VAN VECHTEN, CARL. In the garret. *$2 (3c) Knopf 780.4
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From the garret of his memory the author produces many things, scrutinizes them whimsically and chats about them at random. The things are authors and books and music and people he has met. Contents: Variations on a theme by Havelock Ellis; A note on Philip Thicknesse; The folk-songs of Iowa; Isaac Albéniz; The holy jumpers; On the relative difficulties of depicting heaven and hell in music; Sir Arthur Sullivan; On the rewriting of masterpieces; Oscar Hammerstein: an epitaph; La tigresse; In the theatres of the purlieus: Mimi Aguglia as Salome, Farfariello, The negro theatre, The Yiddish theatre, The Spanish theatre.
+ Ath p257 F 20 ’20 80w + Booklist 16:198 Mr ’20
“He has a magnificent way of being unimportant. His touch is light and artistic. His culture is Hunekeresque. His scholarship is musicianly, sometimes jazzy.” Mary Terrill
+ Bookm 51:193 Ap ’20 350w + New Repub 22:161 Mr 31 ’20 80w
“The author does himself injustice by opening with the least attractive essay in the book, though it shows the most erudition.... It is when he surveys the American scene that we go all the way with Mr Van Vechten.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p77 F 5 ’20 800w
VAN VECHTEN, CARL. Tiger in the house. il *$5 Knopf 636.8