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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 28, 1962 | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 21, 1962 | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Life Begins at 60 | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Life Begins at 60 | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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