The Blakiston Co Reprint Edition 1945. H. Allen Smith is hysterical. He is very much the NYC Manhattan writer of the 1940s. Gin drinking, wise crackin' gentleman of the typewriting world. "Smith has made a while book out of odds and ends he tossed into a cheese box. When the box was bulging with anecdotes and trivia of this and that, he wove them into a wonderful book that brings the celebrities of the day and the life and times of New York City and Hollywood of the 1940's and '50's come springing back to life. He has an amazing skill of linking all these different, disparate items in a way that gets right down into the American funny bone, unpacks it's suitcase pours a drink and makes itself right at home."