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Fandango, v. 3, issue 3, whole 11, Spring 1946
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LIGHT. With all due respect to everyone concerned, I am allergic to "all-girl" fanzines. Material for any zine should be picked on a basis of quality; no other criterion is really acceptable. Myrtle Douglas, who has actively edited and assistant-edited fanzines for longer than all other girl publishers put together, has never limited her publications to women; nor has Mari Beth Wheeler. The Acolyte has published major contributions by a number of different women: a story by Nanek; poems by Tigrina, Margaret Stavely, and about a dozen others; and a major critical article by Carol Wyatt. My point is simply that it is unfair to the girls to segregate their efforts. Their stuff is fully capable of competing with any other fan writing, with no holds barred. ---ooOoo--- WOLLHEIM STUFF. I'd previously read all the good stuff. ---ooOoo--- a That time-travel article is fascinating, and I hope that we get another installment soon. A project like this one is what I like most about fandom; it is so futile that it takes on an air of profound sublimity. Too many of us feel we have to justify our piddle-paddling as by saving the world, little realising that the pleasure and stimulation to be derived from fandom is its own justification. ---ooOoo--- PHANTEUR. (Which, I daresay, will shortly be nicknamed PHANNY; thereby giving rise to a train of reflections on the futility of it all). I have only one comment on this very nice issue. Brazier suggests that the revived Frontier Society "concentrate on showing that there is an underlying oneness in the universe". I submit that this attitude will go far to nullify the value of anything the group may do, for with a preconceived idea, any evidence gathered is likely to be twisted around to support it. Why not "concentrate on finding out if there is an underlying oneness in the universe"? ---ooOoo--- THE FANTASY CRITIC. I still don't believe it! But it's wonderful! ---ooOoo--- EN GARDE. Speer and his Saga of the Fonepole may now make room for Sultan's Flat Tire Blues with marimba obbligato. The way that car was loaded when it pulled up to 1005 I don't wonder that he had grief. If it'd been me, I'd have jettisoned Liebscher. (That doesn't mean what you think, you evil-minded old Chinaman.) ---ooOoo--- ElMEYERmurings. Perhaps I should clarify my views on my boy Manone. Of course he's no Louie; as a matter of fact, I've heard unknowns in joints up North who play almost as much horn as Wingy. The reason I tend to carry the torch for Wingy is simply that I consider he has come about the nearest of anyone except Fats Waller to commercialising jazz without either emasculaating it or making it into a blasting 8-man brass section. He has been making records for over 30 years now, Meyer, and there is little to choose between his definitely jazz numbers (such as blues and ODJB classics) and hit parade material. He'll take something like "Chickery-Chick" and kick it all to pieces, an approach likenable to in manner if not ability to Fatso himself. What's more, he'll make the public like it. Contrast this to the way most jazzmen surrender to corn when they play their hit parade stuff. I simply feel that what jazz needs is more guys like Wingy, playing for white audiences without benefit of the aura of pseudo-artistry with which Nick's is redolent. How else can public taste be improved (if at all)? You must remember that probably 95% of your and my favorite sides were waxed either for negroes, musicians, or jazz collectors--scarcely any of them for the white general public. No wonder you like them better than Wingy; I do too. -- 7 --
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LIGHT. With all due respect to everyone concerned, I am allergic to "all-girl" fanzines. Material for any zine should be picked on a basis of quality; no other criterion is really acceptable. Myrtle Douglas, who has actively edited and assistant-edited fanzines for longer than all other girl publishers put together, has never limited her publications to women; nor has Mari Beth Wheeler. The Acolyte has published major contributions by a number of different women: a story by Nanek; poems by Tigrina, Margaret Stavely, and about a dozen others; and a major critical article by Carol Wyatt. My point is simply that it is unfair to the girls to segregate their efforts. Their stuff is fully capable of competing with any other fan writing, with no holds barred. ---ooOoo--- WOLLHEIM STUFF. I'd previously read all the good stuff. ---ooOoo--- a That time-travel article is fascinating, and I hope that we get another installment soon. A project like this one is what I like most about fandom; it is so futile that it takes on an air of profound sublimity. Too many of us feel we have to justify our piddle-paddling as by saving the world, little realising that the pleasure and stimulation to be derived from fandom is its own justification. ---ooOoo--- PHANTEUR. (Which, I daresay, will shortly be nicknamed PHANNY; thereby giving rise to a train of reflections on the futility of it all). I have only one comment on this very nice issue. Brazier suggests that the revived Frontier Society "concentrate on showing that there is an underlying oneness in the universe". I submit that this attitude will go far to nullify the value of anything the group may do, for with a preconceived idea, any evidence gathered is likely to be twisted around to support it. Why not "concentrate on finding out if there is an underlying oneness in the universe"? ---ooOoo--- THE FANTASY CRITIC. I still don't believe it! But it's wonderful! ---ooOoo--- EN GARDE. Speer and his Saga of the Fonepole may now make room for Sultan's Flat Tire Blues with marimba obbligato. The way that car was loaded when it pulled up to 1005 I don't wonder that he had grief. If it'd been me, I'd have jettisoned Liebscher. (That doesn't mean what you think, you evil-minded old Chinaman.) ---ooOoo--- ElMEYERmurings. Perhaps I should clarify my views on my boy Manone. Of course he's no Louie; as a matter of fact, I've heard unknowns in joints up North who play almost as much horn as Wingy. The reason I tend to carry the torch for Wingy is simply that I consider he has come about the nearest of anyone except Fats Waller to commercialising jazz without either emasculaating it or making it into a blasting 8-man brass section. He has been making records for over 30 years now, Meyer, and there is little to choose between his definitely jazz numbers (such as blues and ODJB classics) and hit parade material. He'll take something like "Chickery-Chick" and kick it all to pieces, an approach likenable to in manner if not ability to Fatso himself. What's more, he'll make the public like it. Contrast this to the way most jazzmen surrender to corn when they play their hit parade stuff. I simply feel that what jazz needs is more guys like Wingy, playing for white audiences without benefit of the aura of pseudo-artistry with which Nick's is redolent. How else can public taste be improved (if at all)? You must remember that probably 95% of your and my favorite sides were waxed either for negroes, musicians, or jazz collectors--scarcely any of them for the white general public. No wonder you like them better than Wingy; I do too. -- 7 --
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