My Breviloquent Book Review Thread
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:49 pm
As none of you know I am a lover of early film and collector of same. Be it the movies themselves or books and other ephemera, all find a home in my........umm, home.
Being a rather magnanimous sort, I have decided to share with you my thoughts on various items in my vast collection (now reaching upwards to 4 things) and hope you gain valuable knowledge and appreciation from my giving nature. Try to be worthy.
Doug Fairbanks "Laugh and Live" (Britton Publishing Company, second printing April 25, 1917)
Yeah, I really couldn't get through the thing. All full of 'be happy' horsehooey. %80 Piffle.
It did have a paragraph on the classic 'Mystery of the Leaping Fish' however.
"The Mystery of the Leaping Fish" was what is known as a "water picture," and "Doug", as a comedy detective, was compelled to make a human submarine of himself, not to mention several duels in the dark with Japanese thugs and opium smugglers.
"Another day of it," he grinned, "and I'd have grown fins." (p. 175)
R. Joseph Physician
Being a rather magnanimous sort, I have decided to share with you my thoughts on various items in my vast collection (now reaching upwards to 4 things) and hope you gain valuable knowledge and appreciation from my giving nature. Try to be worthy.
Doug Fairbanks "Laugh and Live" (Britton Publishing Company, second printing April 25, 1917)
Yeah, I really couldn't get through the thing. All full of 'be happy' horsehooey. %80 Piffle.
It did have a paragraph on the classic 'Mystery of the Leaping Fish' however.
"The Mystery of the Leaping Fish" was what is known as a "water picture," and "Doug", as a comedy detective, was compelled to make a human submarine of himself, not to mention several duels in the dark with Japanese thugs and opium smugglers.
"Another day of it," he grinned, "and I'd have grown fins." (p. 175)
R. Joseph Physician