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Archive Number Two This is the last updated version of the
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Lardner Family
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Lardner on Stage |
Quotable Lardner
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Old Spooldrippings:
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Lardners to add to the list (if you're keeping one): Lonnie Lardner, daughter of Rex and granddaughter of Rex, grand-niece of Ring, Sr., is (or maybe by this time was--I don't watch it) a sports reporter for Fox TV. Peter Lardner, eldest son of Ring, Jr. advises us to add to the list of writing Lardners Susan Lardner (eldest daughter of John), and Ann Lardner Waswo, Peter's sister (currently at Oxford University and the author of several academic volumes). The original list, which includes James and George, Jr., can be found in the Spooldrippings archive.
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LARDNER ON STAGE  Sarah Jessica Parker was not in June Moon. |
June Moon Revivals, or Yardley was wrong (again):
The last couple years have been good for June Moon, Lardner's
collaboration with George Kaufman. In May of 1996, both the St. Jean's Players of the St.
Jean Baptiste Catholic Church and NYU presented the play. The play was also
preformed by The Porthouse Theatre of Kent State University in July and August. The big break occured this January, though, when The Drama Dept., the theatre group that Sarah Jessica Parker belongs to, revived the play at the Ohio Theater. Their production received very good reviews and was recently awarded a Lortel award for best revival. Twenty years ago, Jonathan Yardley characterized the play as a "period piece," and about the PBS production of the play said, "What was funny in the twenties was merely a curiosity forty-five years later." I guess another twenty years has made it funny again. An older, cheaper production: In 1940 (24 MAR 40) the CBS radio
program "Campbell Playhouse" hosted by Orson Welles, broadcast June Moon,
starring Jack Benny as Stevens. From what I understand, Benny departed from the script and
from the character, engaging the host Welles in a comic argument.
Bulgarian Lardner: Students at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) performed "The Tridget of Greva" a few years back as part of a series of one-acts.
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| Quotable Lardner |
I did a search the other day to find out who is quoting Lardner and in what context. He is mentioned or quoted in many reviews of baseball novels, but he also pops up in some of the oddest places. Here's where I found him:
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| No Respect |
In Dan Nichols' "The Essential Baseball
Library" page, he reprints "Larry Ritter's 50-book Essential Baseball
Library. One book on the list is complimented as "perhaps the funniest baseball
writing since Ring Lardner'; but--you guessed it--Lardner is nowhere to be found among the
fifty.
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| Figurative LARDNER |
The Similies Dictionary (Gale Research, 1988) uses Lardner several times. A couple examples follow:
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LARDNER IN BOOKS |
Does anyone have Six Letters to an Apprentice (University of California, Riverside, Special Collections Department, 1994)? It is a limited edition reprint of letters from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, George Ade, Ellen Glasgow, Don Marquis, and Ring Lardner to Ernest Kroll, an aspiring writer who asked them for advice in 1930. I would be interested in what Lardner had to say, but not interested enough yet to spend the $150 for the book. | ||
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