By George: A Kaufman Collection,New

Few People In Our Time Have Created Heartier Laughter And Provided More Fun Than Mr. Kaufman Has, Theatre Critic John Mason Brown Wrote Of George S. Kaufman. The Wisecrack Is Something He Snaps As Precisely As A Ringmaster His Whip. Kaufman, However, Didnt Confine His Remarkable Talent Merely To Writing (With Moss Hart) Such Hit Comedies As Once In A Lifetime, You Cant Take It With You, And The Man Who Came To Dinner He Regularly Entertained Readers Of Magazines And Newspapers With His Unique (If Jaundiced) View Of Modern Life. Now, For The First Time These Short Pieces, Which Originally Appeared In Such Publications As The New Yorker, The Nation, And The New York Times, Are Collected In One Highly Amusing Volume.Written Over The Course Of Almost Four Decades, They Remain As Fresh And Funny As When They Were Written, Revealing The Wit For Which Kaufman Justly Famous. In All, Fifty Pieces Are Reprinted Here, Raking From Short Essays To Poems And Oneact Plays, To The Complete Text Of The Marx Brothers Show, The Cocoanuts. Also Included Is Hollywood Pinafore, A Parody Of H.M.S. Pinafore, That Remains One Of The Most Hilariously Accurate Depictions Of Hollywood Ever Written, And Lifes Calendar For 1922 (With Marc Connelly), An Irreverent Chronology Of Humanitys Achievements. Four Pages Of Photographs Accompany The Text.