Today I point you to Stephen Nadler’s fab site, Attempted Bloggery to see a rare program (provided by Scott Burns) for a production of The Male Animal staged in wartime Paris at The Madeleine Theater. Ohio State roomies (and life-long friends) James Thurber & Elliott Nugent collaborated, post-college, on the comedy, which became a successful Broadway play
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Happy Birthday Sam Gross! The Spill wishes the great Sam Gross a Very Happy Day. Here’s his Spill A-Z entry: Sam Gross Born August 7, 1933, Bronx, NY. New Yorker work: August 23, 1969 -. Other than his work in The New Yorker Gross is probably best known for his work
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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Fave Photo Of The Day From yesterday’s MoCCA panel, “Very Funny Ladies”… (l-r): Barbara Smaller, moderator Liza Donnelly, Bishakh Som, Maggie Larson, and Roz Chast. Photo courtesy of Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery. My
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