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Shangri-L'Affaires, whole no. 11, November 1942
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TEN NIGHTS IN A MADHOUSE by BARBARA BOVARD Getting into the place was something like taking a deep breath and plunging into water. With the same result -- chaos. You had to hold your breath, anyway. The smoke, excitement and general crowd would have choked a horse, provided we had a horse. We couldn't have gotten a Zwilig into the place, much less a horse. When you stepped into the doorway, 4sj promptly shoved a fanmag under your nose and then stood back, triumphantly waving a pen waiting for your request for his signature. Because the mag was one put out especially for the occasion by Daugherty, with two full pages of space for autographs. Here is where the fun began. Besides the fact that 4e had been promoted and put a proud Cpl. in front of the "Ack Ack", there was the inevitable celebrity. Turning around, you ran smack into Guy Gifford, who grinned and put his John Hancock on your sheet, with his funny faces in the capitals (see VOM #26), then shoved his mag under your nose, asking for your signature. Puffed to think that he would want it, you give and turn around, now imbued with the burning fever of an autograph hound. You hardly know where to begin. There's the gang, the usual bunch, 4e, Bronson, Yerke, Morojo, Freehafer, Chamberlain, Finn, Bovard, Dowdle, Brown, Russell, not to mention the odd ones who turned out for the special occasion. Rustebar, Fox, BlaineDunmire, Beverly Bronson, Rhodes, Joquel, the Hasses, The Rocklynes, the Pogorus combime, (and Pogorus Jr.) three old times from way back when. 4es Old Sarge, Will Gould, who drew things, too, a private, of whom Bovard was astonished to find his mother was a Bovard too, and two young ladies, whom 4e introduced as -- of course, He wasn't sure", but they might be "Chambermaids", and so on. There was so much going on that it was hard to grasp it all at once. It came and went in flashes .... Dowdle getting a crick in his neck from trying to get angle short of Bev Bronson, Chamberlain drawing devil's heads next to his signature, 4e in his Uniform dress cap, dropping mags into everyone's lap, Morojo, all in white and very pretty, looking worried as she watched the club accounts, Finn scampering after autographs, Brown hanging on grimly to a special number of Amazing stories -- which nearly confirmed the report of his insanity --- Yerke fussing over his camera collection like an old hen -- you could almost hear the clucks and cackles, Gifford and Hasse comparing notes, Pogo disappearing and reappearing without the baby, Kronos knows where she left it! Bronson dis- and appearing vaguely ---- Freehafer trying vainly to get the meeting opened properly, Joquel and Baline snarling at each other over who was going to sit next to Beverly Bronson, Van Dorne, Charles, et al. including amoung them, Mrs. Wyman, 4e's grandmother, chatting comfortably in the background. Rocklyne patiently signing autography books, while Francis Rocklyne did likewise...... And so on, far into the night...... -7-
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TEN NIGHTS IN A MADHOUSE by BARBARA BOVARD Getting into the place was something like taking a deep breath and plunging into water. With the same result -- chaos. You had to hold your breath, anyway. The smoke, excitement and general crowd would have choked a horse, provided we had a horse. We couldn't have gotten a Zwilig into the place, much less a horse. When you stepped into the doorway, 4sj promptly shoved a fanmag under your nose and then stood back, triumphantly waving a pen waiting for your request for his signature. Because the mag was one put out especially for the occasion by Daugherty, with two full pages of space for autographs. Here is where the fun began. Besides the fact that 4e had been promoted and put a proud Cpl. in front of the "Ack Ack", there was the inevitable celebrity. Turning around, you ran smack into Guy Gifford, who grinned and put his John Hancock on your sheet, with his funny faces in the capitals (see VOM #26), then shoved his mag under your nose, asking for your signature. Puffed to think that he would want it, you give and turn around, now imbued with the burning fever of an autograph hound. You hardly know where to begin. There's the gang, the usual bunch, 4e, Bronson, Yerke, Morojo, Freehafer, Chamberlain, Finn, Bovard, Dowdle, Brown, Russell, not to mention the odd ones who turned out for the special occasion. Rustebar, Fox, BlaineDunmire, Beverly Bronson, Rhodes, Joquel, the Hasses, The Rocklynes, the Pogorus combime, (and Pogorus Jr.) three old times from way back when. 4es Old Sarge, Will Gould, who drew things, too, a private, of whom Bovard was astonished to find his mother was a Bovard too, and two young ladies, whom 4e introduced as -- of course, He wasn't sure", but they might be "Chambermaids", and so on. There was so much going on that it was hard to grasp it all at once. It came and went in flashes .... Dowdle getting a crick in his neck from trying to get angle short of Bev Bronson, Chamberlain drawing devil's heads next to his signature, 4e in his Uniform dress cap, dropping mags into everyone's lap, Morojo, all in white and very pretty, looking worried as she watched the club accounts, Finn scampering after autographs, Brown hanging on grimly to a special number of Amazing stories -- which nearly confirmed the report of his insanity --- Yerke fussing over his camera collection like an old hen -- you could almost hear the clucks and cackles, Gifford and Hasse comparing notes, Pogo disappearing and reappearing without the baby, Kronos knows where she left it! Bronson dis- and appearing vaguely ---- Freehafer trying vainly to get the meeting opened properly, Joquel and Baline snarling at each other over who was going to sit next to Beverly Bronson, Van Dorne, Charles, et al. including amoung them, Mrs. Wyman, 4e's grandmother, chatting comfortably in the background. Rocklyne patiently signing autography books, while Francis Rocklyne did likewise...... And so on, far into the night...... -7-
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