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In the 1930s and 40s, humorist Frank Sullivan took dead aim at the American scene in hilarious pieces written for The New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, Town and Country, and other publications. Dispensing humorous commentary and criticisms that could be gentle or cutting, sad or sympathetic, he entertained without ever being mean-spirited or condescending.
This delightful volume includes 42 of his best pieces. Selected from three earlier collections — A Pearl in Every Oyster, The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down, and A Rock in Every Snowball — they include an amusingly nostalgic account of "The Passing of the Old Front Porch," a humorous recollection of campus life in "An Old Grad Remembers," and a gentle put-down of the Lone Star State in "An Innocent in Texas." Readers will also enjoy such droll fare as "A Bachelor Looks at Breakfast," "How to Change a Typewriter Ribbon," and a selection of amusing commentaries by Mr. Arbuthnot, the clich� expert, on war, baseball, tabloids, and other topics.
Wonderfully good-natured, in the spirit of Robert Benchley, this vintage humor will tickle modern funny bones and keep readers chuckling at Sullivan's tongue-in-cheek comments on wealth of subjects from the not-so-distant past.
- Sales Rank: #2428770 in Books
- Published on: 1996-12-26
- Released on: 1996-12-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.45" h x .43" w x 5.37" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
Review
The creator of hilarious pieces for a number of national publications in the 1930s and '40s, humorist Frank Sullivan took dead aim at the American scene. His amusing patter (reminiscent of the dialogue in an early Marx Brothers movie) revealed a style of tongue-in-cheek humor that could be gentle or cutting, sad or sympathetic, but never mean-spirited or condescending. Frank Sullivan At His Best features forty-seven of his best pieces including "A Bachelor Looks at Breakfast", "The Passing of the Old Front Porch", "An Innocent in Texas", and "How to Change a Typewriter Ribbon". Wonderfully good natured these entertaining selections have contemporary appeal with droll comments on a host of subjects from out of the not-so-distant past. Frank Sullivan At His Best will introduce a whole new generation to a genuine wit of the stature of Robert Benchley or Will Rogers. -- Midwest Book Review
About the Author
Sullivan is a designer and photographer whose avocation is transportation subjects.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Gentle humor from a forgotten master
By Jerry Z
Frank Sullivan is one of my favorite humorists, and this collection is a fair representation of his work. But the title is a bit misleading. Although there are many Sullivan classics in the book, including "A Garland of Ibids for Van Wyck Brooks," "The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down," "An Innocent in Texas," "Pencil-Chewing," "How to Change a Typewriter Ribbon," "A Bachelor Looks at Breakfast" and some of his famous "Cliche Expert" pieces, there are other pieces that do not rank among his best. Fortunately, even mediocre Sullivan is better than the best of a lot of other humorists. Unfortunately, few people have even heard of Frank Sullivan, much less read his stuff. He was a contemporary of the great Robert Benchley, and almost as good (nobody was as good as Benchley). Like Benchley, Sullivan did not write cruel or mean-spirited humor. His was of the kinder and gentler variety, much like that of Erma Bombeck and Art Buchwald, but that doesn't mean it wasn't funny. Like Benchley, Bombeck and Buchwald, Sullivan was frequently hilarious. Although he died in 1976 at age 83, and his best and most productive years were in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, Sullivan's stuff, which dealt mostly with small matters of everyday life, still has contemporary appeal. If you can find a copy of "Frank Sullivan at His Best," get it. He'll make you laugh, chuckle and smile. And these days, we need all the humor we can get.
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"Not until Custer finally defeated the Indians did this nation get enough leisure to sit on the front porch..."
By Donald P. Reed
This is a review of:
"The Night The Old Nostalgia Burned Down," Frank Sullivan; Little Brown & Co. (1948-53 hardcover);
"Well, There's No Harm In Laughing" (formerly entitled, "Frank Sullivan Through the Looking Glass"), George Oppenheimer, Ed. (with an introduction by Marc Connelly); Doubleday & Co., Inc. (1970 hardcover); &
"Frank Sullivan [1892-1976] At His Best" (Introduction by Herb Galewitz); Dover Publications, Inc. (1996 paperback).
Amazon's latest bogus fad has flooded the email boxes of prospective Vine reviewers, prompting a friend to ask, derisively, "I wonder what the proper use of corsets involves?"
From "The Education of a Ganymede," Mr. Sullivan's comical, wistful account of his days as a boy working at the Saratoga Springs racetrack prior to World War I --- the highlight of which was the day when, for the first & only time he met her, he was ordered to bring a tin pail of spring water up to actress Lillian Russell's box overlooking the racetrack, for which he was tipped the then-staggering sum of one half-dollar:
"Close as was my friendship with Lillian Russell, I must admit with envy that a fellow-Saratogian of that day was even better acquainted with her.
"Master Charles Brackett [1892-1969*], a schoolmate of mine, had the undeserved good fortune to live next door to the house Miss Russell leased annually for her Saratoga visit.
"Each evening, she dressed to go to Canfield's for fish & chips. Since her house was on a secluded avenue, her maid sometimes forgot or neglected to pull down the shades of the boudoir.
"I have heard Mr. Brackett tell that the tug of war to get the diva into her corset, with the maid hauling away like a Volga boatman & L.R. clutching the bedpost, was a wondrous & awe-inspiring spectacle.
"I presume Mr. Brackett, then as now an honorable gentleman, spoke from hearsay."
*Collaborator with fellow Hollywood screen writer Billy Wilder, for many years.
***
Ineptitude often mars the creation & content of even the most successful books.
In this instance, whoever selected the "best" material from Mr. Sullivan's anthologies --- "A Pearl In Every Oyster," "A Rock in Every Snowball" & "The Night The Old Nostalgia Burned Down" (originally printed in 1938, 1946 & 1948, respectively) --- printed them without indicating which of the three books each story had originally appeared in (never mind the year in which they first appeared anywhere).
Do Frank's stories appear in the chronological order in which they were created? Perhaps the only way to find out is to obtain all three books & compare them to the contents of this one. How convenient!**
And it couldn't be more obvious that the wry, moving & timeless "Letter to a Neighbor" (a rambunctious five year-old boy) should have been the final essay --- not the half-hearted & assembled-by-rote, "It Seems There Were ---," which ends as if the author had got up to get a cup of coffee & then never returned back to his typewriter. Why was this one selected at all?
Finally, the cover design of "At His Best" is simply brilliant. Yet, the identity of & a dedication of appreciation to the artist is missing in the book's pedestrian Introduction. Herb Gauchewitz Strikes Again!
**"Street Crises of New York" (p. 1) through "The Cliche Expert Doesn't Feel Well" (p. 85) are from either "A Pearl In Every Oyster" (1938) or "A Rock in Every Snowball" (1946), since "The Night The Old Nostalgia Burnt Down" (p. 89) on out to the end of "At His Best," "It Seems There Were ---" (p. 179) are all from the original "Old Nostalgia" (1946-53), a copy of which I own.
While where the articles in the original "Old Nostalgia" first appeared is noted in an editor's note, WHEN all of these articles first appeared prior to being included in analogies will remain unknown, which is irritating because the essential context of ALL comedy is when it IS first created & published.
Also highly recommended (FIVE STARS): The memoir, "Well, There's No Harm In Laughing," (formerly entitled, "Frank Sullivan Through the Looking Glass"), George Oppenheimer, Ed. (with an introduction by Marc Connelly); Doubleday & Co., Inc. (1970 hardcover).
It features, among other vital things, stories about the Saratoga prior to World War One & on out to the early 1970s, when Frank, having returned home after a twenty-year stint in New York City as a journalist, viewed that era's comedians (i.e., Lenny Bruce) with genial contempt & inner despair.
Just imagine what, today, he would think of the reigning champion of the cheap-shot artists, Jon Stewart.
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