Word: satireâ
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Publisher Alfred Knopf personally wrote the blurb for this light-minded satire???an honor he usually reserves for more serious, "worthy" works. Says he : "I have never published a first novel with such a feeling of absolute assurance in its success." Sexy Artist Arno (New Yorker) has drawn a faithful portrait of the heroine for the jacket. If you wish to be entertained and hope to be a little shocked, Nymph Errant should give you at least half your wish...
...clarify the piece?which can be safely categorized neither as burlesque, travesty or satire???audiences were advised through the programs that: "The vagabond who comes into The Tavern is the unmasked Cohan. And yet this vagabond could have been a Wandering Jew, Villon, Rabelais, Shelley, Puck. There is probably no one in America who knows better than he what is effective in the theatre. He is aware . . . just how audiences react to certain things that may be made to happen." Subsequent things that Actor Cohan made to happen were received with robust laughter when the audience was sure of itself...
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