Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic's chair is more often remembered for being bright than right, waspish than wise. Playwright Jean Kerr recently recalled that she rankled for ten years over a barbed line in a Kronenberger review of her first play, Jenny Kissed Me: "Leo G. Carroll brightens up Mrs. Kerr's play in much the same way that flowers brighten a sickroom." Then there was the hapless actor who was commended for "playing his role up to the hilt except that he had no sword." Wit can be instant wisdom. Kronenberger's first clever words on a playwright have...
After four years as a widow, during which she started and then scrapped a book on the stormy career of her late husband, Communist-hunting Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Mrs. Jean Kerr McCarthy, 36, former college beauty queen, disclosed plans to wed a widower whose wife also died four years ago. Her choice: G. Joseph Minetti, 53, Brooklyn lawyer, Civil Aeronautics Board member and confirmed Democrat...
Mary, Mary. Jean Kerr's often funny, always likable, verbal pingpong match between a wisecracking divorcee and her publisher husband is just diverting enough to overcome the rather thin narrative...
About your cover story on Playwright Jean Kerr: let the Russians go to the moon. Me ? I want to go where the Kerrs...
What in heaven's name adorns the Kerr cocktail table? Can it be a marshmallow tree...