Gardner, John (Edmund) - Vincent J. Colimore

VINCENT J. COLIMORE

["Every Night's A Festival"] does nothing to dispel the idea that theatrical people spend much of their time in bed with one another…. The author gives explicit descriptions of the sexual act, both normal and otherwise. Evidently, this is the formula for a successful novel, a little plot and plenty of sex, with a variation of black-and-white sex thrown in to make everything more attractive….

One thing "Every Night's A Festival" does do—it helps the reader to make the distinction between the product of the artist and the artist's life. In this case, most of the actors involved, and their director too, are so sexually oriented that sex life comes very close to interfering with dramatic production….

As an insight into the lives of theatrical people, "Every Night's A Festival" is interesting reading.

Vincent J. Colimore, in a review of "Every Night's a Festival," in Best Sellers, Vol. 32, No. 20,...

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