The bedside tales : a gay collection / By Peter Arno.

Chiefly short stories.

Contents: Watch the birdie / Ludwig Bemelmans -- The mythology of bachelor life / George Jean Nathan -- The noblest instrument / Clarence Day -- Ring out, wild bells / Wolcott Gibbs -- Polyp with a past / Robert Benchley -- The brain goes home / Damon Runyon -- Mr. Kaplan and Shakespeare / Leonard Q. Ross -- Mary / John Collier -- A letter from the Bronx / Arthur Kober -- The noble experiment / H.L. Mencken -- I went to see a queen / Ralph Faye -- They're off / Robert Benchley -- The Jollity Building / A.J. Liebling -- Memoirs of a mute / Oscar Levant -- Sleepy-time extra / S.J. Perelman -- Here we are / Dorothy Parker -- Frigidity in men / James Thurber & E.B. White -- Days / John O'Hara -- Bed manners / Ralph Y. Hopton and Anne Balliol -- Slummer's paradise / Herbert Ashbury -- Mae West and John Riddell, a correspondence / Corey Ford -- The works / Nathan Asch -- Farewell to muscle molls / Paul Gallico -- Beat me, Post-Impressionist Daddy / S.J. Perelman -- Barefooted, up to her chin / H. Allen Smith -- Entrance fee / Alexander Woollcott -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway -- Welcome to the city / Irwin Shaw -- The knife / Brendan Gill -- Dressing up / W.R. Burnett -- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The sobbin' women / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The tuxedos / Jerome Weidman -- Red / W. Somerset Maugham -- On the wagon / Joseph Mitchell -- There's no future in it / H.E. Bates -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Helen, I love you / James Farrell -- Dead man / James M. Cain -- Seventy thousand Assyrians / William Saroyan -- The love nest / Ring Lardner -- Over the Green Mountains / Erskine Caldwell -- The murder / John Steinbeck -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- The vanishing lady / Alexander Woollcott -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The shadow / Ben Hecht -- The most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Thus I refute Beelzy / John Collier -- The most maddening stor