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...AUTOGRAPH HOUND by JOHN LAHR 239 pages. Knopf...
Well, all this is not the kind of material that helps the writer up Parnassus. John Lahr is a fine writer and a theater critic of enviable intelligence, however. His laudable aim is merely to provide a bit of fun. Lahr, 31, is best known for his marvelous biography of his father, Bert Lahr. In The Autograph Hound, one-liners accumulate. Someone tells Benny that cooking is just like life. "Cooking's not like life," he snaps. "If you get a bad meal, you don't have to eat it." The corrupt union leader...
With 45 seconds remaining in the game. Harvard was at the Cornell 25- yard line and driving. Foster took the snap, rolled right and, alas, there it was again--the underthrown pass. Cornell's Steve Lahr picked it off. The Crimson's fourth-quarter rally had fallen agonizingly short, and Cornell had won the crucial Ivy battle...
...brand of popular vulgar theater was burlesque, which nurtured many distinguished clowns and comedians, including W.C. Fields, Bert Lahr, Bobby Clark and Buster Keaton. In recent seasons, vulgar theater has again emerged in both the best and the worst senses, with nudity, simulated sexual acts and the unfettered use of four-letter words. Hair, Che and Oh! Calcutta! belong to this group, as does the latest entry, The Dirtiest Show in Town. Those who deplore these shows regard them as the flagrant commercial exploitation of filth. That attitude is far too simple; when three out of the top four...
...worth of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer props and costumes, Debbie Reynolds tried to buy her own brass bed from The Unsinkable Molly Brown, but just didn't want to go as high as $3,000. The day belonged to unknown buyers, who put up $2,400 for Bert Lahr's cowardly-lion suit from The Wiz ard of Oz and $1,250 for Clark Gable's battered trenchcoat. Grace Kelly's gowns from The Swan were a fire-sale bargain at $150 and less, but another nameless fan had to go to $15,000 for Judy Garland...