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LOOK WHO'S TALKING-S. 7. Perelman-Random House...
...which delights in knocking over-crystallized words, objects and gestures into glassy pieces that cut each other. Most advanced living practitioner of this form of wit is James Joyce. Perhaps quite as richly gifted in it, if far more inhibited in using it, are Groucho Marx and Sidney Joseph Perelman...
Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929) was written, much of it, while S. J. Perelman, who had graduated from Brown University in 1925, was working for the now Judge. It had an abundant, frenzied incandescence that promised either 1) to burn out, or 2) to become as brilliant and sure and destructive as anything in U. S. satire. Perelman did not burn out, but he has cooled off. Having become a money-earning professional, he collaborated on a novel (Parlor, Bedlam & Bath) and a play (All Good Americans); gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films; with his wife...
Author, Author's maestro is Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman (Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge), who manfully keeps gagging while a collection of fictioneers ad lib stories to fit mystery-tale situations contributed by listeners. Sample situation Why did Little Nell scorn Dick Goodfellow to marry Squire Sourpuss? Regular aides to Perelman are Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, a detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen. Guests have included Dorothy Parker, Carl Van Doren Heywood Broun, Rupert Hughes, Ruth McKenney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alice Duer Miller, Henry F. Pringle. Impaired at first by talkiness and the occasional complete blankness of literary minds...
...Author Sidney Perelman, sometime cartoonist, funnyman and scenarist for the Marx Brothers, is famed for his comic writing in which clichés, puns, misunderstandings, paraphrases of oldtime cinema captions, tall talk and dull talk are jumbled together. But All Good Americans, a naturalistic play on hardboiled lovers, is not improved by being peppered with Perelman jokes, new, old, sometimes funny. The lines and action are sophisticated, superficial, curiously unreal...