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...CAPTAIN'S TIGER (230 pp.)-Jerome Weidman-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...Jerome Weidman's noisy talents have been devoted to proving that life in his native New York City is a rat race between the stinkers and the saps. In I Can Get It for You Wholesale and What's In It for Me? Weidman drew a picture of the garment district so snarlingly unpleasant that his publishers for a time refused to let them be reprinted, fearing that they helped spread antiSemitism. In a collection of short stories, The Horse That Could Whistle Dixie, he boiled a whole gallery of cheap-flash characters in skunk oil. Weidman...
...Author Weidman has grown older, but his sympathy for his fellow man has not increased noticeably with the years. A few of the 21 stories in this collection, written between 1939 and 1947, are slick magazine products with a happy ending, but the majority appeared first in the New Yorker and wear a kind of civilized brutality. Readers will miss the garlicky locale of his earlier books, but they will feel the sting of the old Weidman venom...
Humphrey built up a cult of admirers, but Weidman kept wondering "if the audience really understands this business." When Doris quit dancing two years ago, he decided to do a dance "as understandable and popular as the movies." His choice: Thurber's Fables for Our Time...
...fortnight ago at Jacob's Pillow, students saw a trial run of four of his new sketches: Weidman mugging and leaping grandly as the "owl who was God," or the harried male of The Shrike and the Chipmunks. Weidman hopes to dance the Fables on Broadway. Says he: "I'm not one of those arty people who think the dance is sacred...