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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 2, whole no.8, February 1942
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Surprised to see this again? So am I. This column saw light of day in two issues of SCIENTI-SNAPS and the only BIZARRE. After the latter fell apart, the column was left minus a home. Now, as any fool can plainly see, it has one. The only reason for its resurrection is that Art Widner Jr (omit comma before and period after Jr, he insists) asked me to promise to do a column for FANFARE, even though I didn't want to do one, so I couldn't do one for anyone else in case I was asked and decided to accept the request. That was too complicated (right!--lrc), so this will be ground out until it has finished last in the ratings for three consecutive issues. In its first three installments, I tried to get a good bit of news into Fantasy Footnotes. I've given that up. Only such items as aren't really timely will be included from now on -- until I change my mind, of course--mostly because it's an awfully silly feeling to present with much ado a scoop, you think, only to be scooped by five or six other fanzines before your column appears. So it's to be mostly comment and opinion. No one, least of all I, should be held responsible for the opinions, and the comments aren't guaranteed 100% original. What do you expect in a fanzine, anyway? I've been trying to think of a distinction I might claim as my own. It's been a long struggle. At first I thought I was the only fan not to think Thorne Smith an unqualified genius but at last I managed to find a few of similar views to mine. Then I decided that I'd announce myself as the only fan never to have read any of James Branch Cabell's works. But I wasn't quick enough, and got Jurgen. But here's something I claim a record for: not going to see movies in general and fantastic and stf ones in particular. During 1940 and so far in 1941, I've been to the moompitchers twice. Sowing were "Rebecca" and "The Grapes of Wrath," with which I was reasonably pleased. I know of none now in production or playing around the country I want to attend except "Fantasia," which will doubtless never come to this small town. That's why I am unable to participate in Chris Mulrain's poll of the best fantastic movies. Of the three dozen he lists, I've seen precisely two. They're "Dracula" and "Frankenstein," to which double-bill I treated myself on the occasion of my sixteenth birthday. Further, the only other flicker I can recall having seen was a twelve-part serial, "The Vanishing Shadow," which played on Saturdays along with the cowboy movies every boy in the neighborhood religiously attended when I was about ten. When I consider how Tucker watches the things daily, and some of the West Coast fans claim to have seen certain ones two dozen times each, I can merely wonder just who is crazy. For collectors only: three small stfiction items I ran across lately might be of interest. The first is in the 1940 vol. of the O. Henry Memorial Awards for the best short stories. Title "Called For;" author I do not remember. I wish I could forget the story. I could name two dozen better ghost stories that appeared in WEIRD TALES during that year; but of course, they wouldn't
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Surprised to see this again? So am I. This column saw light of day in two issues of SCIENTI-SNAPS and the only BIZARRE. After the latter fell apart, the column was left minus a home. Now, as any fool can plainly see, it has one. The only reason for its resurrection is that Art Widner Jr (omit comma before and period after Jr, he insists) asked me to promise to do a column for FANFARE, even though I didn't want to do one, so I couldn't do one for anyone else in case I was asked and decided to accept the request. That was too complicated (right!--lrc), so this will be ground out until it has finished last in the ratings for three consecutive issues. In its first three installments, I tried to get a good bit of news into Fantasy Footnotes. I've given that up. Only such items as aren't really timely will be included from now on -- until I change my mind, of course--mostly because it's an awfully silly feeling to present with much ado a scoop, you think, only to be scooped by five or six other fanzines before your column appears. So it's to be mostly comment and opinion. No one, least of all I, should be held responsible for the opinions, and the comments aren't guaranteed 100% original. What do you expect in a fanzine, anyway? I've been trying to think of a distinction I might claim as my own. It's been a long struggle. At first I thought I was the only fan not to think Thorne Smith an unqualified genius but at last I managed to find a few of similar views to mine. Then I decided that I'd announce myself as the only fan never to have read any of James Branch Cabell's works. But I wasn't quick enough, and got Jurgen. But here's something I claim a record for: not going to see movies in general and fantastic and stf ones in particular. During 1940 and so far in 1941, I've been to the moompitchers twice. Sowing were "Rebecca" and "The Grapes of Wrath," with which I was reasonably pleased. I know of none now in production or playing around the country I want to attend except "Fantasia," which will doubtless never come to this small town. That's why I am unable to participate in Chris Mulrain's poll of the best fantastic movies. Of the three dozen he lists, I've seen precisely two. They're "Dracula" and "Frankenstein," to which double-bill I treated myself on the occasion of my sixteenth birthday. Further, the only other flicker I can recall having seen was a twelve-part serial, "The Vanishing Shadow," which played on Saturdays along with the cowboy movies every boy in the neighborhood religiously attended when I was about ten. When I consider how Tucker watches the things daily, and some of the West Coast fans claim to have seen certain ones two dozen times each, I can merely wonder just who is crazy. For collectors only: three small stfiction items I ran across lately might be of interest. The first is in the 1940 vol. of the O. Henry Memorial Awards for the best short stories. Title "Called For;" author I do not remember. I wish I could forget the story. I could name two dozen better ghost stories that appeared in WEIRD TALES during that year; but of course, they wouldn't
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