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...Beauty Part, by S. J. Perelman. People used to listen to a Beethoven symphony without trying to identify with the composer. But in the age of do-it-yourself culture, everyman is his own self-discovered, self-expressing genius, though the self being expressed is frequently about as artistic as a defective drain. This is the play Humorist S. J. Perelman apparently began to write, and there are hints of it still ("Every housewife in the country has a novel under her apron"). Followed through, this might have led him to a bitingly comic examination of a serious question...
...consultant on physical fitness: "This chal lenge is appreciated, but it would be most difficult to assemble here a pickup team that would offer any challenge at all to such a redoubtable group as yours." Last week, when the British winkers met the likes of S. J. Perelman and Stage Director-Producpr Mike Ellis in Bucks County, there was a hint of opposition. Perelman lost with a debonair, hand-in-pocket flair; Ellis' keen squidging eye and steady wrist made him one of the few Yanks who avoided a shutout...
...REVUES : Writers Eric Bentley and S. J. Perelman have contributed presumably literate material to Cut Loose! (Sept. 13), which has dipped elsewhere for its lyricists-to James (From Here to Eternity} Jones, for example. Beyond the Fringe, which has had London round the bend with laughter for two seasons, has been only lightly red-white-and-bluepenciled for American ears...
...Duveen, played by Charles Boyer. Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes} has been tinkling with a French play about the wedding night of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Sidestepping Ladies Prefer Beards, she kept the French title, The King's Mare (January). The Beauty Part, S. J. Perelman's mad satire on culture-crazed Americans, is finally moving toward Broadway (Dec. 26) after trying out at Pennsylvania's Bucks County Playhouse in the summer of 1961. Opposite Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Van Johnson will play an actor who is also a LIFE photographer in Garson Kanin...
...quarters as offshoots of Dada and in others as potshots at it, they helped form the Krazy Katechism of the era. With the mere setting of the scene in Clemo Uti-"the Outskirts of a Parchesi Board"-there sounded a note that would tootle and twang and echo from Perelman to Mad Magazine; it was there, too, in the very first lines of I Gaspiri...