Word: perelman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vowed he would never do it again. But last week Humorist S. J. Perelman was tinkering with a new play...
...Beauty Part has already had a late summer stock tryout-a two-week run at Producer Michael Ellis' Bucks County Playhouse (TIME, July 7). It is Perelman's first, cautious flirtation with the stage since he swore off theatrical writing after a minor disaster called Sweet Bye and Bye closed on the road in 1947. On opening night Perelman was horrified to hear Star Bert Lahr forgetting roughly half his lines, filling in the gaps with Chinese proverbs of his own invention. But Lahr eventually learned his part, and Producer Ellis began arrangements to take The Beauty Part...
...Beauty Part is not a collection of isolated gags. From Greenwich Village to Hollywood, the play is stitched throughout with the oblique, neatly sutured, thematic wit of S. J. Perelman. The display of words is, in fact, so dazzling that any mail-order Melville in the audience must get the message along with the fellow from Yale: "Lay off the Muses. It's a very tough dollar...
Alien Settings. From Piltdown man to Perelman, the history of humor is overwhelmingly male, and only a few representative female names present themselves for comparison with Jean Kerr. The most celebrated is Dorothy Parker, essentially a short-story writer whose glib acidities at and near the Algonquin Round Table gave her a legendary reputation. At the other, soft-boiled end of the world was the late Betty (The Egg and 1 Mac-Donald, an authentic primitive. Jean Kerr will probably never be quite up to Parker (for one thing, she is not cruel nor, perhaps, as deep), and she will...
Dehn rewrites Oklahoma! in the Chekhov manner ("0 what a beautiful mournin' ") or when S. J. Perelman asks once again, "Odets where is thy sting?" and proves the superiority of one who knows that he is a clown to one who does not. College instructors should perhaps prescribe the book as esthetic therapy. Not that even today's sophomores are likely to lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party...