Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, May 4, 1961, page 45 (of 56)
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—Mother!
playwright, holds down at least them boys Walter Kerr, father of the five, faces it all with equanimity. "Walter is the most patient man," says his wife. "He never raises his voice. I don't know how he has endured it. We eat dinner with the children—heaven knows why—and v^{h}en they start duelling with asparagus spears, Walter doesn't notice. He must be in some intellectual cloud because there are the stalks flying in front of his eyes and ... well, I have to be the Heavy. I try to save my vocal cords by muttering, 'Walter, won't you do something about this?' And he says, 'About what?'" The mystery is when Mrs. Kerr manages to write. The first thing to do, she says, is to avoid deadlines. She will work up a frenzy to get an article to an editor on the promis[?] ' date. But since her time is an unknown quantity, she tries not to get pinned down. Her new play was written in Continued on page 24 PHOTOGRAPH BY SHIRLEY ZEIBERG Mrs. Kerr—she's home all day and wouldn't take a job outside "for all the money in the world."
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