"House Party" 1957 ROWANS, Virginia (INSCRIBED)
$750
ROWANS, Virginia (a.k.a Patrick Dennis)
Inscribed on FFEP
[274] pp.
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
1957
Third Printing
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
VG/ VG
The characters in this farce come from a good family, but alas, it is one of those families that used to be much better. The action takes place over a weekend at their North Shore mansion. It is a story that could have been written by Nancy Mitford if she were channeling Patrick Dennis. Actually, it really was Auntie Mame’s Patrick Dennis writing under a pseudonym (it preceded Mame by two years). Though light-hearted, there is a sardonic awareness of the complexities of sophisticated living. Fun.
House Party (1954), about a supposedly wealthy family who were actually dead broke, was the inspiration for The Pruitts of Southampton (1966–67), starring Phyllis Diller, Grady Sutton, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Richard Deacon.