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...still doing well at the box office, and there was even an outside chance that it might complete its scheduled six-week run at the Palace Theater in London's West End. If Slickey makes it, the credit will go to a gusty young (35) Bostonian named David Pelham, who has bailed himself out of flops before with gimmicks, guts and gall...
...contrast to the soft sell practiced by other West End producers, little (5 ft. 7 in., 135 lbs.) David Pelham busily proclaims his wares any place at any time to anyone who will listen. For the last nine months, Pelham has coaxed people into the theater to see his production of Auntie Mame (TIME, Sept. 22), cashed in on Warner's Auntie Mame movie by taking ads proclaiming "See It Live," stationed 20 men with sandwich boards bearing the same message in front of the theater where the film was playing. The movie moved out after two weeks...
...boom The World of Paul Slickey, Pelham darkly tabbed it "the show they tried to kill," plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy...
...blurb to his new book of ten short stories suggests that "the sound of [his] clicking typewriter keys beats a gentle staccato against the roar of the ocean surf." The volume is recognizable Wodehouse, gently satirical, its barbs wielded with whimsy. But the more remarkable thing about Pelham Grenville Wodehouse in his twilight years is the way the decades of ocean-hopping have scrambled his language until all international date lines and regional distinctions tend to disappear. In a sense, he reflects the overall scrambling of English and American speech ever since the first World War II G.I.s came home...
...Erasmus) have gazed through the steam at generations of bare, Blimpish backsides. One night last week the steam rooms and massage parlors presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig as any the Madwoman of Beekman Place herself might have improvised...