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Imagination!, v. 1, issue 6, whole no. 6, March 1938

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WAY OUT WEST ("Hi-Lites of Local Leag Life") - Director Russ Hodgkins

The job of writing a monthly column such as this--& keeping it more or less interesting--has assumed proportions that this writer little suspected when he agreed to undertake it. Not being one who is gifted with a flair for writing, or for making news where little or no news exists, the haphazard way in which the various items are tosst into this monthly moan must be excused by the readers----- Just thinking about it makes me feel worse, so if you can put up with it for a while, we'll get on to the business at hand:

A real loss was sufferd by the Chapt this month, when "Everybody's Pal"--Pogo--packt up & vanisht into some state vaguely known as Arizona. There went our slip-sheet gal & faithful "Madge" assembler! "Patty" writes the gang: "Th only thing here (Gila Bend) is a bunch of Indians, Mexicans & cowboys who act like they never saw anything with a skirt on b4. Wel, if I can't b in LA 2 atend th meetns, then th least I can do is tel evryone about it & try & educate em." Thru her cousin Morojo we learn Patty has set herself up as "Hi Priestess of Foo Foo"!, her rite-hand man-i-Ack being that Esperantest Foo-jak! Emblem of dis organisation is a tooth-pick shaped like a Pogo Stick..!

With an atheismanuscript (if I don't run it together that way, Whacky will!) in this issue, & the anti-Mitchellsmanuscript coming up, it might be prudent to mention at this point that, as the radio announcer says, "Madge is non-partisan, non-sectarian, etc, & the opinions exprest in our pgs do not necessarily reflect those of the roster."

Due to the fact that ol' Jupe Pluvius favord us with a "heavy dew", the meeting of 3 Feb was not what it might have been in regard to attendance. Nothing important in the way of business on hand, Geo Tullis regaled us with an acct of his recent trip to Sun Valley/Idaho, following which, Fred Schroyer described his trip thru Death Valley & the folk-lore of the inhabitants thereof. 

Duplicating our record "Keiler" attendance, for no good cuse that we know 29 turnd up to our 17 Feb meeting. 23 members and 6 guests--1 feminine. Fred Schroyer gave a real entertaining extemporaneous talk on collecting sff bks for a personal library, the keynote being not the neglect the phantasys, "for it is within that shadowy realm that surrounds the strict science fictions works that most of the great masterpieces are to be found." He cited the Merritt vols, little known bk "Tunnels thru the Air", & orally résuméd Geo Allan England's "Air Trust". Followd a plea by Fred that there should be more Purpose--planning--in our get-togethers, rather than just to convene to converse about the current sff. This evoked volunteers: Frances Fairchild will lead off with a paper on bacteriology, to be followd by Chas Gurnett on "My Perpetual Motion models & Why won't they work?!". Still later, "Stimmy" promises another session on Atlantis. 

Feb was a Macabre Movie Month for the Imagi-natives, commencing with the LON CHANEY Evening at the Filmarte. Henry K, Frank Brady, Geo Tullis, Morojo, Forry, Celeste, Fred Shroyer, Hal & Vic Clark, & Wil Stimson & Lady Friend formd the Phantom of the Opera party--saw Chaney Jr, Peter Lorre, in lobby. Few eves later, similar group journeyd out to Inglewood to witness revival the original FRANKENSTEIN. Forry & FilmatiClark interviewed Mgr afterward to induce him to revive Dracula. "Crime of Dr Crespi" (the "Premature Burial" Poe pic) is skeded there (Ritz Theater) soon. "The Mummy" recently revived at Vogue. Keep 30 Mar in mind for INVIS. MAN: Due to Roy Test's efforts, this will be brot back at the WORLD--"7" on B'way to Florence....

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WAY OUT WEST ("Hi-Lites of Local Leag Life") - Director Russ Hodgkins The job of writing a monthly column such as this--& keeping it more or less interesting--has assumed proportions that this writer little suspected when he agreed to undertake it. Not being one who is gifted with a flair for writing, or for making news where little or no news exists, the haphazard way in which the various items are tosst into this monthly moan must be excused by the readers----- Just thinking about it makes me feel worse, so if you can put up with it for a while, we'll get on to the business at hand: A real loss was sufferd by the Chapt this month, when "Everybody's Pal"--Pogo--packt up & vanisht into some state vaguely known as Arizona. There went our slip-sheet gal & faithful "Madge" assembler! "Patty" writes the gang: "Th only thing here (Gila Bend) is a bunch of Indians, Mexicans & cowboys who act like they never saw anything with a skirt on b4. Wel, if I can't b in LA 2 atend th meetns, then th least I can do is tel evryone about it & try & educate em." Thru her cousin Morojo we learn Patty has set herself up as "Hi Priestess of Foo Foo"!, her rite-hand man-i-Ack being that Esperantest Foo-jak! Emblem of dis organisation is a tooth-pick shaped like a Pogo Stick..! With an atheismanuscript (if I don't run it together that way, Whacky will!) in this issue, & the anti-Mitchellsmanuscript coming up, it might be prudent to mention at this point that, as the radio announcer says, "Madge is non-partisan, non-sectarian, etc, & the opinions exprest in our pgs do not necessarily reflect those of the roster." Due to the fact that ol' Jupe Pluvius favord us with a "heavy dew", the meeting of 3 Feb was not what it might have been in regard to attendance. Nothing important in the way of business on hand, Geo Tullis regaled us with an acct of his recent trip to Sun Valley/Idaho, following which, Fred Schroyer described his trip thru Death Valley & the folk-lore of the inhabitants thereof. Duplicating our record "Keiler" attendance, for no good cuse that we know 29 turnd up to our 17 Feb meeting. 23 members and 6 guests--1 feminine. Fred Schroyer gave a real entertaining extemporaneous talk on collecting sff bks for a personal library, the keynote being not the neglect the phantasys, "for it is within that shadowy realm that surrounds the strict science fictions works that most of the great masterpieces are to be found." He cited the Merritt vols, little known bk "Tunnels thru the Air", & orally résuméd Geo Allan England's "Air Trust". Followd a plea by Fred that there should be more Purpose--planning--in our get-togethers, rather than just to convene to converse about the current sff. This evoked volunteers: Frances Fairchild will lead off with a paper on bacteriology, to be followd by Chas Gurnett on "My Perpetual Motion models & Why won't they work?!". Still later, "Stimmy" promises another session on Atlantis. Feb was a Macabre Movie Month for the Imagi-natives, commencing with the LON CHANEY Evening at the Filmarte. Henry K, Frank Brady, Geo Tullis, Morojo, Forry, Celeste, Fred Shroyer, Hal & Vic Clark, & Wil Stimson & Lady Friend formd the Phantom of the Opera party--saw Chaney Jr, Peter Lorre, in lobby. Few eves later, similar group journeyd out to Inglewood to witness revival the original FRANKENSTEIN. Forry & FilmatiClark interviewed Mgr afterward to induce him to revive Dracula. "Crime of Dr Crespi" (the "Premature Burial" Poe pic) is skeded there (Ritz Theater) soon. "The Mummy" recently revived at Vogue. Keep 30 Mar in mind for INVIS. MAN: Due to Roy Test's efforts, this will be brot back at the WORLD--"7" on B'way to Florence....