DON BLANDING
"Memory Room"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1935
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 126 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
To all of you
who have contributed
Souvenirs
However frail
To the dusty treasures
Of Memory Room
I dedicate
This book.
Acknowledgements to Peggy Emery, Nettie
Mae Jones, Carl Fisher and Scott Creager for preparation of Memory Room.
To the editors of The Sunset Magazine, Los Angeles Saturday Night, Ontario Herald, The
Portland Oregonian,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and Los Angeles Times, Ethel Romig Fuller of Oregonian
Verse, Lee Shippey of The Lee Side of Los Angeles,
Margaret Scott Copeland of Five, James Neill Northe of Silhouettes and Warp
and Woof for the privilege of reprinting many of my verses.
To Eddie Albright, Don Fitzgerald, Lewis TeeGarden, Ted Malone, Henry Philip Shuler, Ed
Smith
and other Voices of the Air for their loyal friendship to my verses.
Contents:
| To All of You... (dedication) Penny Waster, Memory Miser... Spring Cleaning in Memory Room Memories in Red Tropic Reds City Reds Childhood Reds Orient Reds Dramatic Reds Desert Reds Country Reds Varied Reds Frost on Opals Messenger Lost Sunsets Elephant Song Dream of Jewels... A Thousand Lives April Again Prayer Release Leis From a Lyric Land Mokihana Lei Aunty Pinau The Kahuna Speaks to a White Man |
Mele of Yesterday's Men Chant to Pele Bright Ecstasy 'Tis Folly To Be Wise Drums Mark the End Answer to an Atheist Wounds Kiss of the Fog October's Gem By Now White Death Creative Urge Anesthesia Spirit of Hollywood Movie Magic The Little Girl Across the Street Hollywood Love Lyrics The Bucolic Drama The Domestic Comedy The Modern Drama The Musical Comedy Hollywood Courtship Extra Man Fortune Hunter A Mermaid's Day |
Memory Room Crazy Quilt Go With Silent Feet Heartache Footprints Rogue Wind Advice to Virtuous Maidens Advice to Bachelors Jealousy That's What Hurt Warning to Motorists Conversationalist Kitchen Song Bonnets Flight They Sing of Joy Portrait of the Author Healing Gigolette At the End of Your Visit This Night Slumbertime Hour Wonder Tired Vagabond Epitaph |
Illustrations:
| Memory Room Key to Memory Room Lei Joss Cactus Flame Jewels A Thousand Lives Warrior Salammbô |
Egypt Young April Leis Luana Pele Ecstasy Kiss of the Fog White Death Lotus Dream Spirit of Hollywood |
Mermaid Crazy Quilt Acacia Rogue Wind Medusa Bonnet Flight Zi-Zi Lady of the Night |
Notes:
Mokihana Lei was written for Lahilahi Webb.
Aunty Pinau was written for Aunty Pinau.
The Little Girl Across the Street was written for Joan Crawford.
Flight was written for Amelia Earhart.
Slumbertime Hour was written for Lewis TeeGarden, radio personality.
Tired Vagabond was written for Jim and Margaret Northe.
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