Re: Les Glass is Australian !
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:11:28 +1000
I have been informed that said passages are actually to be found in S:AI.
Aha! I thought they may be, my lightning search through Zooey was proving
fruitless, offering only this amusement:
`Firstly' he said `I don't like this Camille routine. And don't interrupt
me, now. I know you're legitimately falling apart.'
(p125 of my edition)
The joys of being named after a hypochondriac prostitute. (:
It's only poetic justice, seeing that I came from Brisbane not three days
ago, unfortunately not finding a trace of Glassness.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
> 1. "Our parents themselves, Les and Bessie Glass, had a fairly
> conventional but (*we* believe) remarkably good song-and-dance-and-patter
> act in vaudeville and music halls, reaching perhaps most nearly top
billing
> in Australia (where Seymour and I spent about two years, in total
bookings,
> of our very early childhood)..."
>
> 2. "In Brisbane, in 1922, when Seymour and I were five and three, Les and
> Bessie played on the same bill for a couple of weeks with Joe
Jackson--the
> redoubtable Joe Jackson of the nickel-plated trick bicycle that shone
like
> something better than platinum to the very last row of the theater."