Word: perelman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DREAM DEPARTMENT-S. J. Perelman-Random House...
...Perelman picks up business where he left off with Look Who's Talking (TIME, Aug. 12, 1940). One passage should suffice to give traffic signals to such readers as remain unfamiliar with Perelman's work. The passage was inspired by a notice to the effect that moving pictures would be used for department-store advertising. The title is Kitchenware, Notions, Lights, Action, Camera...
...Life With Caroline (United Producers; RKO Radio). Caroline (Anna Lee) does not possess the studied virtuosity of the S. J. Perelman heroine who left the room in high dudgeon and returned in low dudgeon, just to show her versatility. But she is an exasperatingly contradictory female. Life confounds her. Attention is her dish. Her water-bug mind, attractively camouflaged by a pert, pretty face and curly, blonde topknot, tends to forget people when they aren't around...
Israel James Kapstein (Brown '26), undergraduate friend of pinwheel-minded S. J. Perelman and the late brilliant Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), went back to Brown in 1927, has taught English there ever since. Although he publishes his first novel at the dangerously retarded age of 37, it is a good...
Eight years ago, on their honeymoon, the Perelmans wrote another play, All Good Americans, which failed to come off. Later they collaborated on the script for Ambush, one of 1939's best pictures, and Mr. Perelman gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films. His best book (of four) was his first, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). On its jacket was the blurb: "This book does not stop at Yonkers." The Night Before Christmas does...