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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 2, June 1941
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From----- .......the -- NEW YORK ... Communications Office by Morley The long-suffering New York newsstands, and with them, simultaneously, the stands all over our fair land, have just been hit again by a new magazine. And with this dull thud, the fourth member of the Futurian Society of New York to become a professional editor sees that magic first issue appear. The fourth member is Leslie Perri, and the magazine is Movie Love Stories. With it, a national guessing game among fandom begins, for such fans are interested in extra-curricular activity. The game centers around the question: Which Futurian wrote what in Movie Love Stories? Fred Pohl showed us a corker the other day. It seems that some would-be-hack procured for himself one of those neatly bound books in which the pages are all blank, then painstakingly printed his story in it and mailed the book to Astonishing. About someone who came back as a pig and set out to solve all the world's problems. You may have seen mention of this before in Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly (from now on referred to in this column as just "FFF") ((An unbiased and most excellent news sheet available from Julius Unver at 1702 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, for a quarter per six. Highly recommended. JG)), but here's a way to have lots of fun at little cost. That is, if you have a collection -- even a small one. Construct for yourself a fairly large, reasonably deep box and line the inside with solid black. Have the roof open. Then, if you like, put a frame around it so that it looks like a little stage. However, that isn't essential. What you want now, most of all, having made the nice large box lined with solid black, are two good sized bulbs, one red and one blue, for the lighting. You arrange those so that they play down upon the stage, then, comes night, you take a pile of magazines and place them, one by one, inside the stage and look at the covers under the blue light, the red light, then the blue and red light. Then try flicker effects. The result of often terrific. Recently mailed from New York city to as many fanzine editors as could be found for the occasion was the 1st issue of "X", subtitled thefuturian review. This thing, we think, is really unique. All material in it is by "Roger Conway" the editor; there is no date it nor is anything said about frequency of publication, and it is not for sale. All issues will be mailed to all other fanzine editors who are willing to exchange. "X" is x-asperating. It is, in fact, the damndest thing! At the same time, Jack Gillespie is hard at work on a quarterly fanzine, also to be titled the Futurian Review. The chances that it will actually appear are fairly good; it will be just about what the title suggests, only more conservative and less personal than "X". Dan Burford is no longer living at the Futurian Embassy, having moved back home with his parents recently. So Ambassadors Lowndes and Michel have a nice, quiet little apartment all to themselves -- except on Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, when people of all shapes, sizes, and description are dropping in constantly. Since he sol a story to Thrilling Wonder, we never see anything of Dick Wilson, these days. Shucks, he ought to realize that we Futurians are tolerant people; we wouldn't ostracize him just because he took Marguiles' money; why we'd even forgive him if he sold a story to Palmer -- and that takes a lot of forgiving!
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From----- .......the -- NEW YORK ... Communications Office by Morley The long-suffering New York newsstands, and with them, simultaneously, the stands all over our fair land, have just been hit again by a new magazine. And with this dull thud, the fourth member of the Futurian Society of New York to become a professional editor sees that magic first issue appear. The fourth member is Leslie Perri, and the magazine is Movie Love Stories. With it, a national guessing game among fandom begins, for such fans are interested in extra-curricular activity. The game centers around the question: Which Futurian wrote what in Movie Love Stories? Fred Pohl showed us a corker the other day. It seems that some would-be-hack procured for himself one of those neatly bound books in which the pages are all blank, then painstakingly printed his story in it and mailed the book to Astonishing. About someone who came back as a pig and set out to solve all the world's problems. You may have seen mention of this before in Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly (from now on referred to in this column as just "FFF") ((An unbiased and most excellent news sheet available from Julius Unver at 1702 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, for a quarter per six. Highly recommended. JG)), but here's a way to have lots of fun at little cost. That is, if you have a collection -- even a small one. Construct for yourself a fairly large, reasonably deep box and line the inside with solid black. Have the roof open. Then, if you like, put a frame around it so that it looks like a little stage. However, that isn't essential. What you want now, most of all, having made the nice large box lined with solid black, are two good sized bulbs, one red and one blue, for the lighting. You arrange those so that they play down upon the stage, then, comes night, you take a pile of magazines and place them, one by one, inside the stage and look at the covers under the blue light, the red light, then the blue and red light. Then try flicker effects. The result of often terrific. Recently mailed from New York city to as many fanzine editors as could be found for the occasion was the 1st issue of "X", subtitled thefuturian review. This thing, we think, is really unique. All material in it is by "Roger Conway" the editor; there is no date it nor is anything said about frequency of publication, and it is not for sale. All issues will be mailed to all other fanzine editors who are willing to exchange. "X" is x-asperating. It is, in fact, the damndest thing! At the same time, Jack Gillespie is hard at work on a quarterly fanzine, also to be titled the Futurian Review. The chances that it will actually appear are fairly good; it will be just about what the title suggests, only more conservative and less personal than "X". Dan Burford is no longer living at the Futurian Embassy, having moved back home with his parents recently. So Ambassadors Lowndes and Michel have a nice, quiet little apartment all to themselves -- except on Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, when people of all shapes, sizes, and description are dropping in constantly. Since he sol a story to Thrilling Wonder, we never see anything of Dick Wilson, these days. Shucks, he ought to realize that we Futurians are tolerant people; we wouldn't ostracize him just because he took Marguiles' money; why we'd even forgive him if he sold a story to Palmer -- and that takes a lot of forgiving!
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