While butterfly hunting near Monument Valley, Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera bumped into John Wayne and crew filming “Apache Massacre”. This is a tale of the Old West in which the Indians are slaughtered after last call.
Noted in Wayne’s diary is that chance meeting in ‘46.
“He showed me some new butterflies he discovered that morning. We first met in Berlin when I was doing undercover work for Wild Bill Donovan and his OSS. Wild Bill asked me to make contact with Bertolt Brecht and the Communist Party. As cover I was chaperoning Joseph P. Kennedy’s son, Johnny-Johnny in Berlin. The old man wanted his son out of his hair and away from his mistress, the left-leaning Gloria Swanson. In Berlin I camped out at the Adlon, like any American movie star.”
Behind the scenes John Wayne was a champion for women’s rights. A Matriarchist, John grew up with the girly name of Marion Morrison making the young man a Jew amongst the gentiles. Confused as to his gender, John joined both the football and acting teams in high school. His essay, “Germano-Belgic Atrocities in World War I” won him a scholarship to USC where he starred on the same football team as Tom Mix. Tom got Marion a job as a stuntman for Republic Pictures, then owned by Big Joe Kennedy.
John Wayne plays a character looking for stolen women in “The “Searchers. Sneaking into the Red Man’s settlement, John finds Buffy and Misty contentedly asleep in the tent of Chief Nocka Horse. Bewildered by their indifference to his rescue efforts John slaps Buffy bringing her to tears. Chief Nocka Horse and his son Nocka Pony ambush John who fights off the attack and then calls it quits for the day.
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, life inside the Daisy Chain. I see Goebbels and Ulbrecht side by side fighting the SPD. Women exposing their breasts to the Fuhrer. Sex camps for SS youths.
The dandies of Frederick courted the Parisians until Napoleon walked off with the Empire. Luther had the courage to stand up to the patriarchy. With fairies dancing in the moonlight and goat-footed fawns making music, Germany was paradise. Accompanied by wine and song the Roman armies raped the women while bringing with them the money lenders.
Last week we had a major shakeup at the Jewish Museum in Germantown, NY. Joining the faculty was Dr. Zelig Zimnoia from the valley of Valhalla, New Mexico. Agreeing to publish the works of Addes and Reich, the doctor was investing some of the fortune he earned in herbal aphrodisiac farming. Having discovered the common goldenrod plant as the botanical path to orgone accumulation, it was only a matter of time before he would join forces with Dr. Addes, the Reichian clothing designer. Psychics were refusing to work and psychoanalysts were pounding the streets looking for analysands.
These are the plans for the Jewish Museum. The first floor will feature life before Christ. The second, with Christ, the third floor the Holocaust. The fourth floor will be Ike and the happy fifties, the fifth floor will be catered by Leonard’s of Great Neck. Last year we had an Elvis Costello theme bar mitzvah featuring William Shatner, the first Jew in space.
