![]() In 1929, March moved to Hollywood to provide additional dialogue for the film Journey's End and, more famously, to turn the silent version of Howard Hughes' classic Hell's Angels into a talkie - a rewrite that brought the phrase "Excuse me while I put on something more comfortable" into the American lexicon. Later in 1928, March followed up The Wild Party's success with The Set-Up, a poem of a skilled black boxer who had just been released from prison. Once published, however, the poem was a great success despite being banned in Boston. Due to its risqué content, this violent story of a vaudeville dancer who throws a booze and sex-filled party could not find a publisher until 1928. ![]() ![]() After leaving the magazine, March wrote the first of his two important long Jazz Age narrative poems, The Wild Party. After serving in World War I and graduating from Amherst College (where he was a protégé of Robert Frost), March worked as managing editor for The New Yorker in 1925, and helped create the magazine's "Talk of the Town" front section. ![]()
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