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Essays and articles, including some first printed in Saturday Evening Post, by Morley, Throckmorton, and Nash about the reopening of the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, NJ. The book ends with reprints of Morley''s exceedingly tongue-in-cheek newspaper ads to entice jaded Broadway patrons of 1928/29 to sail away to Hoboken to experience 19th century melodramas.

Modern art collector Whitelaw Savory unearths a long-lost statue of Venus of Anatolia and is thrilled to display her in his New York museum. But when a naïve young barber named Rodney unwittingly brings the statue to life, Venus fixes her affections on him and pursues him all over New York. Rodney''s shrewish fiancée doesn''t like this one bit, and Savory will do anything-including framing Rodney for murder-to recover his beloved statue. Rodney keeps trying to set things right, and poor Venus can''t understand why he doesn''t respond to her seductions. After a series of comic setups and mix ups involving a couple of thugs, a nagging mother, a wisecracking secretary, some ancient Anatolians and a good dose of Olympian magic, earthly order is restored and new love found.

"Nash belongs to none of the 20th century''s poetic movements though he borrowed from all of them. He published his first collection during the height of High Modernism and his last in the early 70s with the Language poets and Second New York School bubbling around him. ''The Private Dining Room'' pops and fizzes on the level of sound poetry, both a sendup to the form and to 1950s propriety and etiquette guides."--Ondioline website.

Belinda''s pet, a cowardly dragon, rescues her from a wicked knight.

A bumper volume of the best poems by a hugely funny and quotable writer.

This collection of aquatic-themed verse features a host of watery creatures - sharks, mermaids, hippos and others. Nash''s 26 verses are each paired with a painting by zoological and botanical illustrator Katie Lee, who has created a marine wonderland.

Some of the subjects touched upon in this illustrated collection of 101 poems are books, banks, and botany

Poems about a a girl with a very strong mind of her own.

A compilation of verse reveals the American poet''s lighthearted view of everyday life

The collection consists of one poem, written by Ogden Nash on Altamont Hotel, Hazleton, Pa., letterhead, 1 May 1953, a single couplet finding a creative rhyme for Goedecke; Karl Goedecke was a bookseller in Hazleton.

A book of humorous poetry by Frederic Ogden Nash who was an American poet that was known for his light verse.