“Boy Advises Girl” was a nationally syndicated advice column that ran in U.S. newspapers between 1937 and 1945.
Its author was George Antheil. In addition to having a passion for endocrinology (?!), Mr. Antheil was a modernist, avant-garde composer in the 1920s and ’30s – the “Bad Boy of Music” who incorporated jazz into his symphonies and wrote visceral “machine music” pieces that caused riots in Europe and literally blew away American audiences – jet engines on stage tend to have this effect on the folks in the front row.
In addition, he was a crime novelist, a war correspondent, a military historian, and a criminal-justice expert. Antheil also hung out with James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and Picasso in 1920s Paris and, with actress Hedy Lamarr 70 years ago this month, patented a torpedo guidance system using “spread-spectrum technology” – an invention that eventually led to Bluetooth wireless technology.
I’m not sure what’s harder to believe – any of the above or that Netflix hasn’t made a miniseries about Mr. Antheil.
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