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OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY by Jerome Weidman. 521 pages. Random House...
Everything, in fact, is as it should be with this production: the sets (by Ivers and Johnson) are painted and lit with colors generally associated with customized cars. The well-paced book (by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman) is unabashedly outrageous. The songs (with lyrics by Stephen Kaplan and music by Messrs. Larson and Levin) are bouncy and euphoric. The orchestra is quite the best I've ever heard at the Pudding, and the direction (by the all-knowing Billy Wilson) is greased lightning...
...then, Cerf is called in to iron things out when editor-writer relations get difficult. He cajoled Jerome Weidman into rewriting a badly tooled draft of his forthcoming book, Other People's Money. Cerf also thought up the title for the book, as he did for Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants, William Brinkley's Don't Go Near the Wa ter, and Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate...
...Jerome Weidman, author of the books to such musicals as Fiorello and I Can Get it for You Wholesale, admitted that "some of my best friends are critics" but went on to suggest that all newspaper and magazine reviewers be "abolished...
...were a poet," said Weidman in response to Simon's conception of the good critic, "he wouldn't be a critic--he'd write a poem...