Word: weatherwax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lester Weatherwax, 79, last survivor of the Weatherwax Brothers Quartet, a pre-World War I Chautau-qua-circuit singing group that so popularized the Little Brown Church in the Vale that the 102-year-old church, with a congregation of only 150, draws 125,000 tourists a year to Nashua, Iowa, has been the scene of 52,000 weddings; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans...
Instead, he has confected a poor little rich boy's Candide: Lance Weatherwax' adventures in that supposedly best of all possible worlds, the realm of dedicated acolytes of the arts. Lance (Larry Hagman), who is as handsome and unworldly as Rice Krispies and inherited millions can make him, finds, to his chagrin, that artists cannot wait to sell their souls to him or any other handy Mammon. This is scarcely fresh news and only fitfully amusing...
...fest the playwright throws a rich young Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk...