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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 4, December 1941

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Denvention Daze     SOUTHERN STAR     Page 4

camera hound. In fact, I haven't seen so many cameras together outside of a camera store. There were two Speed Graphics, a Rolleicord, an Ikoflex, a Contax, a Dollins, and lord knows how many others. Half of them had synchroflashes, the rest used fotofloods, while I, ha ha, used von L developer which allows me to take pictures in ordinary light. (You will be seeing more about von L elsewhere.)
     Anyhow, the costumes, as follows: Mr. Heinlein, Adam Stink, the world's most lifelike robot. In other words, no costume at all. Mrs. Heinlein, Queen Niphar from "Figures of Earth," by Cabell. She wore a sort of semi-oriental dress with much costume jewelry.
     Walt Daughtery: A Galactic Roamer. His costume was put together out of plastic material which he obtained as remnants from the airplane factory in which he works. The stuff actually cost $500 to make, counting the experimental work involved in obtaining the particular shape.
     E. Everett Evans: Bug-Eyed Monster from Rhea. Completely hand made. A blue and yellow suit with a helmet made of dozens of feathers pasted on a form one by one. Horribly hot to wear.
    Art Widner: He obtained a frightful rubber mask and came as Granny from "Slan", with speech and all.
     damon knight: A sloppy looking sort of John Star complete with Junior G Man medal.
      Ackerman: A most horrible looking rubber mask. Indescribable. Get pictures of this. The same for Morojo.
     William Deutch of New York put on a little beard and a French accent and handed out Life Line prophecies.
     Chet Cohen grew a Christ-like beard and came as a prophet; Cyril Kornbluth looked natural and came as a mad scientist; and Doc Lowndes put a mercurochrome cut around his neck, powder on his face, and eyebrow pencil on his eyes and was a lovely zombie. the three of them did not put on the act which they were supposed to.
     Elmer Meukel, of Washington (state of) appeared in fancy blue shirt and orange bathing trunks to represent the Probable Man.
     After the tepid beer had been sampled and prizes announced to go to Evans, Daugherty and Ackerman for costumes, the Lost World was seen. All had great fun heckling the silent picture with strange noises & hand-shadows on the screen.
     That night Ackerman bought me the malted milk he had promised me. I really didn't deserve it after that binge the night before.
     The next morning the business meeting of the Colorado Fantasy Society was scheduled. They should have known better than to schedule a meeting for the morning. I was the only one down there, so I put in an energetic session of piano practice.
      After noon various persons began straggling in. The afternoon session was scheduled for 1:00. At that time the chairman was nowhere to be seen. For that matter, most of the audience was nowhere to be seen. However according to rules of order, if the chairman is not present at the time a meeting is scheduled, anyone can ascend the platform and take over the chair. Therefore, Mr. Cyril Kornbluth took the gavel in hand and called the meeting to order.
     First piece of business was to chose the winner of the F. Orlin Tremaine C̲o̲m̲e̲t̲ award for the person who overcame the greatest difficulty in attending the convention. That prize was given almost unanimously to Milton A. Rothman due to the fact that he had to sit next to Madle for 2000 miles.
     Next, the location of the next convention was voted on. The win-

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Denvention Daze SOUTHERN STAR Page 4 camera hound. In fact, I haven't seen so many cameras together outside of a camera store. There were two Speed Graphics, a Rolleicord, an Ikoflex, a Contax, a Dollins, and lord knows how many others. Half of them had synchroflashes, the rest used fotofloods, while I, ha ha, used von L developer which allows me to take pictures in ordinary light. (You will be seeing more about von L elsewhere.) Anyhow, the costumes, as follows: Mr. Heinlein, Adam Stink, the world's most lifelike robot. In other words, no costume at all. Mrs. Heinlein, Queen Niphar from "Figures of Earth," by Cabell. She wore a sort of semi-oriental dress with much costume jewelry. Walt Daughtery: A Galactic Roamer. His costume was put together out of plastic material which he obtained as remnants from the airplane factory in which he works. The stuff actually cost $500 to make, counting the experimental work involved in obtaining the particular shape. E. Everett Evans: Bug-Eyed Monster from Rhea. Completely hand made. A blue and yellow suit with a helmet made of dozens of feathers pasted on a form one by one. Horribly hot to wear. Art Widner: He obtained a frightful rubber mask and came as Granny from "Slan", with speech and all. damon knight: A sloppy looking sort of John Star complete with Junior G Man medal. Ackerman: A most horrible looking rubber mask. Indescribable. Get pictures of this. The same for Morojo. William Deutch of New York put on a little beard and a French accent and handed out Life Line prophecies. Chet Cohen grew a Christ-like beard and came as a prophet; Cyril Kornbluth looked natural and came as a mad scientist; and Doc Lowndes put a mercurochrome cut around his neck, powder on his face, and eyebrow pencil on his eyes and was a lovely zombie. the three of them did not put on the act which they were supposed to. Elmer Meukel, of Washington (state of) appeared in fancy blue shirt and orange bathing trunks to represent the Probable Man. After the tepid beer had been sampled and prizes announced to go to Evans, Daugherty and Ackerman for costumes, the Lost World was seen. All had great fun heckling the silent picture with strange noises & hand-shadows on the screen. That night Ackerman bought me the malted milk he had promised me. I really didn't deserve it after that binge the night before. The next morning the business meeting of the Colorado Fantasy Society was scheduled. They should have known better than to schedule a meeting for the morning. I was the only one down there, so I put in an energetic session of piano practice. After noon various persons began straggling in. The afternoon session was scheduled for 1:00. At that time the chairman was nowhere to be seen. For that matter, most of the audience was nowhere to be seen. However according to rules of order, if the chairman is not present at the time a meeting is scheduled, anyone can ascend the platform and take over the chair. Therefore, Mr. Cyril Kornbluth took the gavel in hand and called the meeting to order. First piece of business was to chose the winner of the F. Orlin Tremaine C̲o̲m̲e̲t̲ award for the person who overcame the greatest difficulty in attending the convention. That prize was given almost unanimously to Milton A. Rothman due to the fact that he had to sit next to Madle for 2000 miles. Next, the location of the next convention was voted on. The win-