"Guggenheim"

Cross at crosswords, querulous at questions, the public is now invited to play a game which is allegedly neither elevating nor depressing. It used to be called "Categories," but was renamed "Guggenheim" to make it more popular or something.* Authorities agree it is a safe game at mixed parties. The chief requirements for play, besides a "Guggenheim" book, are pencils, paper, patiences.

The game is to take a word--for example, "crazy"--and try to name sets of well known lunatics, asylums, slang words meaning "crazy," madhouse apparatus and perhaps a few causes of insanity, each set composed of words beginning with letters in "crazy." Thus, "c" words in some of the different sets above suggested could be "Caligula," "cuckoo," "catnip." Under "a" could come, "authors of Guggenheim," "addled," "amusement books."

The only two "Guggenheim" playbooks to appear thus far contain 50 games each, plus specialties and "postgraduate" suggestions. The difference in price is due to two other differences.

The book by Authors Eames and Marshall appears actually to have been written by them. Miss Eames is a tall, determined younger sister of Actress Clare Eames and writes for the New Yorker.

The book by Authors Disney and Mackaye contains only contributions, coaxed from such personages as the presidents of the Lucy Stone League and of the Bush Terminal Co., Authors W. E. Woodward (Bunk) and Irvin Cobb, Professor William Lyon Phelps and David Belasco. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg was allowed to make up one game and, choosing the monosyllable "cdflm," he included among his categories a "kind of candy" and "something you see in a barn." This book also contains blank pages for self-sufficient Guggenheimers and people who like to try outguessing themselves.

*GUGGENHEIM--Dorothy Disney and Milton Mackaye--A. & C. Boni ($1.75).

GUGGENHEIM--Haydie Eames and Madeleine Marshall--Simon & Schuster ($1).