Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other extreme of the house is Walter Kerr's study, where 16 theater seats are screwed permanently into the floor; there he shows old slapstick silent films to guests ("Walter thinks nobody should have to be adorable right after dinner," says Jean). The adjacent living room?like every other room in the house, half the niches and all the floors?is filled with books, everything from Boccaccio to Beerbohm, plus a slim volume called Per Piacere, Non Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior...
...Jean Kerr herself stopped tintinnabu-lating once just long enough to get married. It was a wise decision, since the groom was a careful, analytical college professor who has always looked after her with extraordinary attentiveness. That and nearly everything else about her was summed up a while ago in a quick exchange while the Kerrs were crossing a Manhattan street?her swift-rising wisecracks, her devotion to her husband, the graceful way she wears her fame...
Reacting anxiously to the traffic, Walter Kerr said, "Stick with...
Circle in the Square. Writing and talking, sitting or standing, Jean Kerr has gotten more material out of her family than anyone since Clarence Day. Her most recent collection of casual pieces, The Snake Has All the Lines, has been on every bestseller list and in nearly every hospital room in the country. Its phenomenally successful predecessor, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, has sold nearly 275,000 hard-cover copies. All of which has made Jean Kerr even more famous than her children, the five sons who apparently play she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not with their teeth...
...Tanny's, but has used it only three times, and is thinking of giving it to a deserving friend. Still, if she is ever dissatisfied with her own image, she can look at the Broadway play, Critic's Choice, which is frankly, if superficially, based on Mr. and Mrs. Kerr; there she is portrayed by Georgann Johnson, who is much slimmer than she (though Jean is easily the better actress). and her husband is impersonated by Henry Fonda, who is slightly more handsome than Walter Kerr (though Walter is easily the better critic). In the movie version of Please...