Though it’s always tricky agreeing with Camille Paglia, she may be onto something when she writes that “Auntie Mame” is “America’s ‘Alice in Wonderland,’. . . more interesting and important than any ...

“Auntie Mame” and “Marjorie Morningstar,” writes a historian of American Jewish literature, were set in a New York City where Jews were prospering, and antisemites were out of fashion. To read about ...

AROUND THE WORLD WITH AUNTIE MAME (286 pp.)—Patrick Dennis—Har-court, Brace ($3.95). Patrick Dennis, the bearded Scheherazade with the eye for the Mame chance, has strummed out another night’s ...

Based on the play Auntie Mame by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!” So says the aunt we all wished we had, Auntie Mame. This adored ...