Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye: the Ziegfeld Follies

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Quote from The Catcher in the Rye

All I need's an audience. I'm an exhibitionist. "I'm the
goddarn Governor's son," I said. I was knocking myself out. Tap-dancing all over the
place. "He doesn't want me to be a tap dancer. He wants me to go to Oxford. But it's in my goddam blood, tap-dancing." Old Stradlater laughed. He didn't have too bad a sense of humor. "It's the opening night of the Ziegfeld Follies." I was getting out of breath. I have hardly any wind at all. "The leading man can't go on. He's drunk as a bastard. So who do they get to take his place? Me, that's who. The little ole goddam Governor's son."


Trailer:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027698/
Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama.

MGM made two more Ziegfeld films – one titled Ziegfeld Girl (1941), starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner, which recycled some footage from The Great Ziegfeld.

James Stewart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S...

Stewart was convinced to continue acting when he was cast in the lead role of Yellow Jack, playing a soldier who becomes the subject of a yellow fever experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_...

Synopsis:
After the Spanish–American War, in which more U. S. soldiers were killed by yellow fever (known as Yellow Jack) than in battle, the War Department sent a medical commission to Cuba to find, if possible, the cause and cure of this deadly tropical disease. The commission was headed by Dr. Walter Reed. With him was Dr. James Carroll. In Cuba they found Dr. Jesse Lazear, European-trained microbiologist, and Cuban Dr. Aristides Agramonte.

Limited in its experiments by the fact that animals are immune to Yellow Jack and embroiled in government interference, Reed decides that the only way to test the theory is to expose his own men to the disease. O'Hara volunteers to allow Dr. Reed to experiment on him.

Yellow Jack movie by MGM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_...

History of Yellow Fever:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

At least 25 major outbreaks followed in North America, such as in 1793 in Philadelphia, where several thousand people died, more than nine percent of the total population. The American government, including George Washington, had to flee the city, which was the capital of the United States at the time.

https://repository.library.georgetown...

From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever scourged the major port cities of the United States, devastating inhabitants in a series of terrifying epidemics.... Natural philosophers sought to determine the cause of yellow fever, the most pressing and contentious natural philosophical problem of early republican period. It centers on the controversy that developed between "contagionists" --those who believed that yellow fever was a contagious disease and that Americans imported it from the West Indies--and the "localists" --those who held that the disease arose from pestilential miasmas, situated within the afflicted cities.

Definition of contagionist
: one who believes in the contagiousness of certain diseases before proof is available

Definition of localist
1: one that is strongly or unduly concerned with purely local matters
2: one that attributes the origin of disease to local causes

‘Like a clap of thunder in a clear sky’: Differential Mortality
during Savannah’s Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1854

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/49566/1/WRA...

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I looked up John O'Hara. That was the name of the character who volunteered to be infected with yellow fever. In reality his name was John Kissinger. The following is a short history of his experiences.

https://historybecauseitshere.weebly....