The Fame Game
Alan Brien, 6 September 1984
Automatic Vaudeville
by John Lahr.
Heinemann, 241 pp., £8.95, September 1984,0 434 40188 9 Show More
by John Lahr.
Heinemann, 241 pp., £8.95, September 1984,
Broadway Babies: The People who made the American Musical
by Ethan Mordden.
Oxford, 244 pp., £19, August 1984,0 19 503345 0 Show More
by Ethan Mordden.
Oxford, 244 pp., £19, August 1984,
“... his genes but in six pages he gives the best description and appreciation I have ever read of Dame Edna Everage. This is not to say that Lahr is unchallengeable. One of his best qualities is his way of dragging you into the dispute, leaving you with the feeling that you, as well as he, would like to say more on the subject. Unlike most commentators on Stephen ... ”
