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...Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, is pulverizingly funny about a piffling subject-belated fatherhood. As the pater dolorosus, Paul Ford is unimaginably droll...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, is pulverizingly funny about a piffling subject-belated fatherhood. The men who drive this comic troika are Actors Paul Ford and Orson Bean and that genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, is a one-gag, all-night laugh show about a chagrined man of 60 who finds himself facing the unexpected onslaught of second fatherhood. As the father-to-be, Paul Ford is an excruciatingly funny anatomy of melancholy...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long. There's a Ford in many a playgoer's future-Paul Ford. Ford looks rather like an elephant that has had its trunk bobbed...
...unstrung hero of the piece is 41-year-old Playwright Arthur Sumner Long, whose Broadway debut has left him slightly shell-shocked from the force of a direct hit. As unassuming as his play, Long, a father of two, admits he was even less prepared for a flop: "I wouldn't have dared to go home to Los Angeles. The children-they give you such a sendoff-you hate to sneak back tarred and feathered." A longtime TV writer, Long joshes about his labor pains with Never Too Late: "Eight weeks to write, six years to retype...