Status Updates From Please Don't Eat the Daisies

P185 Never knew that Charlie Addams was the the dark cartoonist who created the Addams Family.

Chapter Aunt Jean’s Marshmallow Fudge Diet is a good one! The illustration is too!

P 158 1950’s entertainment tv’s Bilko with Phil Silvers and Night Beat a radio drama.

P 134 Ah, now we get her attempts at writing, copying others such as the French A Certain Smile. Kerr really is original in all this!

P128 Now I know not to read pulp crime novelist Mickey Spillane.

Her husband was a theater critic and at a party he was quoted as that from the most influential American critic, Brooks Atkinson. She says it humorously though :)

P 111 or something light like Lindsay and Crouse, https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
Learning from Kerr’s expertise :)

P 111. The copyboy also wanted to discuss Toller, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conten..., which was deep stuff and she only wanted to sleep.

P111 Kerr references so many, such as Strindberg, a Swedish play write, who a young copy boy wants to talk about in the early morning while she waits for her critic husband to write his review.

P65 They called their dog Ladadg.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lad,_...

P 43 Off hand allusion to Mark Twain and Joyce Kilmer.

https://poets.org/poem/trees

43 off hand remark about some classic works such as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which I had at one time but got rid of it in one of those crazy book purges of mine), Trees by Joyce Kilmer.

P35 from a poem of Keats to where knows else. Humorous stuff even with the dating.