Re: Les Glass Is Australian!
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:16:56 +1000
I have often wondered about an Australian Glass connection - in fact for
the bananafish book project (from which I have heard nothing - is it still
on???) I was working on a story of the Shoeless Joe variety where a young
Australian vaudeville artist runs into a very peculiar little boy named
Glass working at the Tivoli (Melbourne's greatest vaudeville venue)
sometime in the 1920s.(Unfortunately I ran out of time and submitted an
older story instead. Mea culpa.) The reason I was inspired was by a line in
- I think - `Zooey', where someone mentions that the Glasses once did tours
of Australia in their vaudeville days. It overjoyed me because it's
something I know a bit about and gave me a sweet little shiver to think
that the Glasses actually did tread the boards of the Tiv! (Well not
*actually* but you know what I mean). I'm madly flicking through the book
to see if by chance the reference will jump out at me but so far it's not
forthcoming.
But this ??? This would make Seymour Glass HALF AUSTRALIAN !!!
OH the IRONY !!!
Thank you Bruce for the latest discovery, it's made my day! (: Now THIS is
a connection I'm going to explore!
Hoping you enjoy my accent to hilt or otherwise,
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
> { A welcome back post for Camille; I hope the subject line is news}
>
> Recently, while dipping into "Hapworth", I came across Seymour directly
> addressing Les about Les and Bessie's upcoming recording of a song,
> "Bambalina":
>
> "If you can possibly do it without unhappiness, excessive strain, or the
> feeling that you are slighting or offending the decent, charming
Australian
> people of your childhood, please keep your accent off the record, even
> though we, your relatives, enjoy it to the very hilt!"
>
> (Bessie, of course, is Irish--"ever since she [Bessie] was a child in
Dublin
> and her twin sister succumbed, backstage, of galloping
> undernutrition...." --"Seymour: an Intro.")