If Eugene O'Neill can be said to represent the tragic mask of American drama, Kaufman can surely lay claim to representing its comic counterpart. ![]() I said, 'Kaufman gave me a lousy book.’ "Īnything remotely "lousy" by Kaufman was a rare event. ![]() 'Tell me,' he said, 'tell me one thing: With all the magnificent music that you have written, all the money that your shows have made, why is it that I had to invest in the only one that was a failure? Why wasn't Strike Up the Band a big success?' I have always flattered myself that I gave the only possible answer. He ushered his wife over to Kaufman and said, "My dear, here is the man that you have been wanting to meet all these years - George Gershwin!" "Then, before I could even give him an argument," Kaufman related years later, "he plunged on. Kaufman anecdote? A few years after the commercial failure of the 1927 Strike Up the Band, one of the show's unfortunate investors encountered Kaufman in a theatre lobby.
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