The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh

Introduction byPaul Theroux
PublisherSimon & Schuster
FormatTrade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationNew York
Copyright1981
Pages / Font192 pages
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number81-4695
ISBN 100-671-42515-3
Chaptersi) Introduction by Paul Theroux PART ONE 1) And Then the Whining School Boy, with his Satchel 2) One of Our Stagecraft is Missing 3) The Frost Is on the Noggin 4) Zwei Herzen in die Drygoods Schlock 5) The Joy of Mooching 6) Recapture your Rapture, in One Seedy Session 7) Under the Shrinking Royalty the Village Smithy Stands 8) To Yearn is Sub-Humans, to Forestall Divine 9) All Precincts Beware - Paper Tigress Loose! 10) Methinks the Lady Doth Propel Too Much 11) Scram! You Made the Pants Too Short 12) Meanness Rising from the Suds 13) Is There a Writer in the House? 14) As I Was Going to St. Ives, I Met a Man with Seventeen Wives 15) Wanted: Short or Long Respite by Former Cinéaste 16) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cats-Paw 17) One Order of Blintzes, Hold the Flim-Flam PART TWO 1) The Marx Brothers 2) Nathanael West 3) Dorothy Parker 4) Three Little Photoplays and How They Grew
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