Mame Dennis — irrepressible, adoring, easily distracted, utterly down-to-earth — is the guardian any sensible child would love to have. In Auntie Mame, published in 1955, her sheltered, just-orphaned ...
Assuring readers it wasn t a memoir, Patrick Dennis nevertheless wrote a character named Patrick Dennis into his 1955 novel Auntie Mame, creating a camp archetype out of the flamboyant free spirit ...
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 ...