This is a satirical look at college life in the early 1940s, written in 1943 by Max Shulman, a popular humorist from that era. The story's narrator and protagonist is Asa Hearthrug, an appealingly naïve country bumpkin who is off to his freshman year at the University of Minnesota, which Shulman - in one of the book's funniest passages - identifies as a "wholly imaginary" institution in the book's foreword. From there the book progresses as a kind of comedy of errors, all of which serve to introduce characters with improbable names that were undoubtedly funny and/or subversive at the time , and situations that almost certainly reflected the cultural mileposts of the era.

Barefoot Boy With Cheek

Shulman, Max

Literature & Fiction

Ams Pr Inc

Potatoes Are Cheaper

DOUBLEDAY

What exactly is "the tender trap"? It's the bachelors' creed of resisting marriage, of course. Ah, the ideal life of the carefree bachelor (think 1950's Sinatra) who lives in a "swanky" N.Y.C. apartment, has a good job, and dates plenty of "chicks" (ringa ding ding)... until he finds himself engaged to TWO of them at the same time! One amusing scene after another results until the bachelor manages to get rid of the wrong young lady and marries the right one. This "acting" edition has a black/white photo of the original Broadway production, the original cast list, credits, time & place - with a detailed description of the bachelor's apartment, the original scene design, and a complete prop plot - used in the original production. The cast requires four men and four women; the set requires one interior. Still popular (in the style of the recent Broadway revival of BOEING, BOEING), this light comedy entertains with considerable and farcical situations - a delightful choice for little theatre/community groups.

The Tender Trap

Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith

Smith, Robert Paul.

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Feather Merchants

Contemporary

Amereon Limited

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and theSaturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered―sometimes he’s as quick as a whip, other times dull as a doorstop, and his major keeps changing from chemistry to law to journalism. But no matter what subject he should be studying, Dobie always has a girl on his mind.

Humor & Satire

Barefoot Boy with Cheek

Blakiston

The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the U.S. public learned about addiction and drug use, Shulman argues that performance was essential in creating the addict in America’s cultural imagination. He demonstrates how modern-day perceptions of addiction and of the addict emerge from a complex history of accumulation and revision that spanned the Progressive Era, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression.\nChapters look at how theatre, film, and popular culture linked the Chinese immigrant and opium smoking; the early attacks on doctors for their part in the creation of addicts; the legislation of addiction as a criminal condition; the comic portrayals of addiction; the intersection of Black, jazz, and drug cultures through cabaret performance; and the linkage between narcotic inebriation and artistic inspiration. The American Pipe Dream creates active connections between these case studies, demonstrating how this history has influenced our contemporary understanding, treatment, and legislation of drug use and addiction.

The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940 (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

University Of Iowa Press

Rally Round the Flag, Boys!

Bantam]

This is a collection of short stories written during the 1940s for college humor magazines and then gathered together to make a book. The author promises the readers that these stories have been published in Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, Today's Woman and American Magazine. Thus, these stories are guaranteed to be clean. Eventually, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was made into a long running TV series starring Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver. Bob Denver went on to become the lead character in “Gilligan's Island”. The story line is that Dobie Gillis longs for this girl or that girl or for just about any girl, but no matter how hard he tries he can never achieve a “happy ending”. This book was first published in 1945 back when couples actually got married before having sex, so sometimes Dobie gets what he wants only by marrying the girl. Meet the Casanova with a crew cut, the irrepressible Dobie Gillis who left a trail of broken women through the ivy-colored halls of the University of Minnesota. Says Dobie: “The reason I wanted to go to college was romantic. To be blunt, I was getting nowhere with the girls back home. All the plumbs were falling to the baseball and hockey teams. All I could get was what nobody else wanted, including me. Since I was a red-blooded man of eighteen summers, the situation was not tolerable.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Ishi Press

Hardcover. A wonderfully funny novel about love and missiles.

Rally Round The Flag Boys! * . Novel About Love And Missiles

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