Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COMEDY. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is not only funny but wise; lonesco's Rhinoceros is not only funny but provocative. Come Blow Your Horn is a long, often amusing, Jewish family joke. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, two people who may just possibly abolish boredom, can and should still be caught before the show closes this Saturday...
COMEDY. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is not only funny but wise; lonesco's Rhinoceros is not only funny but provocative Come Blow Your Horn is a long, often amusing, Jewish family joke. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, two people who may just possibly abolish boredom, can and should still be caught before the show closes in two weeks...
TIME's cover this week is the second by René Bouché, who painted the recent Jean Kerr portrait. President Kennedy allowed him two short sittings ("not quite two hours") at the White House a few days before he took off for Paris. Bouché usually counts on three sittings of seven hours. "Of course," said he, "there were always people talking, and he never sat still." Bouché, who finished the portrait in his Manhattan studio, had met the President before. He painted Jackie three years ago, and did a portrait of her sister Lee at that...
Stung by Drama Critic Walter Kerr's panning of the play based on his novel, A Call on Kuprin (Kerr called it "a great deal of scenery in three acts'"), Welsh-born Novelist and Member of Parliament Maurice Edelman dashed off a disastrously timed letter to the New York Herald Tribune. "It is a pity," huffed Laborite Edelman, "that Mr. Kerr should have been so busy sawing up the scenery that he should have neglected the play-which, after all, is the thing." Unhappily, it wasn't. In the very issue that carried Edelman's letter...
COMEDY. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is a hilarious must, with Ionesco's Rhinoceros a provocative near-must. Come Blow Your Horn recommended for fanciers of Jewish family humor. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May recommended for everyone, at least once, but preferably twice...