Show EIsa sa isa Maxwells Maxwell's Daily Daily Particles of Patter Pater n Moss Hart the coconspirator with George S. S Kaufmann In inthe inthe the creation of so many of the r. r recent Broadway successes I IX is to tp me one of the most interesting interesting inter- inter esting fisting as well as the most det deIB de- de t IB of the complex men in f this poly-complex poly world His one unique gift has f c j h 0 n been to turns turn s Mf his p per personal e r s o 0 nal tw tr foibles i in into n t to o I works of art making not only Y virtues vir vir- m V tues toes 0 out u t o 0 of f br 1 necessities but t P es out 1 of phobias at t. t Pleasure Pleasure- PIe Pleas a s tIre ure- starved as a aboy 5 boy by empty m. m boy Wi p pockets pockets-he o 0 c he z learned to fill them to overflowing over- over tics tics' flowing g Elsa Maxwell l by playwright- playwright g. g Tortured by hidden fear lost ost of his life 0 he con- con these into enthusiasms th the golden route of psychoanalysis psycho- psycho analysis and troubled by the regimen and routine of psychos psycho- psycho h s he transformed these Into nto gold via the hit route of Lady in the Dark which Dark which accomplished aci ac- ac i the extraordinary feat of setting Freud to music I fiat Annoyed oyed by the hither come i sing praises personality of Alexander he and George Kaufmann made big capItal capital cap cap- ital low comedy via The Man j Who Came to Dinner 0 ringing up a hit double run big n error no-error error score for last years year's season Moss barely went to school He lie spent a few years in public then then school then quit It took too 11 long to go through He has river n ver married because of III an Incurable dislike for l pline line He lived most of his hise If e early life at Coney Island and d subsisted on 10 cents a day daySi daya Si a a nickel to get to New Y York Yorka rk a and another nickel to get back ck to Coney Island A couple c ji Q pf f times he lost the second B and had to go back o the home of the hot dog S through rough the kindly offices of the thel police lice department l Moss wrote his first hit play while he was earning 15 a week The ahe play was Once In a Life- Life i time The night before the h W opened Sam Harris who Ie always made the most efficient Eltise use of a sympathetic ear pro- pro l kC eded to give him a synopsis of of the therise rise and fall of the theat theater theater thea thea- t ter r in one easy endless les les- son When the sun came up they were still talking So long Moss said and reached for his hat Wait minute minute Sam said where are you you ou going Home said Moss I I need some sleep You cant ant go home Sam told him you pu have a 10 o'clock rehearsal f. f you'll no sooner be there I rJ than an you'll have to turn around and come back By the time they had walked o 2 Forty-fifth Forty street Sam per- per Moss to go to a near-by near hotel At that point Moss made madea V a pointed discovery I cant can't stay at any hotel he said J iiI I 1 haven't any money Dont worry about that that that- was Sams Sam's comment and he slipped him a bill and said good goodnight nl night ht 6 Moss had never seen a bill before but he decided that since the show was openIng open- open i fag Ing g the next night he might just as well celebrate celebrate and and spend It Forthwith he took the most expensive suite he could get at the Astor ordered Astor ordered himself a massage a haircut Everything else the barber could offer and end wound up with witha a 55 35 breakfast I didn't give a hang what happened he told me I I had a wonderful time timer The next nl night ht the show j opened 1 ened on schedule and clicked Your income has now increased Sam told him by exactly 2485 a week With a wild whoop Moss resolved never to ride in the subway again and hopping a taxi he had himself himself himself him him- self driven at breakneck speed to Brooklyn There he packed up his mother hi h hiS father and his brother Teddy pushed them into a cab cab- Dont take a athing athing athing thing he ordered From now on we start life all over Within 20 minutes the whole Hart clan was shanghaied to a swank Manhattan hotel For all I know Moss once said tp me everything is still standing in that apartment just as we left it including it-including the pie and milk my mother had set setout setout setout out on the kitchen table for me Moss Moss' brother Teddy is the spitting image of the sized pint-sized pantomime comedian Jimmy Savo They look so much alike in fact that once when Teddy had his picture taken the photographer photographer photographer pho pho- sent another shot he had made one of Sa Savo vo Friends kept approaching Moss saying Why dont don't you write a play about mistaken identities and have both Teddy and Jimmy in the same cast There is only one reason Moss said I dont don't think they look alike But a few years ago when Moss was about to embark on one of his many trips around the world Teddy came to see him himoff himoff himoff off and while farewells were being said Moss noticed that he was being eyed strangely by a florid Italian travel fellow er As soon as the boat pulled away from the dock the passenger passenger passenger ger ran up to him embraced him warmly and planted kisses smack on each of his cheeks I am zo glad he slobbered to greet da of da famous actor Jimmy Savo That settles it Moss said and running to his cabin he wiped his face and started start start- ed writing the first sketches for forthe forthe forthe the hit version of the Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare comedy of twins the comedy Broadway knew as The Boys From Syracuse Press Alliance Inc |