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WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?-Jerome Weidman-Simon & Schuster...
...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
What's in it for Me? will rejoice readers: It narrates Harry Bogen's decline & fall. Harry is such a skunk-like character that in the first book many a reader may have been too sickened to notice Author Weidman's strong disapproval of his hero. In this sequel Author Weidman gives Harry a moral shellacking which only an idiot could miss. But before Harry goes down he puts on a fast show. After loafing three months on his last crooked earnings, Harry decides to bounce Martha and go back into the dress business. The trouble...
Harry Bogen will not be missed. If Author Weidman has any more like Harry up his sleeve, God help the good name of Manhattan's garment centre...
...Vermont's youngest and most experimental college, some 150 acolytes, many of them heads of dance departments in other colleges, leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington's modern dancers heaved together in a lusty assembl...