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...first American novelist to use the breakup of preindustrial American society as the stuff of fiction-Sinclair Lewis, in recognition of the fact, dedicated Babbitt to her-but she was in some ways the last to understand it. Her best pre-World War I novels (The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country) were groping toward an understanding, and her failure to achieve such an understanding was finally the measure of her failure to become a truly first-rate novelist...
DYLAN. With mirth, sorrow, and an occasional flourish of eloquence, this play chronicles the U.S. reading tours of Dylan Thomas as the poet dipsy-doodled away his life. In the title role, Alec Guinness is uncannily good...
...late '50s, a rising nightclub comedian was wise to be sick if he wanted to be solvent. Monied mirth was found in plane crashes, terminal diseases, physical handicaps, capital punishment. Then Bob Newhart cleared the atmosphere. His monologues, softly twanged and delivered at leisure, drew laughter that wasn't full of marsh...
David Mills inspired considerable mirth as the furious husband of Anais, who endures a visit by Fadinard (in search of the hat) and all his relatives (who mistakenly think they are at Fadinard's house and prepare the bride for the conjugal bed). Mills starts out in grand style but loses some of his zest as the act progresses...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, gives birth to mirth by lending mirth to birth, as fatherhood closes in on a 60-year-old lumber merchant. Paul Ford plays the morose papa-to-be, and the only straight face in the house...