V CH5: Governor Roony Winsome

[Joseph Tracy]

 From low to high office, rat-catcher to governor of he Empire State,  
as above so below, all playing out in so many  vice verses. Well  
actually we have no sense that Gueverner Winsome is anything more  
than a record company exec. interested in Paola. Get it?

The actual governor of the time was Averell Harriman, who was fairly  
winsome,  way rich, sexy in that tall thin athletic patrician way ;  
art loving too and he did win some, barely elected to gov of NY after  
being amabassador, secetary of commerce and manager of Marshall plan.  
But he also managed to lose some,  losing when he ran against Adlai  
Stevenson for Dem party presidential candidate.

Harriman was also closely associated with the CIA , so the visit with  
the agents and the hint of an atomic bomb attack on Moscow to be  
coordinated with the cannon fire in a performance of the 1812  
overture is not without reason. Anyway the scene points a Monty  
Python finger at the interaction between wealth, privilege, culture  
and power.

Harriman also owned a bank that concealed a ton of loot from the  
German Nazis for Thyssen. His wife in 1955/6 was Marie Norton She was  
an intellectual and art enthusiast.

Came across some interesting ?coincidences? in the writing of Willa  
Cather for an issue of the Nebraska State Journal

  Isabel Irving has decided to return to her own country. She has  
been with Mr. Daly's company now six years and made a great hit  
before the English public. The last London Theatre says of her:  
"Winsome is the epithet which Miss Irving invariably deserves and  
almost invariably earns. Winsome in manner and winsome in beauty,  
Miss Irving possesses also a winsome personality which peeps through  
and often transforms the character she is playing. Her Audrey is a  
notable instance of this. That uncouth wench, faultlessly witless,  
brilliantly dull, was by this radiant winsomeness for the first time  
invested with such femininity as to become a possible mate for  
Touchstone and no mere turnip-munching, cherry-cheeked clod." Miss  
Irving sails for America on March 10.

Annie Rooney: "Little Annie Rooney" was a song written, composed  
(1889), and sung in British music halls by Michael Nolan. It was  
brought over to New York and incorporated into The Bowery Girl, where  
it was sung by Annie Hart. It became enormously popular, but Nolan  
earned no royalties on it because the U.S. was not part of  
international copyright laws. The name "Annie Rooney" was used as the  
title of a silent film starring Mary Pickford (1925), a syndicated  
comic strip (1927), an animated cartoon (1932), and comic books  
(1938).The first verse and chorus read:
A winning way, a pleasant smile,
Dress'd so neat but quite in style,
Merry chaff your time to wile,
Has little Annie Rooney.
Ev'ry eve-ning, rain or shine,
I make a call twixt eight and nine,
On her who shortly will be mine,
Little Annie Rooney.
Chorus:
She's my sweetheart, I'm her beau;
She's my Annie, I'm her Joe,
Soon we'll marry, never to part,
Little Annie Rooney is my sweetheart

Interesting that the names Irving, Winsome and Roonie all show up in  
ch 5 and 6. Prolly just coincidence I spose.

Might be kinda grasping but hey just throwin it out there.