Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Come Blow Your Horn (by Neil Simon) seems the best of the season's many bad farce comedies. It must be grouped with the bad ones because it writes most of its scenes in duplicate, smudging some of them to boot; makes most of its jokes in triplicate, and should never make half of them at all; and seems to confuse the typewriter bell with a cash register's. But Come Blow Your Horn does squat head and shoulders above a number of recumbent rivals: beyond a lively production, it manages to keep going; it has some fresh...
...amusing as little brother suddenly outdoing big one. But the play's three acts are like having much the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner; and there is one of those final 30 seconds in which Playboy embraces both work and wedlock and Pop embraces Playboy. Playwright Simon will be more worth thinking about when he spurns a last-minute eraser and uses a blue pencil throughout...
...THINE EYE OFFEND THEE (405 pp.) - Heinrich Schirmbeck - Simon & Schuster...
...ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain John Eyre, and after picking a onetime lord mayor of London, Simon Eyre, as a likely ancestor, wrote a convincing biography and genealogy of him. Eyre, according to Thompson, was born in Blakewell in 1604, died 40 years later as a result of wounds suffered at the battle of Marston Moor. He supposedly spoke French and Spanish fluently, was "proficient in music," turned...
...QUEEN'S NECKLACE (620 pp.)-Frances Mossiker-Simon & Schuster...