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Poets and Pancakes

The make-up department
building -Robert Clive's erstwhile The make-up department was an
stable. In the studios Pancake The author mocks at Robert ideal specimen of national
was a brand name for make-up Clive. Moderm actresses may be integration
unaware of its existence.
material

The office boy in his forties once The narrator worked in a cubicle,
Elaborate division of works aspired to be a film star or script cutting news paper clippings and
marked the make-up writer. On the days of crowd- storing them in a file. He
department. shooting, he mixed-up material desperately wished for an
on a large scale. escape.

Kothamangalam Subbu, the no 2
at Gemini studios, got
oppurtunities by virtue of being Subbu was capable of writing on The narrator mocks Subbu as an
intricate topics, wrote poetry for
a Brahmin. Always cheerful, amazing actor. A psychophant,
ever-loyal to the chief, offered the masses. Subbu was close to the boss and
had many enemies.
countless solutions to the
producer.
Thel lawer, a legal adviser, was close Gemini studio was favourite People at the studio, The studio hosts Frank
to the Boss, allowed to produce a film place for the poets, people spent appreciated Gandhiji and Buchman's MRA,- two plays,
that flopped and lost his job. their passtime with a cup of opposed communism. 'Jotham valley' and 'The
coffee. forgotten Places'.

On discovering that the editor of After leaving his job at the
the periodicals was Stephen Gemini studios, the author
The unknown guest's visit was a Spender ,once a guest at the bought a book 'The god that
mystery, his accent was Gemini Studios, the author sent failed', recalls Stephen Spender's
ununderstood his entry excitedly visit and the mystery was solved.

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