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."