Tennis, Anyone? (1952); Another "Shoe" (1921)

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Sep 8 12:59:13 UTC 2002


On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    He runs across the stage and hollers: "Tennis, anyone?"
> (From "Broadway Alphabet."  It seems clear that some play started it--ed.)

Yes, "Misalliance" by George Bernard Shaw.

Fred Shapiro


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