Theater
April, 1963
Bert Lahr speaking S. J. Perelman's lines, as he does in The Beauty Part, provides a gaggle of laughs. Perelman has forcibly sewn the play together from a series of New Yorker pieces in which he panned America's cultural "awakening" -- the deception that anyone can paint, sculpt, make music or write New Yorker articles -- and in it he follows the progress, onward and downward in the arts, of a naive young Yale lad named Lance Weatherwax (Larry Hagman). Lance encounters at least five La...
