimbleriggery is a fair sample...
That it hardly was, that it all bleakly and unbeguilingly wasn't for "the likes" of him-poor decent Stamfordham- to rap out queries about the owner of the to him unknown and unsuggestive name that had, in these days, been thrust on him with such a wealth of commendatory gesture, was precisely what now, as he took, with his prepared list of New Year colifichets and whatever, his way to the great gaudy palace, fairly flicked his cheek with the sense of his having never before so let himself in, as he ruefully phrased it, without letting anything...
Hampy Howell will hold down his usual number two spot tomorrow, but the man to play behind him is still unknown. Either Bob Schwartzman or Roger Welgand, who passed Paul Sullivan earlier this week, is a probable third position man. Poole and Sullivan will both be in the middle of the ladder somewhere...
...writing was a quotation from a letter written by one of the most important of the church fathers-Clement of Alexandria, who lived in the late 2nd century. The letter, to an unknown Theodore, corresponds in vocabulary and style to known writings of Clement. It refers to a "secret Gospel" of Mark-so secret, in fact, that Clement enjoins Theodore to deny knowledge of it even on oath...
...this unpromising assemblage-thanks in part to the presence of ill-starred Star Tallulah Bankhead and Co-Producer Roger Stevens-falls Midgie Purvis, a comedy by Mary (Harvey) Chase. Similarly tainted: Rhinoceros, which combines previously unsuccessful Producer Leo Kerz and unpredictable (three for seven) Director Joseph Anthony with an unknown commercial quantity, Playwright Eugene Ionesco...