CONTENTS

Introduction by George J. Firmage

Foreword by E. E. Cummings

The New Art

Gaston Lachaise

T. S. Eliot

The Soul Story of Gladys Vanderdecker

Vanity Fair’s Prize Movie Scenario

What Our Loving Subscribers Say

An Ex-Multimillionaire’s Rules for Success in Life

A Modern Gulliver Explores the Movies

When Calvin Coolidge Laughed

William Adams-Wiggley: Genius and Christian

Seven Samples of Dramatic Criticism

Unexpected Light on the Dawes Plan

Jean Cocteau as a Graphic Artist

How to Succeed as an Author

The Adult, the Artist and the Circus

The Very Latest School in Art

Helen Whiffletree, American Poetess

You Aren’t Mad, Am I?

“I Confess!”

“I Take Great Pleasure in Presenting”

The Theatre: I

The Theatre: II

Coney Island

Conflicting Aspects of Paris

Vive la Folie!

How I Do Not Love Italy

The Tabloid Newspaper

The Secret of the Zoo Exposed

Frenzied Finance

Ivan Narb: Abstract Sculptor of the Cosmic

The Agony of the Artist (with a capital A)

Why I Like America

The New Mother Goose

Mr. X

Miracles and Dreams

A Book without a Title

Brief Biography

A Fairy Tale

The Red Front

And It Came to Pass

Ballad of an Intellectual

Weligion Is Hashish

In Memoriam

Exit the Boob

Burlesque, I Love It!

Speech from an Unfinished Play: I

Speech from an Unfinished Play: II

Speech from an Unfinished Play: III

Fair Warning

What About It?

Re Ezra Pound: I

Re Ezra Pound: II

Foreword to an Exhibit: I

Foreword to an Exhibit: II

Foreword to an Exhibit: III

Foreword to an Exhibit: IV

Is Something Wrong?

A Foreword to Krazy

Words Into Pictures

Jottings

Videlicet

A Poet’s Advice to Students